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Officially defended my PhD thesis today, and surprisingly, it was a really great and fun experience! A big thank you to my defense committee members for all of their thoughtful comments and questions and for sticking around late on a Friday afternoon! Though I’m sure I’ll feel quite reflective of my closing chapter at McGill over the next few days, I’m also incredibly stoked to get started with my post-PhD life at the University of Waterloo!
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So thrilled to show off our official name and logo for the Queen’s Attentional Dynamics Laboratory or the QuAD Lab for short. A big thank you to graphic designer Eric Brousseau for the mock up and can’t wait to get the space up and running once construction is complete!
I’m also so excited with how well my office space has come together too. Between the purple walls and all the orphan plants I’ve been taking in, it’s definitely become my cozy work spot this year. A big shout out to local Kingston artist Little Daydreamer for some great pixel art to help keep my head in the clouds!
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I had a phenomenal time with CSPC Science Meets Parliament program last week, where brilliant researchers across Canada met with MPs & Senators on the Hill, bringing together the people generating knowledge in Canada with those who use it for the public good.
It was my first year being on the SMP Organizing Committee this time around and I loved talking about my past experience in the program and getting to work behind the scenes to help researchers understand the pivotal part we play in Canada’s policy-making landscape. SMP was easily the highlight of 2023 for me, and the fact that I can say that again this year is in no small part to the stellar team I get to work with who make this job immensely fun – shout outs to this amazing crew and can’t wait to grow the program with you all in the future!
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We’ve officially made it to Kingston!! Loki might be a little suspicious of the new digs, but we’re so excited to get familiar with the city again!
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I had a whirlwind of a week in Ottawa this past week, representing the University of Waterloo and Queen’s University, and meeting with MPs as part of the CSPC Science Meets Parliament program. The program brought together Tier 2 CRCs, Independent Indigenous Researchers, & Banting Postdoctoral Fellows to strengthen the connection between science & policy communities and learn about how scientific evidence is used for policy making in Parliament.
It was amazing to see the love for research and innovation at some of the highest levels of government, and I was thrilled to meet with Dr. Mona Nemer, Chief Science Advisor of Canada, Valerie Bradford, MP for Kitchener South-Hespeler, and numerous others. I cannot think of better people to champion the great scientific work we do here in Canada!
A hearty thanks to everyone involved in organizing this phenomenal event and helping us build lasting connections with other diverse researchers and with parliamentarians and their staff. I’m excited to put my new scicomm and policy skills to work!