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Scott Taylor @drscottataylor.bsky.social · Aug 31

🦜🐣🦢🦉🦃🦤🦩🪶 Can’t wait to share this with everyone!

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

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INSTAAR 🏳️‍🌈 @instaar.bsky.social · Jun 16

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...

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INSTAAR 🏳️‍🌈 @instaar.bsky.social · May 9

🗓️ 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

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INSTAAR 🏳️‍🌈 @instaar.bsky.social · Apr 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

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

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Jay Jinsing Falk @jjinsing.bsky.social · Mar 24

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...

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INSTAAR 🏳️‍🌈 @instaar.bsky.social · Mar 18

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

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Scott Taylor @drscottataylor.bsky.social · Feb 27

Join us at the Mountain Research Station this summer!

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-...

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