Ada McVean is a science writer and masters student living in Montreal, Quebec. She received her BSc with a double major in bio-organic chemistry and gender, sexuality, feminist & social justice studies from McGill University in 2019. Ada has been working with the McGill Office for Science and Society since 2016 and has been freelancing since 2019. In 2020 she started “But What Do I Know” in Skeptical Inquirer. Ada is doing her masters in the Damha Research Group at McGill University making anti-CRISPR oligonucleotides. She also works with the McGill Chemistry Outreach Group lighting things on fire to teach kids about science, and Montreal’s largest no-kill cat shelter, the Animal Rescue Network, giving pills to cats and making funny tweets. as well as No Surrender, an Ottawa-based charity dedicated to helping people avoid unnecessarily surrendering their pets due to a lack of resources.