Dr George RA Hancock 🦋🦎
@grahancock
Postdoc zoologist interested in how ecology shapes form and function in particular colouration. Creator of the CamoEvo toolbox and professional nerd. Ghancockzoology@gmail.com
Incredible to see the amazing @christiandrerup.com present at ISBE. We both were in @drmartinjhow.bsky.social’s lab for our masters and we are still meeting up 7 years on.
Butterflies have extraordinary patterns. Come to my talk if you want to see their potential power to confuse predators in flight! 📍Room Londra | 🕓 3:45 pm | Thursday | #ISBE2026 @isbe2026.bsky.social
Always happy to see some visual ecology and images analysis discussions. Thank you @vancedberg.bsky.social for a great talk!
Let’s kick off @isbe2026.bsky.social! If anyone wants to chat camouflage, genetic algorithms or motion confusion drop me a message!
Hello, fellow evolutionary biologists. I'm someone who frequently uses Genetic Algorithms for research, see CamoEvo etc. A few times now, I've had trouble in peer review for the term "gene" being used to describe the numbers encoding the phenotypes. What is a good alternative?
Filming butterflies for research continues to be an absolute delight!
New pre-print out, how behaviour shapes camouflage evolution for spiders! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
You can see our own research on how stripes that mimic the warning patterns found in nature can also aid birds. Now out of pre-print! academic.oup.com/beheco/advan...
My Asian giant mantis “Goggles” has reached her 7th instar. Her last one as a nymph.
Spring has sprung. To celebrate I made a few different chocolate nests. Scrapes, bowls and cavity nests.
Goggles managed their first moult on Monday and is noticeably bigger!
Settling in to their new habitat. Meet “Goggles” the Asian giant praying mantis.
An awesome talk by @matteosanton.bsky.social showcasing his research at the University of Exeter.
I’ve recently decided to get back into digital art starting with my most ambitious project. Depicting some key life history and anatomical elements of one of my favourite animals. The secretary bird.
For those of you attending @asab.org Winter, be sure to check out my talk on how butterfly wing patterns create motion confusion effects!
As promised, here is a slightly modified version of my talk from #DinoConUK 2025. I will likely re-record the talk or a shorter version of it at a later point. www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/vu6at...
What an incredible time at @dinoconuk.bsky.social. I was super excited to give a presentation and I hope that it didn’t disappoint. Hopefully see you all at the next one. #DinoConUk
I am working on a new side-project. Watch this space for development updates.
I absolutely adore the new gardens at the natural history museum
Please do contact Naomi if you are interested in helping out!
Putting the visual, in visual ecology with angle detectors !