Blog Posts

Breaking the Rules

11/29/2022

Very exited to see this paper published, and grateful to work with great collaborators on this project. Link Olson and I argued years ago that one could use the past to predict the future response of species to climate warming. 16 years later, not only are we breaking the rules, but we also report for the first time the reversal of the rules of body size variation in mammals.

https://www.mcgill.ca/newsroom/channels/news/ecological-rule-breaker-shows-effects-climate-change-body-size-evolution-343871

Nasty ticks

11/17/2022

Kirsten's paper is out, congratulations! Read more here:
https://www.mcgill.ca/newsroom/channels/news/tick-borne-pathogens-increasingly-widespread-central-canada-343574

In her paper, Kirsten reports the occurrence of two pathogens carried by ticks, outside of their known distribution range in Southern Canada. Link to the publication here.

Biodiversity in the Caribbean

11/16/2022

Léa made it into the BSE Fall 2022 Newsletter. For her honours, Léa conducted interviews of local stakeholders asking them about the state of biodiversity in the Caribbean. Tout un projet (photo A. Danzi)

Oh Deer

11/4/2022

Kari completed a long season of field work, collecting ticks, plant data, and deer pictures at the Gault Nature Reserve. Check out here for a very nice cover of her work

Frogs!

9/1/2022

Welcome to Kelsey! Exited to see where this research co-supervised by Roberto Ibanez at the STRI takes us.

Chipping In

8/31/2022

Congratulations Jonathan, for completing a MSc in exactly 2 years and during a pandemic, no less! Beavers expanding their range poleward are adapting to their new environment, and it shows in their teeth.

Not so Giant

6/14/2022

A nice piece in the New-York Times in which I talk about my work on gigantism in fossil rodents.

As climate warms, mice morph

11/27/2017

Our mouse work was in the Media! Check the Press release from McGill News here; more at La Presse, CBC, The Montreal Gazette, le Journal de Montreal among others.

In the Medias, a long long time ago

11/1/2017

Us on Decouvertes, stunning images and a very good account of our work

Check us out on the National TV News (Téléjournal - Radio Canada) and on Global News

Our lab and work on Lyme disease appeared in Quebec Science magazine

Our work appeared in Le Devoir: "La maladie de Lyme s'etend au Quebec"

"Ticked Off": Our team is featured in the "Nature of Things", the CBC show hosted by David Suzuki.

Virginie was interviewed for the Radio show Desautels (RDI) and talked about our work on the northern expansion of the white-footed mouse and the consequences for the emergence of Lyme disease in Quebec.

Virginie was interviewed for the TV show "Decouverte | Passion Science". This time, it was not about Lyme disease, but about the importance of museum collections and empirical studies like ours.

Virginie was on the radio! An interview for "Les annees lumieres", a Radio-Canada show taped during the Ouranos annual symposium on climate change last November.

Our work is featured in the TV show Le Code Chastenay; link to the video.

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