Scott Taylor
@drscottataylor.bsky.social
Associate Professor 🏳️🌈, University of Colorado Boulder
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I had a blast talking with @drscottataylor.bsky.social on the most recent episode of Okay, but...birds. Tune in for my hot take on why Hudsonian Godwits are far superior to Arctic Terns as migratory birds! (I welcome any & all angry comments from tern supporters 😉)
okaybutbirds.com/episodes/e5
okaybutbirds.com/episodes/e5
E5: Okay, but why fly from the Arctic to Antarctica and back every year? — Okay, But... Birds
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January 9, 2026 at 5:09 PM
I had a blast talking with @drscottataylor.bsky.social on the most recent episode of Okay, but...birds. Tune in for my hot take on why Hudsonian Godwits are far superior to Arctic Terns as migratory birds! (I welcome any & all angry comments from tern supporters 😉)
okaybutbirds.com/episodes/e5
okaybutbirds.com/episodes/e5
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"I don’t know why my fellowship was terminated. I suspect that it has something to do with studying a species that doesn’t fit the binary of what we expect to see in nature, with completely different males and females."
@carlzimmer.com profiles my wonderful coauthor @jjinsing.bsky.social Gift link.
@carlzimmer.com profiles my wonderful coauthor @jjinsing.bsky.social Gift link.
He Studied Why Some Female Birds Look Like Males
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January 2, 2026 at 6:10 PM
"I don’t know why my fellowship was terminated. I suspect that it has something to do with studying a species that doesn’t fit the binary of what we expect to see in nature, with completely different males and females."
@carlzimmer.com profiles my wonderful coauthor @jjinsing.bsky.social Gift link.
@carlzimmer.com profiles my wonderful coauthor @jjinsing.bsky.social Gift link.
Highly recommend. It really is a life changing experience. Amazing people and talent and so much care with your creative ideas. All of that in an inspirational place where you can snorkel in kelp 🐙
Each summer, I lead a week-long creative retreat for environmental researchers & academics on Catalina Island. We develop your most ambitious project ideas. It's truly life-changing.
Applications for the 2026 Storymakers fellowship are now open! Deadline is Feb 1. dornsife.usc.edu/wrigley/enga...
Applications for the 2026 Storymakers fellowship are now open! Deadline is Feb 1. dornsife.usc.edu/wrigley/enga...
Storymakers Program - Wrigley Institute for Environment and Sustainability
Creating a more sustainable and environmentally just future for our planet and all who live on it
dornsife.usc.edu
January 1, 2026 at 5:45 PM
Highly recommend. It really is a life changing experience. Amazing people and talent and so much care with your creative ideas. All of that in an inspirational place where you can snorkel in kelp 🐙
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Just in time for the holidays, I had a fun chat with @drscottataylor.bsky.social about splits and lumps… and some of the other controversies roiling avian taxonomy 🤓
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Okay, but why did my life list just shrink?
Podcast Episode · Okay, But... Birds · S1 E3 · 27m
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December 20, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Just in time for the holidays, I had a fun chat with @drscottataylor.bsky.social about splits and lumps… and some of the other controversies roiling avian taxonomy 🤓
🦉🧪
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"Okay, but is bird monogamy just PR?" 🐦🦆🐣 🦉🦜🦩
Listen/watch the first episode of the Okay, But… Birds podcast, hosted by @drscottataylor.bsky.social (INSTAAR & EBIO, CU Boulder) and featuring Carrie Branch (Western University, Canada) www.okaybutbirds.com
Listen/watch the first episode of the Okay, But… Birds podcast, hosted by @drscottataylor.bsky.social (INSTAAR & EBIO, CU Boulder) and featuring Carrie Branch (Western University, Canada) www.okaybutbirds.com
Okay, But... Birds
Discover the fascinating world of birds with Okay, But... Birds. Explore science-driven stories and episodes on avian life, hosted by evolutionary biologist Dr. Scott Taylor.
www.okaybutbirds.com
December 4, 2025 at 5:42 PM
"Okay, but is bird monogamy just PR?" 🐦🦆🐣 🦉🦜🦩
Listen/watch the first episode of the Okay, But… Birds podcast, hosted by @drscottataylor.bsky.social (INSTAAR & EBIO, CU Boulder) and featuring Carrie Branch (Western University, Canada) www.okaybutbirds.com
Listen/watch the first episode of the Okay, But… Birds podcast, hosted by @drscottataylor.bsky.social (INSTAAR & EBIO, CU Boulder) and featuring Carrie Branch (Western University, Canada) www.okaybutbirds.com
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Just a PSA that @drscottataylor.bsky.social, who is an excellent science communicator and hilarious human being as well as an ornithologist, is starting a new podcast called "Okay, But... Birds" and you should definitely check it out. www.okaybutbirds.com
Okay, But... Birds
Discover the fascinating world of birds with Okay, But... Birds. Explore science-driven stories and episodes on avian life, hosted by evolutionary biologist Dr. Scott Taylor.
www.okaybutbirds.com
December 2, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Just a PSA that @drscottataylor.bsky.social, who is an excellent science communicator and hilarious human being as well as an ornithologist, is starting a new podcast called "Okay, But... Birds" and you should definitely check it out. www.okaybutbirds.com
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@drscottataylor.bsky.social is an Assoc Professor at INSTAAR & Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, CU Boulder. He's also the Director of our Mountain Research Station. Learn more about his new podcast at www.okaybutbirds.com
Okay, But... Birds
Discover the fascinating world of birds with Okay, But... Birds. Explore science-driven stories and episodes on avian life, hosted by evolutionary biologist Dr. Scott Taylor.
www.okaybutbirds.com
November 18, 2025 at 2:27 PM
@drscottataylor.bsky.social is an Assoc Professor at INSTAAR & Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, CU Boulder. He's also the Director of our Mountain Research Station. Learn more about his new podcast at www.okaybutbirds.com
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"Okay, But… Birds" 🐦🦆🐣 🦉🦜🦩
Listen/watch this science-meets-storytelling podcast about the weird, brilliant, & surprisingly dramatic lives of birds. Hosted by evolutionary biologist Scott Taylor. Premiers Dec 4th www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiUV...
Listen/watch this science-meets-storytelling podcast about the weird, brilliant, & surprisingly dramatic lives of birds. Hosted by evolutionary biologist Scott Taylor. Premiers Dec 4th www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiUV...
Podcast Trailer — Okay, But Birds…
Okay, But Birds… is a weekly science-meets-storytelling podcast hosted by evolutionary biologist Dr. Scott Taylor. Each episode dives into one weird-but-true bird question through smart, funny…
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November 18, 2025 at 2:27 PM
"Okay, But… Birds" 🐦🦆🐣 🦉🦜🦩
Listen/watch this science-meets-storytelling podcast about the weird, brilliant, & surprisingly dramatic lives of birds. Hosted by evolutionary biologist Scott Taylor. Premiers Dec 4th www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiUV...
Listen/watch this science-meets-storytelling podcast about the weird, brilliant, & surprisingly dramatic lives of birds. Hosted by evolutionary biologist Scott Taylor. Premiers Dec 4th www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiUV...
🦜🐣🦢🦉🦃🦤🦩🪶 Can’t wait to share this with everyone!
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
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
🦜🐣🦢🦉🦃🦤🦩🪶 Can’t wait to share this with everyone!
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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...
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...
June 16, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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...
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...
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🗓️ 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...
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...
May 9, 2025 at 8:37 PM
🗓️ 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...
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...
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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...
🌱 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...
April 17, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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...
🌱 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...
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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...
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
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...
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...
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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...
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
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...
www.colorado.edu/today/2025/0...
Join us at the Mountain Research Station this summer!
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-...
🌱 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-...
February 27, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Join us at the Mountain Research Station this summer!