Scott P. Egan

Lab members @maryamrfaghihi.bsky.social and Skylar Godwin participated in the Rice Natural Sciences Scientific Image contest.

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

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

Come join us at Rice!

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/

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.

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.

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

😂😂😂

bsky.app/profile/scot...

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

I respect an ambitious predator

😂😂😂

🚨🚨 DREAM JOB ALERT 🚨 🚨

Check this out!!!

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

❤️

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

Box turtles are the best!

“Nobody’s home.”

Time to think. I rarely get that.

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

#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

#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)

‼️‼️‼️

#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

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

#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

Posted!

#A_day_in_the_life of a live oak (day 422): Two-lined spittle bug (Prosapia bicinta) “spittling”on a southern live oak (Quercus virginiana) in New Orleans, Louisiana. #biodiversity

Biology Department

xkcd.com/3140

So true!!! 😂😂😂