UTEP Biodiversity Collections

Hello hello fellow Texans, bug lovers, and community scientists! Can you help us find this weevil Anthonomous texanus that might occur in West Texas? We're trying to help a researcher get genetic samples from our area. Post your weevil pics to @inaturalist ! #entomology

We are hiring a postdoc to work on our NSF-funded project on suboscine bird diversification! Rough goal is to build phylogenies from massive dataset (data are incoming!) and analyze diversification. Posting: shorturl.at/RkYkE

Talk about interdisciplinary #ArtAndScience collabs coming together between Biology, Zooarcheology and Metals Art!

Thank you so so much @GillianLWong and Metals Professor Jessica Tolbert for helping us subsample these archeological chicken bones for researchers. We learned so much about #zooarcheology, metals art and this amazing technique with the coping saw to cut bones! #ArtAndScience

#JobAlert for Collection Manager at TAMU! tinyurl.com/mr2cejec

We are so excited to bring you #BlackMammalogists Week 2024! September 15-21st. Expect tons of giveaways, workshops, games, & other interactive content— all virtual so anyone can join. Can’t wait to see you there! 🐾✊🏽 Major sponsor: @InsideNatGeo flyer: @Sustainabaddie

For a flappin' good time, waddle on down to the @LavretskyLab duck exhibit at the Centennial Museum. It leaves this Saturday August 31st! #ducks

Quack quack friends! The @LavretskyLab is looking for two new graduate students interested in #populationgenetics to join us in 2025! Come join us at the UTEP-BC! #JobAlert

Half of our bird collections is in its new home! #ornithology What shiny new trays!

Huge congrats to Dr. ⁦@FlorHernandez_C⁩ for successfully defending your dissertation!!

Check out new press about the recognition of mock vipers as a new family, using UTEP-BC specimens! The family is remarkable for it's curious fake fang at the front of their mouths. #herpetology Snake Evolutionary Mystery Solved in 'Lifetime Achievement' - Newsweek

Congratulations to former PhD student Danny Hughes!

@DavidTLedesma Would love to see it!!

Biodiversity loss is biggest driver of infectious disease outbreaks, says study theguardian.com/environment/ar…

Congratulations to Kristi Fukunaga of Ornithology Curator @LavretskyLab for defending her Master's thesis ! Kristi's #genetics and habitat association studies has important implications for the conservation of the threatened and culturally important #Koloa maoli!

A sneak peak of the new vertebrate skin and fossil collections room! Will @LavretskyLab 's ducks finally get in a row?! Stay tuned to find out! #CollectionsAreEssential

Open until tomorrow! See the Study of Insects, by undergraduate Braulio Sanchez of Entomology Curator Dr. @brett_seymoure 's lab!! #entomology #sciart

Snakes are awesome. And so are natural history museums, since this kind of science wouldn't be possible without them.

Congratulations to Master's student Tes Chaney for this outstanding paper, including the description of a new species of Grayia #snake from #DRCongo meridian.allenpress.com/herpetological…

utep.edu/newsfeed/2024/… Very happy to support this #biodiversity work in #DRCongo, which includes a rediscovered #frog too

If you love any kind of museum, collections, and biodiversity, please join us in supporting the Duke University herbarium #CollectionsAreEssential #herbaria