by Thomas | Sep 23, 2026
I supervised a student on our PgCert in Ecological Survey Techniques, Alessandro Nota, doing an excellent project looking at the proportion of invasive snails in nature reserves in Oxfordshire, which has now been published in Ecology and Evolution. In the study, we...
by Thomas | Jun 15, 2026
I was honoured to be invited to give a talk at the online annual general meeting of the British Arachnological Society entitled ‘Thriving in the dark: The fascinating behaviour of cave orb spiders’ focussing on Meta menardi and Meta bourneti. It was...
by Thomas | Jun 12, 2026
I was fortunate to act as an informal PhD co-supervisor on Sajidha Mohammed’s project on the Mupli beetle (Luprops tristis) as an indoor pest in India. She has now successfully completed her PhD and the second paper arising from her project has just been...
by Thomas | Apr 20, 2026
I was invited as co-author by the very promising early-career researcher Alessandro Nota from the University of Turin (and Oxford University PgCert in Ecological Survey Techniques graduate) on paper focussing on a topic slightly deviating from my usual papers –...
by Thomas | Feb 4, 2026
I was fortunate to be invited by the first author, a talented early career researcher that I also collaborate with in other projects, on to this interesting paper to primarily conduct the statistical analysis. In this brief paper, we are able to show that images of...
by Thomas | Jun 9, 2025
I was fortunate to be invited to co-autor an overview paper written by a distinguished group of arachnologists lead by Prof Pedro Cardoso on the various (often overlooked) ecosystem services that spiders provided. As a reminder, ecosystem services are the benefits...
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