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At the 2019 Evolution meeting in Rhode Island Scott participated in a storytelling event called Outside the Distribution. Recently Story Collider featured Scott’s story about belonging and navigating being a gay scientist on their blog. You can
Congratulations to Maria who will be starting a new position as an Assistant Professor in the Biology Department at the University of Massachusetts Amherst this fall!
The 2022 field season of the Boulder Chickadee Study has wrapped. Mia banded and bled the final mountain chickadees of the season during an outreach event at the MRS with folks from the Denver Field Ornithologists on July 10th. This field season was
Congrats to Olivia for being awarded a summer UROP grant! Olivia's project project aims to further our understanding of birdsong evolution by exploring whether our local canyons act as isolating barriers that facilitate song divergence
Congrats to Kathryn and her co-authors for their recent pulbication in Ecology and Evolution "Sympatry leads to reduced body condition in chickadees that occasionally hybridize". Kathryn reports an interesting pattern of reduced body condition in
Congrats to Erik who recently found out that his paper "A supergene underlies linked variation in color and morphology in a Holarctic songbird" was one of the most read Nature Communications articles in life and biological sciences in 2021!
The Taylor Lab is in an exciting period of flux with many folks completing their degrees and positions and heading in new directions (they're fledging, if you will...!). Here is a quick update of recent events for some Taylor Lab members! Dr.
Congratulations to Cori for sucessfully defending her honors thesis! Cori gave an excellent presentation about her work examining links between urbanization, arthropods, chickadee diet, and nestling condition. Cori joined the lab as a
Congratulations to Will for sucessfully defending his honors thesis! Will gave an excellent presentation about his work on house wrens. It turns out that there is a house wren hybrid zone along the Front Range (between eastern and western house
Congratulations to Angela who recently found out that she was selected as a 2022-2023 American-Scandinavian Foundation Fellow! Funding from this fellowship will allow Angela to continue her investigations on the malaria parasite, Plasmodium