Lecturer at Abertay University. Interested in behavioural and sensory ecology. Currently exploring virtual reality as a tool for examining camouflage.
Ioan Smart
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Leaf-mimicking katydids don’t just use their funky camouflage to survive, they’re using it to find love too! 🥰🍃💘 New paper out now in #ProcB @royalsocietypublishing.org (Photo cred: Christian Ziegler): doi.org/10.1098/rspb... 1/n
New pre-print out, how behaviour shapes camouflage evolution for spiders!
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Out today in @royalsocietypublishing.org - we show that crab spiders (the ones you usually see ambushing pollinators on flowers 🕷️🌸) get worse at hunting if their eyes are covered!🫣 Sounds obvious? It's actually quite surprising, here's why... 👀 (1/8)
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New co-author paper. The angle a snake is viewed cnan have a remarkable effect on the camouflage benefits of its patterning! Hoping to follow this up more soon!
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New paper out now!
Biologically inspired warning patterns deter a passerine, Parus major, from digital turbine blades academic.oup.com/beheco/artic...
Two identical squares in the Adelson checker block illusion look different, even though they’re the same. @slowfourier.bsky.social, Ken Scott-Brown and myself showed 123 people edited variants to test how context shapes what we see. Data + stimuli openly available.
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Well this is a big one the largest paper from my PhD is finally out! We show how direct lighting influences optimal camouflage! With shadows promoting the evolution of darker, striped patterns and countershading!!
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Do males strategically associate with mating partners, and how does social context influence their choices?
Excited to share my first publication!🎉
It’s been an amazing journey and thanks to @lennartwinkler.bsky.social, John Fitzpatrick & all co-authors for your hard work!
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I am hiring a PhD student to join our group in Lund, Sweden working on an ERC-funded project to untangle color and polarization vision in some amazing crustaceans – minute water fleas and pugnacious mantis shrimp!
Please forward this to promising students. Apply here: lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
Our BehaveAI paper has just come out!
Easy & effective tracking & behavioural classification, even with tiny (2px), fast moving, camouflaged objects.
Paper: doi.org/10.1371/jour...
Download: github.com/troscianko/B...
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Many snakes have bold colour patterns, but how do habitat and viewing conditions change their functions? We found that zigzag and spot patterns can disrupt
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By mimicking the warning colours of animals that ward off birds, we can produce wind turbine patterns to which birds are averse, reducing the likelihood of
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Visual camouflage evolution in animals depends on both light’s interaction with its surroundings and the limits of what the natural observers of the camouflage can see. Changes in lighting – such as t...
We found that in halfbeaks, a shoaling fish species, males preferentially associated with an opposite sex pair (i.e., a female and a male) over rival males, but showed no preference when choosing bet....
