VERY excited to announce that I successfully defended my Ph.D. last week! Thank you to all of the friends, family, colleagues, and birds that have helped me on this journey!

New paper out in JEZ-A! We continued our investigation of stress and DNA damage in house sparrows and found that (1) damage during chronic stress is not uniform across tissues and (2) that damage during acute stress may be driven by corticosterone doi.org/10.1002/jez....

#SICB2024 @sicbjournals.bsky.social come to poster 69 this afternoon if you are interested in quantifying individual repeatability of the stress response! While you’re there, scan the QR code for our R package (or see the linked post below)

Hey #SICB2024 - I'll be sharing some of my dissertation work in the Comparative Endocrinology of Stress session at on Wednesday at 9am in room 613-614. Come check it out! @sicbjournals.bsky.social