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Sam Dean
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She/herpetologist, ecologist, frmr professor; current doctoral student | Baltimorean | Unabashed pun enthusiast and ice cream appreciator.
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Few things delight me more than a work email that looks absolutely unhinged with no context.
Screenshot of an email that says “The blue pool noodles have been delivered and are in your office now.”
September 6, 2024 at 3:59 PM
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Ever come in to work to find a gifted cat canine in your mailbox? Look at the roots on this bad boy.
A long and pointy cat canine tooth sits in the palm of a hand.
August 15, 2024 at 2:05 PM
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A friend described my home office as “like being in a really hip coffee shop”, so please excuse me while I ride that high for a hot while 🪴🪩
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.
December 11, 2023 at 2:56 PM
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A shining example of Not Reading The Lab Before You Come to Class 🧪🧬🦠
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.
December 6, 2023 at 4:50 PM
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What I typed into Adobe Express' AI generator, just to try it out:
"Advertisement for a non-science major general biology course". 🧪

The least bad of the botched CAPTCHA dumpster fires I received:
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.
November 2, 2023 at 6:59 PM
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JINKIES!
Putting my lab magnifying glasses to good use this Halloween 🧪
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. A smiling woman in chunky black glasses, orange/red bobble earrings, a chunky knit orange sweater, and short blonde wavy bob holds a magnifying glass. She’s dressed as Velma from Scooby Doo.
October 31, 2023 at 3:11 PM
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New achievement unlocked:

Etsy has curated a collection for me called "frog for her"
Screenshot from Etsy suggestions: a circular thumbnail image of a frog poster, to the left of a list title called "frog for her"
August 15, 2023 at 11:38 PM
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#addHerper
A small Gray Treefrog flattens itself against the dark gray asphalt of a driveway. Photo taken at night.
August 1, 2023 at 6:44 PM
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Shark Week Party 2023 was 🔥🔥
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. Shark cookies on a three tier cake stand. Top tier has larger shark cookies outlined in gray icing with a chocolate chip eye, middle tier has square cookies decorated with chomping shark mouths with red center and chocolate chip eyes, bottom tier has smaller shark cookies outlined in gray with a chocolate chip eye. Two childrens books about sharks - Shark Lady by Jess Keating, and A Day In The Life of Sharks by Carlee Jackson and Chaaya Prabant propped atop a white vintage typewriter. A dark blue lego shark and plastic tiger shark toy sit in front of the books. To the right, a small framed print of a Great White Shark in a white frame sits in front of a jar of blue flowers. Everything is on top of a dresser draped in shark patterned fabric overlaid with decorative fishermans’ netting. 24 little glass jars on a baking sheet sit atop a gas stove. Each jar contains layered vanilla pudding dyed bright blue with crushed graham crackers for a beachy look. Two teddy grahams are stuck into the “beach” half of the top of the jar, while a blue gummy shark is in the blue pudding “water”.
July 17, 2023 at 12:38 PM