Excited to announce our new work to protect endangered frogs from the devastating chytrid fungus pathogen has been published in Nature! Macquarie University University of Melbourne Schmidt Science Fellows American Australian Association nature.com/articles/s4158…

My 2nd work on ant biogeographic regions is now published in Nature Communications! nature.com/articles/s4146… We show the complex biogeographic relationships among different taxa and the value of including insect groups in global bioregionalizations! The University of Hong Kong HKU School of Biological Sciences

An exciting opportunity to work on insect pollinator ecology in #HongKong

New paper on ants, fire and vertical stratification 🐜 🔥 🌳

Just returned from invigorating island work on ants. Found out Australian Research Council will fund my #DECRA to continue studying these incredible creatures in Australia’s majestic ecosystems - surreal!!! Truly humbled & grateful to all who’ve supported my academic journey. Thank you! 🙏🐜🇦🇺

New letter Conservation Biology, on the problematic misrepresentation of #invasive species in the mass media with images of unrelated organisms, e.g.: invasive fire ants misportrayed by images of weaver ants in The Guardian & The Telegraph. #Conservation #Ecology conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

This happens frequently with aquatic invasive species in the news media.

Seen examples of this many, many times over the years - and also for native species. Misrepresentation of invasive species in the mass media with images of unrelated organisms. Conservation Biolog. e14382. doi.org/10.1111/cobi.1…

🚨JOB ALERT🚨 Interested in how the microclimate mediates the coexistence of species rich insect communities? Us too! Come and work Cardiff University School of Biosciences with me, Andrew Davies, charlene and Rebecca Senior (rebeccasenior.bsky.social) on our HFSP funded project. Full advert: bit.ly/CardiffAntJob

Grateful that Conservation Biology published my letter about the use of inaccurate images in #invasivespecies news. Another journal had dismissed it as (simply) anecdotal. Responses to the article now suggest this may be a pervasive problem and for many taxa 🤔 conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/co…

First Happy Meal in decades and look what came in the box! A bug-themed card game, even allocating points to different ‘functional’ #traits like Size, Speed and Brains! Honestly well done McDonald's Australia. Hope this will inspire all the little entomologists 🐜🦋🪲🐝

1/ 🚨 New Preprint Alert! 🚨 We just published our latest work: "Human pressure homogenises species and traits globally". 🌍🦋🪴 Dive into the findings below or check out the preprint here: doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.…. A 🧵👇

Check out our new preprint: Human pressure homogenises #species and #traits globally

New preprint: Functional traits drive the competitive assembly of mangrove ant communities and influence colony performance in competition mesocosms ecoevorxiv.org/repository/vie… A fun study in a unique ecosystem that never made it to my DPhil thesis but is finally(!) written up

New preprint: Ant Diversity and Foraging Across the Diel Cycle is Unaltered by Experimental Exposure to Artificial Light at Night papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

New paper in #BiologyLetters: preliminary evidence for a less appreciated latitudinal biodiversity gradient – in how communities partition time⌛️🌞🌔 royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs… Royal Society Publishing

🚨 New publication alert! 🚨 Our new study shows how climate change could unleash non-native ants from indoor spaces (yes, including your home!) into outdoor environments. 🐜🌍

📄 Climate Change Can Exacerbate Ant Invasion Impacts by Unleashing Indoor Populations Into Outdoor Environments 🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/dd… (Open access!)

With global warming, non-native ants currently confined to indoor environments (e.g. buildings, greenhouses) may march outdoors, impacting nature and society. Our new study: