Jolyon's Website – I'm a scientist, photographer and builder of things

November 22

New Publication: Among Birds-of-Paradise, Good Looks Are Not Enough to Win a Mate

See our paper here (open access). Male birds-of-paradise are justly world famous for their wildly…

November 22

I am currently advertising a funded PhD position titled: “The role of camouflage in the…

January 5

I am delighted to have won a NERC Independent Research Fellowship. This 5-year fellowship will…

June 27

Reuters filmed a short piece on one of our citizen science studies in which over…

May 23

Here is a selection of my nightjar photos, all taken near Choma in Zambia during…

April 13

We wanted to know why many animals are dichromats (having two types of colour receptor…

January 17

Play our new online game and help our research! Green shore crabs are one of…

January 7

Estimating how visible something is against its background is essential in many studies of animal…

November 3

I’ve just released a new online game: Click here to play The data generated from…

October 13

Burying beetles sniff out small animals that have just died and use the carcass as…