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New work by Jordan Cuff 🕸️🧬🕷️ et al. reports on how sources of prey availability data alter interpretation of outputs from prey choice null networks: doi.org/10.1111/een.13… #OpenAccess #Metabarcoding #NetworkEcology #NullModelling Wiley Ecology & Evolution Photo: courtesy Jordan Cuff 🕸️🧬🕷️

Thrilled to see this published - together with Global FinPrint and ERIC Tobago, our #BRUVS work revealed unexpectedly high #shark diversity in Northeast Tobago. Further research needed to consolidate regional conservation and management opportunities - bit.ly/3uI7MXF

🐜🐜 INCREDIBLY EXCITED 🐜🐜 to announce that I'm joining BIOPOLIS-CIBIO as a postdoc researching Dorylus driver ant/siafu ecology in the rainforests of Central Africa! Dreamy! Exciting! ARMY ANTS!

This one's been been in the making for a long time. It was great to work with star ecologist @Julian_Resasco and rising star Anna Paraskevopoulos on it. doi.org/10.1002/ecy.43… #RobertGregg #GoBuffs

A group of spider ants (Leptomyrmex sp.) hunting a poney ant (Rhytidoponera sp.). PNG 🇵🇬 2023.

Our last paper is out! Some red-necked #nightjars suffer bite attacks that cause mutilation of the feet and toes. The crime scene is located over 3,000 km apart, and a tropical #ant species turned out to be the main culprit! ℹ️onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…

What's going on in our agricultural fields when we stop looking? 🤔🌾❓ A lot of biocontrol that current monitoring and research is overlooking! 🫨 Read about our review and proposal for year-round monitoring of biocontrol below! 🧵 doi.org/10.1111/afe.12…

Epic scenes of Dorylus living up to the legends - great first couple of days in the field!

More super cool scenes from Dorylus: vid 1 shows driver ants at their nest 10 mins before a raid and vid 2 was taken 2m ahead of the raid front later on

Double good news day: 2 more years of funding secured to research army ants 🐜 in Africa 🇬🇶, PLUS we completed a pilot Dorylus exclusion plot this week Super excited… let’s see if it works🤞 🔍

Our review on the dual role of ants as ecosystem engineers and providers of ecosystem services was published yesterday! doi.org/10.25849/myrme… Together with it, you can read a short interview I gave to the Myrmecological News blog about the article: blog.myrmecologicalnews.org/2024/09/24/ant…

🚨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

I had an absolutely wonderful time at Masaryk University in Brno visiting Stano Pekár and giving a seminar to the Terrestrial Invertebrate Research Group! So many excellent conversations, incredible places and great science! I will definitely be back as soon as I can! 🇨🇿🕷️

🚨ANOTHER JOB ALERT!🚨 Love insect physiology and how it links to species coexistence in wild places? Come and work with me, charlene, Rebecca Senior (rebeccasenior.bsky.social) and Andrew Davies at UCT! 🐜🐜🐜❄️🔥 This is our second ant-facing postdoc funded by HFSP. Please share and apply!

This is one of the coolest papers I've been involved with thus far! It's often tricky to tease apart results in field systems like this but the team (led by the supreme Jordan Cuff 🕸️🧬🕷️) did a fab job with some sophisticated new tools and analyses. Great to be a part of! 🧵below 👇

Read about our latest paper in Oikos in this great article from Rothamsted Research! 🕷️🧬🕸️🍽️ doi.org/10.1111/oik.10…

🚨PHD OPPORTUNITY!🚨 Join us in Newcastle University to assess carabid beetle ecosystem services and foraging ecology, and develop new methods for inferring interactions between beetles and their food! 🪲🍽️💻 iapetus2.ac.uk/studentships/a…

Great opportunity to work on ants (and beetles) with some wonderful scientists!

Postdoc fellowship with me available to compete for to work on ant community ecology (and including field work in Taiwan) antscience.com/.../02/phdklim…