Max Tercel’s visit from Cibio, Portugal!

We had the immense pleasure of hosting long-term FERG collaborator Max Tercel here in Newcastle! Max came to visit for EcoNet (which you can read all about in our recent post, including Max's help running the molecular workshop) and Ento 2025 in Glasgow. Jordan and Max have worked closely together for most of their careersContinue reading "Max Tercel’s visit from Cibio, Portugal!"

FERG joined NEG in hosting EcoNet 2025!

Following the last Symposium on Ecological Networks (EcoNet) in Israel in 2023 (which was the topic of one of our first blog posts), Darren Evans of the Network Ecology Group (NEG) was approached to host the next EcoNet. Darren asked Jordan, Katherine Baldock of Northumbria University, Madeleine Fabusova from NEG and Shai Pilosof from theContinue reading "FERG joined NEG in hosting EcoNet 2025!"

FERG News September 2025

Another month of fieldwork and fun here in FERG! Alongside all of the various field experiments well under way, we've had some exciting adventures to conferences and courses, some new articles and protocols, and even a new (non-human) member of the group! New FERGers Welcome to our new trusty fieldwork trolley, Selina Go-mez! She's beenContinue reading "FERG News September 2025"

Jordan awarded RES Alfred Russel Wallace Award

Jordan has been awarded the Royal Entomological Society's Alfred Russel Wallace Award for his PhD thesis, submitted in 2020! The award is for post-graduates who have been awarded a PhD, and whose work is considered by their supervisory team to be outstanding. The research involved should be a significant contribution to the science of entomology. TheContinue reading "Jordan awarded RES Alfred Russel Wallace Award"

Check out Jordan’s talk about nutritional networks for entoLIVE on YouTube!

Jordan recently gave a talk for entoLIVE about recent and ongoing FERG research focused on nutritional networks, including some hot-off-the-press results for a couple of upcoming publications, and some fun new analogies for prey choice and network robustness. If you're devastated that you missed it, fear not - it's been immortalised on YouTube! Check outContinue reading "Check out Jordan’s talk about nutritional networks for entoLIVE on YouTube!"

Check out Ainsley’s new article out in The Conversation!

Ainsley has co-authored an article just out in The Conversation! Check it out here: The UK is losing its small fishing boats – and the communities they support The UK has a long history of small-scale fishing boats that support local fish markets, communities, economies and a rich cultural heritage, but these are disappearing. Whilst theseContinue reading "Check out Ainsley’s new article out in The Conversation!"

New preprint: Ecoacoustics for context-rich direct and indirect trophic interaction data and ecological network construction

Check out this new preprint that Will led alongside his PhD supervisory team across Newcastle University, Fera Science Ltd and Nottingham Trent University! Ecoacoustics can be used to monitor biodiversity across massive spatiotemporal scales, including in ecologically cryptic systems like soil, yet its application to the detection and characterisation of predator-prey interactions remains poorly developed.Continue reading "New preprint: Ecoacoustics for context-rich direct and indirect trophic interaction data and ecological network construction"

NEW PAPER: Threatened endemic arthropods and vertebrates partition their diets with non-native ants in an isolated island ecosystem

Check out this new paper led by long-term FERG collaborator Max Tercel, which Jordan contributed to: Threatened endemic arthropods and vertebrates partition their diets with non-native ants in an isolated island ecosystem Invasive species are among the greatest threats to biodiversity in the 21st century, and ants are among the most ecologically damaging. In thisContinue reading "NEW PAPER: Threatened endemic arthropods and vertebrates partition their diets with non-native ants in an isolated island ecosystem"

Rosy published in the British Arachnological Society Newsletter!

Following a successful start to Rosy's 'Spider Spies' project (which you can read all about here), she has published an article all about it in the British Arachnological Society Newsletter! The article describes these wonderful spiders, why Rosy is looking to collect them and any records of them, and what Rosy's wider work on themContinue reading "Rosy published in the British Arachnological Society Newsletter!"