New preprint! Courtship choreography is stabilised among genetically isolated populations Check out the mesmerising courtship display of Apotropina ornatipennis (Diptera: Chloropidae) doi.org/10.1101/2025... with @bioblake.bsky.social, @angmcgaughran.bsky.social, @thekeithing.bsky.social, et al

RESEARCH ARTICLE 🔬 „Overall, we have shown there are potential #biodiversity benefits in adding non-floral resources to localised #crop landscapes as #flies were able to utilise the resources for #larval development“ - Dawson et al. (2025) @bioblake.bsky.social Article: doi.org/10.1016/j.ba...

Can non-floral resources on farms enhance pollinator diversity and abundance, and does this lead to increased yield? In our new paper, we experimentally test this idea with a focus on fly biodiversity www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Happy to announce that today I have started a new position as a postdoctoral research associate at Michigan State University. Looking forward to working on insect IPM and climate change, though it might take me a while to get use to this cold ❄️

New paper out led by PhD student Donna McIntyre. She did a great job investigating the role of insects and microbes during carrion decomposition, finding that the exclusion of both microbes and insects significantly slowed decomposition shorturl.at/02OXL