Mark Roper

My research interest is on animal cognition, and how miniature brains accomplish complex tasks.

[Mark Roper @DrMarkRoper]

DNA to RNA Transcription Visualiser - replays a mechanistic bacterial transcription simulation frame by frame.
Live demo: https://t.co/C3DJQsdcxy
(press space to play)

[Mark Roper @DrMarkRoper]

VirtualMeadow - a bee simulator

I've had a lovely few days sat out in my sunny garden, surrounded by bees, so feeling inspired...
Live demo: https://t.co/kNS85szRhB
GitHub Repo: https://t.co/DL9TyNN2kf

Hope you have fun flying free as a bee.

[non aesthetic things @PicturesFoIder]

There is no red in this picture

[Mark Roper @DrMarkRoper]

https://t.co/RRDRKLDrL8

[Vera Vasas @VeraVasas]

See the world as (any) animal! In motion! We developed a new camera system & associated computations to record videos that accurately represent animal-perceived colour. Preprint out today.
With @DrDantheBirdMan
https://t.co/K033AKTfnE

[Mark Roper @DrMarkRoper]

We show that bumblebees do not remember the absolute sucrose concentration of flowers over the long term, but rather the relative ranking of the reward of simultaneously available flowers during foraging.
https://t.co/T9XDcTQyvj

[Mark Roper @DrMarkRoper]

@LChittka Congratulations Lars. I have mine on pre-order, hopefully will be here soon :)

[Mark Roper @DrMarkRoper]

@stem_essex It is a Greater Stag Beetle #Lucanuscervus

[Mark Roper @DrMarkRoper]

I get a nice variety of insects in my nature garden but this was an expected find while filling up the watering can! (https://t.co/Ej1EZ8B5vz)

[Olli Loukola @LoukolaOlli]

Fantastic nest box design by Cwyn Solvi

[Lars Chittka @LChittka]

New paper out today: #PLOSONE: Discrimination of edge orientation by bumblebees @QM_SBBS https://t.co/I2mMgTTlEh

[Mark Roper @DrMarkRoper]

Thanks to Hiroko Yoshii for making this photo available freely on @unsplash 🎁 https://t.co/oVLS07xNOm Hopefully my PhD will soon have me floating above a reef studying marine life interactions.