Ecology of Vision

My collaborator, Anders Garm, is advertising a 2 year postdoc position in Copenhagen working on our awesome project with googly-eyed alciopid polychaetes. Applications are due 15 Dec! Apply here: candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationIni…

🚨PhD siren #2!🚨A 4 year PhD project based in Exeter with @SensoryEcology in collaboration with us taking a deep dive into the visually-guided colour change behaviour of chameleon prawns🦐Funded by SWBio DTP to start in Sept 2025! Apply here: swbio.ac.uk/animal-behavio…

Yet another nudibranch on a journal cover! Thanks to Steve Smith for this lovely portrait of Chromodoris elisabethina. doi.org/10.1093/beheco… #coslci @UQscience @BristolBioSci @EcoVisUQ @EcologyofVision @UQ_News

🚨 PhD siren!🚨 We have an exciting 4 year PhD project on offer using information theory to investigate why different visual systems have evolved in ecologically similar species. Funded by SWBio DTP to start in Sept 2025! Apply here: swbio.ac.uk/animal-behavio…

Big thanks to all the support over the past years @JHerbertread & @MarineBehavEcol & @CamZoology, @DrMartinJohnHow & @EcologyofVision, @CamESS_CCLEAR & @Cambridge_Trust 🤝

Out now in Behavioural Ecology: Highly defended nudibranchs “escape” to visually distinct background habitats - shorturl.at/uVggj with @karen_cheney @MatteoSanton @UQscience @EcoVisUQ @EcologyofVision #colsci

The nice kind of fieldwork! Much quiet, very rebreather🌊🤿🐫🐠Cruising around in the depths of Egyptian coral reefs with @DrMartinJohnHow @EcologyofVision @BristolBioSci

Bear witness! So very excited (yes, okay, I mean 'profoundly relieved') to finally send the magnum opus of my #PhD research into the world. The preprint of our big community-level study of visual system convergence in tropical rainforests is here! 1/n😀biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Ah, diving days are the best days. Babbacombe Beach with @vancedberg (credit for the pic). @EcologyofVision

🥁Workshop announcement: Modelling animal vision using spectrophotometry and calibrated digital imaging. 29.09.2024 in Melbourne (AUS) as a 'satellite' to #ISBE2024 (or join us for the workshop alone). Registration TBA, but save the date! empiricalimaging.com/2023/11/03/wor… #colsci

Calling all UK-based students of Black or mixed Black heritage, take your rockpooling skills to the next level and come and work with us 🦀🦐🐚

I had a great time travelling with Bristol's @EcologyofVision group to the @Tvarminne field station in #Finland to attend the #VisionariumXXI conference and present my research on #cuttlefish #camouflage 🦑👀🇫🇮

Earlier this year, Matteo published an R-workflow template (with code) for building and validating linear models to make statistics more accessible and reproducible for the wider science community🥳📈 see the link below

@MatteoSanton telling us about the remarkable hunting behaviour of the broadclub cuttlefish at this year's ICIV! @EcologyofVision @BristolBioSci

@DrMartinJohnHow tells us about some recent experiments on tasks specific channels of vision in marine invertebrates at #ICIV2023 @EcologyofVision

Today's cover of ProcB - Signal detectability and boldness are not the same: the function of defensive coloration in nudibranchs is distance-dependent. With @karen_cheney & J. Endler @UQscience @QldBrainInst @EcoVisUQ @EcologyofVision @MicaToolbox #colsci shorturl.at/qSV38

New preprint out today! 😃 Prepare yourself for the most thorough overview of the ithomiine butterfly visual system the world has ever seen (**earth shudders**)! Feedback and comments very welcome of course. 1/n

Come and work with us!

Any UK-based prospective PhD students interested in joining the @EcologyofVision lab to study amazing marine critters please check out the latest call from NERC: nercgw4plus.ac.uk/apply. Six studentships to start this September. Deadline is fast approaching. @BristolBioSci

🚨New paper alert! In the first paper originating from my #PhD, @JHerbertread, @DrMartinJohnHow and I show that, unlike in fishes, dynamic visual noise from #causticflicker does not affect the hunting success and behaviour of #cuttlefish.🦑Read more here: doi.org/10.1016/j.anbe…