We’d love feedback (e.g. any comments, predictions for predator communities, or datasets we should stress-test on). DMs welcome.

Moreover, we demonstrate that aposematic species have more similar dorsal & ventral patterns and reduced sexual dimorphism. These were long-standing hypotheses in this field which were really hard to test with conventional methods.

What we found? Across Nymphalidae, the aposematic axis is a dominant axis of variation in color patterns. It also separates aposematic vs. non-aposematic phenotypes in an out-of-distribution moth dataset.

What we did? Extract multivariate features from images → derive a continuous aposematic score → evaluate some long-standing hypotheses for the partitioning of variation in wing patterns in butterflies

Why aposematism? Warning signals are predicted to be conspicuous and convergent. If they’re pervasive, they could dominate the geometry of pattern space

Our new preprint on butterfly wing patterns, led by
@mluerig.bsky.social and with many fantastic collaborators. We use a large-scale database of museum images to quantify an aposematic axis and test how it structures phenotypic diversity in Nymphalidae: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

New preprint from the lab. Happy to hear your thoughts.

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I never anticipated being involved in forensic odontology, but computer vision research is just fun like that. This paper was a joyful collaboration with a group of wonderful forensic dentists: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Hello bsky! We are hiring two Postdocs
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Hello bsky! We are hiring two Postdocs
@floridamuseum.bsky.social !
1) Paleo + AI (NSF-funded, with
@blochlab.bsky.social ): explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/job/53...

2) AI for Biology (open-ended): explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/job/53...

Deadline Jan 15th. Please, RT! See also www.biovisionlab.com

We're hiring! The @floridamuseum.bsky.social @UF seeks qualified applicants for a 12-month tenure-track Assistant Curator of Lepidoptera at the McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity. Please RT widely: explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/job/52...

Please RT! The BioVision Lab @UF @FloridaMuseum is looking for PhD Students in several areas (biology, paleontology, machine learning, etc). Please share with folks that might be interested in joining us. You can find more about the lab at www.biovisionlab.com

Please RT! The BioVision Lab @UF @FloridaMuseum is looking for PhD Students in several areas (biology, paleontology, machine learning, etc). Please share with folks that might be interested in joining us. You can find more about the lab at www.biovisionlab.com

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Hello Bluesky! I am a curator of AI at the Florida Museum of Natural History and PI at the biovisionlab.com. If you are interested in computer vision and/or evolutionary biology, let's connect. Also, actively looking for PhD students. #evolution #machinelearning #computervision #AI #python #biology