UTEP Biodiversity Collections
@utepbc
UTEP's natural history research museum at the intersection of three states and two countries! For loans and inquiries: http://utep.edu/biodiversity/
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

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

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
#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
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
@LavretskyLab is looking for graduate students interested in wildlife connection and genetics! @UTEP @utepbc
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!
Taxonomy of the Rhampholeon boulengeri Complex (#Sauria: Chamaeleonidae): Five #NewSpecies from Central Africa’s Albertine Rift mapress.com/zt/article/vie… #Taxonomy
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.
Podcast - Snakes and evolution - @dan_rabosky talks from 32:45 on this fascinating research involving @MarcEHJones NHM
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
Add your support for the Duke University herbarium by signing this petition! change.org/p/urge-duke-un…