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• November 2026: We wrote a blog post for Animal Ecology in Focus highlighting our latest paper: "Life as a fearful snail: navigating a world of multiple dangers." Check it out!
   

• November 2026: Our paper "Fear generalization, cross-sensitization and behavioural responses to multiple dangers in a freshwater snail" has been published in the Journal of Animal Ecology.
   

• July 2026: I was honoured to receive an Early Career Award from the International Society for Behavioral Ecology (ISBE) and presented our latest leaf-footed bug work at the ISBE congress in Turin, Italy.
   

• July 2026: I was at the Animal Behaviour Society's Annual Meeting in Cincinnati, Ohio and presented some new results on leaf-footed cactus bugs. 
   

• June 2026: Our paper, “Environmental impacts on the insect exoskeleton” has been published in Integrative and Comparative Biology. I was delighted to contribute to this collaborative review led by Noraly van Meer.
   

• January 2026: Our paper "The adaptive significance of polyandry: a meta-analysis" has been published in Evolution! In this study, we conducted a comprehensive meta-analysis across arthropods to investigate the adaptive significance of female multiple mating.
   

• July 2026: I presented some leaf-footed cactus bug work at the Society of Integrative and Comparative Biology's annual meeting in Portland, Oregon. Our summer REU intern Mollie Haremza also presented a poster on the relationship between relative weapon size and signalling behaviour! 
   

• November 2025: I visited the rest of our research group at the University of Cambridge and gave a talk in the Department of Zoology's Behavioural Ecology Lunchtime Talk.
   

• July 2025: I'm delighted to announce that I have received the Animal Behavior Society's Warder Clyde Allee Award for Best Student Paper. I had a blast participating in this competition at the annual ABS meeting in Baltimore, Maryland. 
   

• February 2025: I have been awarded an NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowship, providing two years of funding to work with Dr. Christine Miller across the University of Florida and the University of Cambridge!
   

• February 2025: The final chapter of my dissertation, "Optimal polyandry in fruit flies", has been published in Evolution! Here, we show that multiple mating can enhance female lifetime reproductive success in fruit flies.
   

• January 2025: I started my first postdoc position at the University of Florida working with Dr. Christine Miller. This NSF-funded work will investigate the behavioural consequences of variation in functional weapon attributes using the leaf-footed cactus bug. 
   

• January 2025: I was honoured to receive the Marlene Zuk Award for Best Student Talk in the Division of Animal Behaviour at the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB) conference in Atlanta, Georgia!