Vaughn M. Shirey
@vmshirey.bsky.social
Asst. Curator of 🦋 @FloridaMuseum. ; Formerly @SmithFellows @Georgetown @FulbrightFIN. Views mine. 🖖🏼 🏳️🌈 ✝️ ☸️
https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/shirey-lab/
https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/shirey-lab/
Too late/languished to add “baking” to my alliterative interests? Blueberry cardamom rolls brought to you by current events.
June 16, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Too late/languished to add “baking” to my alliterative interests? Blueberry cardamom rolls brought to you by current events.
Successful Shirey Lab field work outing to San Felasco to conduct some giant skipper surveys!
May 31, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Successful Shirey Lab field work outing to San Felasco to conduct some giant skipper surveys!
I've been really enamored over the last two months with making cameras out of all of my spare diet coke cans and tape.
Anyway, here is a shot that I'm really proud of from UF's campus. #pinhole #pinholeCamera
Anyway, here is a shot that I'm really proud of from UF's campus. #pinhole #pinholeCamera
May 31, 2025 at 2:30 AM
I've been really enamored over the last two months with making cameras out of all of my spare diet coke cans and tape.
Anyway, here is a shot that I'm really proud of from UF's campus. #pinhole #pinholeCamera
Anyway, here is a shot that I'm really proud of from UF's campus. #pinhole #pinholeCamera
Taught my first analog workshop on campus today using the ever stunning and versatile cyanotype process!
Was a good break from class ahead of finals and a great way to soak up some sunshine between meetings ☀️ 💙
Was a good break from class ahead of finals and a great way to soak up some sunshine between meetings ☀️ 💙
April 18, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Taught my first analog workshop on campus today using the ever stunning and versatile cyanotype process!
Was a good break from class ahead of finals and a great way to soak up some sunshine between meetings ☀️ 💙
Was a good break from class ahead of finals and a great way to soak up some sunshine between meetings ☀️ 💙
Spent some time this weekend experimenting with portraiture. Next up some digital negatives and experimenting with photochemistry.
April 7, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Spent some time this weekend experimenting with portraiture. Next up some digital negatives and experimenting with photochemistry.
Our article is now available open access! Come learn what we learned about the last 50 years of invertebrate conservation under the U.S. Endangered Species Act.
doi.org/10.3389/fcos...
doi.org/10.3389/fcos...
April 4, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Our article is now available open access! Come learn what we learned about the last 50 years of invertebrate conservation under the U.S. Endangered Species Act.
doi.org/10.3389/fcos...
doi.org/10.3389/fcos...
Another great day looking for and learning about giant skippers with my students!
March 30, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Another great day looking for and learning about giant skippers with my students!
Our new article on the U.S. Endangered Species Act and invertebrate conservation is up! In it, we profile what the last 50 years of invert conservation have amounted to under the ESA (and we made some cool maps!).
www.frontiersin.org/journals/con...
www.frontiersin.org/journals/con...
March 6, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Our new article on the U.S. Endangered Species Act and invertebrate conservation is up! In it, we profile what the last 50 years of invert conservation have amounted to under the ESA (and we made some cool maps!).
www.frontiersin.org/journals/con...
www.frontiersin.org/journals/con...
Diligent curation of giant skippers happening @floridamuseum.bsky.social this morning!
February 20, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Diligent curation of giant skippers happening @floridamuseum.bsky.social this morning!
Tiny assistant curator, big office. Excited to kick off this new adventure with @floridamuseum.bsky.social 🦋✨
January 16, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Tiny assistant curator, big office. Excited to kick off this new adventure with @floridamuseum.bsky.social 🦋✨
Big prize if you can guess exactly where I'm going to go from this temporary figure (the big prize is the dopamine from guessing correctly).
December 12, 2024 at 9:58 PM
Big prize if you can guess exactly where I'm going to go from this temporary figure (the big prize is the dopamine from guessing correctly).
The Creature ™️ watching me hop from Zoom to Zoom today
November 25, 2024 at 10:34 PM
The Creature ™️ watching me hop from Zoom to Zoom today
Holy smokes! That's a lot of new followers on here.
Time for introductions! Vaughn here and I am an incoming Assistant Curator of Lepidoptera @floridamuseum.bsky.social this January. 🦋✨
You can find me talking about all things global change, conservation, and data science with museum collections!
Time for introductions! Vaughn here and I am an incoming Assistant Curator of Lepidoptera @floridamuseum.bsky.social this January. 🦋✨
You can find me talking about all things global change, conservation, and data science with museum collections!
November 16, 2024 at 8:51 PM
Holy smokes! That's a lot of new followers on here.
Time for introductions! Vaughn here and I am an incoming Assistant Curator of Lepidoptera @floridamuseum.bsky.social this January. 🦋✨
You can find me talking about all things global change, conservation, and data science with museum collections!
Time for introductions! Vaughn here and I am an incoming Assistant Curator of Lepidoptera @floridamuseum.bsky.social this January. 🦋✨
You can find me talking about all things global change, conservation, and data science with museum collections!
Post a picture you took (no description) to bring some zen to the timeline.
November 16, 2024 at 3:53 PM
Post a picture you took (no description) to bring some zen to the timeline.
Finally made some headway with chlorophyll process to run some self-portraits over a stormy weekend. 3 days of solar exposure on Monstera.
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#AlternativeProcess #AlternativeProcessPhotography #Photography #NatureArt #SustainableArt
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#AlternativeProcess #AlternativeProcessPhotography #Photography #NatureArt #SustainableArt
July 2, 2024 at 4:12 PM
Finally made some headway with chlorophyll process to run some self-portraits over a stormy weekend. 3 days of solar exposure on Monstera.
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#AlternativeProcess #AlternativeProcessPhotography #Photography #NatureArt #SustainableArt
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#AlternativeProcess #AlternativeProcessPhotography #Photography #NatureArt #SustainableArt
I'm very proud of this work that is out now in
GCB - rising minimum temperatures due to #ClimateChange are negatively impacting cold-adapted North American #butterflies. doi.org/10.1111/gcb....
(Pictured: Oeneis polixenes - Yukon 2019)
GCB - rising minimum temperatures due to #ClimateChange are negatively impacting cold-adapted North American #butterflies. doi.org/10.1111/gcb....
(Pictured: Oeneis polixenes - Yukon 2019)
February 26, 2024 at 6:04 PM
I'm very proud of this work that is out now in
GCB - rising minimum temperatures due to #ClimateChange are negatively impacting cold-adapted North American #butterflies. doi.org/10.1111/gcb....
(Pictured: Oeneis polixenes - Yukon 2019)
GCB - rising minimum temperatures due to #ClimateChange are negatively impacting cold-adapted North American #butterflies. doi.org/10.1111/gcb....
(Pictured: Oeneis polixenes - Yukon 2019)
New #Preprint Alert!
In the final chapter of my dissertation work, we used deep #ComputerVision to aid in examining the relationship between size vs. melanism, sex, and environment in the Rocky Mountain Parnassian!
doi.org/10.1101/2024...
In the final chapter of my dissertation work, we used deep #ComputerVision to aid in examining the relationship between size vs. melanism, sex, and environment in the Rocky Mountain Parnassian!
doi.org/10.1101/2024...
February 9, 2024 at 3:23 PM
New #Preprint Alert!
In the final chapter of my dissertation work, we used deep #ComputerVision to aid in examining the relationship between size vs. melanism, sex, and environment in the Rocky Mountain Parnassian!
doi.org/10.1101/2024...
In the final chapter of my dissertation work, we used deep #ComputerVision to aid in examining the relationship between size vs. melanism, sex, and environment in the Rocky Mountain Parnassian!
doi.org/10.1101/2024...
Life has been busy with new research, art, and a hefty dose of faculty job applications. ~ ✨
December 27, 2023 at 7:18 PM
Life has been busy with new research, art, and a hefty dose of faculty job applications. ~ ✨
I'm excited to share some work I did at the tail end of my Ph.D. (yes, literally during the same week of my defense ) on the current knowledge around drivers of monarch butterfly declines...(1/4) doi.org/10.1016/j.co...
October 21, 2023 at 8:03 PM
I'm excited to share some work I did at the tail end of my Ph.D. (yes, literally during the same week of my defense ) on the current knowledge around drivers of monarch butterfly declines...(1/4) doi.org/10.1016/j.co...
I spent the last few days photographing a ton of huge skippers just like this one at the Peabody this week.
Looking forward to plugging these photos into some computer vision tools later this year! #biodiversity #butterflies #conservation
Looking forward to plugging these photos into some computer vision tools later this year! #biodiversity #butterflies #conservation
September 28, 2023 at 5:09 PM
I spent the last few days photographing a ton of huge skippers just like this one at the Peabody this week.
Looking forward to plugging these photos into some computer vision tools later this year! #biodiversity #butterflies #conservation
Looking forward to plugging these photos into some computer vision tools later this year! #biodiversity #butterflies #conservation