Excited to share a PhD opportunity in my upcoming lab at The University of Sydney! Join an ARC-funded project on the ecology of ant invasions in 2026 🐜 🇦🇺 Live in Sydney, ant around Australia 🌍 Intl + Domestic applicants welcome markwongecology.com/join #PhD #Ecology #Biodiversity Pls share, thx 🙏

📰Published📰 When differences help – or hinder – coexistence: Functional insights from mangrove ants🐜 buff.ly/3UpczpI 🧪🌍

Do you like functional traits, competition, mesocosm experiments, ants and rigorous fieldwork in unusual tropical systems? Then you might like this new paper - the last from my DPhil at Oxford- in Functional Ecology: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Do you like functional traits, competition, mesocosm experiments, ants and rigorous fieldwork in unusual tropical systems? Then you might like this new paper - the last from my DPhil at Oxford- in Functional Ecology: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

New paper in #BiologicalConservation: Artificial light at night has surprisingly limited effects on ant communities in a field experiment💡🐜 Research by fantastic students I had the pleasure of supervising at UWA. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

#ClimateChange can exacerbate ant invasion impacts by unleashing indoor populations into outdoor environments doi.org/10.1111/ddi.... #invasivespecies #ants

With global warming, non-native ants currently confined to indoor environments (e.g. buildings, greenhouses) may march outdoors, impacting nature and society. Our new study: dx.doi.org/10.1111/ddi....

Latitude shapes diel patterns in insect biodiversity royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... | #BiologyLetters #Ecology #EnvironmentalScience

New paper in #BiologyLetters: preliminary evidence for a less appreciated latitudinal biodiversity gradient – in how communities partition time⌛️🌞🌔 royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... @royalsocietypublishing.org

New preprint: Ant Diversity and Foraging Across the Diel Cycle is Unaltered by Experimental Exposure to Artificial Light at Night papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

NEW PAPER, JUST OUT! 👀 Insects from the '70s and '80s were already collecting microplastic, decades before the term microplastic even existed. 🤯 A thread on the surprising history of this pollutant and the incredible insect larvae that helped us uncover it. 🐛 Let's dive in! 🧵👇 1/x

New preprint: Functional traits drive the competitive assembly of mangrove ant communities and influence colony performance in competition mesocosms ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v... A fun study in a unique ecosystem that never made it to my DPhil thesis but is finally(!) written up

It happens frequently. conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

4/ 🧩 Fig. 1: Human Pressure > Climate & Geography Our first key finding: Human pressure (as in human footprint) outweighs climate and geography, being responsible for 21.5% of species turnover and 20.6% of trait turnover. Human activity reshapes biodiversity far beyond natural gradients. 🏙️🌾🌍

Check out our new preprint: Human pressure homogenises #species and #traits globally

Hello friends old and new, I’m an #ecologist and #entomologist interested in #traits and #invasions and #community and #macroecology. I have an inordinate fondness for #ants, the movers and shakers of ecosystems. Looking forward to connecting! 🌤️