Maria Paula Toro
@mariaptoro.bsky.social
🇨🇴 | Researcher at Instituto Humboldt 🔊🎶🐸| (she/her) #HERper #CienciaCriolla | #EcoEvo #BehavEcol and #Bioacoustics | #LatinainSTEM
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...
link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
November 25, 2025 at 3:49 AM
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...
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.
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.
November 16, 2025 at 7:37 AM
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.
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)
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)
November 24, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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)
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)
🐸🎶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!
August 21, 2025 at 6:25 PM
🐸🎶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! 🐸🤩
August 7, 2025 at 8:43 AM
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
📸: Screenshot from trailer
August 8, 2025 at 5:36 AM
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
📸: Screenshot from trailer
🌴🔊🎶Tropical acoustic monitoring by my incredible friend #DaniMartinez🦇 royalsociety.org/blog/2025/08...
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...
royalsociety.org
August 7, 2025 at 6:19 PM
🌴🔊🎶Tropical acoustic monitoring by my incredible friend #DaniMartinez🦇 royalsociety.org/blog/2025/08...
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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...
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...
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...
wildlabs.net
March 20, 2025 at 12:50 PM
¿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...
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...
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...
🤖🔊 www.kaggle.com/competitions...
March 13, 2025 at 1:52 AM
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...
🤖🔊 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...
by @grrlscientist.bsky.social
#frogs🐸 #amphibians #NewSpecies #zoology #SciComm🧪 www.forbes.com/sites/grrlsc...
February 17, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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...
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...
🧪 🦉
#scicomm
#sensoryecology
www.sciencealert.com/most-birds-o...
🧪 🦉
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.
www.sciencealert.com
February 18, 2025 at 4:30 AM
“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...
🧪 🦉
#scicomm
#sensoryecology
www.sciencealert.com/most-birds-o...
🧪 🦉
🚨🔊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-...
February 17, 2025 at 6:10 PM
🚨🔊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.
February 3, 2025 at 3:59 AM
To help me relax in turbulent times, I’ve been drawing. I recommend videos related to John Law’s approach.
Reposted by Maria Paula Toro
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?)
🐸 Life is full of tradeoffs—Whether you're a frog, a youtuber, or a cheetah!
Check out our latest free high school unit connected to amazing fundamental research in evolution & animal behavior by @reichertfroglab.bsky.social's lab at Oklahoma State!
www.galacticpolymath.com/lessons/en-U... #EduSky
Check out our latest free high school unit connected to amazing fundamental research in evolution & animal behavior by @reichertfroglab.bsky.social's lab at Oklahoma State!
www.galacticpolymath.com/lessons/en-U... #EduSky
Mini-Unit: Balancing Act
Students will follow in the soggy footsteps of scientists wading through ponds at night to record frogs as they learn about biological tradeoffs that connect humans to horses to frogs. Along the way, ...
www.galacticpolymath.com
January 28, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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
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?)
🐸 Life is full of tradeoffs—Whether you're a frog, a youtuber, or a cheetah!
Check out our latest free high school unit connected to amazing fundamental research in evolution & animal behavior by @reichertfroglab.bsky.social's lab at Oklahoma State!
www.galacticpolymath.com/lessons/en-U... #EduSky
Check out our latest free high school unit connected to amazing fundamental research in evolution & animal behavior by @reichertfroglab.bsky.social's lab at Oklahoma State!
www.galacticpolymath.com/lessons/en-U... #EduSky
January 29, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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:
Society for the Study of Evolution
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January 15, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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
@linneansociety.bsky.social @jhancsalazar.bsky.social @marthamunoz.bsky.social
January 14, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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
@linneansociety.bsky.social @jhancsalazar.bsky.social @marthamunoz.bsky.social
❤️🔥 Top moments of the 2024! Being in the field taking frog 🐸✨data
December 27, 2024 at 9:13 AM
❤️🔥 Top moments of the 2024! Being in the field taking frog 🐸✨data
Paradise at 3200 m.a.s.l
January 14, 2024 at 3:56 AM
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...
December 27, 2023 at 5:58 PM
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...
Cozy nights in a cushy bed!
December 22, 2023 at 4:23 PM
Cozy nights in a cushy bed!
While marking frogs' call sites, I almost flagged an unexpected visitor 🐍
November 29, 2023 at 2:38 AM
While marking frogs' call sites, I almost flagged an unexpected visitor 🐍
🐸 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
November 7, 2023 at 12:03 AM
🐸 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
This is not only my story, it represents many Latinamerican HERpetologists dreaming to learn about more frogs and be scientists
www.womeninherpetology.com
September 21, 2023 at 7:30 PM
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
This is not only my story, it represents many Latinamerican HERpetologists dreaming to learn about more frogs and be scientists
www.womeninherpetology.com