Our new meta-analysis on frequency-dependent selection across the Tree of Life is now published. Thanks to Miguel Gómez, @AdamSiepielski, Ron Bassar and Simon Tye for a nice and productive collaboration: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/el…

Out now in Behavioural Ecology: Highly defended nudibranchs “escape” to visually distinct background habitats - shorturl.at/uVggj with Karen Cheney Matteo Santon UQ Science Visual Ecology UQ Ecology of Vision #colsci

Checking out camera trap images just got so much more colourful. 🐗🌈Meta just released its Segment Anything Model 2 (SAM 2) and it plays nicely with our wild boar piglets. WILDLABS Community AI at Meta #Tech4Wildlife #cameratrap

The nice kind of fieldwork! Much quiet, very rebreather🌊🤿🐫🐠Cruising around in the depths of Egyptian coral reefs with Dr Martin John How Ecology of Vision University of Bristol Biological Sciences

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.

Super cute pyjama squid babies #Sepioloidea #lineolata Visual Ecology UQ

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Yet another nudibranch on a journal cover! Thanks to Steve Smith for this lovely portrait of Chromodoris elisabethina. doi.org/10.1093/beheco… #coslci UQ Science University of Bristol Biological Sciences Visual Ecology UQ Ecology of Vision UQ News

We are super thrilled to meet 40+ participants from all over the world for our animal vision modelling & imaging workshop in Melbourne! Just like #ISBE2024, this has been in the making since before 2020. Good things take time! micaToolbox #colsci

It's been a fantastic micaToolbox workshop and first few days of the conference! Not without impact by the looks: Spotted at the Haiku board at #ISBE2024 😂

And that's a wrap! 29 #poisonfrogs papers for you to enjoy –> Part 1: tinyurl.com/3a3htezv & Part 2: tinyurl.com/5n8kfrth Thanks to all authors and reviewers, and to Evolutionary Ecology, for making this happen. @LiaSchlippe designed the beautiful covers 😍👩‍🎨😍

🚨PhD siren #2!🚨A 4 year PhD project based in Exeter with Martin Stevens in collaboration with us taking a deep dive into the visually-guided colour change behaviour of chameleon prawns🦐Funded by SWBio DTP to start in Sept 2025! Apply here: swbio.ac.uk/animal-behavio…

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…

👀👀👀 This sure sounds like a fantastic PhD opportunity!

Find us on the other side: @micatoolbox.bsky.social

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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

New study uses novel methodology to show that daytime activity shapes the appearance of prey animals to potential predators! Colour pattern phenotypes likely associated with visual signalling are mainly found in diurnal species of sea slugs🌈👇Cedric van den Berg buff.ly/XL6qtNL