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Scott Taylor
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Associate Professor 🏳️‍🌈, University of Colorado Boulder
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🦜🐣🦢🦉🦃🦤🦩🪶 Can’t wait to share this with everyone!
lizneeley.bsky.social Liz Neeley @lizneeley.bsky.social · Aug 31
When we have so many painful and dangerous things to grapple with, it makes the joyful things that much more precious. Seek them out, save them, share them!

Here’s one I’m *really* excited about: www.okaybutbirds.com by the hilarious & charming @drscottataylor.bsky.social
OKAY, BUT... BIRDS
www.okaybutbirds.com
August 31, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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instaar.bsky.social
Decoding 🌟 firefly communication & conservation in Colorado

Join us for a *free* evening talk by @oritpeleg.bsky.social at the Mountain Research Station (run by @colorado.edu + INSTAAR):
🗓 Wed Jun 18th
🕖 7:00 pm
📍 Near Ward CO
🔗 calendar.colorado.edu/event/orit-p...
Orit Peleg Fireflies. Photo by Mac Stone
June 16, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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instaar.bsky.social
🗓️ In the Boulder area this summer? Mark your calendar for Wednesdays 7pm starting June 11th

11 SUMMER SEMINARS at the @colorado.edu 🏔️ Mountain Research Station: Carnivorous plants, fireflies, avalanches, trout, water quality, bison, & more! Free & open to the public. See bit.ly/mrs-summer-s...
A banner of 4 photos showing a bumble bee, mouse, firefly lights, and an inflatable boat on a high alpine lake
May 9, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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instaar.bsky.social
UNDERGRAD SUMMER FIELD COURSES at CU Boulder's Mountain Research Station
🌱 Vegetation
🦅 Birds
🧬 Bioinformatics
🦠 Microbes
🚣‍♀️ Lakes+streams
🌲 Forests+fire
Each 2-3 wks, 3 transferable credits, 15 students/class, lodging&food included w tuition

More info: www.colorado.edu/instaar/2025...
Nine people, many holding butterfly nets, stand shoulder to shoulder in a grassy summer meadow surrounded by conifer trees. Accompanying text says CU Boulder Mountain Research Station summer field courses Poster for the Summer 2025 field courses at the CU Mountain Research Station. Images of mountains, alpine flowers, birds, tundra, forests, and streams. Interested in taking a field course? Join us in the mountains next summer (near Nederland CO about 1 hour from Boulder). Housing and food are included in tuition. Classes are Field methods in vegetation ecology, Field ornithology, Bioinformatics in the mountains, Microbial ecology, Forest and fire ecology, and Lake and stream ecology
April 17, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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jjinsing.bsky.social
A year ago @drscottataylor.bsky.social and I got obsessed with a very fuzzy hummingbird chick that hatched on top of a leaf in the Panamanian forest.

We wrote a paper about how it might be mimicking toxic caterpillars!

Read about it here, or Carl's link below! stri.si.edu/story/caterp...
March 24, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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instaar.bsky.social
When @jjinsing.bsky.social & @drscottataylor.bsky.social first saw the hummingbird chick in Panama’s rainforest, the biologists didn’t know what they were looking at. They later realized that it was potentially mimicking a poisonous caterpillar to avoid getting eaten
www.colorado.edu/today/2025/0...
Small bird, big trick: How a hummingbird chick acts like a caterpillar to survive
When Jay Falk and Scott Taylor first saw the white-necked Jacobin hummingbird chick in Panama’s dense rainforest, the bird biologists didn’t know what they were
www.colorado.edu
March 18, 2025 at 6:33 PM
drscottataylor.bsky.social
Join us at the Mountain Research Station this summer!
instaar.bsky.social INSTAAR 🏳️‍🌈 @instaar.bsky.social · Feb 17
UNDERGRAD SUMMER FIELD COURSES at CU Boulder's Mountain Research Station
🌱 Vegetation
🦅 Birds
🧬 Bioinformatics
🦠 Microbes
🚣‍♀️ Lakes+streams
🌲 Forests+fire
Each 2-3 wks, 3 transferable credits, 15 students/class, lodging&food included w tuition

ENROLLMENT STARTS 10 MAR
www.colorado.edu/mrs/student-...
Nine people, many holding butterfly nets, stand shoulder to shoulder in a grassy summer meadow surrounded by conifer trees. Accompanying text says CU Boulder Mountain Research Station summer field courses Poster for the Summer 2025 field courses at the CU Mountain Research Station. Images of mountains, alpine flowers, birds, tundra, forests, and streams. Interested in taking a field course? Join us in the mountains next summer (near Nederland CO about 1 hour from Boulder). Housing and food are included in tuition. Classes are Field methods in vegetation ecology, Field ornithology, Bioinformatics in the mountains, Microbial ecology, Forest and fire ecology, and Lake and stream ecology
February 27, 2025 at 6:44 PM