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Dr Christopher Taylor

@mimicryin3d.bsky.social

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Evolutionary biologist with interests in a variety of areas including prey defence and response to heat stress. Keen user of fancy computational methods. He/him.

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Dr Nadiah Kristensen @nadiah.bsky.social · Aug 25

Check out the graphical abstract for a paper recently published in Ecological Modelling.

I have papers published in Ecological Modelling. Never again, I guess.

A diagram titled "Ecological Network Optimisation" with attractive landscapes and networks and very clear AI-generation artifacts.

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Dr Christopher Taylor @mimicryin3d.bsky.social · Aug 17

Looking forward to it - come and chat about molecular adaptations to heat

Jonathan Fenn @jfennbio.bsky.social · Aug 17

And some poster presentations too!

Christopher Taylor @mimicryin3d.bsky.social in Poster Session 1 on Monday, at poster number P01.261:
'Convergent molecular evolution of thermal tolerance in mammals '

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Jonathan Fenn @jfennbio.bsky.social · Aug 17

I have arrived in Barcelona for ESEB 2025!

I will be talking about microRNA and the evolution of the mammalian placenta on Tuesday at 14:30 in Meeting Room 113
@eseb2025.bsky.social

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Jolyon Troscianko @jtroscianko.bsky.social · Jul 29

Winter ASAB @asab.org on *Sensory Ecology* register and submit your abstracts now (abstract deadline just a month away)!

I'm organising the conference this year with @lauraakelley.bsky.social and Innes Cuthill

Register & get more info here: asabwinter.github.io/2025/

Winter ASAB 2025 - 15th-16th of December in Edinburgh - with a special theme of "How sensory information affects behaviour". Register at https://asabwinter.github.io/2025/ deadline for abstract submission 29th of August.

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Dr Christopher Taylor @mimicryin3d.bsky.social · Jul 23

Gorgeous natural history and gorgeous photos!

Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · Jul 23

These are not ants.

Ant Mimics - Alex Wild

A great many animals mimic the form, color, and movements of ants. Some gain protection from general predators that don't eat ants, some are specialized ant predators who trick prey ants into coming c...

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Benito Wainwright @benitoexplains.bsky.social · Jul 16

So very excited for the magnum opus of my #PhD to finally be out in @pnas.org. 🎉🎉 We demosntrate that mutualistic co-mimicking tropical butterflies not only converge in light microhabitat but, as a consequence, have also converged in visual system morphology! 1/n😀
www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...

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Nature @nature.com · Jul 5

Latest from the Nature Podcast 🔊 3D-printed fake wasps help explain bad animal mimicry

https://go.nature.com/4lcluqU

3D-printed fake wasps help explain bad animal mimicry

Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 2 July 2025

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Dr Christopher Taylor @mimicryin3d.bsky.social · Jul 5

Thank you Tom Sherratt and Karl Loeffler-Henry for the excellent commentary on our article

Nature @nature.com · Jul 4

Predation experiments using models of edible flies and stinging wasps provide some answers to a long-standing evolutionary puzzle in mimicry research

https://go.nature.com/4lzU4uQ

3D printing offers a way to study mimicry by insects

Predation experiments using models of edible flies and stinging wasps provide some answers to a long-standing evolutionary puzzle in mimicry research.

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Dr Christopher Taylor @mimicryin3d.bsky.social · Jul 3

@thejollygeo.bsky.social as well!

Dr Christopher Taylor @mimicryin3d.bsky.social · Jul 2

Massive team effort including @drgdavidson.bsky.social , @hannahmrowland.bsky.social and many others I've not yet located on here - I'll add more as I find you!

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Dr Christopher Taylor @mimicryin3d.bsky.social · Jul 2

I also discussed the paper with Ben Thompson from Nature Podcasts: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

3D-printed fake wasps help explain bad animal mimicry

Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 2 July 2025

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Dr Christopher Taylor @mimicryin3d.bsky.social · Jul 2

Why do imperfect mimics (such as many hoverflies) exist? We created 3D printed replicas of flies, wasps and our own custom intermediates and then "asked" various predators what they thought of our 3D stimuli. Read all about it here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Mapping the adaptive landscape of Batesian mimicry using 3D-printed stimuli - Nature

Birds have an excellent ability to learn to discriminate harmless insects from those that they mimic on the basis of subtle differences in appearance.

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Dr Christopher Taylor @mimicryin3d.bsky.social · Jul 2

Brilliant preprint out from some lab colleagues - do check it out

Jonathan Fenn @jfennbio.bsky.social · Jul 2

Take a look at our work on miRNAs and their involvement with placental phenotypes. It's great to see this work finally see the light of day - huge thanks to everyone involved with the manuscript.

Professor Mary J O'Connell @evol-molly.bsky.social · Jun 30

How did mammal placental diversity evolve? miRNAs play a significant role - indeed their repertoire is predictive of phenotype. Congrats to all: esp 1st author @jfennbio.bsky.social & all in @niamhforde.bsky.social group. Thanks to @ukri.org and @leverhulme.ac.uk. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Dr Christopher Taylor @mimicryin3d.bsky.social · Jul 2

After being very quiet on social media for a couple of years, I've been spurred to get organised by a bit of good news that I'd like to share very soon. Watch this space!