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izziehb.bsky.social
Izzie Héjja-B.
@izziehb.bsky.social
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Postdoc @klivvvienna.bsky.social & @univie.ac.at with🐦🪶&🐠
Prev. @CEFE_Montpellier & @UMBC Biol with🐟
🔎 Visual ecology+cog neuro+sexual selection+ML
Learning to engage in/promote a better science: open-inclusive-accessible; slow.
https://yseulthb.github.io/
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I had a great conversation with Abby. If you have 1-2 hours of your time to talk about/reflect on your story as a female PhD holder in STEM, and whether you're still in or no longer in academia, you should definitely reach out to her!
Please share her call around you #WomenInSTEM
Call for participants. Women with PhDs in STEM: tell your story. Abby is writing a book on the transition after the PhD and its complex realities, including topics like motherhood, identity, leadership, career, etc. She's looking for people who identify as women with PhD in any STEM fields for an interview (online or in Munich), for 60 to 90 minutes to share their story and reflect on their experience. Contact: perso@abbywanyuliu.com or whatsapp: +33671758253
August 30, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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Last night at #ABS2025 I had a blast presenting our work on the Victoria’s riflebird done with @thomasmacgillavry.bsky.social

Tonight, I'll be talking about SORTEE @sortee.bsky.social Come to poster #257 learn more about what the initiative is doing!
Poster presenting our work on the Victoria’s riflebird Poster presenting the SORTEE initiative.
July 10, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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Can humans discriminate individual birds of the spotted bowerbird from photographs?🪶
Students from the @fusanilab.bsky.social @univie.ac.at need you to answer that question! You can test your visual discrimination skills with their online experiment (~15 min long): sosci.univie.ac.at/bowerbird_di...
Picture showing the back of two bowerbirds, potentially corresponding to the same individual. Below is the question: Are these two pictures showing the same individual or different individuals?
February 24, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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🚨Freshly published in Ecological Informatics: our paper on using neural style transfer to test preferences for patterns in E. caeruleum 🐟 with Kara Million, Julien Renoult & Tamra Mendelson! #GenerativeAI #ML #EvoBio
doi.org/10.1016/j.ec...
Neural Style Transfer. Panel A: The algorithm produces a new image by minimising the distance with both content and style images. The style information corresponds to local statistics of the image (texture, colour, paint strokes), while the content information corresponds to the global arrangement of an image (what the image is made of, e.g. the row of houses along the river)—adapted from Gatys et al., 2016. Panel B: Creation of the stimuli. A picture of an original fish (male individual) and a picture of the habitat (either gravel or sand) are fed to the Neural Style Transfer algorithm as content and style images, respectively. The algorithm extracts the style information via a Gram matrix while the content information corresponds to the usual feature layers of a CNN. The original colours of the fish were put back on the final image to make it look more naturalistic.
November 8, 2024 at 1:39 PM
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My first paper in the field of eco/evo is finally out in
'Ecology and Evolution'! With Tamra Mendelson @UMBC Biology and Julien Renoult @CEFE Montpellier, we conducted a meta-analysis on assortative mate preferences in darters. Check it out!
➡️ doi.org/10.1002/ece3...
#evolution #behavior #ecology
Picture of four colourful male darters from different species: Etheostoma zonale (banded darter), E. caeruleum (rainbow darter), E. spectabile (orangethroat darter), and E. olmstedi (tessellated darter).
September 30, 2024 at 3:03 PM
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I'll be presenting today at 1pm my poster at #SfN23. Come and learn more about visual pattern preferences and the processing bias hypothesis, board Z22!
#neuroskyence #vision
Logo of the 2023 conference of the Society for neuroscience. It looks like a map pin point with some synapses inside. Next to it is written neuroscience 2023.
November 11, 2023 at 4:00 PM
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I was lucky enough to visit the MBL facilities in Woods Hole last summer when I was there for a summer school 🦈🤩
Sharks and rays in their sack, there are 3 of them. They can be seen through. A baby shark and a baby ray are also in the picture, swimming around the sacks.
October 13, 2023 at 6:06 PM
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I'll be presenting some work resulting from an online experiment at #sfn23 Combining the fields of #evoeco #neuroskyence #VisionScience
More about our results coming very soon!
September 16, 2023 at 3:26 PM