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Maria Paula Toro
@mariaptoro.bsky.social
🇨🇴 | Researcher at Instituto Humboldt 🔊🎶🐸| (she/her) #HERper #CienciaCriolla | #EcoEvo #BehavEcol and #Bioacoustics | #LatinainSTEM
🐸🎶Beach, breeze, sea, frogs and acoustics. What an incredible plan!The fourth version of the Colombian Herpetology Congress #4CCH 🇨🇴🐸🐢🐍🦎 is happening in Santa Marta ☀️🏝️🌊 this year, participate with your works and research, you cannot miss it!
August 21, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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Que alegría ir a hablar de ranas a la tierrita 💛💙❤️ Nos vemos en Santa Marta! 🐸🤩
August 7, 2025 at 8:43 AM
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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 it’s happening, in the new BBC series “Parenthood” (Episode on Freshwater)! 🤩 www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Zih...
📸: Screenshot from trailer
August 8, 2025 at 5:36 AM
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¿Te interesa la bioacústica, la inteligencia artificial y la conservación?

Únete a la sesión de la Comunidad Latinoamericana en 27/3 9:30 (UTC -5) para conocer BirdCLEF+ 2025, la competencia a mejorar la identificación de especies a partir de grabaciones acústicas.

wildlabs.net/event/birdcl...
BirdCLEF+ 2025: Resolviendo dudas, compartiendo ideas | WILDLABS
¿Te interesa la bioacústica, la inteligencia artificial y la conservación? Únete a nuestra sesión para conocer BirdCLEF+ 2025, la competencia global que desafía a la comunidad de inteligencia artifica...
wildlabs.net
March 20, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Check out the #BirdCLEF+ Competition 2025! This year it comes with a multi taxonomic dataset 🐦🐸🐒🦗 from the middle Valley of Magdalena river in Colombia 🇨🇴

🤖🔊 www.kaggle.com/competitions...
March 13, 2025 at 1:52 AM
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New-To-Science Poison Dart Frog Named to Honor Afro-Colombian Music🎶 | University of California, Berkeley & Stanford University, published by @zookeys.pensoft.net

by @grrlscientist.bsky.social

#frogs🐸 #amphibians #NewSpecies #zoology #SciComm🧪 www.forbes.com/sites/grrlsc...
February 17, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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“Researchers 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.”

#scicomm
#sensoryecology

www.sciencealert.com/most-birds-o...
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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.
www.sciencealert.com
February 18, 2025 at 4:30 AM
🚨🔊Eco-Bio acoustics, Sound engineers, Data scientists and relatedness!! Humboldt Institute in 🇨🇴 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-...
February 17, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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To help me relax in turbulent times, I’ve been drawing. I recommend videos related to John Law’s approach.
February 3, 2025 at 3:59 AM
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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?)
January 28, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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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! 🔊🐸🧪#scicomm
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?)
🐸 Life is full of tradeoffs—Whether you're a frog, a youtuber, or a cheetah!
Check out our latest free high school unit connected to amazing fundamental research in evolution & animal behavior by @reichertfroglab.bsky.social's lab at Oklahoma State!
www.galacticpolymath.com/lessons/en-U... #EduSky
January 29, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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Undergraduate Diversity at Evolution provides full support— registration, travel, lodging, meals— and mentoring for students to attend the Evolution 2025 meeting in Athens, Georgia this summer! Applications are due Monday, submit yours here:
Society for the Study of Evolution
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January 15, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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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 🧵(1/2) 🌎🧪
@linneansociety.bsky.social @jhancsalazar.bsky.social @marthamunoz.bsky.social
January 14, 2025 at 5:12 PM
❤️‍🔥 Top moments of the 2024! Being in the field taking frog 🐸✨data
December 27, 2024 at 9:13 AM
Paradise at 3200 m.a.s.l
January 14, 2024 at 3:56 AM
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New paper out! We show that mercury contamination reaches high levels in small phytotelmata used by poison frogs 🐸 for tadpole deposition, and increases with proximity to small-scale artisanal gold mining. @biobiiana.bsky.social 🧪🌎👩‍🔬🦤 #AcademicSky #evosky www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
December 27, 2023 at 5:58 PM
Cozy nights in a cushy bed!
December 22, 2023 at 4:23 PM
While marking frogs' call sites, I almost flagged an unexpected visitor 🐍
November 29, 2023 at 2:38 AM
🐸 Exciting news! The AnuraSet is out! rdcu.be/dqpkC We've just released a new dataset for benchmarking Neotropical anuran calls identification in passive acoustic monitoring. 🎉#PAM #AIforConservation
November 7, 2023 at 12:03 AM
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So honored to be part of this book of women herpetologist of the world representing Colombia 💛💙♥️

This is not only my story, it represents many Latinamerican HERpetologists dreaming to learn about more frogs and be scientists
www.womeninherpetology.com
September 21, 2023 at 7:30 PM