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mariaptoro.bsky.social
🇨🇴 | Researcher at Instituto Humboldt 🔊🎶🐸| (she/her) #HERper #CienciaCriolla | #EcoEvo #BehavEcol and #Bioacoustics | #Latina
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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...

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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...

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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...

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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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🚨🔊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-...

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To help me relax in turbulent times, I’ve been drawing. I recommend videos related to John Law’s approach.

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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?)

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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

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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:

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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

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❤️‍🔥 Top moments of the 2024! Being in the field taking frog 🐸✨data

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Paradise at 3200 m.a.s.l

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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...

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Cozy nights in a cushy bed!

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While marking frogs' call sites, I almost flagged an unexpected visitor 🐍

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🐸 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

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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

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