Victoria ☕️🌼

Sable Island season 3 in full swing

(complete with the cold I picked up at CSEE 😅🙃)

If anyone at @csee-sceemtgs.bsky.social wants to go to the banquet but didn’t get a ticket, let me know!! I can’t make it anymore, I have to leave for fieldwork tomorrow (Tuesday) night

Come for some /very/ preliminary results on my first PhD chapter on density-dependent parasitism & female reproductive traits in a feral horse population! Tomorrow at 2:45pm at @csee-sceemtgs.bsky.social

Anyone else not able to log into the NSERC online services? It’s been happening since yesterday, keeps saying my password is wrong but I try to reset it and get this, just blank 🫠

I haven’t been keeping up with the Iditarod much this year, but very disappointed to hear @quincemountain.bsky.social was withdrawn today despite having no intention to scratch #uglydogs

I sent you a DM! 😊

Our remote fieldwork taught us how to band together as scientists Three early-career researchers thrown together on Sable Island, a treeless island in the North Atlantic, think others can learn from their experiences.

Very excited to finally share this! All of my remote fieldwork has taught me a lot, but there’s just something different about Sable

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Keynote would never do this to me, neither would Google slides

Nothing fills me with rage quite like trying to do anything in Word, PowerPoint, or Excel. All I want to do is rearrange some images for my lecture on Friday but I’m about to throw my laptop out a window 🙃

I have an opinion piece scheduled to be published tomorrow! I can send you more info if you’d like 😊

I’m waiting to hear back from a dentist and planning on calling the university clinic tomorrow morning, but if anyone has better suggestions…

If anyone has advice on what kind of medical professional to see for TMJ/trigeminal nerve pain, I’m all ears. Intermittent pain over the past couple months has become much more regular, to the point where eating solid foods is extremely painful 😩

Merry Christmas and happy Hanukkah from me and Timber! 🎄🕎

Excited to announce the publication of the first chapter of my PhD in Biological Conservation! We evaluated individual behavioral variation and its implications for delineating intraspecific units for the conservation of caribou. Read more here:
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That’s likely what will be the case here, turns out it’s in a wetland that only has a thin layer of ice over it, so presumably the moose ended up in it

Mixed strongyle parasite infections vary across host age and space in a population of feral horses | Parasitology | Cambridge Core Mixed strongyle parasite infections vary across host age and space in a population of feral horses

The first paper from my PhD is out in Parasitology! Using DNA metabarcoding, I show patterns of parasite infection in Sable Island horses!

It's open access, so go check it out!

doi.org/10.1017/S003...

Since according to the CO who ended up going out to see if he could do it, where she was is so dense that we’d barely be able to get through, and snowshoes would likely be impossible to use 🙃

So to the next collared moose to die, pls do so in a more convenient location 😅

Yesterday a few of us met on campus at 6am to necropsy a collared moose, which was a 3.5h drive then 2km bushwhack away, but the lab truck had other plans & started overheating less than an hour outside Saskatoon… turns out that saved us from a loooong waste of a day

While walking my dog yesterday I came across a pickup with such a massive front end that it had roughly equal ground clearance to my Elantra 🤦🏼‍♀️

Me please! 🐏🏔️

Fantastic…

After my drive yesterday, I don’t doubt it. I didn’t realize how bad it is before I moved here with my little Elantra 😩

Saskatoon: Oh and because we don’t clean the streets, were also not picking up garbage/recycling/compost this week ✌🏻🖕🏻

Me please! 🙋🏼‍♀️

Perhaps after the first few times they realized it was outside the budget, the city should have fixed their budget 🙄 Sherbrooke, QC, with roughly half the population of Saskatoon, ploughed all streets after every decent snowfall. It would take some time, but it always got done

This is something that has absolutely baffled me since moving here. Sure, in Montreal it takes a while to get streets cleared, but the fact that residential streets are just… left to be a total disaster??? That absolutely infuriates me.

Press release from a former labmate’s most recent paper, congrats Alex! Find me in the field pictures 🤠

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

A grey & white Alaskan malamute mix lies curled up, looking at the camera, on a queen sized bed with a white & grey duvet and pale blue sheets

When you were born in Whapmagoostui in December but raised in Montreal/Sherbrooke, winter in Saskatoon hits hard & fast. Less than half an hour outside this afternoon and he ran in and curled up tight in bed!

It was @wishartae.bsky.social!

In my free time I do nail art, hike with my dog, and travel (as much as a grad student salary allows!)