Aspiring aquatic ecotoxicologist (she/her) | Msc - Kidd Lab (McMaster U) | proud nerd for benthic inverts, freshwater fish, data viz, aquatic ecology
Ontario, Canada
Joined September 2018
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Hi everyone, I'm a MSc student in the Kidd Lab and I'm studying whether a hungry little caterpillar called the spruce budworm affects mercury cycling in stream food webs.. #LaurentianPrarieResearch @LaurentianSETAC (1/)
ALT A picture of me in waders and an invertebrate-sampling kick net in a small, rocky stream.
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From poster to paper!
How does spruce budworm defoliation impact in-stream algal production and carbon use by food webs?
@scisally studied 12 streams in the Gaspé Peninsula to find out➡️doi.org/10.1139/cjfas-2023-0…
by K. Sally Ju, @KarenKidd12 @WET_Erik et al.
I'm sharing some findings from MSc research at the #SCAS_SCSA2023 poster session tonight!
Come by if you want to chat about defoliation in the Gaspé peninsula, stream food webs, and mercury! 🐛🌲🐟🌊
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💅💅 You can sample,
you can seine,
if you say "I'm always yours" 💅💅
#BarbieTheMovie
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Many Canadians know about The Group Of Seven, but have you heard of the Indigenous Group of Seven?
Formally known as the Professional Native Indian Artists Incorporation, it was formed in 1973 with seven Indigenous artists to promote Indigenous art.
These are the artists
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I'm so glad I got to participate as an instructor for the FREED Toronto Zoo event!
I loved running my workshop on benthic macroinvertebrates and it was very meaningful to be a part an event geared towards BIPOC students
We hosted our first event of the year from May 12th-14th at @thetorontozoo and had an amazing time with numerous workshops!
All photo credits go to Blue M. Betül
To learn more about FREED, go to freedalgonquin.wordpress.com
💚
#fieldwork #ecologyjobs #student #edi #equity #bipoc
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On #BiodiversityDay, highlighting the importance of predators, like these dragonfly larvae, in controlling prey populations.
#DiaDeLaBiodiversidad
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Hey #IAGLR23 presenters! Can you please share your pronouns when you introduce yourselves at the start of your talk? Even if you think folks already know them, it helps normalize the practice for trans/gnc folks when we do so to avoid misgendering when our work is discussed.
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FREED is hosting an exciting naturalist skill-buiding weekend event at @TheTorontoZoo for undergraduate students from @McMasterU and @uofg who self-identify as Black, Indigenous, and/or Racialized!
Apply here: forms.gle/aeGq6Tc5GsJXwhZF6
Due March 31st, 11:59PM EST
PC: @samsteph_
I'm sharing some findings from MSc research at the #SCAS_SCSA2023 poster session tonight!
Come by if you want to chat about defoliation in the Gaspé peninsula, stream food webs, and mercury! 🐛🌲🐟🌊
Yes! Spread more love to the underrated stream critters
On Valentine‘s Day we want to spread our love for #freshwater #macroinvertebrates 💖 with this awesome cartoon by @sepponet in cooperation with @fishmigration @DamRemovalEU
Happy International day of women and girls in science! I love seeing diversity in natural sciences and aquatic ecology and hearing other researchers' ideas about promoting inclusivity in this field
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some days are just a 5→6→5→6→5→6→7, try again tomorrow kind of day
ALT A cartoon of a fuzzy round monster face showing 10 different emotions experienced during the process of debugging code. The progression goes from (1) “I got this” - looking determined and optimistic; (2) “Huh. Really thought that was it.” - looking a bit baffled; (3) “...” - looking up at the ceiling in thought; (4) “Fine. Restarting.” - looking a bit annoyed; (5) “OH WTF.” Looking very frazzled and frustrated; (6) “Zombie meltdown.” - looking like a full meltdown; (7) (blank) - sleeping; (8) “A NEW HOPE!” - a happy looking monster with a lightbulb above; (9) “insert awesome theme song” - looking determined and typing away; (10) “I love coding” - arms raised in victory with a big smile, with confetti falling.
Happy to announce that I finished my thesis - 2 years, 12 watersheds, and a few hundred samples later...
Glad I got to wrap this up at the end of this year and I'm excited to start off the new year on a high note!
Is it common knowledge that the log() function in R uses the natural log, not log base 10?!?
Asking for a friend (a "friend" who might have spent an afternoon frantically calculating slopes)
Unfortunate lack of "bark" puns in this research pupper
NEW ARTICLE: Dogs trained to recognise a bark beetle pheromone locate recently attacked spruces better than human experts sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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Please spread the word! Fully funded PhD Assistantship in Freshwater Mussel Ecology ❤️ Come to beautiful #Maine and work on #YellowLampmussel - For details and to apply see tinyurl.com/YellowLampmussel 🫧
ALT A beautiful Yellow Lampmussel (freshwater mussel) photographed by Tim Warren.
This week I finished all my Msc. labwork after analyzing my final sample for methylmercury! All it took was dozens of hours on the TTC, a whole jar of instant coffee, and one read-through of the Silmarillion. Excited to explore my 300+ data points 🥳🥳
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Sorry - we have a problem cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/mo…
My fave podcaster @william_lou called the Gaspe peninsula the "limp arm" of Quebec 😭😭😭