The perfect trichromatic doesn’t exist you say? Well watch me 🐡
Boxfish are pretty cool and cute!
New paper on #vision #fish #colsci
journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...
Boxfish are pretty cool and cute!
New paper on #vision #fish #colsci
journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...
October 14, 2026 at 12:12 PM
The perfect trichromatic doesn’t exist you say? Well watch me 🐡
Boxfish are pretty cool and cute!
New paper on #vision #fish #colsci
journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...
Boxfish are pretty cool and cute!
New paper on #vision #fish #colsci
journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...
Do you love birds? Have you ever wondered what makes them so colorful? Are you a PhD with expertise in -omics? If yes😃, we are offering a postdoc position at IRBI (CNRS/UTours). Come join us! Apply here: tinyurl.com/phas3sep by 28 October 2026 #ColSci #Birds #omics #HFSP-funded @hfspo.bsky.social
October 7, 2026 at 9:33 PM
Do you love birds? Have you ever wondered what makes them so colorful? Are you a PhD with expertise in -omics? If yes😃, we are offering a postdoc position at IRBI (CNRS/UTours). Come join us! Apply here: tinyurl.com/phas3sep by 28 October 2026 #ColSci #Birds #omics #HFSP-funded @hfspo.bsky.social
Links between color conspicuousness, territorial behavior, and steroids in a color polymorphic lizard
#ColSci #Reptile #Polymorphism
doi.org/10.1093/behe...
#ColSci #Reptile #Polymorphism
doi.org/10.1093/behe...
September 10, 2026 at 6:49 AM
Links between color conspicuousness, territorial behavior, and steroids in a color polymorphic lizard
#ColSci #Reptile #Polymorphism
doi.org/10.1093/behe...
#ColSci #Reptile #Polymorphism
doi.org/10.1093/behe...
Skipper caterpillars can have some pretty convincing false eyes on their head capsule!
Erynnis juvenalis, FL
#colsci http://t.co/42gf0beeTS
Erynnis juvenalis, FL
#colsci http://t.co/42gf0beeTS
November 23, 2024 at 10:57 AM
Skipper caterpillars can have some pretty convincing false eyes on their head capsule!
Erynnis juvenalis, FL
#colsci http://t.co/42gf0beeTS
Erynnis juvenalis, FL
#colsci http://t.co/42gf0beeTS
November 23, 2024 at 10:48 AM
Great @RSocPublishing Phil Trans issue on animal coloration #colsci full of interesting papers
rstb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/372/17…
rstb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/372/17…
November 26, 2024 at 10:11 PM
Great @RSocPublishing Phil Trans issue on animal coloration #colsci full of interesting papers
rstb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/372/17…
rstb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/372/17…
November 26, 2024 at 10:04 PM
November 26, 2024 at 10:04 PM
Some cool stuff starting to arrive for #colsci on #ChernobylFrogs17 🐸☢
November 26, 2024 at 10:00 PM
Some cool stuff starting to arrive for #colsci on #ChernobylFrogs17 🐸☢
Shopping for #ChernobylFrogs17 on the way: gloves, protective suits, vials and more vials, photo equipment for #colsci.... Exciting!!
November 26, 2024 at 10:00 PM
Shopping for #ChernobylFrogs17 on the way: gloves, protective suits, vials and more vials, photo equipment for #colsci.... Exciting!!
I am so excited to share new work on a TE insertion that regulates iridescence in swordtails, led by fantastic grad student @nadiahaghani.bsky.social and with help from many coauthors! In a time that has been so difficult to navigate, this & other projects have kept my spirits up: shorturl.at/NE65A
Insertion of an invading retrovirus regulates a novel color trait in swordtail fish
For over a century, evolutionary biologists have been motivated to understand the mechanisms through which organisms adapt to their environments. Coloration and pigmentation are remarkably variable wi...
shorturl.at
November 13, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Pick an idiom: "more than meets the eye", "beauty more than skin [feather] deep" etc.
In work led by Rosalyn Price-Waldman, we describe a hidden (and ignored!) black or white layer found below the visible surface of bird feathers which helps make bird colours so striking!
🧪 🪶 #colsci
In work led by Rosalyn Price-Waldman, we describe a hidden (and ignored!) black or white layer found below the visible surface of bird feathers which helps make bird colours so striking!
🧪 🪶 #colsci
Songbirds play optical tricks to make their feather colors ‘pop’
Concealed black or white bands on feathers boost the vibrancy of bird plumage
www.science.org
August 13, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Pick an idiom: "more than meets the eye", "beauty more than skin [feather] deep" etc.
In work led by Rosalyn Price-Waldman, we describe a hidden (and ignored!) black or white layer found below the visible surface of bird feathers which helps make bird colours so striking!
🧪 🪶 #colsci
In work led by Rosalyn Price-Waldman, we describe a hidden (and ignored!) black or white layer found below the visible surface of bird feathers which helps make bird colours so striking!
🧪 🪶 #colsci
New pre-print out, how behaviour shapes camouflage evolution for spiders!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
May 14, 2026 at 12:05 PM
charisma: An R package to perform reproducible colour characterization of digital images for biological studies. Fresh in Methods in Ecology and Evolution: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/AGQZAA... #colsci
May 6, 2026 at 10:06 AM
charisma: An R package to perform reproducible colour characterization of digital images for biological studies. Fresh in Methods in Ecology and Evolution: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/AGQZAA... #colsci
Perch choice and substrate matching to the dorsal patterns of Amphibolurus muricatus lizards
#Reptile #Camouflage #JackyDragon
doi.org/10.1093/behe...
#Reptile #Camouflage #JackyDragon
doi.org/10.1093/behe...
December 11, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Leaf? 🍃 Or katydid? 🦗
Our new
@plosbiology.org paper sheds light on how these incredible mimics evolved their disguises, and what this reveals about how complex adaptations arise. We find that coordinated evolution between traits might be the answer… plos.io/4oUE741 1/n
Our new
@plosbiology.org paper sheds light on how these incredible mimics evolved their disguises, and what this reveals about how complex adaptations arise. We find that coordinated evolution between traits might be the answer… plos.io/4oUE741 1/n
Functional and evolutionary synergy of trait components can explain the existence of leaf masquerade in katydids
The evolution of complex adaptations often involves synergistic changes in multiple traits that lack standalone function. This study shows that leaf masquerade in katydids evolved through concurrent m...
plos.io
November 5, 2025 at 12:32 PM
😍 hardcore #colsci !
📢🦋 Our paper ‘Global selection on insect antipredator coloration’ is out and featured on the cover of @science.org
We ran a huge experiment to find out how ecological context favours camouflage and warning colouration as antipredator strategies. 1/6
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
We ran a huge experiment to find out how ecological context favours camouflage and warning colouration as antipredator strategies. 1/6
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
September 25, 2025 at 8:31 PM
😍 hardcore #colsci !
Very honoured to have our research highlighted by this very well-written article by Weller & Rabosky. Thank you! 10/10, can recommend if you want a thorough take on what our latest paper is about: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #colsci
For sea slugs, bright colours may warn off predators—but only in the daytime
For sea slugs, bright colours may warn off predators—but only in the daytime.
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
June 18, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Very honoured to have our research highlighted by this very well-written article by Weller & Rabosky. Thank you! 10/10, can recommend if you want a thorough take on what our latest paper is about: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #colsci
New paper alert! 🎉
We found some interesting differences in defensive strategies in our cute little Amata wasp moths.
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
@hannahmrowland.bsky.social @liisahamalainen.bsky.social @mherberstein.bsky.social @kateumbers.bsky.social @gmramon.bsky.social #OzInverts
We found some interesting differences in defensive strategies in our cute little Amata wasp moths.
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
@hannahmrowland.bsky.social @liisahamalainen.bsky.social @mherberstein.bsky.social @kateumbers.bsky.social @gmramon.bsky.social #OzInverts
April 23, 2025 at 10:44 AM
It's out! Read about how to combine advanced animal vision modelling and colour pattern analysis with comparative phylogenetic methods in arguably some of the most incredible critters in the ocean: doi.org/10.1111/1365....
Amazing work with amazing people! #colsci #micaToolbox #AnimalEcology
Amazing work with amazing people! #colsci #micaToolbox #AnimalEcology
Diel activity correlates with colour pattern morphology of heterobranch sea slugs
The authors show that daytime activity fundamentally shapes the appearance of prey animals to potential predators and that colour pattern phenotypes likely associated with visual signalling are predo....
doi.org
April 16, 2025 at 8:14 AM
It's out! Read about how to combine advanced animal vision modelling and colour pattern analysis with comparative phylogenetic methods in arguably some of the most incredible critters in the ocean: doi.org/10.1111/1365....
Amazing work with amazing people! #colsci #micaToolbox #AnimalEcology
Amazing work with amazing people! #colsci #micaToolbox #AnimalEcology
First paper out on this incredible study system! We describe the remarkably different hunting displays used by the broadclub cuttlefish in the wild.
Paper: dx.doi.org/10.1002/ecy....
Stay tuned for more!!
@drmartinjhow.bsky.social @vancedberg.bsky.social @ecologyofvision.bsky.social
Paper: dx.doi.org/10.1002/ecy....
Stay tuned for more!!
@drmartinjhow.bsky.social @vancedberg.bsky.social @ecologyofvision.bsky.social
February 19, 2025 at 11:54 AM
'A Standardized Nomenclature for the
Rods and Cones of the Vertebrate
Retina' #colsci
www.preprints.org/manuscript/2...
Rods and Cones of the Vertebrate
Retina' #colsci
www.preprints.org/manuscript/2...
February 13, 2025 at 9:34 AM
'A Standardized Nomenclature for the
Rods and Cones of the Vertebrate
Retina' #colsci
www.preprints.org/manuscript/2...
Rods and Cones of the Vertebrate
Retina' #colsci
www.preprints.org/manuscript/2...
Kudos to Sam Hulse for his latest paper in showing how to harness AI to study the design component of animal communication signal. #visualecology #AI
January 8, 2025 at 8:29 AM