Postdoc at @michiganstateu working on insect pest management, pollination and carrion ecology | Entomologist
Joined July 2019
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3 Dec 2021
What better way to finish the week then submitting my PhD thesis and having a few drinks to celebrate 🥳
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21 Feb 2025
Can non-floral resources on farms enhance pollinator diversity and abundance, and does this lead to increased yield? In our new paper, we experimentally test this idea with a focus on fly biodiversity
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3 Feb 2025
It's easy to assume that any insect visiting a flower is a pollinator. But not all visitors are effective pollinators, even if you successfully attract large numbers into fields. @Bio_blake does a great job showing this in his new paper below: 🪰
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13 Jan 2025
Happy to announce that today I have started a new position as a postdoctoral research associate at Michigan State University. Looking forward to working on insect IPM and climate change, though it might take me a while to get use to this cold ❄️
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25 Feb 2024
New paper out! Does the culling of large herbivores have any indirect impacts on other species? Yes, we found ground-dwelling beetle populations were negatively impacted after the culling of sika deer on Nakajima Island in Japan.
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7 Feb 2024
I'm excited to share that I published a first version of my Statistics 4 Ecologists book with University of Minnesota Libraries Publishing. You can now download a (FREE) pdf version of the book here:
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26 Jul 2023
New paper out! We discuss the need for a multidisciplinary approach to postmortem interval research, and introduce a new conceptual framework that highlights the multiple interdependencies affecting decomposition.
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25 May 2023
Our new paper on crop-pollinating flies has been published! We reviewed 431 fly species found globally & compiled their diets and habitat needs into a freely-accessible database. @ESAApplications
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12 Feb 2023
New paper! Invertebrates are the backbone of rainforest ecosystems. But how genetically diverse are their populations? link.springer.com/article/10…
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15 Dec 2022
What is an ephemeral resource patch? How do their dynamics drive evolution and shape ecosystems? We discuss these questions in our new review! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
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6 Aug 2022
Captured some nat geo level footage of Green Tree Ants (Oecophylla smaragdina) creating an ant bridge at Wooroonooran National Park, very cool behavior!
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12 May 2022
Final PhD chapter has just been published! We compared different decomposition metrics on pig and human cadavers. We also devised a unique method to measure mass loss by using a converted scaffold unit. bit.ly/3l3GgeJ
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3 May 2022
New research out! We explored how coexistence is achieved between two blowfly species, Chrysomya rufifacies and Calliphora stygia. We found coexistence was dependent on priority effects and larval densities @Butterworthbugs bit.ly/3MP8oOv
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3 May 2022
Ch. rufifacies are hairy maggots that often act as facultative predators. Watch as a small mass of Ch. rufifacies maggots feed upon a smooth C. stygia maggot.
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29 Apr 2022
New paper out! I’m very excited about this publication, it’s been a long time coming. We investigated the sublethal impact of two commonly used #pesticides on #CentralBeardedDragons.(1/2) @UOW_CSES @uowresearch @frenchkris007 #newresearch #ecotoxicology #lizards #ecology #phdchat
28 Apr 2022
New in #ConPhys!
Sublethal pesticide exposure influences behaviour, but not condition in a widespread Australian lizard
Read more here: academic.oup.com/conphys/art…
#pesticide #lizard #ecotox
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16 Mar 2022
New paper out! We investigated the relationship between insect abundance patterns and carrion resource quality. Our findings show how resource quality may drive competition and variation in carrion insect community succession.
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25 Nov 2021
Calliphora pryori - a stunning new species of "golden blowfly" from Australia described by @nature_nik and James Wallman! This carrion-breeding fly is found only in South Australia and Victoria. bit.ly/3nSjXLf #EntoTwitter #FlyFriday
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12 Oct 2021
New paper out! These three Australian #flies have taken sexual selection to the extreme! Females fight males, males fight each other, and they perform totally unique courtship dances: bit.ly/3auRVOE
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27 Sep 2021
1/3 Excited to announce a Monograph I have been working on for the last 4 years is now published. This paper revises the entire Aussie Protomiltogramma, describes eight species new to science and provides a detailed key for their identification.
24 Sep 2021
Monograph Integrative taxonomy reveals remarkable diversity in Australian Protomiltogramma (#Diptera: Sarcophagidae) was published today.
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