Entomologist. he/him. Ants, species interactions, conservation, metabarcoding; other exciting things! Currently working on army ant ecology in central Africa
Joined October 2016
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23 Jul 2025
How do non-native species fit into foodwebs? Our new paper in Ecology shows that native generalists (Scolopendra centipedes and Telfair's skinks) partition their diets with superabundant non-native ants, but also consume them!
📃 Available now 📃
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25 Feb 2025
Postdoc fellowship with me available to compete for to work on ant community ecology (and including field work in Taiwan) antscience.com/.../02/phdkli…
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6 Dec 2024
Great opportunity to work on ants (and beetles) with some wonderful scientists!
4 Dec 2024
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27 Nov 2024
🚨PHD OPPORTUNITY!🚨
Join us in Newcastle University to assess carabid beetle ecosystem services and foraging ecology, and develop new methods for inferring interactions between beetles and their food! 🪲🍽️💻
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7 Nov 2024
Read about our latest paper in @Oikos_Journal in this great article from @Rothamsted! 🕷️🧬🕸️🍽️ doi.org/10.1111/oik.10712
7 Nov 2024
Along came a spider🕷️ ...and very carefully chose what to eat. Seems the picky arachnids only plump for tasty prey 🪲🪰 that match their nutritional needs. Could we use this fussy eating to help control pests? @JordanCuff @ForagingEcology
Full story👇
rothamsted.ac.uk/news/spider…
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23 Oct 2024
This is one of the coolest papers I've been involved with thus far! It's often tricky to tease apart results in field systems like this but the team (led by the supreme @JordanCuff) did a fab job with some sophisticated new tools and analyses. Great to be a part of! 🧵below 👇
23 Oct 2024
📜🎉New paper in @Oikos_Journal🎉📜
Prey nutrient content is associated with the trophic interactions of spiders and their prey selection under field conditions
doi.org/10.1111/oik.10712
I'm super excited to see this out! Read about our exciting results in the thread below: 🧵👇
ALT Prey nutrient content is associated with the trophic interactions of spiders and their prey selection under field conditions
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14 Oct 2024
I had an absolutely wonderful time at @MasarykUni in Brno visiting Stano Pekár and giving a seminar to the Terrestrial Invertebrate Research Group! So many excellent conversations, incredible places and great science! I will definitely be back as soon as I can! 🇨🇿🕷️
ALT Atop the Minaret in Lednice park with Stano Pekár and his group
ALT Part of Masaryk University's very modern campus
ALT An excellent array of plants within Masaryk University's corridors
ALT Panoramic views from the top of the Minaret in Lednice park
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15 Oct 2024
🚨ANOTHER JOB ALERT!🚨
Love insect physiology and how it links to species coexistence in wild places? Come and work with me, @cjanion, @RebeccaASenior and @andrewbdavies at @UCT_news! 🐜🐜🐜❄️🔥
This is our second ant-facing postdoc funded by @HFSP.
Please share and apply!
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9 Oct 2024
🚨JOB ALERT🚨
Interested in how the microclimate mediates the coexistence of species rich insect communities?
Us too! Come and work @CUBiosciences with me, @andrewbdavies, @cjanion and @RebeccaASenior on our @HFSP funded project.
Full advert: bit.ly/CardiffAntJob
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26 Sep 2024
Our review on the dual role of ants as ecosystem engineers and providers of ecosystem services was published yesterday!
doi.org/10.25849/myrmecol.ne…
Together with it, you can read a short interview I gave to the Myrmecological News blog about the article:
blog.myrmecologicalnews.org/…
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22 Aug 2024
Double good news day: 2 more years of funding secured to research army ants 🐜 in Africa 🇬🇶, PLUS we completed a pilot Dorylus exclusion plot this week
Super excited… let’s see if it works🤞 🔍
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25 Jul 2024
More super cool scenes from Dorylus: vid 1 shows driver ants at their nest 10 mins before a raid and vid 2 was taken 2m ahead of the raid front later on
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16 Jul 2024
Epic scenes of Dorylus living up to the legends - great first couple of days in the field!
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7 Jun 2024
What's going on in our agricultural fields when we stop looking? 🤔🌾❓
A lot of biocontrol that current monitoring and research is overlooking! 🫨
Read about our review and proposal for year-round monitoring of biocontrol below!
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doi.org/10.1111/afe.12635
🎊NEW PAPER!🎊
Biomonitoring of biocontrol across the full annual cycle in temperate climates: Post‐harvest, winter and early‐season interaction data and methodological considerations for its collection
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Published in @AFEntomology
doi.org/10.1111/afe.12635
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Our last paper is out! Some red-necked #nightjars suffer bite attacks that cause mutilation of the feet and toes. The crime scene is located over 3,000 km apart, and a tropical #ant species turned out to be the main culprit!
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19 May 2024
A group of spider ants (Leptomyrmex sp.) hunting a poney ant (Rhytidoponera sp.). PNG 🇵🇬 2023.
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2 May 2024
This one's been been in the making for a long time. It was great to work with star ecologist @Julian_Resasco and rising star Anna Paraskevopoulos on it.
doi.org/10.1002/ecy.4302
#RobertGregg #GoBuffs
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8 Mar 2024
🐜🐜 INCREDIBLY EXCITED 🐜🐜 to announce that I'm joining @CIBIO_InBIO as a postdoc researching Dorylus driver ant/siafu ecology in the rainforests of Central Africa! Dreamy! Exciting! ARMY ANTS!
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Thrilled to see this published - together with @globalfinprint and @ERICTobagoWI, our #BRUVS work revealed unexpectedly high #shark diversity in Northeast Tobago. Further research needed to consolidate regional conservation and management opportunities - bit.ly/3uI7MXF
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