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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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…
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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…
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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
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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…
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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
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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
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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
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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?
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🌈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
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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!✨🌈👀
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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
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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)
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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
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Still sorting out 3Dprinting colours, but the 🐌shape looks damn good! #colsci @Camo_Lab-fun with @SandraWinters22
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Researchers in the LSB are at the forefront of environmental impacts, including featuring in the great Sir David Attenborough's 'Life in Colour' featuring @DrMartinJohnHow, @EcologyofVision, @Camo_Lab, and @trilbytricks:
bristol.ac.uk/biology/news/2…
#WorldEnvironmentDay
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Me and @SandraWinters22 feeling like kids on Christmas unwrapping @Camo_Lab latest toy: a 3D Colour printer! #InnesSnail coming up...
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Why don't we see any scarlet squirrels and turquoise tigers? Bright, vivid colours are rare amongst mammals. @Gizmodo recently asked a panel of folks working on animal colouration, including Innes, Tim and myself from @Camo_Lab, why that might be the case.
gizmodo.com/why-arent-there-…
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Please note Becky's talk from March has been rescheduled to 21st May at 4pm (this Friday). Please do join us! More info about her talk “Searching in clutter: The effect of feature congestion in leaf litter” here: bristol.ac.uk/vision-institu…
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.@Camo_Lab CamoStorm Lab meeting on Gloger's rule: this was necessary – at Bristol, England
