Archives: Grad School

Tuesday, July 5, 2022

What will you have to take with you?

My guest post for my university’s School of Graduate Studies blog is up! (You can read it here.) The inspiration was a new radio podcast that we have in the works on research here at Queen’s – scientific and otherwise. I’ve been working on the concept with Vee, an English PhD, and Savita, an undergraduate... More

Tuesday, July 5, 2022

Employed science

It’s when applied science gives back, contributing a piece to the basic research puzzle. Jaded grad students like me get a warm fuzzy feeling when we hear about people reaping unexpected benefits – economic or social – from the results of pure science. Last night I was reminded that this can work in the... More

Tuesday, July 5, 2022

Super indelible flower colours

How do you fire a pollinator? That was the question in last week’s Ecology, Evolution and Behaviour departmental seminar. The speaker was James Thomson, an evolutionary ecologist from the University of Toronto who specializes in the interactions between plants and their animal pollinators. His research shows that nectar-addled hummingbirds... More

Tuesday, July 5, 2022

Evolutionary rescue

Can evolution save us from the brink of collapse? Andy Gonzalez thinks so. Gonzalez, an ecologist from McGill University, gave an entertaining seminar to the department last Thursday on the subject. His research group works on the causes and consequences of biodiversity loss, using mathematical models and controlled experiments to investigate... More

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