Field season is over :(

Last grad school paper was accepted!

Live in Ontario? Love bugs and forests?
I’m a U of T Scarborough researcher studying microbiomes of wood-feeding wasps & moths—differences in natives vs invasives & roles in forest disease.
Catch & freeze suspects. DM with questions!
#Entomology #Microbiome #Ontario #InvasiveSpecies #ForestHealth

Excited to hard launch that I’ve started a postdoc at @UTSC! I'll be studying wood-eating wasps & moths in Ontario forests and their microbiomes! Big things ahead! 🇨🇦🌲🐝🐛🪵

Got my course evals back and my students were so so sweet??? Truly the best way to end my time at UND 🥹💚

Never beating the bug girl allegations 🤓Enjoy this Sphenophorus selfie from four years ago courtesy of Google Photos.

If you’re wondering what my plans for the four-day weekend look like:

Sometimes you stay up until 4AM trying to organize a dataset that’s been thrown into havoc by undergrads. Highlights:
1. a ND bee IDed as a species only found in the UK
2. SO many misspellings
3. a “bumble bee” that’s clearly a syrphid (look at the antenna, eyes, and vena spuria)

Grad student: “my soil microorganism sequences are in!”
BLAST: Sumatran serow 🐐
Me: *googles if serows eat dirt*

A personal note: I'm the 2nd author on this paper, but the real star is my former undergrad mentee and best friend! ⭐️ Watching her grow as a researcher was an honor, and I hope she knows how proud I am of her 🩷

Mourning the loss of the Researcher App today. It was so useful for keeping me up to date on publications in my little niche fields of interest. Definitely open to suggestions for alternatives!!!

Goodnight, sweet prince 😭

My bestie sent a screenshot of this post and needless to say I have strong feelings about it 😂