Oh sure, when an ant performs trophallaxis its "sharing food," but when I do it, I'm "ruining Thanksgiving" 😒

Friend: Hey Saif how's 2021 going so far? Me: I found a locust outside my cubicle today so I'd say we're off to a great start...

I think you might be able to find those 11,780 votes next to my 4.0 GPA and multiple NSERC awards which are also real and not at all complete lies I tell myself because I'm too delusional to accept reality.

One more impeachment and he'll have enough for a free sub.

Grad school got me like...

*Canucks hold the Leafs to 1 goal on just 7 shots through 2 periods* Me: You know, maybe we do have a chance this year. Maybe, just maybe, things will work out for the ol' Vancouver Canucks after all. *Leafs score 2 goals in 11 seconds* Me:...well, maybe next year...

I think my favourite thing about R is spending hours trying to figure out what's wrong with my code, and then realizing it's not working because I forgot a comma, and then adding a comma, and then it still doesn't work, and then I throw my laptop out the window

These skill testing questions are getting way too intense...

You wanna see a fly laying an egg??? No? Oh, okay... Well here's a gif in case you change your mind. Thank you Adam Blake for making it😃. (The gif I mean. Not the egg)

Is it just me or does the background of this over the shoulder graphic look exactly like SFU's AQ? (Can almost see the pond in the bottom left...)

New Research: Staphylococcus microbes in the bovine skin microbiome attract blood-feeding stable flies: The human skin microbiome reportedly contributes to the attraction of mosquitoes to human hosts. We tested the hypothesis that bovine skin… #Ecology frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

Recently had the pleasure of publishing my first paper with some amazing co-authors from the Gries Lab. It's about stable flies and their attraction to microbes from cow skin and it's super gross. Please feel free to check it out if that's your thing 😀 #insects #microbiology