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I'm doing my undergrad in evolutionary biology at McGill University in Montreal. I hope to be a renegade palaeontologist/illustrator thingy extraordinaire someday.

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April 23, 2012
in #gpoy #Maturin appreciation blog
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"‘Money, is it?’ said Stephen, who had been thinking about lemurs."

~ The Mauritius Command - Patrick O’Brian
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April 23, 2012
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pitselly: sophistory: #this would happen #stephen would be high as a kite #or delirious from some random killer malady #and jack would be trying to get him to go to bed #’that’s as may be my plum but really i think you ought - ‘ #’but WHAT IF jack. WHAT. IF.’ #jack comes back in the morning #finds the walls of stephen’s cabin papered over with schematics #for shark caltrops #portable harpoon guns #and other ingenious landshark-disabling devices #’i couldn’t sleep.’ #’i was too busy wondering about what it would be like IF SHARKS COULD WALK.’ #stephen maturin: so bad at sea-faring that the ocean develops its own footsoldiers to rise up and come after him

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sophistory:

#this would happen #stephen would be high as a kite #or delirious from some random killer malady #and jack would be trying to get him to go to bed #’that’s as may be my plum but really i think you ought - ‘ #’but WHAT IF jack. WHAT. IF.’ #jack comes back in the morning #finds the walls of stephen’s cabin papered over with schematics #for shark caltrops #portable harpoon guns #and other ingenious landshark-disabling devices #’i couldn’t sleep.’ #’i was too busy wondering about what it would be like IF SHARKS COULD WALK.’ #stephen maturin: so bad at sea-faring that the ocean develops its own footsoldiers to rise up and come after him

(Source: textsfromageofsail, via spiralfish)

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March 29, 2012
in #Maturin appreciation blog #art #painting
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Uhh yeah this is that thing I painted drunk on New Years

Uhh yeah this is that thing I painted drunk on New Years

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February 8, 2012
re: #Maturin appreciation blog #science #school
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That time Edna decided they wanted to be Stephen Maturin

So I’ve recently decided to drop my biotechnology minor because let’s face it, I have close to zero motivation to study microbiology and I’m going to maintain a rather mediocre (bordering on just plain bad) GPA if I do.

This frees up enough course spaces to let me take biology courses I’m actually interested in, as well as a full-year project in my last year, and electives wow actual optional courses.  Mostly I’m excited about having a serious focus on evolution and ethology because by now I think it’s obvious I basically want to be an old school 1800’s naturalist/palaeontologist, but with contemporary taxonomic methodologies?!

Anyways for anybody who thinks this sounds as awesome as I think it does, I’ve listed my tentative rough outline of courses for the next two years under the cut:


Third Year/U2
ANTH 203 - Human Evolution
PHIL 341 - Philosophy of Science 1
BIOL 301 - Cell and Molecular Laboratory
BIOL 303 - Developmental Biology
BIOL 304 - Evolution
BIOL 306 - Neural Basis of Behaviour
BIOL 308 - Ecological Dynamics
BIOL 352 - Vertebrate Evolution
BIOL 585 - Game Theory & Evolutionary Dynamics

Summer 2013
BIOL 573 - Vertebrate Paleontology Field course

Fourth Year/U3
BIOL 307 - Behavioural Ecology/Sociobiology
BIOL 373 - Biometry
BIOL 435 - Natural Selection
BIOL 466 - Independent Research Project 1
BIOL 467 - Independent Research Project 2
BIOL 507 - Animal Communication
BIOL 569 - Developmental Evolution
BIOL 571 - Experimental Evolution/Ecology
WILD 420 - Ornithology

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January 30, 2012
in #art #painting #Maturin appreciation blog #Max
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Last Thursday, I sent this painting to Max for his birthday, and it managed to arrive in Edmonton today somehow?! So I guess I can post this now. I didn’t take a very good picture. Max could should do a better one himself. Anyways, it’s uh yeah It’s a sloth dressed as Stephen Maturin.

Last Thursday, I sent this painting to Max for his birthday, and it managed to arrive in Edmonton today somehow?! So I guess I can post this now. I didn’t take a very good picture. Max could should do a better one himself.

Anyways, it’s uh

yeah

It’s a sloth dressed as Stephen Maturin.

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January 19, 2012
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"He had been quite unprepared for this particular blow, striking under every conceivable kind of armour, and for some minutes he could hardly bear the pain, but sat there blinking in the sun.
‘Christ,’ he said at last. ‘Another day.’"

~ Master and Commander, Patrick O’Brian
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