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Scott P. Egan @scottpegan.bsky.social · 6d

RIP Jane Goodall. You were an inspiration to so many, including me.

an illustration of a woman holding a chimpanzee with the words " least i can do is speak out "

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Andrea Rummel, Ph.D. @arummel.bsky.social · 6d

Come join us at Rice!

Scott P. Egan @scottpegan.bsky.social · 25d

The Dept. of BioSciences at #RiceUniversity, in Houston, Texas, invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professor position in Evolutionary Biology, with a preferred focus on organismal responses to environmental change. Please RT!

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Scott P. Egan @scottpegan.bsky.social · 8d

oscar the grouch is sitting in a garbage can .

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Jason Williams @jasonwilliamsny.bsky.social · 8d

The new #NSF #GRFP application now excludes 1000’s of students, including those who were told they could apply this year, or who planned to apply next year.

We have a new specific petition urging #NSFGRFP undo this harmful action. If you are impacted sign here: laurenkuehne.github.io/grfpChanges/

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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · Jul 9

The thing about entomology is, there are always weirder bugs than anything you could imagine on your own.

Here's Cysteodemus wislizeni, a blister beetle from west Texas.

Photograph of a metallic blue/green beetle with a very spider-like body, a huge fake "abdomen" that is swollen and dented with even pits over its bulbous surface. It is otherwise ant-like, standing on a pure white stylized background.

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Scott P. Egan @scottpegan.bsky.social · 10d

Somedays, I feel like the snake; somedays, I feel like the frog.

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Scott P. Egan @scottpegan.bsky.social · 10d

😂😂😂

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Isaiah Norton @ihnorton.bsky.social · 11d

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Scott P. Egan @scottpegan.bsky.social · 11d

It was doomed from the start. The size difference was too much. Gotta respect the ambition, though! 😂

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Ainsley S @americanbeetles.bsky.social · 12d

I respect an ambitious predator

Scott P. Egan @scottpegan.bsky.social · 12d

Check this out!!!

Gulf coast ribbon snake (Thamnophis proximus orarius) trying to swallow a much bigger Southern Leopard frog (Lithobates sphenocephalus)! 😂🤯

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Scott P. Egan @scottpegan.bsky.social · 12d

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Rafael Marcondes @rafamarcondes.bsky.social · 12d

🚨🚨 DREAM JOB ALERT 🚨 🚨

Scott P. Egan @scottpegan.bsky.social · 25d

The Dept. of BioSciences at #RiceUniversity, in Houston, Texas, invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professor position in Evolutionary Biology, with a preferred focus on organismal responses to environmental change. Please RT!

Apply: apply.interfolio.com/173889

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Scott P. Egan @scottpegan.bsky.social · 12d

Check this out!!!

Gulf coast ribbon snake (Thamnophis proximus orarius) trying to swallow a much bigger Southern Leopard frog (Lithobates sphenocephalus)! 😂🤯

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Scott P. Egan @scottpegan.bsky.social · 12d

❤️

Scott P. Egan @scottpegan.bsky.social · 12d

When I see a Monarch butterfly in Texas in the fall on its way south to Michoacán, Mexico, ~1000 miles away…

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Scott P. Egan @scottpegan.bsky.social · 19d

Box turtles are the best!

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Scott P. Egan @scottpegan.bsky.social · 19d

“Nobody’s home.”

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Scott P. Egan @scottpegan.bsky.social · 21d

Time to think. I rarely get that.

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Scott P. Egan @scottpegan.bsky.social · 21d

Early morning 10-mile run across the San Jacinto River north of Houston, Texas. 🏃‍♂️👟

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Scott P. Egan @scottpegan.bsky.social · 22d

#A_day_in_the_life of a live oak (day 259): Blue dasher dragonfly (Pachydiplax longipennis) on the southern live oak (Quercus virginiana) near Houston, Texas. 📸:@DenningDesign #dragonfly #biodiversity

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Scott P. Egan @scottpegan.bsky.social · 23d

#A_day_in_the_life of a live oak (day 425): An American black bear (Ursus americanus) in a southern live oak (Quercus virginiana) in Florida, USA. #biodiversity (Photo credit: GateHouse Florida file/Bruce Ackerman)

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Scott P. Egan @scottpegan.bsky.social · 23d

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Scott P. Egan @scottpegan.bsky.social · 23d

#A_day_in_the_life of a live oak (day 424): The black carpenter ant (Camponotus pennsylvanicus) tending a Disholcaspis quercusvirens gall on a southern live oak (Quercus virginiana) in New Orleans, Louisiana. #biodiversity

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Scott P. Egan @scottpegan.bsky.social · 25d

The Dept. of BioSciences at #RiceUniversity, in Houston, Texas, invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professor position in Evolutionary Biology, with a preferred focus on organismal responses to environmental change. Please RT!

Apply: apply.interfolio.com/173889

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Scott P. Egan @scottpegan.bsky.social · 26d

#A_day_in_the_life of a live oak (day 423): The black carpenter ant (Camponotus pennsylvanicus) tending a Disholcaspis cinerosa gall on a southern live oak (Quercus virginiana) in New Orleans, Louisiana. #biodiversity

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