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Dr. Johanna Beam
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🏳️‍🌈 | she/they | birder, scientist, artist.
Avian evolutionary biologist
NSF Postdoctoral Fellow
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I successfully defended my PhD two days ago! It’s been a whirlwind these last four years but I am so thankful to have finished strong.
Johanna stands wearing a blue, green, and coral floral dress and is holding a pen case that has Dr. Johanna Beam engraved on the front, while smiling. She has long blond curled hair and teal painted nails.
August 20, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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Been thoroughly enjoying some local PA field work.
Bonus: try ageing all the birds!
All birds handled with extensive training and state & federal permits.
A black-and-white warbler in the hand (top) showing its black throat patch. On the bottom, the spread wing of the warbler shows all the flight feathers. A hooded warbler in the hand (top) showing its characteristic black hood on a yellow head and yellow/olive body. On the bottom, the spread wing of the warbler shows all the flight feathers. A blackburnian warbler in the hand (top) showing its bright orange throat, supercillium, and crown, with a black mask. On the bottom, the spread wing of the warbler shows all the flight feathers. A red-eyed vireo in the hand (top) showing its striking red eye and cryptic olive plumage. On the bottom, the spread wing of the vireo shows all the flight feathers.
June 10, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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@nws.noaa.gov @rhyall.bsky.social sudden severe thunderstorm with graupel in State College! Didn’t see much “true” hail.
A cone shaped piece of graupel (tightly packed snow) sits in my hand.
April 15, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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Here Bluesky, have some art. I haven’t had much time to paint recently (thanks to this PhD!). This #WesternTanager in #gouache was done for my parents as a Christmas gift.
A yellow bird with a red and orange head and black wing sitting on a branch with a dabbled green and ochre background. The bird is painted with gouache, and the background is watercolor.
April 5, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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Illustration of a purple gloved hand in a fist holding a micropipette with the words “hands off our science” around the fist. There is a blue background in an organic shape around the hand and pipette.
February 25, 2025 at 3:04 AM
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Hey blue sky 👋🏼
I’m Johanna (they/she), a PhD student studying bird evolution and speciation. I’m also an artist who focuses on science illustration! Here are some cute Northern Gannets I sketched in August.
September 7, 2023 at 12:43 AM