Wild Colour opens tomorrow at the Canadian Museum of Nature and it features the Pride Flag I made for the institution. So proud and grateful to the museum for featuring this and my colleagues (especially Kasia and Morgan) for their help and love.

Out and about on a beautiful day.

Finally feels like spring in Ottawa (spent the loveliest day with my husband @djbotany.bsky.social).

Goosebumps 🚀

SING Canada application are now open! Please share with Indigenous students and community members interested in the science and politics of genomics 🧬 All expenses paid. Details on this year’s theme will follow in a few weeks. @singcanada.bsky.social

Last week to submit your abstracts for the Canadian Botanical Association conference. If you're going to be presenting a talk or poster, the deadline is March 31!

Hi there, 6:30 am (featuring a fresh haircut but very stale eye bags).

Thousands of workers cut from the federal public service, including scientists, researchers, and entire programs across environmental, wildlife, and health fields. This is a devastating blow to science and monitoring across Canada, and will have far-reaching impacts. www.ctvnews.ca/ottawa/artic...

A Sunday well spent.

Love when a colleague attributes all your hard work to someone else because “they’re the expert in that taxonomic group”. Massive sigh.

I’m so happy with how this new tattoo turned out.

New tattoo days are the best days.

Newfoundlanding with @djbotany.bsky.social

See you soon St. John’s! (w/ @djbotany.bsky.social)

39. Still doing “Guys with iPhones” elder millennial mirror selfies I guess.

I'm raffling off some beadwork to support Indigenous charity organizations in honour of #OrangeShirtDay. Tickets are 10$ each, 100% of ticket sales will benefit the Orange Shirt Society, the Indian Residential School Survivors Society and the East Van Friendship Centre.

Back in cell service after fieldwork on Axel Heiberg Island, Nunavut, and the plants were stunning!

It’s nice to be back in Nunavut. Currently in Resolute and tomorrow on to Axel Heiberg Island for two weeks of fieldwork.

Weekend wanders with @djbotany.bsky.social

It was only a matter of time (tattoo and photo from the amazing Pierre at HungryxHound).

The collection continues to grow.

Don’t let the eye bags fool you - the Canadian Botanical Association meetings were fun! Also lovely to be back in St. John’s for a bit.

Les ours

Solar powered organisms.

I know bearface at the airport is unoriginal but I am desperately under caffeinated.

Finally feels a bit like spring out here.

10 km hike with a 9 kg pack - getting set for fieldwork is nice on such a lovely spring morning.

The urge for a new tattoo is strong. Thoughts for open feedback: trembling aspen leaves, constellations, craggy mountains, all of the above?

Thank you @andreamurphy12.bsky.social for reminding me to look for spring flowers!

Thanks for having me, this was such a fun conversation!

I’m taking the train from the Ottawa airport for the first time and I am just so excited.

It’s amazing how much a haircut can lift your spirits.

Happy #PhycologyFriday! Canada's Arctic waters are more colourful than you might expect. This seaweed-filled scene is from near Cambridge Bay, Nunavut.

“Hi yes is the the nerds-with-sedge-tattoos club?”

Post your most daddy pic

JOB: Statistical Ecologist, Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute (ABMI) * 2 years, full time * Salary $69k-93k + benefits * Remote &/or in-office (at U Alberta) * Apply by 10 Jan abmi.ca/abmi-home/co... #ConservationJobs #ScienceJobs

Our laboratory the Northern Environmental Geoscience Laboratory (www.labradorgeolab.ca) is advertising for two phd positions here in Kingston. Please feel free to reach out to me if interested! We may have some future MSc positions as well!

Great ice on the Rideau Canal today. With @djbotany.bsky.social

Happy place.

These companies like to do their pink washing to make them sound like they’re the best place on Earth to work. A futuristic utopia that is great for all. Every year they participate in PRIDE events. This year, PRIDE organisers should bar them publicly. Meta employees should boycott the hypocrisy.

First day back at work and the internet is down, so I’m spending it in the plant mines.

2024 in review: Lots of time in Alberta with family, fieldwork in Utah and Nunatsiavut, and lots of skywatching.

Powers restored, though it might be soon time to admit the hairline is a lost cause…

Headed home after a week in Alberta with @djbotany.bsky.social.

And don't allow article submissions with >2 authors, or if you don't have a PhD or university appointment. Exclusionary af.

It’s winter and the Ottawa transit situation is awful but at least I like my new haircut.

I’m an espresso-fueled being while finishing my talk for the ArcticNet meeting this week.

Anyone? Bueller?

Sunday with @djbotany.bsky.social

Weekend wanders.