just read that project 2025 calls for the end of NOAA — like, the whole agency…

"Your job is literally just yapping - either verbal yap or written yap" - my husband describing my PhD

So excited to announce that this big review written with Lauren Gill Jessica Kennedy and Isaiah Box from UBC Zoology on an exciting group of freeze tolerance organisms is now out! journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/22… 1/n

And don't miss the accompanying early career researcher spotlight on Lauren and Jess! They do amazing work! So proud of them and Isaiah (who is off to Maydianne Andrade 's lab this fall!). journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/22… 5/n

the coolest fish & the coolest job 🙂‍↕️

betcha can’t name a cooler fish 😮‍💨

🚨BIG FISH ALERT🚨 We caught our longest and 2nd heaviest #LakeSturgeon in the history of our stations #sturgeon survey work (dates back to 1996)! Length was 75.2 inches and weight was 125 pounds! After being measured and tagged the fish was released back into #LakeStClair.

In her ECRSpotlight, Emma Flatt discusses how a childhood spent on the beaches of Barbados helped form an interest in biology, why the groundhog is her favourite animal & how she fuses Caribbean recipes with Canadian cuisine with delicious results journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/22…

a real life dinosaur

My first publication feels like a pretty good reason to make my first twitter post! If you are interested in stress, neuroplasticity🧠and zebrafish 🐟, then check out our new paper by myself and Sarah Alderman in Journal of Experimental Biology : journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/22…

getting my booty kicked by an 8 foot white sturgeon !! we angle for these fish so that i can then assess population stressors through minimally invasive techniques like mucus and blood samples - i love my job!!! 🥹🤗

Awesome to be able to go out with Madison Earhart, PhD and work with these incredible white sturgeon, truly amazing creatures 🐟 🐟 🐟

unbelievable weekend with the sturgeon 🫶🏽

New paper looking at interactive effects of environmental stressors during early development in killifish (open access link below)

From Jennifer Carter, a teacher at Apalachee High School in Winder, Georgia. What the hell are we doing?

smallest sturgie in my study yet!!! (and they match the shirt 🥰)