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Jen Kelley
@jenkelley01.bsky.social
Behavioural ecologist fascinated by animal colouration; obsessed with beer and brewing; love windsurfing but will never learn to carve gybe.
Wa hoo! Our paper in Science is out today, revealing why some prey use conspicuous warning colouration while others use camouflaging colours. A huge global collaboration under incredible leadership by Iliana Medina and @wlallen.bsky.social
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Global selection on insect antipredator coloration
Natural selection has repeatedly led to the evolution of two alternative antipredator color strategies—camouflage to avoid detection and aposematism to advertise unprofitability—but we lack understand...
www.science.org
September 26, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Great PhD exit talk today by Jane Edgeloe on the effect of marine heat waves on the population genetic structure of kelps and seaweeds. Well done Jane!
June 5, 2025 at 6:19 AM
Some great talks by our Honours and Masters students over the past few days. Well done to Grace, our student working on numbat colouration!
May 9, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Reposted by Jen Kelley
Come find us at the Ezone 207, Zoology stall for UWA Open Day today! Drop by to chat about all things animal behaviour, conservation, and evolutionary biology. Come find out what research at CEB is all about!

#UWAOpenDay #EvolBio #SaferPharma #EnvironmentalScience
March 30, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Super excited to share this remarkable finding and to give a shout out to my brilliant maths and physics co-authors at @murdoch.edu.au and @unisalzburg.bsky.social. Great working with you @aleejessop.bsky.social!

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
A leaf-mimicking moth uses nanostructures to create 3D leaf shape appearance
Nature provides many astonishing examples of visual deception, from fish that resemble leaves to spiders and butterfly pupae that look like bird dropp…
www.sciencedirect.com
February 13, 2025 at 3:34 AM