Alan, my PhD student, has published his first paper in Restoration Ecology today! Congratulations Alan!!!! 😀 🥳 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

Wa hoo! Our paper in Science is out today, revealing why some prey use conspicuous warning colouration while others use camouflaging colours. A huge global collaboration under incredible leadership by Iliana Medina and @wlallen.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Global selection on insect antipredator coloration

Natural selection has repeatedly led to the evolution of two alternative antipredator color strategies—camouflage to avoid detection and aposematism to advertise unprofitability—but we lack understand...

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Great PhD exit talk today by Jane Edgeloe on the effect of marine heat waves on the population genetic structure of kelps and seaweeds. Well done Jane!

Some great talks by our Honours and Masters students over the past few days. Well done to Grace, our student working on numbat colouration!

Come find us at the Ezone 207, Zoology stall for UWA Open Day today! Drop by to chat about all things animal behaviour, conservation, and evolutionary biology. Come find out what research at CEB is all about! #UWAOpenDay #EvolBio #SaferPharma #EnvironmentalScience

Super excited to share this remarkable finding and to give a shout out to my brilliant maths and physics co-authors at @murdoch.edu.au and @unisalzburg.bsky.social. Great working with you @aleejessop.bsky.social! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

A leaf-mimicking moth uses nanostructures to create 3D leaf shape appearance

Nature provides many astonishing examples of visual deception, from fish that resemble leaves to spiders and butterfly pupae that look like bird dropp…

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