Research Masters in Visual ecology 👁️🌿: studying Dazzle coloration ◼️◻️💨 | Camolab- University of Bristol (He/Him)
Reuben Sparke
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Great first day at #ASABWinter2025, please come say hi tomorrow if you didn't get a chance today!
Day 1 @behaviour2025.bsky.social, some great talks and excited to speak tomorrow!
The Adaptive Significance of Tail‐Flagging: A Test in European Rabbits (Oryctolagus cuniculus) Ecol&Evol
Reuben Sparke
Was great to be involved in such an interesting paper, now published in @ecol-evol.bsky.social!
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A massive thank you to Innes Cuthill and @andyradford.bsky.social for the opportunity to demonstrate on the long running Lundy field course with @freyau.bsky.social.
An incredible week with some great views, projects, weather, food, and distinctly not-great run.
Reuben Sparke
Such an incredible time at #ASABWinter2025. A huge thank you to everyone involved in the organisation. The small amount of help was entirely worth it for an exclusive camo name tag. More importantly it is an honour to have been amongst those standing that had the chance to work with Innes!
European rabbits use their white tails to warn others of danger and ward off predators, revealing the dual function of a single animal signalling behaviour. Using both field observations and phylogen....
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Stoked that this is out now @royalsocietypublishing.org Proceedings B. See thread 4 main results + humidity also influence wing shape! Thankful to my co-authors and so many more people. 🦋❤️
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Winter ASAB @asab.org on *Sensory Ecology* register and submit your abstracts now (abstract deadline just a month away)!
I'm organising the conference this year with @lauraakelley.bsky.social and Innes Cuthill
Register & get more info here: asabwinter.github.io/2025/
Reuben Sparke
BehavEcolPapers
🤩We’re excited to announce our winner of Capturing Ecology🤩
🐊Zeke Rowe, @zekerowe.bsky.social, with their photo 'Wouldn't hurt a fly'🪰
Taken in Panama, the image shows an American crocodile fixing the camera with its golden eyes, utterly unmoved as blood-sucking horse flies feed on its snout.
Reuben Sparke
Following coverage over the weekend of Sir Paul Nurse's comments that suggested that the only reason that a Fellow should be expelled from @royalsociety.org is scientific misconduct, I have written to him to explain the risks such an attitude poses of increasing sexual harassment in STEM.
Reuben Sparke
Ecology and Evolution, Volume 15, Issue 6, June 2025.
1/3 Excited that my final PhD MS is online! Big thanks to Ullasa (PI) (vanasiri.in) & collaborators Freerk and Urszula. Turns out humidity, not just temperature, plays a major role in butterfly eyespot plasticity. doi.org/10.1101/2025...
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Contrasting mechanisms for using humidity as cue for seasonal polyphenism in two tropical butterflies https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.14.682489v1
