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Insect Ecology Group @InsectGroup

Insect Ecology Group @CamZoology @Cambridge_Uni. We study invertebrate diversity in the UK @ZoologyMuseum 🦋🐛 & in oil palm plantations @BEFTAprogramme 🐜🕷🌴

Joined February 2020
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New work from the SOPWA Project, which Michael worked on as a research fellow in our group (now @LukeFinland) explains below:
Michael Pashkevich@MDPashkevich
16 Dec 2024
Our newest publication from the Sustainable Oil Palm in West Africa (SOPWA) Project: focused on plants, led by Cicely Marshall, and available open access now from @plantspplplanet: doi.org/10.1002/ppp3.10621
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Michael Pashkevich@MDPashkevich
9 Jun 2024
🚨New paper - Oil palm🌴, spiders🕷️, Liberia🇱🇷 We assessed how traditional and industrial approaches to oil palm cultivation affect spider biodiversity, web-building, and prey capture (Liberia). #spider #oilpalm #tropical #conservation #Liberia sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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New publication with authors including Insect Group researchers, and focussed on oil palm cultivation in Africa. Give it a read!
Michael Pashkevich@MDPashkevich
6 Apr 2024
Our new paper is out! 🚨 We systematically mapped research on oil palm in Africa and present the Sustainable Oil Palm in West Africa (SOPWA) Project: a large-scale field-based study occurring in Liberia. sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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Michael Pashkevich@MDPashkevich
6 Apr 2024
Our new paper is out! 🚨 We systematically mapped research on oil palm in Africa and present the Sustainable Oil Palm in West Africa (SOPWA) Project: a large-scale field-based study occurring in Liberia. sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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Congrats, Jonny, on a superb piece of work! We look forward to continuing to collaborate and seeing all you do next during your PhD @LivUni!
Michael Pashkevich@MDPashkevich
11 Nov 2023
Huge congratulations to my @InsectGroup student @jonny_timperley who successfully passed his viva yesterday! Jonny's MPhil thesis provided first insights into how oil palm cultivation in #Liberia affects arthropods and their ecosystem functions. @CamZoology @JesusCollegeCam
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Martina F. Harianja@martina_zoo
28 Oct 2023
My PhD thesis is out and it is open access!! 👇 doi.org/10.17863/CAM.102030 Thanks to @EdgarCTurner and @SarahHLuke (my supervisors), and @InsectGroup! 🥳
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Michael Pashkevich@MDPashkevich
3 Aug 2023
New blog post on the @CambridgeAfrica website by @benedictusfree1 and me, outlining our palm oil-related project in Liberia. Many thanks to Cambridge-Africa for supporting our collab. research over the last year! shorturl.at/ahiBO

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Michael Pashkevich@MDPashkevich
7 Jul 2023
We are recruiting for our Professorship in Conservation Biology @CamZoology - most prestigious position in conservation @Cambridge_Uni. Further details here, and please circulate. It's an international call - jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/41785/ Get in touch with any questions!
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Ellie Bladon@Eleanor_Bladon
24 May 2023
A wonderfully busy day volunteering at @RoyEntSoc’s stunning #RESGarden at #RHSChelsea, chatting to gardeners about how we can make outdoor spaces a haven for insects. You can now show the garden some love by voting for it in the People’s Choice Award: bbc.co.uk/programmes/article…
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Andrew Bladon@Andrew_Bladon
24 May 2023
Fantastic day @The_RHS #ChelseaFlowerShow on @RoyEntSoc garden, enthusing about #insects & #Entomology Vote for the garden in the People’s Choice Awards: bbc.co.uk/programmes/article…
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Light evenings only mean one thing—the return of @wildlifebcn Cambridge Local Group summer events!💫 Join us at 9pm on Mon 29th May for a guided bat walk at Byron's Pool 🦇 Meet in the car park: cambridge.gov.uk/byrons-pool… No booking needed, but any donations go to @wildlifebcn

Byron’s Pool local nature reserve

A densely wooded area on the north bank of the River Cam.

cambridge.gov.uk
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Royal Entomological Society@RoyEntSoc
11 Apr 2023
Did you miss the #VerrallLecture23 with @EdgarCTurner on managing #tropical #ecosystems for #insect #biodiversity? Now you can catch up on YouTube: youtu.be/On3NqKzxFyw Read more about the #VerrallLecture: royensoc.co.uk/event/verrall… #Entomology #Science #Lecture #Research
Dr Edgar Turner holding the President Medal from Professor Jane Hill, current President of RES

ALT Dr Edgar Turner holding the President Medal from Professor Jane Hill, current President of RES
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Caren Queiroz@Carencomc_
28 Mar 2023
First day of #SCCS2023, and it feels a whole week has passed! Such amazing delegates, plenaries, talks, posters... also the most diverse conference I ever attended!! (I promise I'll take better pics tomorrow) @CamZoology @CCI_Cambridge
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Tom Jameson@TomJameson_Zoo
28 Mar 2023
Excited to be presenting at #SCCS2023 tomorrow. Looking forward to talking about #reptiles #rewilding and the Marna Banggara Project @sccsbng.
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Dept of Zoology@CamZoology
16 Mar 2023
Are wildlife documentaries showing us the ‘real’ natural world? recent paper in People and Nature led by @k_howlett @EdgarCTurner doi.org/10.1002/pan3.10431 cam.ac.uk/stories/are-wildli…

Wildlife documentaries present a diverse, but biased, portrayal of the natural world

Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.

besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
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For our March blog post, MPhil student @jonny_timperley tells us all about his research in Liberian oil palm plantations with @MDPashkevich and about what brought him here. Read here: zoo.cam.ac.uk/research/group…
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Cambridge University
@Cambridge_Uni
15 Mar 2023
Are wildlife documentaries too focused on mammals and birds? 🐘🐦 New @CamZoology research has found that nature documentaries are portraying a biased view of the natural world, and invertebrates aren't getting enough attention... @k_howlett @NERCscience cam.ac.uk/stories/are-wildli…

Knowing your ants from your anteaters

Wildlife documentaries miss an opportunity to highlight the diversity of nature by focusing too much on mammals and birds, according to a new study.

cam.ac.uk
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Royal Entomological Society@RoyEntSoc
15 Mar 2023
Did you miss the #VerrallLecture23 with @EdgarCTurner on managing #tropical #ecosystems for #insect #biodiversity? Now you can catch up on YouTube: youtu.be/On3NqKzxFyw Read more about the #VerrallLecture: royensoc.co.uk/event/verrall… #Entomology #Science #Lecture #Research
Dr Edgar Turner holding the President Medal from Professor Jane Hill, current President of RES

ALT Dr Edgar Turner holding the President Medal from Professor Jane Hill, current President of RES
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Lynn Dicks@LynnDicks
4 Mar 2023
Paid internships this summer. Super chance to gain ecological field experience with experts, including #bee sampling with us @CamZoology Apply before 9am, 27 March Pls RT @BES_careers @ReedEcolNet @RoyEntSoc @UKLadybirds @EntoMasters @ueaceec @BumblebeeTrust @Buzz_dont_tweet
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Watch this space for a Q&A with @Becky_Heath to hear about her upcoming work on riparian buffers @BEFTAprogramme!
Becky Heath@Becky_Heath
3 Mar 2023
Wrapped up my first month in the @InsectGroup at @ZoologyMuseum looking at 100 year old dead things! So excited to get back into working on sustainability in oil palm (and hopefully some sneaky acoustics too!)
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