On his last day as a postdoc before officially starting his Newcastle University Academic Track Fellowship through which FERG is being established, Jordan was shortlisted for the Impact for Postdoc Careers Award! He was nominated for his work in establishing the researcher network, a network for representing, connecting and supporting postdocs and other researchers acrossContinueContinue reading “Jordan shortlisted for national postdoc award”
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New preprint: Sources of prey availability data alter interpretation of outputs from prey choice null networks
Check out the new preprint led by Jordan: Sources of prey availability data alter interpretation of outputs from prey choice null networks! This is also FERG-co-supervised PhD student Ben Hawthorne’s first time authoring a publication! Massive congrats, Ben! Look out for the full paper in the coming weeks/months!
Open Research Award for Jordan and FERG!
Jordan was awarded the 2023 Newcastle University Open Research Award!
NEW PAPER: Temporal variation in spider trophic interactions is explained by the influence of weather on prey communities, web building and prey choice
This new paper uses multivariate analysis and null network models to investigate how weather impacts the prey communities, diet, foraging choices and web structures of spiders in cereal crops, and how these data could be used to inform predictive models.
Primer time: a rollercoaster ride through metabarcoding PCR primer design
This was originally posted on Biocoenosis, a blog jointly run by Jordan and FERG collaborator Max Tercel. If you want a short synopsis on metabarcoding (and dietary metabarcoding more specifically), plough on, but if you’re here for some tips and tricks, scroll down to the PCR primer design subheading. Now more than ever, PCR hasContinueContinue reading “Primer time: a rollercoaster ride through metabarcoding PCR primer design”
Foraging Ecology Research Group 