Vienna-based production company Square Eyes purchased Sara Summa's road comedy Arthur and Diana for distribution. To help build up excitement for its Toronto International Film Festival premiere, the film has released its first trailer on Variety. The film follows Diana, her brother Arthur, and her two-year-old son
In my research projects in ecology, I’m seeking to understand how interactions between birds and their parasites are affected by environmental degradation linked to human activities such as deforestation, intensive agriculture or climate change. This human impact has caused land cover and climate conditions to change, which has repercussions both on bird populations and on insects (such as mosquitoes) that spread pathogens to birds.
To gather data, I go on field trips with teammates and capture birds and mosquitoes (also known as “vectors”) in habitats with varying degrees of degradation and different environmental characteristics. This allows me to describe the diversity of parasites in natural populations and compare the proportion of infected birds in contrasting habitats.