Behavioural Entomologist and Insect husbandry specialist. Now working to develop the production of sustainable proteins from Insects. 🦗🪰🪲 He/Him
Exeter, England
Joined April 2009
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Did you know that prejudice towards the #LGBTQ+ community has negatively impacted our scientific understanding of the natural world?
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234 votes • Final resultsI am actually desperate to get my hands on a LEGO Gryllus model 🦗🤩
A tad late for #InverteFest, but I submitted a set of my arthropod Lego designs to @LEGOIdeas!
My set idea "Arthropod Model Organisms" features models for a fruit fly, amphipod crustacean, red flour beetle, and two-spotted cricket.
Vote here:
ideas.lego.com/s/p:c629ad445…
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Join us for our annual #Orthoptera Special Interest Group meeting
This will be a #hybrid #event @NHM_London and livestreamed #online
Members & Fellows can attend for #free, but can purchase a ticket to attend the evening buffet in-person.
Register here:
royensoc.co.uk/event/orthopt…
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The @RoyEntSoc's annual grasshopper and cricket meeting heads back to the @NHM_London this year - we're still looking for speakers, so please do get in touch if you'd like to present your recent work! If you'd just like to come along, then sign up here:
royensoc.co.uk/event/orthopt…
Yesterday I sent off a review for a manuscript that I had been invited to review about 24 hours previously 🥳. This is a height of academic proficiency that I'll likely never surpass 😅
Wishing all my family, friends and followers the best of starts to 2022🥳. I hope this year brings you lots of joy and prosperity😄
Getting my first non-PhD manuscript published is a lovely way to end the year🎄🎁! Check it out here (it's still all about crickets I'm not sorry to say 🦗)
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Come research with us!! We are recruiting a funded PhD researcher to work on understanding how microplastics in the air we breathe could be a threat to human health. Deadline 25th April: aru.ac.uk/research/postgradu…
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Early Career Investigators Meeting discussing collaborations. Join us on Thursday 08.04.2021 09:00-11:00 UTC organized by Rachel Farrow contact her @eatharla for more info and link @COST_Academy @aedescost @cabbageleek @TricaricoElena @peterbrownbarra @UKLadybirds @Calvia14
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#Kangaskhan, Australia’s only endemic #Pokémon, is commonly poached in its natural habitat. Here, @danlwarren et al. use species distribution modeling algorithms to predict how climate change and other human-induced pressures will impact its distribution: bit.ly/3wgYxtx
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Introducing your new starter Pokémon. 🔥⚡
We've worked with @EcoEvo_ANU and ColeopSoc to review and describe three new species of Binburrum. They've been named after three birds - Articuno, Moltres and Zapdos.
#CSIROCollections
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ALT An infographic showing three Pokemon against three beetles
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Courtship in a noisy environment! Male Mediterranean field crickets adjust their courtship behavior in white noise, but not traffic noise. New research by Adam M. Bent (@Bentycakes), Thomas C. Ings, and Sophie L. Mowles
Find out more here -> doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.20…
Fresh off the press: Our latest article in @BehavEcol shows how anthropogenic noise can disrupt mate choice decisions in an acoustically signallinng insect 😱
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1.Anthropogenic noise can have deleterious consequences to species that use acoustic signals. Animals that can’t detect, recognise or understand a signal may respond maladaptively. Does this happen when animals use acoustics in intraspecific aggressive contests? #AnimBehav2021
5.Despite our previous findings, we found no behavioural differences between noise conditions. Dominance was established using a victory song equally among the noise conditions, and males did not alter their level of aggression or change aspects of their song. #AnimBehav2021
6. Why is this song not affected by noise? It may be due to signal function (does it actually establish dominance?), multi-modal signalling (are the tactile behaviours more important?) or signal-to-noise ratio (it’s louder than the other songs).
Thanks for coming! #AnimBehav2021