Last autumn, I was a visiting professor at the University of the Balearic Islands in Mallorca for two months, and while I didn’t find any of the Meta bourneti cave spiders, I originally wanted to study, I did manage to find multiple Metellina merianae spiders in...
I first became fascinated by the potential behavioural adaptations of the cave spiders in the genus Meta (family Tetragnathidae) back in 2016, which spurred an interest for subterranean biology in general and lead to a student project on Meta menardi in Creswell Crags...
Through a long-standing collaboration with Prof Abida Butt from the University of the Punjab in Pakistan, I have had the opportunity to be involved in an interesting project on the accumulation of heavy metals in an agro-ecosystem in the berseem plant (a clover used...
Together with a student, we have a new paper out in the Journal of Arachnology (impressively, it is the second paper arising from Nick Tew’s undergraduate research project – Nick is now a PhD student at Bristol University). The paper looks at the factors...
I am a co-author on a new paper on the diversity of tropical butterflies in an urban habitat (the mega city of Dhaka in Bangladesh). The paper published in Oriental Insects is based on a meticulous study based on daily surveys of butterflies on the campus of the...
I have been offered an extension to my temporary cover position at the Oxford University for Continuing Education. I will now job share with Dr Jocelyne Hughes as course director for the Postgraduate Certificate in Ecological Survey Techniques for the next 2 years in...
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