Cedric van den Berg

Postdoc studying the use & perception of colour and patterns in nature.

[Cedric van den Berg @vancedberg]

It's out! Read about how to combine advanced animal vision modelling and colour pattern analysis with comparative phylogenetic methods in arguably some of the most incredible critters in the ocean: https://t.co/giyCu9YpTr. Amazing work with amazing people! #colsci #micaToolbox

[Journal of Animal Ecology @AnimalEcology]

New study uses novel methodology to show that daytime activity shapes the appearance of prey animals to potential predators! Colour pattern phenotypes likely associated with visual signalling are mainly found in diurnal species of sea slugs🌈👇@vancedberg
https://t.co/87qjOCBd1d

[Cedric van den Berg @vancedberg]

@AnimalEcology @UQ_News @BristolUniMedia @EcologyofVision @EcoVisUQ

[Cedric van den Berg @vancedberg]

It's out! Read about how to combine advanced animal vision modelling and colour pattern analysis with comparative phylogenetic methods in arguably some of the most incredible critters in the ocean: https://t.co/giyCu9YpTr. Amazing work with amazing people! #colsci #micaToolbox

[micaToolbox @MicaToolbox]

BUG ALERT: Naive Bayes clustering in QCPA

When using Naive Bayes clustering in <v2.3, the standard deviations instead of the means are used for downstream colour pattern analysis. For details & fix, read here: https://t.co/nhAHFL3Vzj #colsci

[Cedric van den Berg @vancedberg]

#colsci

[Jolyon Troscianko @jTroscianko]

Hyperspectral Imager paper out! High sensitivity UV to nearIR, radiance & reflectance, runs from a smartphone. Build the system for about $450 from 3D printed parts & off-the-shelf components.

Paper: https://t.co/d3bg0sgZwS

Intro video: https://t.co/xDJPN0CPqC

[micaToolbox @MicaToolbox]

Find us on the other side: @micatoolbox.bsky.social

[Cedric van den Berg @vancedberg]

👀👀👀 This sure sounds like a fantastic PhD opportunity!

[micaToolbox @MicaToolbox]

The toolbox update v2.3 is online now. It provides several bug fixes and switches to a new LibRAW (DCRAW) version, which offers support for many more recent RAW camera file formats: https://t.co/SijQrRvUMg

[Ecology of Vision @EcologyofVision]

🚨PhD siren #2!🚨A 4 year PhD project based in Exeter with @SensoryEcology in collaboration with us taking a deep dive into the visually-guided colour change behaviour of chameleon prawns🦐Funded by SWBio DTP to start in Sept 2025! Apply here: https://t.co/CmWU6O9mGU

[Bibiana Rojas @biobiiana]

And that's a wrap! 29 #poisonfrogs papers for you to enjoy –> Part 1: https://t.co/H5UE6kU8Eo & Part 2: https://t.co/ZN4lT5cPJV Thanks to all authors and reviewers, and to @evoecology, for making this happen. @LiaSchlippe designed the beautiful covers 😍👩‍🎨😍

[Cedric van den Berg @vancedberg]

It's been a fantastic @MicaToolbox workshop and first few days of the conference! Not without impact by the looks: Spotted at the Haiku board at #ISBE2024 😂

[Cedric van den Berg @vancedberg]

We are super thrilled to meet 40+ participants from all over the world for our animal vision modelling & imaging workshop in Melbourne! Just like #ISBE2024, this has been in the making since before 2020. Good things take time! @MicaToolbox #colsci

[Cedric van den Berg @vancedberg]

Yet another nudibranch on a journal cover! Thanks to Steve Smith for this lovely portrait of Chromodoris elisabethina.
https://t.co/elNArk3xbM #coslci @UQscience @BristolBioSci @EcoVisUQ @EcologyofVision @UQ_News

[Cedric van den Berg @vancedberg]

#colsci

[George Hancock 🥚🦋🦎 @ghancockzoology]

Every now and again I get to do something really cool for my job. Today was one of those days. @psychtoolbox rendered flying targets each with their own flying rules.

[Wen-sung @wensung978]

Super cute pyjama squid babies #Sepioloidea #lineolata @EcoVisUQ

[Cedric van den Berg @vancedberg]

The nice kind of fieldwork! Much quiet, very rebreather🌊🤿🐫🐠Cruising around in the depths of Egyptian coral reefs with @DrMartinJohnHow @EcologyofVision @BristolBioSci

[Robin Sandfort @RobinSandfort]

Checking out camera trap images just got so much more colourful. 🐗🌈Meta just released its Segment Anything Model 2 (SAM 2) and it plays nicely with our wild boar piglets.
@WILDLABSNET @AIatMeta #Tech4Wildlife #cameratrap

[Erik Svensson @EvolOdonata]

Our new meta-analysis on frequency-dependent selection across the Tree of Life is now published. Thanks to @mgomezllano, @AdamSiepielski, @ronbassar and Simon Tye for a nice and productive collaboration:
https://t.co/WHcElzA2kf

[Cedric van den Berg @vancedberg]

Out now in Behavioural Ecology: Highly defended nudibranchs “escape” to visually distinct background habitats - https://t.co/xpOH0UIxqK with @karen_cheney @MatteoSanton @UQscience @EcoVisUQ @EcologyofVision #colsci