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/

✨Out Now✨ The outcome of my 1st ever #guppy experiment (from 2021!) w @ccioannou.bsky.social & @jtroscianko.bsky.social We asked: How detectable are guppies to visual predators under different env. conditions?👇 academic.oup.com/beheco/artic... #ISBE #fish #behaviour @bristolbiosci.bsky.social 🧵1/9

Just a few days left to sign up for our light pollution & insect declines workshop - FREE registration & meals - deadline for registration March 21st, and deadline for expert scan suggestions 22nd. www.visual-ecology.com/events/

@jtroscianko.bsky.social visited us @aplantaginis.bsky.social in #viikki and gave a fantastic talk about #ALAN and its implications on nocturnal #moths. Packed lecture room and lots of fun discussion. Thanks so much for visiting!

We are delighted to host an RCN symposium on light pollution as a driver of insect declines. May 12th-14th, Penryn. We will draw on academics, industry, planners & NGOs to explore issues & seek solutions. Free registration, but limited places! www.visual-ecology.com/events/ @uniexecec.bsky.social

New open-source hyperspectral imager you can 3D print for less than $450 from @jtroscianko.bsky.social. The HOSI system can take panoramic hyperspectral images that meet the difficult requirements of artificial light at night (ALAN) research. bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... #BMCBiology

Hyperspectral Imager paper out! High sensitivity UV to nearIR, full-field panoramas, radiance & reflectance, runs from a smartphone. Build the system for about $450 from 3D printed parts & off-the-shelf components. Paper: doi.org/10.1186/s129... Intro video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9q8l...

Exciting PhD opportunity with @neeltjeboogert.bsky.social , @padpadpadpad.bsky.social (Exeter) and myself (Bristol) on gulls, their microbiomes, and role in transmitting disease. Details below - deadline 13 January!

Another thing I made this year: Real and implied birds.

In one year, I genetically engineered the boring Arabidopsis into a beautiful ornamental flower 🧬🌹 Here is how and why I gave this model organism a visual upgrade 🧵(1/7)

JOB OPPORTUNITY! I am hiring a postdoc for 18 months to investigate the links between temperature and antibiotic resistance. Ecoevo microbiology, plasmids, and some super fun stats, modelling, and bioinformatics. To starts in Feb 2025. Please share! #exetercec jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...

Tomorrow is the Conservation Christmas Lecture!🎄🌍🦤🧪 This year the focus will be 'feeding the world at least cost to the planet' hosted by @kjhockings.bsky.social @uniexecec.bsky.social Guest talks aren't recorded so make sure you're on campus! One not to miss...

New paper out! We show that heart cockles use bundled fiber optic cables to transmit light through "skylights" in their shell for their photosynthetic algae. The skylights filter out harmful UV radiation. These coral analogues are cool critters!! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🧪Why does warning signal variability persist in #aposematic species? Our new @sse-evolution.bsky.social paper explores this using data from 64,741 🤯 A.plantaginis, raised over 25 generations. Spoiler: no evidence that life-history traits constrain warning colours! academic.oup.com/evolut/advan...

5 exciting PhD opportunities to join the Center for Research in Animal Behaviour at the University of Exeter in Sept 2025. www.exeter.ac.uk/research/gro...

Advent Sci-Fact 4: New headlights hurt moths! Unlike us, moths can’t blink in bright light. Moths are more likely to fly erratically towards pulses of cool toned phosphor-LEDs, compared with warmer and RGB lights. Meaning new headlights are more harmful. Paper: tinyurl.com/29avcnnx #SciComm 🧪🌍

Reminder that there's one week left to apply for this job. Please pass on the information to anyone who might be interested!

* NEW #PhD * #Evolution #Ecology of Immune #Senesence in Wild Badgers - exciting project with me, @btschirren.bsky.social & our awesome collaborators @ APHA. Based at @exetercec.bsky.social in Cornwall, UK. !PLEASE SHARE! See www.animalsocieties.org and apply: www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin... 🌏 🧪 🦑

Help us understand how conspicuous butterflies are by playing this game! mferickson.github.io/findbutterfly/

🐵📢 I am recruiting a postdoctoral researcher to work for 6-months on our NSF-BBSRC project investigating the form and function of primate natal coats. Why are some🐒 babies🍊?! www.swansea.ac.uk/jobs-at-swan... Please pass on to potential applicants and get in touch if considering applying.

We’ve started our 3 year Darwin Initiative project to support human-wildlife coexistence in Guinea-Bissau! With the Institute for Biodiversity and Protected Areas and NGO Palmeirinha we’ve hired 4 Bissau-Guinean researchers & started collecting data on social dimensions 🙌 @exetercec.bsky.social

Corvids calling! New PhD opportunity on corvid communication in the wild. Sep 2025 start. Fully funded by @SWBio_DTP. Application deadline 11 December. How to apply: tinyurl.com/mu9y2nj9

New paper out showing how pulses of blue-white lights (such as those in modern car headlights) cause more harmful responses in moths compared to warmer coloured light pulses. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... @exetercec.bsky.social

Play our new find-the-harvester game! By playing you'll be helping us to understand the weird and wonderful diversity in harvester colouration visual-ecology.com/harvesters/ @exetercec.bsky.social

Join us in exploring the profound effects of #ArtificialLight on our planet's ecosystems, how it is reshaping natural environments and its implications. Register for free - 11 July 12:30 BST eventbrite.co.uk/e/bright-nig... #DarkSky #ExeterESI #onlineevent

Exciting new gadget - a hyperspectral camera/imager that you can build for ~£350. It can measure radiance or reflectance, ~320-880nm, 9nm FWHM, customisable spatial resolution, enormous dynamic range, and a simple GUI for desktop or android. doi.org/10.1101/2024... @exetercec.bsky.social

We're hosting a visual ecology symposium - 2nd of July - Free entry Sign up here: tinyurl.com/3b4bd647

💥Potential PhD opportunities💥 If you like any combo of antipredator colouration, collective behaviour, fish, fieldwork in nice places, or robotics, please get in touch for opportunities at my new lab starting @oxfordbiology.bsky.social 🐟🐟🐠🐠 tinyurl.com/3xvtv8s9

LOVE #EVOLUTION? LOVE #BEHAVIOUR? Join our MSc in Evolutionary & Behavioural Ecology @UniExeCEC in Cornwall,UK We're training the next generation of researchers! Check it out: tinyurl.com/yc38m3m4 Get in touch: I'm the course Director Check out all of our ecology MScs @exetergses.bsky.social 👇🤟🌍🦠🧪🦉