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Congrats to Erik and his colleagues! The final chapter of Erik's PhD thesis was recently accepted for publication in Evolution . Erik's manuscript explores genotype-phenotype associations for plumage color and elevation in rosy finches and highlights several candiate genes for both. Given their recent diversification and the independent nature of...

Living Bird, the Cornell Lab of Ornithology's publication, recently featured our collaborative work on chickadee spatial cognition in their Winter 2023 issue. This work is conducted with Dr. Valdimir Pravosudov, Dr. Carrie Branch, Ben Sonnenberg, and Dr. Georgy Semenov. Click the link to learn more: https://www.allaboutbirds.org/news/harsh-mountain-winters-have-made-chickadees-smarter/

Congrats to Kathryn and her co-authors Theresa Burg and Ken Otter for their recent paper in Global Change Biology . One of Kathryn's main thesis chapters, this paper describes the relationship between human landscape disturbance and hybridization between black-capped and mountain chickadees. Our local work with t he Boulder Chickadee...

The Taylor Lab welcomes Dr. Haley Kenyon, the newest Postdoctoral Associate to join us in Boulder. Haley will be expanding upon her PhD research on chickadee signaling by working within the Boulder Chickadee Study. A fellow Canadian, Taylor Lab members should expect to see butter tarts and Nanaimo bars at...

Sara Padula, first year PhD student in the lab, has published her undergraduate research in Wader Study entitled Kiawah and Seabrook islands are a critical site for the rufa Red Knot. The rufa Red Knot is a long distance migratory shorebird that has experienced a population decline of over 85%...

There is a newly recognized species of meadowlark in North America, the Chihuahan Meadowlark, thanks to the hard work of Johanna Beam and her direct undergraduate honors thesis supervisor Erik Funk. Read all about this new development here: /asmagazine/2022/08/24/chihuahuan-meadowlark-lilians

Welcome to our incoming PhD students Sara , Nikki , and Ajay , as well as our incoming NSF REPS Fellow Abi . Check out their profiles to learn more about our newest lab members!

It’s official! Scott is now an Associate Professor!

Some lab members recently returned from the first in person scientific meetings since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. Angela and Scott traveled to Cleveland for the Evolution meeting where Angela gave a talk on her dissertation work and Scott helped with the organizing and running of the inaugural Tri-Society...

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 listen to Scott’s story here: https://www.storycollider.org/stories/2022/5/11/becoming-stories-about-growing-into-yourself