We are an interdisciplinary research group at @BristolUni interested in camouflage. Curated by @KarinKjernsmo, @SandraWinters22 and @trilbytricks
University of Bristol
Joined August 2013
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Camo Lab retweeted
PhD opportunity to do psychophysics on 🐓 🐠 & 🐀! @SWBio_DTP studentship to model animal perception of camouflaged prey using artificial observers. Apply here 👉 findaphd.com/phds/project/mo… #PhD #AnimalCamouflage #colsci
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Join us for our next BVI Seminar with Alex Mackin, senior applied scientist at Amazon Prime Video on Friday 8 November at 4pm (GMT). Zoom link available for those who want to join us online - bristol-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/9599…
🚨PhD Opportunity Alert!🚨 Fully funded studentship to develop artificial observers modelled on real ones (humans & chickens) to explore detection times across vast colour & texture combinations for camouflage! Apply here 👉 findaphd.com/phds/project/ex… #PhD #AnimalCamouflage #colsci
We also have an additional, separately funded version for UK-domiciled, applicants of Black or mixed Black heritage: findaphd.com/phds/project/fu… If you qualify, please consider applying to both to maximise your chances! Also feel free to get in touch for more info! #Phd #colsci
We also have an additional, separately funded version for UK-domiciled, applicants of Black or mixed Black heritage: findaphd.com/phds/project/fu… If you qualify, please consider applying to both to maximise your chances! Also feel free to get in touch for more info! #Phd #colsci
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Our next #bviseminar, co-hosted by @JGIBristol will be held on Friday 3rd March 2023 by Dr Matthew Pelowski from the University of Vienna. Do join us, either in-person (4pm in the Psychology Common Room) or online via Zoom: bristol-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/9953…
Camo Lab retweeted
Huge thanks to @kategscience for a lovely interview, and for writing this fantastic piece in @sciam, covering our latest #iridescence #colsci reaseach @Camo_Lab @BristolBioSci @BristolUni 🪲🌈 – at Bristol, England
Weirdly shifting colors may serve dual evolutionary purposes, providing both camouflage and conspicuous warning bit.ly/3tAXo0n
Camo Lab retweeted
Thoroughly enjoyed chatting with the amazing @flygirlNHM about our blingy #iridescent #camo @Camo_Lab #colsci research @BristolBioSci, featured today 1.45 (UK) on @BBCRadio4 in "Metamorphosis - How #Insects Transformed Our World" - episode: "Dazzling Disguise" 🦋🪲🌈 – at Bristol, England
BBC Radio 4 - Metamorphosis - How Insects Transformed Our World, Dazzling Disguise
Today 1.45 -it’s all about the benefits of bling! Featuring interviews with @DrDWaterhouse @KarinKjernsmo @drewyhart & Prof Andrew Parker
🦋🦋🦋 @RagsandRuby @NHM_London
bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0017k7…
Camo Lab retweeted
Research by Dr @KarinKjernsmo has shown iridescence in #beetles can act as a form of deceptive colouration as well as #camouflage 🪲
This provides protection from predators.
@BristolBioSci @Camo_Lab
Learn more @physorg_com⬇️
bit.ly/3s7w2hq
Camo Lab retweeted
Scientists have shown that iridescence in #beetles can work as a form of deceptive colouration as well as #camouflage. 🐞
This means iridescence can save prey even after they've been caught, serving both good looks and protection! 😍
➡️ fal.cn/3oi2E
@BristolBioSci
Camo Lab retweeted
Our new @Camo_Lab #colsci paper showing that #jewelbeetle #iridescence 🪲🌈and #gloss can protect prey by reducing the attack-willingness of naïve #birds is out now & published #openaccess in @AnimBehSociety @asab_tweets : sciencedirect.com/science/ar… @VisionInstitute @BristolBioSci
Camo Lab retweeted
Catch @jgfennell and myself on the @cbbc programme Deadly Predators tonight at 18:00 where we challenged @SteveBackshall to spot tigers using simulated deer vision. Can you spot the tiger?
Camo Lab retweeted
🌈Day 7 of our #colsci collection!
🦓Today we're asking, why are some mammals black and white?
The answer might surprise you😉
Read @NKHowell98's blog here with her research at @BristolBioSci @Camo_Lab
methodsblog.com/2021/12/09/w…
#colourcountdown
Camo Lab retweeted
Congrats to (twitterless) Callum McClellan on his first paper 🥳 with @Camo_Lab, ‘Birds learn to avoid aposematic prey by using the appearance of host plants’ @BristolBioSci
authors.elsevier.com/a/1dtDF…
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Can't wait to present my #Iridescence as #Camouflage research at this year's @LivingLightConf, along with @Camo_Lab alumnus @BenitoExplains and @spiloxene's PhD student @SverreAarTun also representing @BristolBioSci. Looks like an amazing line-up overall!🌈
Feast your eyes on the beautiful Living Light 2021 Early Career online conference schedule.
Something for everyone optics / vision / coloration
& sign up before 21st Sept 👉 bit.ly/3qk1tTy
(Attendance is open to all career stages)
See you on the 22nd!✨🌈👀
Camo Lab retweeted
Last transect for this #camouflage experiment completed! 🥳 A lovely day out in Leigh Woods, and really grateful to mini-me for tirelessly helping out with transects both during her summer holiday and now on weekends ❤ – at Bristol, England
Camo Lab retweeted
Start your week with some great insights to camouflage specialisation in leaf-micking toads using neat image analysis! New work by James Barnett, @KC_Michalis and the Bristolian camo-gang in JEB: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/… #colsci (that's one heck of a judgy looking 🐸 right there)
Camo Lab retweeted
Running #camouflage experiments be like "hmm getting really high survival rates, interesting, are my targets really that difficult to spot?!" + me five seconds later going "I know I put it here somewhere..." #camoworks @Camo_Lab – at South West, England
Camo Lab retweeted
Still sorting out 3Dprinting colours, but the 🐌shape looks damn good! #colsci @Camo_Lab-fun with @SandraWinters22
Our very own @KarinKjernsmo bringing the latest #colsci with her #camouflage #iridescent #beetles, now featured in @BBCEarth's latest show #AmazeMe, with fantastic presenters @ChrisGPackham and @MeganMcCubbin 🪲🌈 link to video: facebook.com/bbcearth/videos…
Look, it's lovely @ChrisGPackham and @MeganMcCubbin with our beetle models, featuring our @Camo_Lab #colsci #Iridescence as #Camouflage study in @BBCEarth fantastic new show #AmazeMe! Can you spot the beetle? 🌈🪲facebook.com/bbcearth/videos… @BristolBioSci @VisionInstitute
