Abigail Cahill

@aecahill.bsky.social

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Marine biologist studying inverts, larvae, connectivity. Based in the Great Lakes, i.e. not at all marine. Intrepid knitter, academia, France. |she/her|

A top-down view of a 3D-printer bed printing a series of yellow circles with mesh bottoms
A nametag made out of a tree branch cookie and some yarn. The name and affiliation were added by woodburning.
A GitHub activity profile showing absolutely nothing until the end of the semester and then a blob of green over the summer
Closeup of aquatic vegetation featuring a bug with a bunch of white round things on its back
A top layer of green leaves and then a layer of sticks obscurs a black-and-yellow snake
A painting of soldiers and cannons in front of the Bastille
Screenshot of a news notification "Invasive skunk cabbage removed from marshes in Eastern France"
A computer with a sign saying data analysis is in progress. The mouse is strapped to a piece of lab equipment to keep it moving
A shallow river with plant-covered beds emerging
A Microsoft Word popup window informing me that my manuscript has no more track changes
Ocean view of the mediterranean coast with blue sky, house, mountains
A train at a platform
A screen recording of a line of text that says "Associate Professor of Biology" followed by the deletion of "Associate"
A sandy river bottom with a mussel; there is white tissue that vaguely looks like a fish waving in the water.
A parking lot and cement building in the foreground - a large, deep blue lake in the background
Four college students crouched over the ground in a wooded area
A red-brown wasp with long antennae, folded wings, and black-and-yellow eyes. It is sitting on a reddish-brown background.
A snow-covered ground with trees and shrubs. Four brown boards with bright-colored clay caterpillars are visible
A red-orange hat in progress, on knitting needles, held in front of an industrial-style carpet
A trio of knitted objects sitting on a carpet: a blue baby sweater with a grey octopus, a blue-and-green hat with a blue octopus, a red hat.
3 framed drawings: A for Arthropoda, B for Bryozoa, C for Cnidaria. Each drawing has two life stages from the phylum.
Mary Oliver: “Maybe hope, maybe faith” In the winter I am writing about, there was much darkness. Darkness of nature, darkness of event, darkness of the spirit. The sprawling darkness of not knowing. We speak of the light of reason. I would speak here of the darkness of the world, and the light of———. But I don’t know what to call it. Maybe hope. Maybe faith, but not a shaped faith—only, say, a gesture, or a continuum of gestures. But probably it is closer to hope, that is more active, and far messier than faith must be. Faith, as I imagine it, is tensile, and cool, and has no need of words. Hope, I know, is a fighter and a screamer.
Screen in a conference hall with opening slide for sacnas conference
Two panel comic with header "Average Time Spent Composing One Email." The left panel depicts a bald man with glasses in a fancy chair typing on a screen: "Yes. Send. Do It. Send. See Attached. Send. No. Send." The right panel shows an anxious student composing a long email that begins "Dear (?) Prof. Smith, I was wondering if perhaps you might have possibly gotten the chance to potentially find the time to ..." Comic is from PhD Comics.
Small red-black-white banded snake held in a hand
A sunny day with blue sky, white clouds, green trees reflected into a river
A purple program cover for the 2000 US figure skating championship
A library copy of the book Sharks Don't Sink: Adventures of a Rogue Shark Scientist, by Jasmin Graham
A GitHub contribution graph showing lots of activity in spring and summer, none in fall, and picking up again once winter break started.
A computer running R with a sign reading "Don't touch - data analysis in progress"
A hand holding a small, black, 3D-printed snail in front of a 3D printer.
Two snails in a tank, eating
Skittles suspended in a jar of corn syrup, with plastic flatware in front
A scale with sixty grams of mustard powder on it. Bags of mustard powder aliquots are in the background.
Giant mosquito the size of an index fingernail, for scale
A blue knit scarf on a couch - a closeup of the end, with about one inch of yarn left as a tail.
Two people wearing waders stand in the distance, at the edge of a marshy pond.
A woman stands on a stage behind a podium, with a slide projected over her head in the background.
Hardcover copy of a green book with a monkey on it; the title is An Immense World and the author is Ed Yong. A hand is holding the book partly open to reveal bits of a handwritten inscription.
Glass equisetum model
Glass model of red coral
A blank gel with a ladder visible.
Wooden sign reading "Slices Come Plain Only."
A sunset over a wave-covered ocean. There are some rocky islands in the distance.
Top panel, screenshot from Barbie movie of Ken saying "I-I have all the genitals." Bottom panel, screenshot of R code saying "Result: no test, everyone lacks genitalia."
Yellow house perched on a rock over a turquoise ocean under a blue sky.
Meme of dude holding coffee cup: The most anxiety-inducing part of the peer review process is waiting for the editor's decision after reviews are in. Change my mind.
View of the ocean and the shore. It is sunny and the light is reflecting off the water. Everything is blue.
A black rectangle with a large number of white ovals outlined in blue
Word cloud of terms centered on 'species', 'genetic', and 'diversity'
Belle Epoque train station with a stone front and iron-and-glass roof, under a blue sky
Selfie of a smiling woman with glasses. Her shirtsleeve is pushed up to show a bandaid.
Bay under a blue sky with a sloping rocky hill in the background.
A knitted, stuffed snail with a blue striped shell and orange body
Meme of Buzz & Woody from Toy Story. Text: Happiness / Happiness everywhere
A semicircle of canning jars with fruit butters and pickles, sitting on a linoleum tile floor.
A large black pot with four canning jars in it and steam everywhere. The jars are evenly spaced in the canner.
Selfie of a woman in waders standing in a river. It is hot.