We're hiring! <°°)))>< Interested in deep-sea fish and their eyes? In molecular evolution? We look for a PhD student to join our team in Prague. ERC funding for the single-cell transcriptomics. fishevo.com/erc-funded-phd… (postdocs wanted too, stay tuned). Happy for retweets!😍 thks

New cost:benefit approach shows photoreceptor costs shape entire eye, including optics. Investments in photoreceptors compete with investments in optics to determine eye design biorxiv.org/content/10.110… Made possible by brilliant co-author, Fran Heras

This is such a wonderful course. Attending this changed my scientific career and trajectory. I recommend all the enthusiastic sensory biology peeps to attend this if possible. My experience was tremendous. Lund Vision Group

Colour vision folks, kindly invited to the colvis society meeting in Ljubljana, 5-9 July 2024! Now accepting abstracts. Conference web site icvs2024.com

I've been thinking about the transience of life, and you can't take it with you, so I'll be tweeting my own deep-sea photos about one-a-day for people to use however they want (just credit me). This is a sequence of the light emission of the shrimp Heterocarpus ensifer.

After a request (and because I also would find this useful) I'm testing out some options for altering recolorize output in user-selected regions. Would love some beta-testers; please email (or DM) if this might be useful for you and you'd be willing to provide feedback.

Beautiful work showing that lost eyes in harvestmen aren't completely lost after all! 😍

It was a loonnnnnng time coming but our paper on path dependent evolution of visual systems is out in Science! Rebecca Varney Joie Cannon Morris A. Aguilar Dan Speiser Doug Eernisse. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… Also, nice Perspective piece by @lauren_hsr ! science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Mollusk eyes point to fork in evolution's path axios.com/2024/03/03/evo…

Checking for aestivating #bogong moths on Mt Morgan with Eric Warrant from Lund Vision Group. Lots of great sites they once used, but none there now -- similar story to that on Mt Gingera to the north. Next available habitat Mt Jagungal. #bogongMoth #AgrotisInfusa #migrations

Very proud to see Leonie John's second chapter finally published! More #colsci on cryptic marine sit-and-wait predatory fish!

New paper on the wonderful googly eyes of alciopid worms out now in Current Biology! We found that alongside vertebrates, arthropods, and cephalopods, this group of polychaetes is capable of high-resolution vision - but mysteries remain...🪱👀 sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

For a special #WormWednesday - A big thread about our new paper in Current Biology about the amazing eyes of alciopids! sciencedirect.com/science/articl… /1

The Lund University press office made a great video about our recent paper on the amazing eyes of alciopid polychaetes! youtu.be/CHPFe4rBIMc?si… @Biology_LU Lund Vision Group

🚨#PhDposition You love🦋👁️#insects #vision #flight and are curious about how moths adjust their vision and movement dynamically to night-time lights (incl. #ALAN): apply to become part of our team Universität Konstanz (insect-vision.com): t.ly/QDkZS 📢pl RT

An excellent opportunity to work with some great people on exciting science!

Huge congrats to Eric!

We (Exeter Visual Ecology University of Exeter CEC) are hosting a FREE visual ecology symposium in Falmouth, Cornwall on Tuesday 2nd July. Limited to 50 attendees, a day of talks followed by beach BBQ (weather permitting!) DM for more info or sign up here rb.gy/2z52r9

New perspective published in PNASNews about fluorescence in tetrapods. Briefly: Fluorescence is probably usually not a visual signal, but that doesn't mean it isn't interesting! pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn… w/ Michaël Nicolaï Javier Ábalos Liliana D'Alba Matthew Shawkey & Jonathan Goldenberg

This week, I had the opportunity to interview Prof Eric Warrant. Eric is a new Academy Corresponding Fellow and an authority on dim-light vision and navigation. I left with a new appreciation for the Bogong moth's long-distance navigation and an excellent kanelbullar recipe.