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Dr Christopher Taylor

@mimicryin3d.bsky.social

Evolutionary biologist with interests in a variety of areas including prey defence and response to heat stress. Keen user of fancy computational methods. He/him.

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Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution @official-smbe.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Talks by: Simon Yung Wa Sin Jack Dorman Anna Kukekova Xuan Zhuang Haoli Gan Gregory Wray Quentin Fernandez De Grado @mimicryin3d.bsky.social Léa Nicolas Riccardo Poloni Leandra Brettner Stephanie McKay @gabrielesgarlata.bsky.social @mich-albertini.bsky.social Vincent Mérel @abstokes.bsky.social

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Melanie Brien @melbrien.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Funded PhD position available 🎉 Come and work with me in Helsinki to uncover the pathways producing colourful tiger moth wings. Lots of options for genomics, CRISPR, fieldwork, behaviour experiments… Email with questions! jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...

Wood tiger moth on leaf. Photo: Juhani Maamela.

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Dr Nadiah Kristensen @nadiah.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Check out the graphical abstract for a paper recently published in Ecological Modelling. I have papers published in Ecological Modelling. Never again, I guess.

A diagram titled "Ecological Network Optimisation" with attractive landscapes and networks and very clear AI-generation artifacts.

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Dr Christopher Taylor @mimicryin3d.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

Looking forward to it - come and chat about molecular adaptations to heat

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Jonathan Fenn @jfennbio.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

I have arrived in Barcelona for ESEB 2025! I will be talking about microRNA and the evolution of the mammalian placenta on Tuesday at 14:30 in Meeting Room 113 @eseb2025.bsky.social

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Jolyon Troscianko @jtroscianko.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Winter ASAB @asab.org on *Sensory Ecology* register and submit your abstracts now (abstract deadline just a month away)! I'm organising the conference this year with @lauraakelley.bsky.social and Innes Cuthill Register & get more info here: asabwinter.github.io/2025/

Winter ASAB 2025 - 15th-16th of December in Edinburgh - with a special theme of "How sensory information affects behaviour". Register at https://asabwinter.github.io/2025/ deadline for abstract submission 29th of August.

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Dr Christopher Taylor @mimicryin3d.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Gorgeous natural history and gorgeous photos!

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Benito Wainwright @benitoexplains.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

So very excited for the magnum opus of my #PhD to finally be out in @pnas.org. 🎉🎉 We demosntrate that mutualistic co-mimicking tropical butterflies not only converge in light microhabitat but, as a consequence, have also converged in visual system morphology! 1/n😀 www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...

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Nature @nature.com · 05/07/2025

Latest from the Nature Podcast 🔊 3D-printed fake wasps help explain bad animal mimicry go.nature.com/4lcluqU

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3D-printed fake wasps help explain bad animal mimicry

Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 2 July 2025

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Dr Christopher Taylor @mimicryin3d.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

Thank you Tom Sherratt and Karl Loeffler-Henry for the excellent commentary on our article

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Dr Christopher Taylor @mimicryin3d.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Why do imperfect mimics (such as many hoverflies) exist? We created 3D printed replicas of flies, wasps and our own custom intermediates and then "asked" various predators what they thought of our 3D stimuli. Read all about it here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Mapping the adaptive landscape of Batesian mimicry using 3D-printed stimuli - Nature

Birds have an excellent ability to learn to discriminate harmless insects from those that they mimic on the basis of subtle differences in appearance.

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Dr Christopher Taylor @mimicryin3d.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Brilliant preprint out from some lab colleagues - do check it out

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Dr Christopher Taylor @mimicryin3d.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

After being very quiet on social media for a couple of years, I've been spurred to get organised by a bit of good news that I'd like to share very soon. Watch this space!

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