Biologist, fascinated by eyes and vision
Joined January 2016
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From my twitterless colleagues Daniel Osorio and Jolyon Troscianko journals.plos.org/ploscompbi…
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Attention scientists from all over the world🙃Call for Abstracts is open for the International Science Symposium on Fundamental Life Science meets Climate, Environment and Sustainability. Join us! Read more: bit.ly/3y2xft5 #hfspscientificsymposium #IYBSSD
check this out: a Biological Communication Workshop for early Career scientists, organized by the Company of Biologists and JEB
forms.gle/a4AqZbWo3gKiX65Q6
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Our gps-study on Indian flying foxes, with Bahee and Hema is finally out, check here:
Home ranges, directionality and the influence of moon phases on the movement ecology of Indian flying fox males in southern India journals.biologists.com/bio/… @LundVision
Our theme issue of Phil Trans R Soc on Arthropod Colour Vision is now online, and here is the introductory essay with Ayse Yilmaz and Natalie Hempel-de Ibarra: royalsocietypublishing.org/e…
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If you want to contribute to a new Special Issue for Vision Research on the exciting topic “Seeing Colors in Nature” edited by K. Cheney, D. Foster, A. Kelber, H. Komatsu and S. Nascimento, please find the details here: sciencedirect.com/journal/vi…
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Call for applications for the 2023 HFSP Postdoctoral Fellowships - the online platform is now open for submission of letters of intent. More information at bit.ly/3tmdifi
Please note the link below to a report by the Inter Academy Partnership (IAP) on predatory journals: interacademies.org/project/p…
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It is published 7 languages but not in Swedish....
Achromatic cues may be more important for flower visibility to hawkmoths and other insects than often assume, see our new paper with Casper van der Kooi:
doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2022.81…
featuring hawkmoths, flower colours and a literature review @LundVision
Almut Kelber retweeted
HFSP research grant team Marianne Elias @ISYEB_UMR, Serge Berthier @insp_umr7588 and Nipam Patel @UCBerkeley and colleagues studied the optical properties of transparency in #butterfly wings shedding light on how transparency is perceived by predators bit.ly/3uwFJYJ
Almut Kelber retweeted
The application website for 2023 HFSP Research Grants is now open. More information at bit.ly/3GOMk41
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Ever wondered what amacrine cells do for colour processing? The answer may surprise you! Find out more in our new @bioRxiv with @XinweiWang1017 @PAR_EyeMath @TaYoshimatsu @Neonsynapse
biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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How can dung beetles find their way home without landmarks? HFSP Program Grant holder Poramate Manoonpong @UniSouthDenmark and colleagues used bio-inspired #robotics to investigate the mechanisms underlying complex #dungbeetle navigation > bit.ly/3KQTyqN
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How does the Human Frontier Science Program @HFSP review its hallmark interdisciplinary, high-risk, high-gain projects? Its Research Director @almut_kelber explains:
network.febs.org/posts/how-t…
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The GBC @Globalbiodata launches the first round to identify and select Global Core Biodata Resources – an initiative strongly supported by HFSP > bit.ly/3qCRPx9
The Global Biodata Coalition @globalbiodata is excited to announce a paper describing the process for selection of Global Core Biodata Resources (doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.58451…). More details at globalbiodata.org/scientific….
Did you ever wonder what flying foxes do during a lunar eclipse? Baheerathan Murugavel from IISER Thiruvananthapuram took the chance to find out:
DOI: 10.14709/BarbJ.14.1.2021.14
in Journal of Bat Research & Conservation @LundVision
Friends of the colourful world, check the colour count-down of the British Ecological Society here:
britishecologicalsociety.org…
and here is a short contribution on birds:
methodsblog.com/2021/12/06/h…
Have fun! @LundVision @Biology_LU
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Our study about the spatial resolution and sensitivity of the stingless bee, Tetragonula iridipennis, is online now in Journal of Comparitive Physiology A (rdcu.be/cAP8N) @SpringerNature @LundVision @almut_kelber @somanathan_hema @CSIR_IND @tvmiiser
and another new paper
doi.org/10.1007/s00359-021-0…
on the admirable speckled wood butterfly males that perch in sunspots and watch out for females.
We describe how they position themselves in the sunspot, and what they see with their compound eyes.
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Our new paper on ocular transmittance of the corneae and lenses of bird eyes is out:
journals.biologists.com/jeb/…
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with many new species andphylogenetic analyses
