🚨 Excited to share our new paper published in @ecol-evol.bsky.social ! 🦟 🏊 Here, we compared the surface swimming behaviour of 11 mosquito species across three major disease-vector genera and found clear, genus-specific differences in how they move! 📄 Read the paper here: doi.org/10.1002/ece3...

Thanks @grahancock.bsky.social! It was a pleasure to present at #ISBE2026 !

Dr George RA Hancock 🦋🦎@grahancock.bsky.social · 2w ago

Incredible to see the amazing @christiandrerup.com present at ISBE. We both were in @drmartinjhow.bsky.social’s lab for our masters and we are still meeting up 7 years on.

Ever wondered what mosquito pupae do when they get flushed out of their aquatic habitat? The answer surprised us - and might surprise you too. 🦟 📍Room 500 | 🕓 4:45 pm | #ISBE2026 @isbe2026.bsky.social

On my way to #ISBE2026 @isbe2026.bsky.social 🐠🦀🐌🦗🦟🪲🐞🐝🪱🐛 Is anyone else already in Turin today and up for a 🍺 or 🍕 this evening? #ISBE #Behaviour #Pizza #Beer

Do you have a background in behavioural ecology and are you interested in doing a PhD in Australia? I’m looking for new grad students so check out our website (BobWongLab.org) or come find me in Torino at #ISBE2026. 🐟🐠

Thrilled to announce that earlier this month I started my new position as a Fellow by Examination at @magdalenoxford.bsky.social, University of Oxford. Over the next three years, I will be investigating the costs and benefits of specular colouration and mirror-like camouflage in fish. 🐟🪩☀️👀🦈

Today was my last day at @durham.ac.uk. What an incredible, exciting, and productive year it was! A huge thank you to the amazing @lenariab.bsky.social for welcoming me to her @insectneurolab.bsky.social group. Stay tuned for our findings on mosquito pupae behaviour and my next academic endeavour!

Work brilliantly led by #ECR @sammatchette.bsky.social With @nadia-hamilton.bsky.social @christiandrerup.com #JeroenSchneider @sandrawinters.bsky.social @marinebehavecol.bsky.social @camzoology.bsky.social @bristolbiosci.bsky.social #predator #marine #fish #ocean doi.org/10.1098/rspb...

Predators hide against similarly coloured species to camouflage on the move

Abstract. Many predators aim to approach prey without being detected or identified. Ambush predators often achieve this through camouflage, such as backgro

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Check out our new paper on trumpet fish camouflage! ⬇️⬇️⬇️ 🔵🎺🐟🟡

Sam Matchette@sammatchette.bsky.social · 8mo ago

🚨NEW PAPER🚨 Need to #camouflage on the move? Easy - simply seek out something that's coloured like you and move along with it! 🐠 Read the latest #trumpetfish instalment here: tinyurl.com/4tb5h5hk @royalsociety.org #shadowing #predator #experiment #marine #movement

🚨Our new paper is out NOW in @jexpbiol.bsky.social 👀 Here we show that cuttlefish use visual contrast cues to inform their 3D camouflage, but these contrast cues can derive from true background features as well as exposure to dynamic lighting patterns. 🦑🔆 🔗 doi.org/10.1242/jeb....

🚨New paper alert! If you want to know more about #trumpetfish and how their colours affect the behaviour of their prey, check out our new paper in @behavecol.bsky.social #BehavioralEcology. 🎺🐠➡️🟤🔵🟡➡️🐟👀🏃

Sam Matchette@sammatchette.bsky.social · last yr.

🔴New #trumpetfish content!🔴 This species is colour #polymorphic so we dove (pun intended) into how the relative abundance and saliency of each morph influences the #behaviour of their prey. Find out more via the link below! 🎺🐠 🔗 tinyurl.com/39vn5skp #behavioralecology

🚨 New paper alert! 👀 In our new opinion piece in TREE @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social, we propose #cephalopods as model systems to investigate the link between tactical #deception and #cognition in animals 🐙🦑🪄✨🧠 Read the paper here: 🔗 www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...

Tactical deception in cephalopods: a new framework for understanding cognition

Many animals rely on deception, including signalling misinformation, to gain advantages over others. While many deceptive strategies rely on deterministic patterns or conditioning, some taxa can flexi...

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🚨Our new paper is out NOW in @ecol-evol.bsky.social 👀 Here we show that prior exposure to dynamic illumination can have a persisting effect on the visual perception of 🦀, reducing their ability to detect predators even after the dynamic illumination has ended. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Motion After‐Effects Induced by Dynamic Illumination in Crab Vision

While in humans, background motion can disrupt the detection of visual cues even after the moving background component has ceased, it remains unknown whether natural forms of background motion might ...

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🚨Our new paper is out NOW in @ecol-evol.bsky.social 👀 Here we show that prior exposure to dynamic illumination can have a persisting effect on the visual perception of 🦀, reducing their ability to detect predators even after the dynamic illumination has ended. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Motion After‐Effects Induced by Dynamic Illumination in Crab Vision

While in humans, background motion can disrupt the detection of visual cues even after the moving background component has ceased, it remains unknown whether natural forms of background motion might ...

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In our latest paper, we describe how the passing-stripe hunting display of the broadclub cuttlefish camouflages the hunting predator during the final moments of the attack. Read more here www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... @drmartinjhow.bsky.social @jtroscianko.bsky.social @bristolbiosci.bsky.social

Big thanks to @biologists.bsky.social for organising the amazing #biologists100 conference in #Liverpool and giving me the opportunity to present my work on the effect of background motion on animal visual systems. 🙏

Merry #MolluscMonday - here are some Sepioteuthis australis attempting to mate at the Rainbow Reef in Fiji - thanks @christiandrerup.com for the id and explanation 🦑 youtu.be/9qf4H49IRSI?...

Squid Sepioteuthis australis attempting to mate in Viani Bay, Fiji

YouTube video by Emily Mitchell

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I'm thrilled to announce that I've started a Postdoctoral Research Associate position at @insectneurolab.bsky.social @durham-university.bsky.social this week, working with @lenariab.bsky.social on behavioural and physiological adaptations in mosquito pupae. In summary, I'll be working on 🦟🚱🦟👁️👃➡️💧?

Reminder that there's one week left to apply for this job. Please pass on the information to anyone who might be interested!

Vivek Nityananda@viveknityananda.bsky.social · 2y ago

Job Alert! New postdoc position in our lab investigating cognitive biases in wild bumblebees. Thanks to Wild Animal Initiative for the funding. Position for 31 months. Deadline: December 9th. Please apply/boost #PostdocJob #AcademicJobs #Bees jobs.ncl.ac.uk/job/Newcastl...

I made the Insect Sensory Neuro starter pack - let me know in the comments if you'd like to be added! (and also I'm sure I missed tons of people - tag them in!) go.bsky.app/JW7c5LN

Is #MolluscMonday a thing? Here is some type of Sepiolida (Bobtail Squid) from Anilao in the Philippines. One of the best things about night dives in the tropics is finding these little ones. #MarineLife #Inverts

Lots of great sounding PhD projects available from the NERC GW4+ DTP: www.nercgw4plus.ac.uk Including (a very flexible) one with us on the role of brain and behavioural adaptation, and hybrid disruption, in speciation: www.nercgw4plus.ac.uk/projects-202... 🧪 #evolution #behaviour

Merry fishmas from the MBE group! 🐟

Let's try to fill this starter pack with people involved in cephalopod research! 🦑🐙 Please share and let me know if you want to be added! 💪

It's #Nudivember so please enjoy these #nudibranch pictures I took over the last couple of years. For more nudibranch (and other marine creatures) images, check out my underwater pictures at 🔗 christiandrerup.com/photography/

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Dr. Liz Kirby@thekirbylab.bsky.social · 2y ago

Announcing a new open access textbook for entry level behavioral neuro. Funded by NSF. Written by a collection of 26 neuro experts. Method demonstration videos and author interviews too. Consider using it in your courses to reduce financial barriers to education. openstax.org/details/book...

Let's try to fill this starter pack with people involved in cephalopod research! 🦑🐙 Please share and let me know if you want to be added! 💪

We are advertising a funded PhD project to work on bumblebees and their brains! If you are a non-UK applicant, please get in touch with me by the **6th of December** with your CV and Cover/Motivation letter. iapetus2.ac.uk/studentships...

Brain evolution and comparative anatomy across bumblebee species

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Please re-post: I have a postdoc position open! Helsinki is great and working environment is fantastic! #colours #polymorphism #behavior #experiments #lepidoptera jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...

Postdoctoral Researcher in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Postdoctoral Researcher in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

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