Awarded a Royal Society International Exchange grant

I have been fortunate to be awarded a small Royal Society International Exchanges grant together with my Panamanian collaborator, Dr Dumas Galvez, from the University of Panama. The research project build on work I did during my postdoc at the Smithsonian Tropical...

New paper on habitat preferences of the cave spider Meta bourneti

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...

Biomimetic silk conduit review paper with a high school student

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...