Par Jocelyn Lauzon, Étudiant à la maîtrise en biologie à UQAM Des forêts de conifères gigantesques, des plages longeant la mer, des jardins botaniques et trois jours de discussions et de réflexions sur l’écologie et l’évolution… quoi de mieux pour lancer la saison estivale! Grâce à un prix d’excellence qui m’a été décerné par le...

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Par Jeanne Clermont et Anne Ju Laberge, Stagiaire postdoctorale et étudiante à la maîtrise, respectivement, à l’Université de Sherbrooke En mai dernier, nous avons toutes les deux présenté les résultats de nos travaux de recherche à la conférence annuelle de la Société Canadienne d’Écologie et d’Évolution (SCÉÉ), qui s’est tenue à Vancouver du 26 au...

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By Anaïs Remili, a former PhD student at McGill University In November 2022, I had the extraordinary privilege of attending The Wildlife Conference in the picturesque city of Spokane, Washington. This remarkable experience was made possible by the generous travel grant provided by the Quebec Centre for Biodiversity Science (QCBS). The conference not only allowed...

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Photograph by Anna Crofts, PhD student at the Université de Sherbrooke Cornus canadensis, colloquially named bunchberry, illuminated by soft sunshine on a late evening close to solstice. Flowering coincides with midsummer, with four white petal-like bracts encircling a group of small individual flowers. This showy perennial herb is widespread, with its range spanning Canada. Take...

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By Jessica Reemeyer, a PhD student at McGill University I spent the month of May 2024 doing field work at Lake Nabugabo in Uganda, thanks in part to an excellence award from QCBS. The work itself was exciting and gratifying but the most unexpected and entertaining part of being at the field station was sharing...

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Le Beagle reprendra ses posts réguliers en août / Le Beagle will return to posting regularly in Aug Conférences, travail sur le terrain, cours intensifs, et bien sûr quelques plaisirs d’été ! L’équipe Beagle reprendra ses activités régulières au mois d’août ! Nous sommes impatients de continuer à partager les articles des étudiant.e.s et des...

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By Allegra Spensieri, MSc student at Concordia University I’m in disbelief The most gorgeous female seen Right in front of me This is not tasty Next time I’ll try a flower What was I thinking? Hi science people I watch you write these each day Please let me help you Silly scientist I don’t move...

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Photograph by Roberta D’Camp, a MSc student at l’Université de Montréal A Magicicada sp. photographed in Eastern Iowa, USA during a trip to see the emergence of the 17-year periodical cicada brood XIII. The photograph captures it flying from one branch to another. The striped tymbals, the organs it uses to produce its loud calls, are visible...

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By Veronica Groves, a PhD student at McGill University The last time I was in Uganda, I was an undergraduate student participating in McGill’s Africa Field Study Semester in the winter of 2020. Our term ended abruptly in Tanzania on March 15th, 2020 for obvious reasons (worldwide pandemic). However, when I left Lake Nabugabo, during...

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Par Paul Savary, Post-doctorant à Concordia University En janvier 2024, j’ai eu le plaisir de voyager depuis Montréal jusqu’à Prague, troquant l’hiver québécois pour le froid matinal non moins piquant de l’Europe centrale. Une fois mon horloge biologique calée sur le rythme de l’horloge astronomique de la capitale historique de la Bohême, j’ai profité de...

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