…some frantic microscope de-assembling, hat-making and swearing over heavy trunks later we are (almost) ready for 3 months of jungle! Hooooray field biologists!
High Ropes Action
Hey, this is how much fun you can have in grad school (or slightly after)! Thanks Robin for an awesome team building event! It looks like it worked…
Another eco-evolutionist’s toy
My nerdy colleague Dennis Hansen just facebooked this:
Timetree
You can find out when two taxa split up. Very enlightening: bromeliads and humans diverged about 1400 Mya ago! What does this tell us? Mainly that Dr. Jana is trying hard to not-work! 😉
Sustainable UBC?
…speaking of carbon neutral blogs. Anyone keen to come find out how UBC is planning to become more sustainable? They are making a big fuss about their “Sustainability Initiative“. But does it actually mean anything? I am thinking of going to this symposium. Jana
Veni, vidi, vici
She has done it! Robin has successfully completed her comps and can now be officially called a “PhD candidate”! Congratulations!