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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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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Big thanks to @asab-spring-2025.bsky.social for another incredible conference! Fascinating talks, insightful posters, and great discussions with attendees. Looking forward to the next one! #ASABSpring2025
@lirsamuni.bsky.social
Daisy Johnston-Barrett
@nikosirmpilatze.com
Habitat complexity alters the strength of sexual selection on brain size in a livebearing fish www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03....
Congratulations Sam!! 🥳
I had an incredible time at the Swedish Oikos Meeting 2025! The inspiring presentations and posters left me full of ideas and excitement. Huge thanks to the organizers for putting together such a well-organized and memorable event! @nordicoikos.bsky.social
Did you miss #ASABWinter2024 ? Or do you want to re-watch a talk or catch one you missed? Well, its your lucky day. Videos of the conference are now up on youtube for your perusal!
Day 1: www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwF8...
Day 2: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dz8S...
Now that @arezosha.bsky.social l is on BlueSky, I can let her know how much I liked her talk #ASABwinter2024 on male mate choice copy 🐟!
Thank you so much for your kind words!! 🤩
It was a pleasure being a part of the ASAB Meeting 2024. The opportunity to present my project to such an amazing audience was an invaluable learning experience from an undergraduate perspective. A heartfelt thank you to the organizers for making this event possible! 🐟❄️ #ASABWinter2024 @asab.org
1. Elisabetta in front of a slide with a chick on it reading “Early biases: The adaptive role of plastic predispositions Elisabetta Versace & collaborators” 2. Alper in front of a slide with a yellow warbler reading “Female song and territorial defense across seasons in the Galápagos Yellow Warbler Alper Yelimlies, Katherine Albán Morales, Çaglar Akgay & Sonia Kleindorfer” 3. Arezo in front of a slide with a fish reading “Rethinking Sex-Biased Assumptions in Mate Choice Research: Are Males More Willing to Mate Choice Copy Than We Currently Expect? Arezo Shamsgovara” 4. David in front of a slide with insects reading “Towards an inclusive paradigm for the identification of the causes and the prediction of the consequences of sexual selection David Shuker, Thomas Green, and Eleanor Gourevitch Insect behavioural ecology lab”
First #ASABWinter2024 talk session ft. @elisabettaversace.bsky.social, @alperyelimlies.bsky.social, Arezo Shamsgovar & David Shuker
We learned about the combinatorial advantage of biases, song in understudied females, mate choice copying in males & putting ecology back into sexual selection 🐥🐤🐟🐜