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March 2023 Check out our new paper in Nature E&E lead by Juan Rubalcaba! "Climate drives global functional trait variation in lizards". Juan combines all the thermally-related traits (in reptiles), predicts where selection will most stringently constrain variation, and finds lizards on earth mostly conform to these predictions.
 Full text: https://rdcu.be/c6ZWG ​
January 2022. Several folks in the Sunday Lab attended Biodiversity COP15 in Montreal. Here is some coverage of the McGill take (link).
Dec. 2022. Sunday lab classes it up in the Faculty Club. Look at those cakes!
Oct. 2022. Disco bowling. A new Sunday Lab tradition.
June 2022. Congrats to Victor Cruz for winning the Quebec Centre for Biodiversity Science Excellence Award in support of his summer undergraduate work building an ecological forecasting model! 
May 9, 2022: Sunday Lab retreats to Gault Nature Reserve for a work-retreat. The summit reached!
April 8th, 2022: Co-lead a virtual working group as part of the Living Data Project this week. Goal: to produce R-based tutorials to teach/illustrate concepts in ecology and evolution, based on Canadian-generated data sources. Update: preview our work-in-progress here.
Nov. 5th, 2021: What are the other career tracks? Sunday Lab hosts a panel discussion about "non-academic careers" in ecology and evolution @McGill. Thanks so much to our panellists from DFO, ECCC, WWF, and the Hakai Institute! Also - first hybrid seminar!
Sept. 7th, 2021: Sunday Lab members are in the field! Thanks to the Hakai Institute for hosting Ben and Kate at Calvert Island, B.C., and for collaborating in a major eDNA sampling campaign! #200samplesunderthesea 
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