Comparative paper on webs of cave and surface Metellina spiders

by | Aug 20, 2019

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...

New cave spider review paper out

by | Jul 4, 2019

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...

Attending horizon scan workshop on ecology teaching and learning

by | May 24, 2019

This week I attended a very interesting one-day horizon scan workshop on teaching and learning in ecology organised by the British Ecological Society, which took place at the Open University in Milton Keynes. During the workshop we discussed how political and...

Co-author on Tanzanian roadkill paper

by | Apr 10, 2019

I have been involved in a study on the spatial distribution of roadkills of different medium to large sized mammals on a stretch of road inside and immediately outside a nature reserve in Tanzania. My main involvement included helping to analyse the data and helping...

Short-term visiting professor at UIB

by | Oct 17, 2018

I have been so lucky as to be awarded a stipendiary short-term visiting professorship by the University of the Balearic Islands in Mallorca, Spain. This allow me to visit my collaborator Prof Carlos Juan for 8 weeks from mid October to the beginning of December. I am...