Our very own Karin Kjernsmo bringing the latest #colsci with her #camouflage #iridescent #beetles, now featured in BBC Earth's latest show #AmazeMe, with fantastic presenters Chris Packham and Megan McCubbin 🪲🌈 link to video: facebook.com/bbcearth/video…

Still sorting out 3Dprinting colours, but the 🐌shape looks damn good! #colsci Camo Lab-fun with Sandra Winters

Running #camouflage experiments be like "hmm getting really high survival rates, interesting, are my targets really that difficult to spot?!" + me five seconds later going "I know I put it here somewhere..." #camoworks Camo Lab

Start your week with some great insights to camouflage specialisation in leaf-micking toads using neat image analysis! New work by James Barnett, ConstantineMichalis and the Bristolian camo-gang in JEB: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.111… #colsci (that's one heck of a judgy looking 🐸 right there)

Last transect for this #camouflage experiment completed! 🥳 A lovely day out in Leigh Woods, and really grateful to mini-me for tirelessly helping out with transects both during her summer holiday and now on weekends ❤

Can't wait to present my #Iridescence as #Camouflage research at this year's Living Light, along with Camo Lab alumnus Benito Wainwright and @spiloxene's PhD student Sverre also representing University of Bristol Biological Sciences. Looks like an amazing line-up overall!🌈

Congrats to (twitterless) Callum McClellan on his first paper 🥳 with Camo Lab, ‘Birds learn to avoid aposematic prey by using the appearance of host plants’ University of Bristol Biological Sciences authors.elsevier.com/a/1dtDF3QW8Rwp…

🌈Day 7 of our #colsci collection! 🦓Today we're asking, why are some mammals black and white? The answer might surprise you😉 Read Dr. Natasha Howell's blog here with her research at University of Bristol Biological Sciences Camo Lab methodsblog.com/2021/12/09/why… #colourcountdown

Catch John Fennell and myself on the CBBC programme Deadly Predators tonight at 18:00 where we challenged Steve Backshall to spot tigers using simulated deer vision. Can you spot the tiger?

Our new Camo Lab #colsci paper showing that #jewelbeetle #iridescence 🪲🌈and #gloss can protect prey by reducing the attack-willingness of naïve #birds is out now & published #openaccess in Animal Behavior Society @asab_tweets : sciencedirect.com/science/articl… Bristol Vision Institute University of Bristol Biological Sciences

Scientists have shown that iridescence in #beetles can work as a form of deceptive colouration as well as #camouflage. 🐞 This means iridescence can save prey even after they've been caught, serving both good looks and protection! 😍 ➡️ fal.cn/3oi2E University of Bristol Biological Sciences

Research by Dr Karin Kjernsmo has shown iridescence in #beetles can act as a form of deceptive colouration as well as #camouflage 🪲 This provides protection from predators. University of Bristol Biological Sciences Camo Lab Learn more Phys.org⬇️ bit.ly/3s7w2hq

Thoroughly enjoyed chatting with the amazing Dr Erica McAlister about our blingy #iridescent #camo Camo Lab #colsci research University of Bristol Biological Sciences, featured today 1.45 (UK) on BBC Radio 4 in "Metamorphosis - How #Insects Transformed Our World" - episode: "Dazzling Disguise" 🦋🪲🌈

Huge thanks to Kate Golembiewski for a lovely interview, and for writing this fantastic piece in Scientific American, covering our latest #iridescence #colsci reaseach Camo Lab University of Bristol Biological Sciences University of Bristol 🪲🌈

Our next #bviseminar, co-hosted by Jean Golding Institute will be held on Friday 3rd March 2023 by Dr Matthew Pelowski from the University of Vienna. Do join us, either in-person (4pm in the Psychology Common Room) or online via Zoom: bristol-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/99533384409?…

We also have an additional, separately funded version for UK-domiciled, applicants of Black or mixed Black heritage: findaphd.com/phds/project/f… If you qualify, please consider applying to both to maximise your chances! Also feel free to get in touch for more info! #Phd #colsci

Join us for our next BVI Seminar with Alex Mackin, senior applied scientist at Amazon Prime Video on Friday 8 November at 4pm (GMT). Zoom link available for those who want to join us online - bristol-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/95996245757

PhD opportunity to do psychophysics on 🐓 🐠 & 🐀! SWBio DTP studentship to model animal perception of camouflaged prey using artificial observers. Apply here 👉 findaphd.com/phds/project/m… #PhD #AnimalCamouflage #colsci