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Maria Paula Toro

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๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ด | Researcher at Instituto Humboldt ๐Ÿ”Š๐ŸŽถ๐Ÿธ| (she/her) #HERper #CienciaCriolla | #EcoEvo #BehavEcol and #Bioacoustics | #LatinainSTEM

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Book cover for Reproducible Code guide. The cover has a red background with a large yellow-bodied black-headed stag beetle.

Book cover for Reproducible Code guide. The cover has a red background with a large yellow-bodied black-headed stag beetle.

Excited to launch the new improved Reproducible Code guide from @britishecologicalsociety.org @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social FREE online here! www.britishecologicalsociety.org//wp-content/... Amazing work by some very talented ECRs. We hope itโ€™s useful!

16.12.2025 15:03 ๐Ÿ‘ 315 ๐Ÿ” 198 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 6 ๐Ÿ“Œ 9
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Phytotelmata Schlippe Justicia et al. describe small pools of water created by plant structures called โ€˜phytotelmaโ€™ that serve as mini-ecosystems.

You all know how precious and fascinating Phytotelmata are, right?
Right?

by @biobiiana.bsky.social & team
www.cell.com/current-biol...

09.12.2025 02:00 ๐Ÿ‘ 18 ๐Ÿ” 8 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Finaliza el primer dรญa del #4CCH con sala llena en la plenaria de la Dra @biobiiana.bsky.social ๐Ÿคฉ Ecologรญa evolutiva de ranas venenosas ๐Ÿธโš ๏ธ nos cuenta a que amenazas biolรณgicas ๐Ÿคœ๐Ÿค› y antrรณpicas ๐Ÿชต๐Ÿช“๐ŸŒณ se enfrentan estas ranas

02.12.2025 04:39 ๐Ÿ‘ 6 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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#4CCH Empieza el II simposio ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ด de acรบstica en Herpetologรญa. #AngyMendoza nos pone a pensar por fuera de la caja acรบstica ๐Ÿธ๐Ÿ”‰๐Ÿ”Š

01.12.2025 20:25 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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#4CCH Plenaria del Dr Carlos Navas, una mirada a la familia acadรฉmica en la herpetologia ๐Ÿธ๐ŸฆŽ

01.12.2025 17:03 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Primer dia del #4CCH Charla magistral de la Dra Mileydi Betancourth-Cundar contรกndonos sobre ranas venenosas ๐Ÿธ๐Ÿ’– y comportamiento territorial ๐ŸฅŠ

01.12.2025 13:49 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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We share with you our most recent publication a chapter entitled "Beyond Species Richness: A Behavioural Perspective of the #Anuran Diversity in the #Andes of #Colombia" ๐Ÿธ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ด as part of the book Andean Herpetofauna Explorations of #Diversity #Ecology and #Conservation
link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

25.11.2025 03:49 ๐Ÿ‘ 5 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Meet our Plenary Speaker Daniela RรถรŸler

Fueled by curiosity and a deep love of natural history Daniela discovered a REM-like sleep state in spiders and uses integrative field, lab and comparative approaches to investigate the function, ecology, and evolution of sleep across the spider tree of life.

16.11.2025 07:37 ๐Ÿ‘ 43 ๐Ÿ” 16 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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New paper out in @behavecol.bsky.social!

Multiple studies show that sexually selected traits such as colours can reflect the presence of pathogens/parasites, but, can defensive coloration do the same? L. Schlippe Justicia, @carodittrich.bsky.social, O. Nokelainen & I tackled that question (1/3)

24.11.2025 11:01 ๐Ÿ‘ 26 ๐Ÿ” 8 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

@springernature.com

25.11.2025 03:33 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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๐Ÿธ๐ŸŽถBeach, breeze, sea, frogs and acoustics. What an incredible plan!The fourth version of the Colombian Herpetology Congress #4CCH ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ด๐Ÿธ๐Ÿข๐Ÿ๐ŸฆŽ is happening in Santa Marta โ˜€๏ธ๐Ÿ๏ธ๐ŸŒŠ this year, participate with your works and research, you cannot miss it!

21.08.2025 18:24 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Que alegrรญa ir a hablar de ranas a la tierrita ๐Ÿ’›๐Ÿ’™โค๏ธ Nos vemos en Santa Marta! ๐Ÿธ๐Ÿคฉ

07.08.2025 08:43 ๐Ÿ‘ 13 ๐Ÿ” 2 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Having Sir David Attenborough narrate a story based on our findings on the dyeing poison frog was something that I never imagined, even in my wildest dreams. Now itโ€™s happening, in the new BBC series โ€œParenthoodโ€ (Episode on Freshwater)! ๐Ÿคฉ www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Zih...
๐Ÿ“ธ: Screenshot from trailer

08.08.2025 05:36 ๐Ÿ‘ 57 ๐Ÿ” 7 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Acoustic monitoring for tropical ecology and conservation: Q&A with Daniela Martรญnez Medina | Royal Society Philosophical Transactions B recently published a theme issue on โ€˜Acoustic monitoring for tropical ecology and conservationโ€™. In this blog, Guest Editor Daniela Martรญnez Medina (Instituto Humboldt, Co...

๐ŸŒด๐Ÿ”Š๐ŸŽถTropical acoustic monitoring by my incredible friend #DaniMartinez๐Ÿฆ‡ royalsociety.org/blog/2025/08...

07.08.2025 18:19 ๐Ÿ‘ 4 ๐Ÿ” 2 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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BirdCLEF+ 2025: Resolviendo dudas, compartiendo ideas | WILDLABS ยฟTe interesa la bioacรบstica, la inteligencia artificial y la conservaciรณn? รšnete a nuestra sesiรณn para conocer BirdCLEF+ 2025, la competencia global que desafรญa a la comunidad de inteligencia artifica...

ยฟTe interesa la bioacรบstica, la inteligencia artificial y la conservaciรณn?

รšnete a la sesiรณn de la Comunidad Latinoamericana en 27/3 9:30 (UTC -5) para conocer BirdCLEF+ 2025, la competencia a mejorar la identificaciรณn de especies a partir de grabaciones acรบsticas.

wildlabs.net/event/birdcl...

20.03.2025 12:52 ๐Ÿ‘ 4 ๐Ÿ” 4 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 2

Check out the #BirdCLEF+ Competition 2025! This year it comes with a multi taxonomic dataset ๐Ÿฆ๐Ÿธ๐Ÿ’๐Ÿฆ— from the middle Valley of Magdalena river in Colombia ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ด

๐Ÿค–๐Ÿ”Š www.kaggle.com/competitions...

13.03.2025 01:52 ๐Ÿ‘ 4 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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New-To-Science Poison Dart Frog Named to Honor Afro-Colombian Music๐ŸŽถ | University of California, Berkeley & Stanford University, published by @zookeys.pensoft.net

by @grrlscientist.bsky.social

#frogs๐Ÿธ #amphibians #NewSpecies #zoology #SciComm๐Ÿงช www.forbes.com/sites/grrlsc...

17.02.2025 16:14 ๐Ÿ‘ 26 ๐Ÿ” 8 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
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Most Birds-of-Paradise Are Secretly Biofluorescent, Study Finds Birds-of-paradise have some of the most famous mating displays in the world, but there's more to their colorful rhythmic gymnastics than initially meets the human eye.

โ€œResearchers at the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) combed through the available archives and found that all 37 core bird-of-paradise species in Australia, New Guinea, and Indonesia are biofluorescent.โ€

#scicomm
#sensoryecology

www.sciencealert.com/most-birds-o...
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18.02.2025 04:30 ๐Ÿ‘ 89 ๐Ÿ” 18 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 4
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๐Ÿšจ๐Ÿ”ŠEco-Bio acoustics, Sound engineers, Data scientists and relatedness!! Humboldt Institute in ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ด is looking for a Curator of its Enviromental Sound Collection (CSA) one of the biggest repositories of biodiversity sounds of Latin America!! Apply www.humboldt.org.co/trabaja-con-...

17.02.2025 18:10 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 3 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

My bet is on Atelopus spurrelli! I can feel the vibe on that outfit ๐Ÿธ

04.02.2025 07:36 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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To help me relax in turbulent times, Iโ€™ve been drawing. I recommend videos related to John Lawโ€™s approach.

03.02.2025 03:59 ๐Ÿ‘ 7 ๐Ÿ” 2 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Please check out these amazing free high school lesson plans based on our research! @galacticpolymath.com did a great job putting them together and I'm really excited to use our work to teach students about science and of course frogs. Please share with teachers! Supported by #NSF (RIP?)

28.01.2025 19:51 ๐Ÿ‘ 10 ๐Ÿ” 5 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

This is the type of exciting *fundamental* research & outreach that NSF funds. It's been a privilege to work on this project & I really hope NSF is allowed to continue its work to expand the frontiers of knowledge, while keeping the public in the loop through #BroaderImpacts! ๐Ÿ”Š๐Ÿธ๐Ÿงช#scicomm

29.01.2025 00:36 ๐Ÿ‘ 18 ๐Ÿ” 5 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Society for the Study of Evolution Site description

Undergraduate Diversity at Evolution provides full supportโ€” registration, travel, lodging, mealsโ€” and mentoring for students to attend the Evolution 2025 meeting in Athens, Georgia this summer! Applications are due Monday, submit yours here:

15.01.2025 18:47 ๐Ÿ‘ 16 ๐Ÿ” 16 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
A small brown anolis basking on a wooden post, displaying its orange dewlap. Not an Andean species.

A small brown anolis basking on a wooden post, displaying its orange dewlap. Not an Andean species.

Kicking off 2025, physiological diversity in Anolis lizards is driven by the Andes! One of the planets' most #Biodiverse regions, gaps have remained in our understanding of species' thermal limits...a ๐Ÿงต(1/2) ๐ŸŒŽ๐Ÿงช
@linneansociety.bsky.social @jhancsalazar.bsky.social @marthamunoz.bsky.social

14.01.2025 17:11 ๐Ÿ‘ 27 ๐Ÿ” 14 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

๐Ÿ™Œ๐Ÿพ

15.01.2025 13:23 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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โค๏ธโ€๐Ÿ”ฅ Top moments of the 2024! Being in the field taking frog ๐Ÿธโœจdata

27.12.2024 09:13 ๐Ÿ‘ 7 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Paradise at 3200 m.a.s.l

14.01.2024 03:56 ๐Ÿ‘ 6 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Graphic summary showing the sampling location in French Guayana (top left), a phytotelmata containing tadpoles and a poison frog (top right), small-scale artisanal gold mining activity (bottom left), and the influence of mercury on tadpole body condition (bottom right), which is negatively correlated with Hg levels.

Graphic summary showing the sampling location in French Guayana (top left), a phytotelmata containing tadpoles and a poison frog (top right), small-scale artisanal gold mining activity (bottom left), and the influence of mercury on tadpole body condition (bottom right), which is negatively correlated with Hg levels.

New paper out! We show that mercury contamination reaches high levels in small phytotelmata used by poison frogs ๐Ÿธ for tadpole deposition, and increases with proximity to small-scale artisanal gold mining. @biobiiana.bsky.social ๐Ÿงช๐ŸŒŽ๐Ÿ‘ฉโ€๐Ÿ”ฌ๐Ÿฆค #AcademicSky #evosky www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

27.12.2023 17:58 ๐Ÿ‘ 25 ๐Ÿ” 9 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Cozy nights in a cushy bed!

22.12.2023 16:23 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0