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Daniel Conroy-Beam

@dconroybeam.bsky.social

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Associate professor at UCSB. Evolutionary and computational perspectives on human mating. Occasional nature photos. He/him. www.danconroybeam.com

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Daniel Conroy-Beam @dconroybeam.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Saw some real nice birds in South Africa #birds

An African Paradise Flycatcher, facing right

An African Penguin kicks up some sand on the beach

A Lilac-Breasted Roller perches on a bare tree, facing right

A Secretarybird carrying nesting material back to its nest

Daniel Conroy-Beam @dconroybeam.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

Lazuli Bunting season

Daniel Conroy-Beam @dconroybeam.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

There's a bear on campus and the official university recommendation is to fight it

Daniel Conroy-Beam @dconroybeam.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

A recent trip to Santa Cruz Island #birds #wildlife #nature

An island scrubjay perched on a fence

The view from San Pedro Point, with Anacapa Island in the background

Potato harbor

An island fox posing in the grass

Daniel Conroy-Beam @dconroybeam.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Turns out Denver kinda rules

An American dipper American dipping

A bald eagle flying overhead, with wings fully extended

A juvenile bighorn sheep looks down a cliff edge

An adult male bighorn sheep climbing down rocks

Daniel Conroy-Beam @dconroybeam.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

A small bright spot in a dark time: finally saw my first Mountain Bluebird

Daniel Conroy-Beam @dconroybeam.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

Actually getting in some birding in between quarters

Daniel Conroy-Beam @dconroybeam.bsky.social · 13/12/2023

Haven't skeeted any birds in a while. Here's some of this past weekend's haul.

A juvenile bald eagle perches on a tree above a lake, facing left.

An American Kestrel looks over its shoulder, dangling a freshly caught rat over a wire

A marsh wren, posing on a dead branch near a pond, facing left

Daniel Conroy-Beam @dconroybeam.bsky.social · 03/11/2023

Raptors are always so cooperative and photogenic

A bald eagle looks to the left

A bald eagle flying away

A marsh harrier soaring in the distance

A red-tailed hawk soaring overhead

Daniel Conroy-Beam @dconroybeam.bsky.social · 13/10/2023

What silly little goobers. Why live your whole life by the water if you're afraid of getting wet?

Three sanderlings running side-by-side on the shore

Daniel Conroy-Beam @dconroybeam.bsky.social · 05/10/2023

A first for me: someone was so desperate to escape my lecture they ran out of their own shoes.

A pair of shoes under a seat in a lecture hall

Daniel Conroy-Beam @dconroybeam.bsky.social · 27/09/2023

#HiSciSky I'm an associate prof at UCSB. I use an evolutionary and computational approach to study human mate choice. I also take so-so nature photos (mostly birds, sometimes other stuff). #PsychSciSky #EvPsych

The fluke of a diving humpback whale with mountains in the background