What a great way to wrap-up the year! This work started in 2018 when Frédérique Truchon worked on her MSc under our supervision. Students in my lab have been collecting more data every year since then, and there is more to do still.

The fall 2025 edition of the BFSS this year had a cohort of 20 students who presented the results of their research project earlier this month. We had a special guest this year for the oral presentations that took place at Bellairs, and McGill president Deep Saini was very much impressed.

​Congratulations to all !

If you are interested in the BFSS, please check out the web page @ www.mcgill.ca/bfss/. I am recruiting for fall 2026, and spaces are limited. Dont wait to apply!

First day at the Gault Nature Reserve on Monday: setting up camera traps and dragging for ticks, in good company (Strix varia and Trillium grandiflorum)

Shout-out to Anthony Howell, the curator in charge of the collections at the Redpath Museum. I donated to the Redpath Museum my entire collection of voucher specimens; over 3,000 specimens of small mammals we collected in my lab across all of Quebec since 2008! There's Jonathan Diamond's beavers in the lot too, some of those coming all the way from Nunavut. Each specimen is preserved as skeletal material (skull) and tissue samples stored in massive -80C freezers. This is a unique collection; I do not think there is anything like that anywhere else in the world. Fifteen years of sampling documenting evolution in action! Anthony organized it all and this collection is now available for study to the rest of the research community.