by Thomas | May 26, 2023
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,...
by Thomas | Apr 13, 2023
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...
by Thomas | Feb 24, 2023
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...
by Thomas | Nov 11, 2022
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,...
by Thomas | Nov 3, 2022
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...
by Thomas | Aug 23, 2022
During the pandemic lockdown, I had the great fortunate of being invited to participate in a global desk study on how spiders are portrayed in the news organised by Stefano Mammola and Catherine Scott. The study included 66 authors from most corners of the globe with...
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