Soil biodiversity and ecology: especially termites, ants, earthworms, and beetles. Particularly experimental manipulations of ecosystem engineers.

Joined October 2010
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This my last post on twitter. I have moved to Bluesky, with the same handle, red-termite
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New paper showing the difficulty of estimating termite methane fluxes, led by @Stephanie_JLaw
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In global change biology
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I’m really proud to share that our paper on the diversity of social complexity in termites has been published!!!
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Who the hell drinks wine by the pint anyhow? No one. No living person does this.
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SUPER COOL PhD advert! Ants🐜, mountains⛰️, 4x4🚗, insect personality🎭, all @cardiffuni🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿. Co-supervised by me, @HanMGriffiths, @red_termite, and Prof Robertson @UPTuks. Please share widely / get in touch! Details: bishoptraitslab.com/opportun…
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New paper from our New Forest work. Burning isn't always for the best besjournals.onlinelibrary.wi…

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Replying to @FunkyAnt
@FxJoly
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We are hiring a three year postdoc to understand tropical insect dynamics through time. Please share! louiseashton.net/newsandupda…
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Today we've welcomed the first of our visiting lecturers, Paul Eggleton of the @NHM_London, talking to the group about all things #dictyoptera
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This week I had an email from someone I didn't know asking me to look at their paper as "we need you to paraphrase it to decline similarity"
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I came across this in a paper ). "A fail-safe number (2480461) was estimated by the Rosenthal Approach, which was larger than 5 k 10 (k means no. of observations), supporting a dataset without publication bias."
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with this in mind I would like to challenge people to get this truly meaningless sentence into a published paper: To test for Frangibility we used Prewitt’s Test of Smudginess
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I was wondering how many apparently meaningless sentences got through the technical parts of papers?
I had no idea what it meant...