
Mónica Páez-Vacas
@monicaipv
PhD, Evolutionary Ecology & Conservation Genetics. Poison and harlequin frogs, mostly. Some lizards too #LatinainSTEM 🇪🇨🇦🇷 monicaipv.bsky.social
ID: 1431087234
15-05-2013 17:41:59
1,1K Tweet
678 Followers
694 Following



What do evolution and adaptation have to do with predicting vulnerability to climate change? Find out in our new paper led by the amazing Dr. @brennaforester.bsky.social and featuring the WORLD'S COOLEST 🐸 just published in Molecular Ecology: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...! Molecular Ecology








🚨New #policy research! A recent study explores how the #conservation of #GeneticDiversity can be integrated into the EU’s Nature Restoration Regulations & why safeguarding genetic diversity is key to ecosystem resilience🌿 Read more here: coalitionforconservationgenetics.org/resources-data…

How to rapidly sequence the DNA of endangered species in the global south. Check out my latest work on the super cute olingos !!! Oliver Ryder prepirnt: doi.org/10.1101/2025.0… Great local collaboration PUCE Ecuador, ZoologicoQuito, Charles Darwin Foundation-Fundación Charles Darwin, INABIO.EC







A letter that my colleagues and I wrote regarding the installation of a U.S. military base in the Galápagos Islands has been published in Science Magazine. This decision is unconstitutional, as it violates multiple articles of the Ecuadorian Constitution, which recognizes nature


Tiny Brazilian frogs’ inner ear canals are too small to help them balance well, explaining why they are clumsy jumpers, according to a Science Advances study. 🐸 Learn more during #AmphibianWeek: scim.ag/4k8af1C