Scott P. Egan
@scottpegan.bsky.social
Evolutionary Biologist & Scientific Naturalist | Associate Professor | Director, E4 Initiative | @RiceUniversity #science #biology #evolution #speciation #entomology #biodiversity #genomics #discovery Lab website: https://scottpegan.com
Weekly gall walk on the #RiceUniversity campus. Belonocnema, Disholcaspis, Andricus quercusfoliatus.
Scott P. Egan@scottpegan.bsky.social · last wk.Weekly gall walk on the #RiceUniversity campus. Belonocnema galls growing. Disholcaspis galls just starting.
Weekly gall walk on the #RiceUniversity campus. Belonocnema galls growing. Disholcaspis galls just starting.
Here is the new gall wasp discovered at #RiceUniversity that is featured in this kid's book. #BackyardBiodiversity
Scott P. Egan@scottpegan.bsky.social · last wk.Wow! 🤯 Just learned that our lab’s research is featured in a kid’s book about insects! ❤️ “In 2022, biologists identified a new type of gall wasp called Neuroterus valhalla. Spotted on the branches of a huge oak tree on the campus of #RiceUniversity.”
Wow! 🤯 Just learned that our lab’s research is featured in a kid’s book about insects! ❤️ “In 2022, biologists identified a new type of gall wasp called Neuroterus valhalla. Spotted on the branches of a huge oak tree on the campus of #RiceUniversity.”
Stop everything! Ray Gagne has just finished the second edition of "The Plant-Feeding Gall Midges of North America" and it's freely available here: zenodo.org/records/2137...
The Plant-Feeding Gall Midges of North America
This revision of The Plant-Feeding Gall Midges of North America, originally published in 1989, began as soon as the earlier book was in press. Since then, more than half again as many records of plant...
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#A_day_in_the_life of a live oak (day 465): Yellow-crowned Night Heron (Nyctanassa violacea) nesting in a southern live oak (Quercus virginiana) near Houston, Texas. (📸:Christa Denning) #biodiversity
@scottpegan.bsky.social Weird thing on a Q. virginiana branch for your consideration: www.inaturalist.org/observations...
Insects (Class Insecta)
Insects from Riverview, FL, USA on June 21, 2026 at 06:42 AM by Ryan Callahan
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The Live Oak Biodiversity Project installation at #RiceUniversity 🌳
Scott P. Egan@scottpegan.bsky.social · 2mo agoThe Live Oak Biodiversity Project that we have worked on for over a decade is now featured by #RiceUniversity in association with the #FIFAWorldCup. A beautiful circular bench w/ #biodiversity facts on support beams designed & constructed by #RiceArch student Qihang "Noah" Li.
Happy Father’s Day to all the dads and father figures out there! (Especially to my dad, who pushed me to climb mountains!)
The Live Oak Biodiversity Project that we have worked on for over a decade is now featured by #RiceUniversity in association with the #FIFAWorldCup. A beautiful circular bench w/ #biodiversity facts on support beams designed & constructed by #RiceArch student Qihang "Noah" Li.
This episode has prompted lots of requests for photos of @danielwhiteson.bsky.social's dog (a chihuahua/German shephard mix). Here you go!
Daniel and Kelly's Extraordinary Universe@dandkuniverse.bsky.social · 2mo agoWe had way too much fun in this episode! Up now: Daniel and Kelly talk to Prof. @scottpegan.bsky.social about the meaning of species in modern biology. www.iheart.com/podcast/105-... (link has audio + transcript)
It's book release day for @zachweinersmith.bsky.social! Sawyer Lee wants to stay home - but keeps getting pulled into adventures. Will he eventually prevail in his quest for relaxation? Check out Sawyer Lee and the Quest to Just Stay Home to find out. (8-12 yos) 1/n us.macmillan.com/books/978037...
Sawyer Lee and the Quest to Just Stay Home
From New York Times-bestselling and Hugo Award-winning author Zach Weinersmith comes a cartoon-illustrated middle grade novel starring a ferociously inactiv...
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Fun day sampling #eDNA with PhD student Amanda Potts for a biodiversity survey at the Cook’s Branch Conservancy, a 7,100-acre nature preserve in Montgomery County, Texas, managed by the Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation. 🧬
I had an amazing time on @dandkuniverse.bsky.social talking about species and speciation! Give their super cool podcast a listen! Thanks @weinersmith.bsky.social & @danielwhiteson.bsky.social !
Daniel and Kelly's Extraordinary Universe@dandkuniverse.bsky.social · 2mo agoWe had way too much fun in this episode! Up now: Daniel and Kelly talk to Prof. @scottpegan.bsky.social about the meaning of species in modern biology. www.iheart.com/podcast/105-... (link has audio + transcript)
Scott was an amazing guest! And here is a photo of Euderus set, the beautiful wasp he describes in the episode (photo by Andrew Forbes).
Daniel and Kelly's Extraordinary Universe@dandkuniverse.bsky.social · 2mo agoWe had way too much fun in this episode! Up now: Daniel and Kelly talk to Prof. @scottpegan.bsky.social about the meaning of species in modern biology. www.iheart.com/podcast/105-... (link has audio + transcript)
Want to gain mechanistic insights on major outstanding questions in #ecology and #evolution? Join us 6-9 October 2026 for the #EMBOEvoEco Workshop at @events.embl.org in beautiful Heidelberg, Germany Abstract submission deadline is June 30 - submit one now! www.embl.org/about/info/c...
We had way too much fun in this episode! Up now: Daniel and Kelly talk to Prof. @scottpegan.bsky.social about the meaning of species in modern biology. www.iheart.com/podcast/105-... (link has audio + transcript)
#ThrowbackThursday: On a 4 month trip driving from Texas to Belize by way of Mexico and Guatemala circa 2000. #VW #TBT
Congratulations to #NSF funded RAMP post-bacc Skylar Godwin on presenting her research on Ellipsoptera tiger beetles at the Southeast Texas Evolutionary Genetics & Genomics symposium! Good luck starting your Master’s degree at Appalachian State!
Excited to announce my promotion to Full Professor at #RiceUniversity! I am so thankful to my lab members, past & present, and collaborators, near & far, who have worked together with me to advance scientific understanding of our beautiful, resilient & threatened world. 🌎Onward!
A bird like this can change your life (Blackburnian Warbler)
