by Thomas | May 23, 2022
I have recently started a new collaboration with Dr Mhairi Alexander from the University of the West of Scotland and her student, Kieran Boyd, on the beneficial role of orb spiders in UK farmland. In this context, I was invited to contribute to an ASAB (Association...
by Thomas | Apr 9, 2022
I have had the great fortune of supervising the talented young scientist Mollie Davies for her undergraduate project at Oxford Brookes University. Part of this project has now been published in the open access journal Insects. In the study, we looked who different...
by Thomas | Apr 5, 2022
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...
by Thomas | Feb 15, 2022
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...
by Thomas | Nov 18, 2021
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...
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