Gray-Cowled Wood-Rail patrolling the muddy banks of the Sierpe River #birds 🪶 #costarica #wildlife #canonR5 #birdfreaks

Black-chinned Hummingbird sipping from a stream in the Wasatch Mountains. #birds #wildlife 🪶

Meow. #macro #jumpingspider #spider #cutie

Excited to hear from @bacterialtalk.bsky.social speaking as part of the NIAID T32-sponsored Microbial Pathogenesis Seminar Series @utah.edu @uofubiology.bsky.social

American Kestrel balancing act #birds 🪶 #wildlife

Little Blue Heron chillin’ on the banks of the Sierpe River. #birds 🪶 #costarica #mangroves #wildlife

First attempt at a Milky Way shot. Taken at Meek’s Cabin Reservoir, WY. Imagine fewer clouds, and happy stars reflected in the water. Maybe next time… #milkyway #stars

Song Thrush with breakfast, seen with @mgblango.bsky.social (who personally knows every single bird along the Saale River in Jena, Germany) #birds 🪶 #wildlife #germanwildlife #r5

Paddle-tailed Darner skimming above the boardwalk at Silver Lake, UT. ⛰️ #dragonfly #nature #canonr5 #insect #wasatch

Common wood-pigeons barely tolerate the bird paparazzi in Jena, Germany. 🪶 #birds

Grey heron taking flight from the Saale river in Jena, Germany. Thanks to @mgblango.bsky.social and @ameliabarberphd.bsky.social for a fantastic visit with great science and wonderful birds. 🪶 #birds 🧬 🔬 🇩🇪

Last week we enjoyed a lovely day of socialising and networking with the groups of @mgblango.bsky.social and @slavi-jan.bsky.social. We broke into teams for a scavenger hunt and visited a palace outside Weimar. We were even joined by special guest @mulveylab.bsky.social while he was visiting!

Congrats Dr. O'Connor Matthews! Excellent defense! @uofubiology.bsky.social‬ @utah.edu‬

Rufous-tailed hummingbird, part deux. #birds 🪶 #birdfreaks #costarica 🇨🇷 #hummingbird

Shy bird. Rufous-tailed humming bird with the remnants of a spider on its beak. #birds 🪶 #costarica #wildlife #canonr5

Black Hawk at sunset on the Osa Peninsula #birds 🪶 🇨🇷 🌅

'Baby's got blue eyes Like a deep blue sea On a blue blue day' – Elton John #insectsinflight #dragonfly #nature Blue-eyed Darner

Bee-fly Mimic dining out in the Wasatch mountains. #insects #utah #wildlife #flower

Nomad Bee contemplating life and the fate of science in America while perched on the stamina of a sticky geranium. #insects #flower #macro

Spotted Towhee in need of some Visine. 🪶 #birds

“If I had a million dollars Well, I'd buy you a monkey Haven't you always wanted a monkey?” — Barenaked Ladies #costarica For the record, I actually would not buy a monkey and neither should you.

I am honoured and delighted to join the #CIFAR family as an Azrieli Global Scholar. Looking forward to working with this fantastic community to tackle complex global challenges through interdisciplinary collaboration! cifar.ca/cifarnews/20...

Male scarlet-rumped tanager hanging out in the Osa Peninsula. 🪶 #birds #costarica

Congrats to my daughter, Jade Lauren Mulvey, freshly minted M.D. She is phenomenal!!!

It's an honor to announce the upcoming PhD thesis defense of Erica Hastings, who will present her work on #malaria parasites and the biophysics of hemozoin motion @uofubiochem.bsky.social ky.social @uofutahcihd.bsky.social @parasitesrule.org

Tropical Kingbird, all wired up and ready to fly... #birds 🪶 #costarica

Chestnut-sided Warbler chill in the Costa Rican jungle 🪶#birds

Short-sighted and destructive to say the least 😡 Budget calls for deep cuts to public health programs and research It calls NIH, the world’s premier biomedical research agency, “too big and unfocused,” and proposes to cut funding to $27 billion from $48 billion www.nytimes.com/live/2025/05...

The amazing Alexis Rousek defends today!!! #UTISky @uofubiology.bsky.social @uuhsresearch.bsky.social

California Quail looking for love. 💕 🪶 #birds #utahwildlife

I am thrilled to share the first manuscript from the Wiles lab! We present "Phollow", an in vivo phage-tagging approach that enables direct observation of phage outbreaks with single-virion resolution by live imaging. Here some highlights 👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Cedar Waxwing incoming! #birds 🪶 #slc #utah

Litocala moth #citycreekcanyon #slc

Calephelis metalmark butterfly spotted on the Osa Peninsula.

Female Scarlet-rumped Tanager (Ramphocelus passerinii) 🪶#birds #costarica #osapeninsula

Slurp... #birds 🪶 #SLC #utahwildlife American White Pelican

Dorisiana amoena, Costa Rican cicada 🪲🇨🇷

Red-lored amazon, wee bug, and mystery bird tableaux 🪶 #birds

Common Tody-Flycatcher looking a bit irked by the world. 🪶#birds

Lucky to see a couple of Black-cheeked Ant-Tanagers (Driophlox atrimaxillaris) on the Osa Peninsula. Loved the bling around the eyes. 🪶

“After I graduated with a bachelor’s in civil engineering, I started running professionally, which I don’t think most people know you can do. While it’s been cool to be paid for something I enjoy, it’s not the dream job people may imagine it to be.” 📰 attheu.utah.edu/athletics/hu...

Prairie Falcon (Falco mexicanus) #addbirder

Killdeer at the Great Salt Lake