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  • Sketchy Science: Local Relative Humidity for Winter Dehydrated Houseplants

    In progress. Math has not been checked! A friend of mine and I have been talking about orchids lately. The dendrobium papilo comes from a relatively cool growing area in the Phillipines. What that means is it probably is happy at typical household temperatures during Canadian winters, slightly warmer during the day, and a cool…

  • 24 Hours in Montréal, +/- 12 Hours

    zoom A while back I was invited to give a talk at Nicolas Cowan’s lab group meeting. The meeting was slated for November 5, 2025 at 11:00 am. The plan was for me to give an overview of some of my thesis work (time allowance between 20 – 40 minutes), entertain some Q&A, then head…

  • Grad Life: Start of Term 2025

    September has been…a month. Conference! Travel! 15 meetings in a week! TA squabbles! Getting towed home for the first time! and wrapping it up with a good dose of houseplants and paper and proposal submissions. We’ve been using the following format on a shared Google Slides document in the PVL group meetings for the past…

  • Grad Life: + Gecko Life

    I’ve been encouraged to write freely this week, so here we are! At first I wanted to discuss travelling in the current climate since I just went down to Baltimore, MD for a workshop (delightful, ended up with some strange plots and more questions than I went with!). I’ve been travelling internationally alone for the…

  • Sketchy Science: Science in Sci-Fi

    They used to call me the bug queen. Sometimes life is stranger than fiction. Here I am, waiting on a phone call from IT after I found out that my access token has never been granted (despite using it for 3 years or so) and my account doesn’t have VPN access and never has. I…

  • Grad Life: A Train to Busan

    In summer of 2024, I took a train from Seoul to Busan. Prior to depearture, I was informed that there was a movie that was based almost entirely on this premise, so I went about watching it as self-assigned mandatory reading. Without spoiling the contents of the movie itself, it was a zombie movie that…

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