Mary E. Fuller pioneered the field of carrion ecology. Her work was cited by Charles Elton in 1966 (The Pattern of Animal Communities) as "the only full-dress account of the whole community in natural carrion and its stages of succession".

🆕 in "Ecology": Who spreads more disease - males or females? At least in water fleas, it depends on temperature 📄The sicker sex is plastic: Thermal plasticity determines sex biases in pathogen transmission doi.org/10.1002/ecy....

Field season wrapped for 2025! 🐌🪰🎉

A bugs-eye view from the forest floor 🪰🐌 Currently collecting across South East New South Wales to assess hotspots of invertebrate endemism! @heloisegibb.bsky.social @paigematheson.bsky.social

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

"The house fly is a migrant, and it appears to suffer from an incurable case of wanderlust. The fly is born in a mass of filth, being, according to one philosopher, the resurrection, the reincarnation of man's own dirt and carelessness" - Murvosh & Thaggard 1966 Ann Ento Soc Am. Photo by M. Bertone

Excited to have this one published! Carrion-breeding flies of Australia and New Zealand: A review and key to adults. We summarise over a century of information on the ecology and physiology of the many beautiful carrion flies 🪰 An enormous effort led by Nikolas Johnston doi.org/10.1111/aen....

I'm Nathan - I research and photograph bugs. To start my bluesky account, here is a cool fly I found from Raglan, New Zealand. 🦟

One of the #strangerthings find in the Upside Down, whoops I mean #DownUnder is the Western Clawless Upside-down fly - Nothoasteia clausa. Always facing down, they dart around inside Xanthorrhoea grass trees. I'm looking forward to exploring the mystery of their relationships to other #Diptera

A dream comes true! In Feb'25, I will join @MonashUni as a group leader on Global Change Biology. Our lab's primary focus will be understanding how animals respond to global change using heterogeneous data and developing an efficient conservation plan to mitigate the impact. (1/3)