My name is Ethan Hovermale! I’m an undergraduate researcher at Eastern Kentucky University. Right now I’m working with Crawfish, Birds, and a museum project. Hoping to do some cool geology stuff in western kentucky in the next few years.

I love when you open a collections cabinet that hasn’t been opened in a few years and are just instantly knocked off balance by whatever’s been building up in there

So gorgeous!

So is the academia experience always feeling like I should be working on something instead of sleeping?

How can you find one and NOT do it?!

That’s not a sin Cyclops is awesome

Can anyone throw some papers my way on creating and working with 3D morphometric data?

Submitted my first (of two) abstract proposals this year and this one has gotten accepted! If you are coming to the Kentucky Academy of Science meeting please come to my workshop on natural history collections in Kentucky!

Oh that’s super awesome! Going to some different conferences this year for the first time and hoping to talk people’s ears off bahaha.

My current major is just general concentration biology, the one I’m considering switching to is a Wildlife management degree. I like studying animals and their ecological/evolutionary relationships a lot.

Very tentatively thinking about changing my undergrad major to something a little different but still biology focused. Any scientists have advice on undergrad degrees?

Why did they have to type so much when they could have just said “our food was really boring” and called it a day?

Congratulations! Hope everything falls in your favor.

Ooo I really love that!

3 Hexagonal tattoos. Inside the hexagons are skulls. the top an ankylosaurs and the next is a sebecus. The third one is empty.

I finally got my first tattoos! Planning on filling more and more in as I make some money haha. What should go in the third space?

I’m glad to finally be on BlueSky. Hopefully my feed here will stay far more sciency!