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Reuben Sparke
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Research Masters in Visual ecology 👁️🌿: studying Dazzle coloration ◼️◻️💨 | Camolab- University of Bristol (He/Him)
Day 1 @behaviour2025.bsky.social, some great talks and excited to speak tomorrow!
August 25, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Reposted by Reuben Sparke
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/
July 29, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Reposted by Reuben Sparke
The Adaptive Significance of Tail‐Flagging: A Test in European Rabbits (Oryctolagus cuniculus) Ecol&Evol
The Adaptive Significance of Tail‐Flagging: A Test in European Rabbits (Oryctolagus cuniculus)
Ecology and Evolution, Volume 15, Issue 6, June 2025.
dlvr.it
June 27, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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.
May 27, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Reposted by Reuben Sparke
🚨 New paper alert! 👀 In our new opinion piece in TREE @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social, we propose #cephalopods as model systems to investigate the link between tactical #deception and #cognition in animals 🐙🦑🪄✨🧠
Read the paper here:
🔗 www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...
Tactical deception in cephalopods: a new framework for understanding cognition
Many animals rely on deception, including signalling misinformation, to gain advantages over others. While many deceptive strategies rely on deterministic patterns or conditioning, some taxa can flexi...
www.cell.com
May 27, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Here's two scripts I wrote for PsychoPy to manually calibrate luminance as the built in way to achieve this seems to have a known error that has persisted.

discourse.psychopy.org/t/script-for...
Script for manual gamma calibration
Just thought I would add the script I made for the purposes of calibrating gamma manually. It just makes boxes of grey level from min to max in as many steps as specified. from psychopy.hardware impo...
discourse.psychopy.org
May 1, 2025 at 10:07 AM
A guide to setting up Psychtoolbox (MATLAB) on Linux for use with two screens I wrote a while ago.

It's what I wished I had while trying to get it working- written for someone without any prior knowledge. Hopefully of use to someone.

psychtoolbox.discourse.group/t/setting-up...
Setting up Psychtoolbox on Linux (Debian)- two screens
I thought I would include the guide I wrote after setting up Psychtoolbox on Linux in our lab. I am by no means an expert, but this procedure worked well for me so I thought it may be useful to others...
psychtoolbox.discourse.group
May 1, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Many thanks to @asab.org for such a great opportunity to attend and present my poster at #ASABSpring2025 and to see so many exciting pieces of research!
April 26, 2025 at 11:13 AM