
Rob Heathcote
@rjpheathcote
Royal Society University Research Fellow studying animal colouration, signalling, cognition, predator-prey interactions. Obsessive natural historian.
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https://www.biology.ox.ac.uk/people/robert-heathcote 03-07-2014 08:32:55
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🎉More good news from Oxford Biology as we congratulate Berta Verd who was awarded an European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant 🇪🇺🎉 Read more about the project 👇 bit.ly/4gf0Swc


Every now and again I get to do something really cool for my job. Today was one of those days. Psychtoolbox rendered flying targets each with their own flying rules.

After unforeseen production delays, it was great to return the final proofs of our new edited book back to the production team today. Hopefully not too long to go before it comes out. A massive shout out again to co-editor Ulrika Candolin and our amazing chapter contributors 🙏


We describe how octopus-fish groups can work, can malfunction, and can lead to benefits! Give it a read and don't forget to see the videos for punching, displacements, and examples of solo vs collaborative hunting!! 🐙🐠🐟 Out in NatureEcoEvo!!


Well, 4 yrs as a JRF Christ's College, Marine Behavioural Ecology & Dept of Zoology are over... it's been an absolute blast! Huge thanks to all the brilliant & friendly people I've met along the way! But, excited to now start my next adventure as a postdoc with Rob Heathcote Oxford Biology!


Post Doc available We are looking for someone to come and work here at University of Exeter on an NIH funded project awarded to me, Lauren Brent , Noah Snyder-Mackler and Kenny Chiou . The aim of the post is to help us investigate comparative primate life history. Details here: jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecrui…


Postdoc position available! Come to CRAB to work with Sam Ellis , me, Kenny Chiou & Noah Snyder-Mackler on comparative life-history evolution, as part of a new NIH grant on the social modifiers of lifespan. Apply by Oct 29 here: jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecrui…


Mating songs of Galápagos finches from a set of possible futures, played to territorial males, reveal links between adaptation and speciation. Check out our new study—led by Dr. Jeff Podos UMass Amherst—in @sciencemagazine! ⬇️ Summary 🧵below! (1/10) science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Accepting applications for PhD on 'Digital Twins for Forest Resilience' at Oxford Biology in collaboration with Oxford Robotics Institute. More details here: findaphd.com/phds/project/d… Please retweet BES careers ESA student


Featuring systematic REVIEW by Lackey et al: ow.ly/rhrQ50TJEQ2 When and how does mate competition drive divergence and speciation? Alycia Lackey Liz Scordato Jason Keagy Dr. Robin Tinghitella @[email protected] Rob Heathcote University of Louisville University of Louisville Department of Biology Cal Poly Pomona Penn State University of Denver Oxford Biology



Excited (& a bit terrified) to officially share our #R #package with the world 🤩 swaRmverse provides a pipeline to analyze #collective #motion #data, promoting more comparative work across the Swarm-Verse 🐐🦬🐦🐒🐟 🦖🐑🕸️ With @sjmgarnier Andrew King 🙏 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/20…


We are recruiting a #PhD student to work on collective behaviour in real and artificial systems. October 2025 start. Working with Andrew King, Rob Heathcote Will Allen, Giovanni Reina, Marina Papadopoulou. Advert probably not out until new year now, but keep your 👀 🍌



Our lab's first paper out in 2025! Led by the brilliant Ella Ackroyd in collaboration with Rob Heathcote Dynamic colour change in zebrafish (Danio rerio) across multiple contexts royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.109… #openaccess #fishsci

