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The deadline is 1 December for early-career researchers to apply for a funded place at our Workshop 'Vision 2024: Building Bridges in Visual Ecology' organised by Eleanor Caves @EleanorCaves, Sonke Johnsen Sonke Johnsen & Lorian Schweikert @LoriSchweikert biologists.com/workshops/june…

Thinking what to do this weekend?🤔 Why not apply to Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research SWBio DTP😀 A #PhD training programme in the #biosciences based across the South West + Wales <100 projects available across wide range of disciplines 👉shorturl.at/zMRX9 Application deadline⏰Mon 4 Dec

Congratulations to Vun Wen Jie (VJ) for successfully defending his PhD thesis titled "How the sensory ecology of the bumblebee affects their functional traits". Many thanks to the opponent Dr Martin John How for a great discussion and the examination committee!

🚨We are delighted to announce that our new paper is out in #Ethology 🦀🦐🦑 Here we show that dynamic illumination has limited influence on the habitat selection and behavioural activity of #crustaceans and #cephalopods. 🔗doi.org/10.1111/eth.13… 🧵Thread to find out more: (1/5)

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

Such an inspiring talk by Emelie Brodrick at our ECR seminar bound to the new Blue Planet unit! Amazing research of coral biology: light sensing, decision making and settlement in larvae with new directions for coral conservation! University of Bristol Biological Sciences Prof. Steve Simpson @HugoBHarrison

Ah, diving days are the best days. Babbacombe Beach with Cedric van den Berg (credit for the pic). Ecology of Vision

Cool post-doc opportunity in tropical biology Smithsonian in Panama!

We're really excited about this great work by Amar SV + Michael Blumer and gaggle of our science pals, including Frederik Mollen, Shahrouz Amini Ashlie McIvor @joana_gcc More to come on this species soon! HFSP Adv Optical Mat photo: Morgan Bennett-Smith

New paper on fish camouflage🐟 We placed scorpionfish on backgrounds of different pattern granularity to see whether they adjust their skin pattern. Find out what changes we observed! With Matteo Santon micaToolbox dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.1…

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

Join our team ⬇️ 🐠 Research Assistant 🐠 Laboratory Technician - Blue Carbon 🐠 Ecological Modeller in Connectivity Science 🐠 Fish Ecology Technician 🐠 Geospatial Analyst 🐠 Infrastructure Program Manager Applications close this month. Apply ➡️ bit.ly/AIMS_jobs

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…

New Postdoc Research Scientist position available to work on #shark movements & distributions under #ClimateChange w/ biologging data Please apply here: mymba.mba.ac.uk/job/postdoctor…

🦈 We have two exciting job opportunities available David Sims to work on #shark biologging movements, behaviour & distributions under #ClimateChange as part of the OCEAN DEOXYFISH project: 🌊 Project Technical Officer 🔬 Postdoctoral Research Scientist buff.ly/44FsDse

Cool article by Sofia Quaglia on the amazing colour changing cephalopods: nationalgeographic.com/animals/articl…

PhD position available: The influence of nighttime lighting on predator-prey dynamics and the landscape of fear. Working with RSPB and endangered shorebirds, visual modelling, field & experimental work, check it out exeter.ac.uk/study/funding/…

Join us for our next #BVIseminar on Friday 22 November at 4pm GMT where Dr Martin John How will be discussing 'Stealth and deception: motion camouflage by hunting cuttlefish'. Come along in-person, or online via Zoom - bristol-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/92182614846

Fresh from the field— just had 20 days of following peacock mantis shrimp in the wild with Matteo Santon! This work will show how mantis shrimp navigate and use their habitats. Thank you so much @neuroethology The Crustacean Society Challenger Society Estuarine & Coastal Sciences Association (ECSA) and Dr Martin John How