🎓 It’s official—I have a PhD!
Yesterday, I defended my thesis, closing a challenging but rewarding chapter. Grateful to my supervisors, committee, collaborators, colleagues, friends & family for their support along the way.
Excited for what’s next! 🚀 #PhDLife #ThesisDefense #Onward
Growth curves (coloured solid lines) and measurements (coloured dots) for 5 randomly selected females with at least 9 captures in Wilsons Promontory National Park. The dashed black vertical line represents age at sexual maturity (3 years) and the dotted horizontal line indicates the size of each female at sexual maturity. From Cumulative and interannual effects of reproduction in eastern grey kangaroos K. Forrester, B. Larue, W. J. King and M. Festa-Bianchet Journal of Animal Ecology 2024 Vol. 93 Pages 1684-1696
Roo female #125 with her young that is in the in-and-out phase, it will still go back into the pouch.
🧪 Kangaroos have indeterminate growth, although in ♀️ it slows to less than 1% after about age 8, and gets confused with measurement error. Leg length of 6 ♀️ caught 9-10 times yearly since aged 3. Long-term research pays off! From Forrester et al. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
🎓 I’m defending my PhD thesis on Feb 28 at 9:30 AM (EST) at Université de Sherbrooke!
📖 Environmental and maternal carry-over effects on offspring fitness in a preindustrial human population
🗣️ The defense is in French. DM me if you’d like the link!
Almost there 😊
Just submitted the initial deposit of my PhD thesis! A big milestone in this long journey. On to the next steps! 💪📚 #PhDLife #AlmostThere
When they can't walk yet, are pijamas with feet a good option? What is better to prioritise, warmth or freedom for exploration?
🌾 How early environments shaped lives in New France 🌍
Our research reveals how migrations & early life environments influenced women’s reproduction & child survival in 1640-1750 Quebec. Fascinating insights from history!
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New concept paper: The Expensive Son Hypothesis 🦌
Read it here: https://buff.ly/3CpvUli
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On a more personal note, a few fun facts:
- I speak 5 languages
- I have a crazy but lovely cat who knows tricks 😺
- I used to play Quidditch (now named Quadball) and at some point was the manager of the Spanish National Team
Soon (January? 🤞🏼) I'll be defending my thesis and looking for professional opportunities as postdoc, research assistant, or other suitable positions anywhere in Canada.
Happy to connect with anyone at any research stage with similar interests!
For my thesis, I focus on the early live environmental effects (journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...) the Lansing effect and the effect of short interbirth intervals. My thesis is really interdisciplinary, as it mixes ecology with demography and epidemiology.
This is me:
My name is Lidia, I'm doing my PhD at Université de Sherbrooke (Québec, Canada). I'm studying the preindustrial human population of Québec from an ecological perspective. Is a huge dataset built by the demographers of the PRDH program that can be used to study a number of topics.