Entomologist. he/him. Ants, species interactions, conservation, metabarcoding; other exciting things! Currently working on army ant ecology in central Africa
Porto, Portugal
Joined October 2016
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Postdoc fellowship with me available to compete for to work on ant community ecology (and including field work in Taiwan) antscience.com/.../02/phdkli…
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🚨PHD OPPORTUNITY!🚨
Join us in Newcastle University to assess carabid beetle ecosystem services and foraging ecology, and develop new methods for inferring interactions between beetles and their food! 🪲🍽️💻
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Read about our latest paper in @Oikos_Journal in this great article from @Rothamsted! 🕷️🧬🕸️🍽️ doi.org/10.1111/oik.10712
Along came a spider🕷️ ...and very carefully chose what to eat. Seems the picky arachnids only plump for tasty prey 🪲🪰 that match their nutritional needs. Could we use this fussy eating to help control pests? @JordanCuff @ForagingEcology
Full story👇
rothamsted.ac.uk/news/spider…
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I had an absolutely wonderful time at @MasarykUni in Brno visiting Stano Pekár and giving a seminar to the Terrestrial Invertebrate Research Group! So many excellent conversations, incredible places and great science! I will definitely be back as soon as I can! 🇨🇿🕷️
ALT Atop the Minaret in Lednice park with Stano Pekár and his group
ALT Part of Masaryk University's very modern campus
ALT An excellent array of plants within Masaryk University's corridors
ALT Panoramic views from the top of the Minaret in Lednice park
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🚨ANOTHER JOB ALERT!🚨
Love insect physiology and how it links to species coexistence in wild places? Come and work with me, @cjanion, @RebeccaASenior and @andrewbdavies at @UCT_news! 🐜🐜🐜❄️🔥
This is our second ant-facing postdoc funded by @HFSP.
Please share and apply!
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🚨JOB ALERT🚨
Interested in how the microclimate mediates the coexistence of species rich insect communities?
Us too! Come and work @CUBiosciences with me, @andrewbdavies, @cjanion and @RebeccaASenior on our @HFSP funded project.
Full advert: bit.ly/CardiffAntJob
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Our review on the dual role of ants as ecosystem engineers and providers of ecosystem services was published yesterday!
doi.org/10.25849/myrmecol.ne…
Together with it, you can read a short interview I gave to the Myrmecological News blog about the article:
blog.myrmecologicalnews.org/…
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What's going on in our agricultural fields when we stop looking? 🤔🌾❓
A lot of biocontrol that current monitoring and research is overlooking! 🫨
Read about our review and proposal for year-round monitoring of biocontrol below!
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doi.org/10.1111/afe.12635
🎊NEW PAPER!🎊
Biomonitoring of biocontrol across the full annual cycle in temperate climates: Post‐harvest, winter and early‐season interaction data and methodological considerations for its collection
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Published in @AFEntomology
doi.org/10.1111/afe.12635
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Our last paper is out! Some red-necked #nightjars suffer bite attacks that cause mutilation of the feet and toes. The crime scene is located over 3,000 km apart, and a tropical #ant species turned out to be the main culprit!
ℹ️onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
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A group of spider ants (Leptomyrmex sp.) hunting a poney ant (Rhytidoponera sp.). PNG 🇵🇬 2023.
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This one's been been in the making for a long time. It was great to work with star ecologist @Julian_Resasco and rising star Anna Paraskevopoulos on it.
doi.org/10.1002/ecy.4302
#RobertGregg #GoBuffs
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Thrilled to see this published - together with @globalfinprint and @ERICTobagoWI, our #BRUVS work revealed unexpectedly high #shark diversity in Northeast Tobago. Further research needed to consolidate regional conservation and management opportunities - bit.ly/3uI7MXF
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New work by @JordanCuff et al. reports on how sources of prey availability data alter interpretation of outputs from prey choice null networks: doi.org/10.1111/een.13315
#OpenAccess #Metabarcoding #NetworkEcology #NullModelling @WileyEcolEvol
Photo: courtesy @JordanCuff
ALT Spider at the base of a cereal plant. Photo courtesy of @JordanCuff
ALT Graphical abstract visually describing study findings, and showing differences between different types of network from different sampling methods.
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🎉NEW PAPER!🎉
Sources of prey availability data alter interpretation of outputs from prey choice null networks
doi.org/10.1111/een.13315
The data we use to test prey choice in the field can drastically change what we find. Intuitive, but it's also a little more complicated...🧵
ALT A graphic showing that suction sampling, sticky trapping and their combination produce different predator-prey null networks which vary in their congruence with dietary DNA networks.
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Come do a super cool PhD on trophic interactions, metagenomics and ecoacoustics with me in @ForagingEcology and @Kitson_James @DarrenMarkEvans @CollinsLarissa and @abr_eco!🕸️🧬🔊
Applications due by 7th February! 🥳🕷️🪲
Are YOU looking for a PhD on invertebrate trophic interactions using DNA and acoustic methods? 🧬🔊🪲
If you like soil too, check this out:
Building belowground invertebrate trophic networks for soil health monitoring using metagenomics and ecoacoustics
ncl.ac.uk/postgraduate/fees-…
ALT An image showing how ecoacoustics and soil metagenomics could be merged to inform streamlined soil health characterisation and monitoring
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📢CURRENT PhD OPPORTUNITIES IN THE GROUP WITH @DarrenMarkEvans AS PRIMARY SUPERVISOR. MORE TO BE ADDED IN COMING WEEKS 📢
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SUPER COOL PhD advert!
Ants🐜, mountains⛰️, 4x4🚗, insect personality🎭, all @cardiffuni🏴.
Co-supervised by me, @HanMGriffiths, @red_termite, and Prof Robertson @UPTuks. Please share widely / get in touch!
Details: bishoptraitslab.com/opportun…
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Poo is precious! So what do #redcolobus monkeys from @Golarainforest #SierraLeone and #CantanhezNP #GuineaBissau feed on? We used #DNA @Metabarcoding to find out. Excited to share the first paper from my PhD @MolEcolCU @CUBiosciences & @_CRIA_ @nova_fcsh
frontiersin.org/articles/10.…
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Check out this FULLY FUNDED PhD opportunity! 🤩🎓
Predator-plant commensalisms are a super cool and underrepresented set of interactions with massive potential for influencing ecosystem services! But how do nutrients influence them? 🤔🍽️🕸️
Come find out! 🥳
Are YOU looking for a #PhD focused on molecular ecology and invertebrate interactions? 🧬🕷️🌿
Come study predator-plant interactions and their implications for ecosystem services with us @JordanCuff @Fred_Windsor @DarrenMarkEvans @VivekNityananda! 🕸️🌼🕷️
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