Maria Paula Toro

Maria Paula Toro

@mariaptoro.bsky.social

🇨🇴 | Researcher at Instituto Humboldt 🔊🎶🐸| (she/her) #HERper #CienciaCriolla | #EcoEvo #BehavEcol and #Bioacoustics | #LatinainSTEM

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2 months ago
Book cover for Reproducible Code guide. The cover has a red background with a large yellow-bodied black-headed stag beetle.

Excited to launch the new improved Reproducible Code guide from @britishecologicalsociety.org @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social FREE online here! www.britishecologicalsociety.org//wp-content/... Amazing work by some very talented ECRs. We hope it’s useful!

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Phytotelmata Schlippe Justicia et al. describe small pools of water created by plant structures called ‘phytotelma’ that serve as mini-ecosystems.

You all know how precious and fascinating Phytotelmata are, right?
Right?

by @biobiiana.bsky.social & team
www.cell.com/current-biol...

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Finaliza el primer día del #4CCH con sala llena en la plenaria de la Dra @biobiiana.bsky.social 🤩 Ecología evolutiva de ranas venenosas 🐸⚠️ nos cuenta a que amenazas biológicas 🤜🤛 y antrópicas 🪵🪓🌳 se enfrentan estas ranas

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#4CCH Empieza el II simposio 🇨🇴 de acústica en Herpetología. #AngyMendoza nos pone a pensar por fuera de la caja acústica 🐸🔉🔊

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#4CCH Plenaria del Dr Carlos Navas, una mirada a la familia académica en la herpetologia 🐸🦎

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Primer dia del #4CCH Charla magistral de la Dra Mileydi Betancourth-Cundar contándonos sobre ranas venenosas 🐸💖 y comportamiento territorial 🥊

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We share with you our most recent publication a chapter entitled "Beyond Species Richness: A Behavioural Perspective of the #Anuran Diversity in the #Andes of #Colombia" 🐸🇨🇴 as part of the book Andean Herpetofauna Explorations of #Diversity #Ecology and #Conservation
link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

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Meet our Plenary Speaker Daniela Rößler

Fueled by curiosity and a deep love of natural history Daniela discovered a REM-like sleep state in spiders and uses integrative field, lab and comparative approaches to investigate the function, ecology, and evolution of sleep across the spider tree of life.

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New paper out in @behavecol.bsky.social!

Multiple studies show that sexually selected traits such as colours can reflect the presence of pathogens/parasites, but, can defensive coloration do the same? L. Schlippe Justicia, @carodittrich.bsky.social, O. Nokelainen & I tackled that question (1/3)

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3 months ago

@springernature.com

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🐸🎶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!

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Que alegría ir a hablar de ranas a la tierrita 💛💙❤️ Nos vemos en Santa Marta! 🐸🤩

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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

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Acoustic monitoring for tropical ecology and conservation: Q&A with Daniela Martínez Medina | Royal Society Philosophical Transactions B recently published a theme issue on ‘Acoustic monitoring for tropical ecology and conservation’. In this blog, Guest Editor Daniela Martínez Medina (Instituto Humboldt, Co...

🌴🔊🎶Tropical acoustic monitoring by my incredible friend #DaniMartinez🦇 royalsociety.org/blog/2025/08...

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11 months ago
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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...

¿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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1 year ago

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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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.

“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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My bet is on Atelopus spurrelli! I can feel the vibe on that outfit 🐸

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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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Society for the Study of Evolution Site description

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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A small brown anolis basking on a wooden post, displaying its orange dewlap. Not an Andean species.

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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Graphic summary showing the sampling location in French Guayana (top left), a phytotelmata containing tadpoles and a poison frog (top right), small-scale artisanal gold mining activity (bottom left), and the influence of mercury on tadpole body condition (bottom right), which is negatively correlated with Hg levels.

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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