Hi friends! I'd like to start this blog by thanking you for visiting me/my website again after my 2-month lag on posts. To all newcomers (probably from #Evol2019), hello and welcome! Please know that I appreciate all of you :)
If you are visiting my blog from Evol2019 and seeking more information about my poster, feel free to skip my usual blog nonsense and scroll down a bit!
I'm a little behind on my weekly posting schedule for two reasons. First is personal; my family members were getting cut open and put back together again all within the span of a few weeks. At the end of March my little fluff butt had a blocked urethra and needing emergency veterinary care for a few days. Then in the second week of April my Momma had her hip replaced, and I went back to NJ to help her with her recovery. I'll write up some tips for both of these situations over in the Life Updates section soon. |
Second is research-related; I had a conference coming up and needed to get a wiggle on in my lizard dissertation work. Some of y'all might remember my blog about Evolution - Montpellier 2018 - we're gonna make a few adjustments to my Conference 5 Ws:
WHAT |
WHERE |
WHEN | 21-25 June 2019 (Yup, I'm blogging from the conference! Happy to meet up with you for a coffee or something if you're here too!) |
WHY | To partially quote myself from the Evol2018 blog, "Because evolutionary biology is awesome and a lot of people wanted to talk about it all at once in a pretty awesome town in" New England :) |
I love this conference for so many reasons, one being the sheer variety of topics that are covered. The first day alone I heard about cascading community consequences of fish adaptation [Talk693], the health of ancient humans [Talk229], the stability of white shark genomes [Talk403], and inheritance of stripy color patterns in skinks [Talk226], just to name a few. I'm gonna quote my Evol2018 blog again: I highly encourage you to check out the #Evol2019 Twitter hashtag so you can see some of the materials that were presented. A fair portion of the talks were even recorded; I'll link to those once they are available. But at the very least, you can scroll down a bit to see my poster :)