 I'm Andrew Khan and I'm just finishing up a PhD in biology here at ANU. I did some work with a little species of fish called gambusia, looking at how many sons versus daughters that they produce. They're actually an introduced pest. They're originally from the Gulf of Mexico, but they kind of came here via Italy. They're really convenient to work with because they're very robust and they breed really quickly and really easily. We did one study where we went up to Darwin to work on fiddler crabs. Some of the researchers here at the ANU have developed this little mechanised claw and you can look at what the females actually like in terms of a male. There were some days where I'd gone to uni, checked my emails, did a bit of work, grabbed the net, grabbed a bit of gear, just went down Lake Billy Griffin or Lake Genendera or one of the small suburban ponds and started collecting fish, started collecting data so that by lunchtime I could be back and in the afternoon have that data entered and ready to go. I joined the Teach for Australia program, which meant that then I had a streamlined crash course on how to teach and I'm still learning every day, but then I got placed in a relatively disadvantaged high school to teach general year science. So I'm not really around uni that much anymore, but I still run into people all the time and that's really nice to still feel that connection.