Sam Dean

@samdeanscience.bsky.social

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She/herpetologist, ecologist, frmr professor; current doctoral student | Baltimorean | Unabashed pun enthusiast and ice cream appreciator.

Screenshot of an email that says “The blue pool noodles have been delivered and are in your office now.”
A long and pointy cat canine tooth sits in the palm of a hand.
Multiple plants of varying heights sit in front of a window draped in white curtains with small horizontal black stripes and black tassels. On the left is a 80s style flowered wingback chair with a bright pink pillow depicting two cartoon owls. In the foreground is a forest green circular rug, with a large zigzag checkerboard snake pattern. The plants frame a framed piece of music propped up on the floor, and a hanging discoball planter with a blooming christmas cactus is in the top right.
A bacterial plate held by a gloved hand. The sharpie lines should be drawn to evenly split the circle into 6 pieces, but instead the student has drawn an insect-like line and divided the circular tray into 7 different sections, each one a different shape and size. On the plate ager are antibiotic tabs and some bacterial growth.
AI generated white poster with black writing and a huge red heading. The writing appears to be a mashup of multiple alphabets - definitely not English, although the words appear to be mocking English. It says "BOGLIORSIE", which probably supposed to be something biology, but really missed the mark. There are two cerulean blobs that could possibly be cells or microbes, but have words in them. The words on the poster look like a botched CAPCHA experiment. Truly an AI fail.
A beaming woman with a wavy blonde bob, chunky black glasses, orange and red bobble earrings, an orange chunky sweater, and red schoolgirl skirt, orange fishnets, and black doc marten boots, holds a magnifying glass. She is dressed as Velma from Scooby Doo.
Screenshot from Etsy suggestions: a circular thumbnail image of a frog poster, to the left of a list title called "frog for her"
A small Gray Treefrog flattens itself against the dark gray asphalt of a driveway. Photo taken at night.
Snacks in bowls and jars, including multicolored goldfish crackers, blue gummy sharks, pretzel goldfish crackers, teddy grahams, blue and white hershey’s kisses, swedish fish, a bowl of apples, and icing-topped shark cookies, decorate a table. They sit atop a light turquoise fabric covered in sharks.