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 | 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...
by Thomas | Aug 23, 2022
At the beginning of August, I spend a week on Madeira doing field work. Madeira is a relatively small isolated oceanic island in the North Atlantic, 400 km north of the Canary Islands, with a subtropical climate. It was an amazing place to do field work with a large...
by Thomas | May 23, 2022
I have recently started a new collaboration with Dr Mhairi Alexander from the University of the West of Scotland and her student, Kieran Boyd, on the beneficial role of orb spiders in UK farmland. In this context, I was invited to contribute to an ASAB (Association...
by Thomas | Apr 9, 2022
I have had the great fortune of supervising the talented young scientist Mollie Davies for her undergraduate project at Oxford Brookes University. Part of this project has now been published in the open access journal Insects. In the study, we looked who different...
by Thomas | Apr 5, 2022
I have been fortunate to be awarded a small Royal Society International Exchanges grant together with my Panamanian collaborator, Dr Dumas Galvez, from the University of Panama. The research project build on work I did during my postdoc at the Smithsonian Tropical...
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