The Symonds Lab has been still getting on with things during lockdown and the associated homeschooling/change to teaching and research chaos. Scarlett Howard joined our group as an Alfred Deakin Research Fellow in Mid-March only for the university and state to go into lockdown later that week (welcome to our group Scarlett!), Alex McQueen has been firing away with her post-doc on our shape-shifting bird project, analysing vast amounts of shorebird data on survival and bill size. Sara Ryding has been analysing 3D images of birds, desperately awaiting the opportunity to go back into museum collections, but working on a nice review chapter for the start of her PhD thesis. At the other end Melissa, despite starting her job with the Department of Conservation in New Zealand, is tantalisingly close to finishing her thesis (oh frabjous day!), and April Timmis has handed in her Honours thesis (congratulations April) and done a mighty fine job with it.
Matt…. well, there’s a saying that one should always attempted five impossible things before breakfast…. but he’s happy at the moment if he gets one vaguely possible thing done before 5pm. Today he finally uploaded Scarlett and Alex’s profiles to this lab website. Huzzah!
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