I had the fortune to be invited to collaborate on a large-scale study by my Egyptian colleague – Prof Amr Mohamed. In the project the Amr and another Egyptian colleague had collected data on how heavy metals (Chromium and Nickel) accumulate across a wide range...
I have a new paper out in Arachnology, where I used the UK Spider Recording Scheme data on observations of the two cave orb spiders in the UK; Meta bourneti and Meta menardi to investigate whether the former as a possible invasive species showed more plasticity in its...
In the last year, I have become involved in a couple of interesting little online literature/design research projects with high school students through the Cambridge Centre for International Research. In these projects, a gifted high school student follows a 14 hour...
I’ve recently been appointed Section Editor for the journal Insects (which have just been awarded a new impact factor of 2.769) and have now been asked to act as guest editor (together with Dr Dumas Galvez from the University of Panama and the Smithsonian...
Shortly after I first became interested in the web-building behaviour of cave spiders, I began a collaboration with two early career Italian scientists, Dr Enrique Lunghi and Dr Stefano Mammola focussing not only on spiders, but also on the wider aspect of conducting...
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