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PhD student in @E2Ocean @SFU studying marine animal pee | Scientific diver | iNaturalist enthusiast | non binary 🏳️‍🌈 (they/them) https://xitter.gq/t.co/ef4djZLLpg

Vancouver, BC
Joined September 2016
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🚨HOT OFF THE PRESS! 🚨@Nic_Ens and I’s co-lead paper on #invasive #crabs has been published with @SpringerNature in @BioInvasions! link.springer.com/article/10… 1/n
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The Côté lab dominated the science in action category!!!
We are pleased to announce the winners of our Fourth Annual Photo Contest. Thank you to everyone that submitted a photo. There were many exceptional photographs, and we will celebrate all the submissions via the department website and social media in the coming weeks.
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Finally vindicated in saving all my manuscript drafts in my GitHub repo! I wanted to look at an old version of a draft and I was able to go back through my commit history to find it. Thanks, GitHub!
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#ADHD rant: Lately I’ve been breaking up my work days into 1-2 hour blocks to work on specific tasks tied to a to-do list. Each task is small, clearly defined, and time-boxed so it’s easier to make myself work on one thing at a time. Plus Adderall helps! (1/4)
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Today I let myself wander slightly off task (but still working on the same paper!), then surfaced 4 hours later at 8:30 pm! I’m not really sure if I finished anything, even though I was working intensely the whole time (2/4)
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Happy non-BEEnary day from me and this ginormous bee I accidentally catfished with my “Avant Garden” costume at Bass Coast this yeah. It’s been nice feeling real comfy in my non-binary gender lately 🥰 #NonBinaryPeoplesDay
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I just wrapped up the last field season of my PhD! Feeling super grateful for 4 wonderful summers of data collection at @BamfieldMSC alongside some incredible people. Sad this part is my degree is over, but excited to dive into the next stage
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Team work really does make the dream work, or as we like to say “team dream work work”
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One of the best parts of working with crabs is feeding each one of them their lil salmon chunk and watching them get SO EXCITED as unimaginable riches fall right into their claws
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I am FINALLY going through my photos from year 3 of the @ReefLifeSurvey Bamfield Blitz hosted at @BamfieldMSC by @jasschuster and @AmandaEBates's lab! Stay tuned for many more photos of neat creatures
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That feeling when your animals use their artificial habitat exactly as you envisioned 😍 It’s like building a bug hotel as a kid, but for adult scientists!!!
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Updates: In April I became a PhD Candidate!!! I was also awarded an NSERC PGS-D on the same day, which was pretty wild. Now I’m back in the field trying to wrap up data collection for my PhD! 🎉
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Field work hack for when you forget utensils for your peanut butter: zip tie spoon! Yum
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Discovering the ability to organize word docs using subheaders and a navigation pane right before my candidacy exam is life changing 🙌
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Finding time to study for my upcoming candidacy exam has been tough! But I’m grateful for the opportunity/motivation to dive super deep into topics like nitrogen assimilation and understand the impact of pee on seaweed at a molecular level 🤓
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Crushed by a hectic semester ❌ Crushed by a tiny dog ✅
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The best way to thank our hardworking organizers is to upload your presentation by the deadline so we aren’t scrambling in the morning trying to find your PowerPoint!!!
A reminder for presenters: please upload your PowerPoint slides by 2pm tomorrow! #PEEC2023
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We burned the last crabs today!!!! Wahoooooooo!!!
The feeling when the experiment is over @EmGLim #crabincineration
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If you submitted an abstract for PEEC it’s time to buy your eventbrite ticket! No ticket = no attending the conference. Link here: eventbrite.ca/d/canada--brit…
Presenters: if you haven’t heard from us, check your junk folder (especially UBC email accounts for some reason!). We have been sending out information and there will be more coming soon as the conference approaches.
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And if you haven’t seen an email about which presentation format you got, make sure you’re checking the email you signed up with + your spam folder! Reach out if you haven’t heard anything, we don’t want you missing important emails!
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Today’s wins: I put my last batch of crabs in the drying oven today, and I only walked part way to the bus in my office slippers before realizing my mistake! Hooray!
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Snow closures? Snow problem! Caught myself on SFU’s snow cam braving the elements for my crabs. A love story if I ever saw one 💕
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Drowning in crabs send help
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