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🥁Workshop announcement: Modelling animal vision using spectrophotometry and calibrated digital imaging. 29.09.2024 in Melbourne (AUS) as a 'satellite' to #ISBE2024 (or join us for the workshop alone). Registration TBA, but save the date! empiricalimaging.com/2023/11/03/wor… #colsci

My lab at University of South Florida is looking for a postdoc to collaborate on a project on the evolution of poison frog color, behavior, and learning. I will be at #SICB2024 to chat - come join us 😀 Details on how to apply: shorturl.at/uwxIU Please share widely!

Paper for recolorize, my R package for color segmentation, is out! Featuring a couple of new examples. Special shoutout to @SVBelleghem, who lit a candle when we submitted it and also was just the most helpful coauthor you could hope for. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/el…

Registration for the workshop will open in March

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…

Convenient QCPA batch scripting with data wrangling tutorials in R for everyone! All peer reviewed and sparkly now 🎉 with Nick Condon , CaraConradsen, Tom White and Karen Cheney. #colsci Visual Ecology UQ Ecology of Vision link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Article 'Predator selection on phenotypic variability of cryptic and aposematic moths' #colsci nature.com/articles/s4146…

In this handy and very approachable review, Dr. Christopher Hemingson et al. provide a neat overview of a broad section of currently available tools and methods for the study of colour patterns in nature. Worth a read! #colsci

Interested in the role that sensory processing plays in perception of animal signals? Fully funded four-year PhD to start September 2024, deadline to apply 12th May. exeter.ac.uk/study/funding/…

Reminder! Come join us in Melbourne for an all-day venture into animal vision modelling and analysis in September! #colsci eventbrite.com.au/e/qcpa-worksho…

This dataset is bananas. High quality, calibrated UV + visible-spectrum images of >100 species of snakes let us compare across six different visual systems with micaToolbox. Working on it with Hayley, John David, and Alison was a genuine privilege, and I am SO GLAD IT'S OUT 🌈🐍

Out in ProcB - Chemical defences indicate bold colour patterns with reduced variability in aposematic nudibranchs - rb.gy/s1jlaq. Data & thoughts on the ecology & evolution of aposematism, feat. our fave critters! 🐌🌊 micaToolbox #colsci Visual Ecology UQ Ecology of Vision

Showcasing the ability of micaToolbox to capture complex visual properties of natural scenes:

Excited to share our new #colsci paper on how learning egg appearance guides nesting site choice for better camouflage. I enjoyed conducting this study with @CornishJackdaws and Martin Stevens. Image analysis via @Micatoolbox. doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.… University of Exeter قسم الأحياء

The toolbox update v2.3 is online now. It provides several bug fixes and switches to a new LibRAW (DCRAW) version, which offers support for many more recent RAW camera file formats: empiricalimaging.com/download/micat…

BUG ALERT: Naive Bayes clustering in QCPA When using Naive Bayes clustering in <v2.3, the standard deviations instead of the means are used for downstream colour pattern analysis. For details & fix, read here: empiricalimaging.com/2025/02/05/bug… #colsci

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/10.1111/1365-2…. Amazing work with amazing people! #colsci #micaToolbox