New paper out on urban bats by an EST studentĀ 

Chris Stanley, who was a PgCert Ecological Survey Techniques student at the Oxford University Department for Continuing Education, has published his very interesting project on how urban bat activity if affected by wooded streets and light levels in the Journal of...

New paper: Insects as indoor pests in India

I’ve been involved in project by the talented PhD student Sajidha Mohammed from the University of Calicut in India, who I informally co-supervise. Her project focusses on the negative role of insects found in houses in general, and mupli beetles in particular,...

Research associate at Coiba AIP

I’ve had the honour of being made research associate at Coiba AIP. A Panamanian research organisation focussing on conservation, biodiversity and sustainability with a focus on the nature reserve surrounding the island of Coiba off the Panamanian coast. The...

New review paper on spider-plant interactions in Insects

We have today published a review paper in the special issue of Spider Ecology and Behaviour in Insects that looks into the very interesting, but understudied area of interactions between spiders and plants. Our review paper focusses especially on how web-building...

Blogpost on field work in Madeira

A short blog post on our field work on Madeira in August 2022, written by my collaborator Dr Darko Coteras, has now been published on the website of the Insect Collections at the University of Madeira. We established a very productive collaboration with this group,...

Launch of a new scientific journal focussed on arachnids

The new open access journal Frontiers in Arachnid Science, of which I am an associate editor, for the Arachnid Ecology and Behaviour, has launched. The journal aims to publish high quality research in all areas of arachnid (mainly spiders, harvestmen, scorpions, mites...