Max Tercel

How do non-native species fit into foodwebs? Our new paper in Ecology shows that native generalists (Scolopendra centipedes and Telfair's skinks) partition their diets with superabundant non-native ants, but also consume them! 📃 Available now 📃 🐜👀 esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ec…

Postdoc fellowship with me available to compete for to work on ant community ecology (and including field work in Taiwan) antscience.com/.../02/phdklim…

Great opportunity to work on ants (and beetles) with some wonderful scientists!

🚨PHD OPPORTUNITY!🚨 Join us in Newcastle University to assess carabid beetle ecosystem services and foraging ecology, and develop new methods for inferring interactions between beetles and their food! 🪲🍽️💻 iapetus2.ac.uk/studentships/a…

Read about our latest paper in @Oikos_Journal in this great article from @Rothamsted! 🕷️🧬🕸️🍽️ doi.org/10.1111/oik.10…

This is one of the coolest papers I've been involved with thus far! It's often tricky to tease apart results in field systems like this but the team (led by the supreme @JordanCuff) did a fab job with some sophisticated new tools and analyses. Great to be a part of! 🧵below 👇

I had an absolutely wonderful time at @MasarykUni in Brno visiting Stano Pekár and giving a seminar to the Terrestrial Invertebrate Research Group! So many excellent conversations, incredible places and great science! I will definitely be back as soon as I can! 🇨🇿🕷️

🚨ANOTHER JOB ALERT!🚨 Love insect physiology and how it links to species coexistence in wild places? Come and work with me, @cjanion, @RebeccaASenior and @andrewbdavies at @UCT_news! 🐜🐜🐜❄️🔥 This is our second ant-facing postdoc funded by @HFSP. Please share and apply!

🚨JOB ALERT🚨 Interested in how the microclimate mediates the coexistence of species rich insect communities? Us too! Come and work @CUBiosciences with me, @andrewbdavies, @cjanion and @RebeccaASenior on our @HFSP funded project. Full advert: bit.ly/CardiffAntJob

Our review on the dual role of ants as ecosystem engineers and providers of ecosystem services was published yesterday! doi.org/10.25849/myrme… Together with it, you can read a short interview I gave to the Myrmecological News blog about the article: blog.myrmecologicalnews.org/2024/09/24/ant…

Double good news day: 2 more years of funding secured to research army ants 🐜 in Africa 🇬🇶, PLUS we completed a pilot Dorylus exclusion plot this week Super excited… let’s see if it works🤞 🔍

More super cool scenes from Dorylus: vid 1 shows driver ants at their nest 10 mins before a raid and vid 2 was taken 2m ahead of the raid front later on

Epic scenes of Dorylus living up to the legends - great first couple of days in the field!

What's going on in our agricultural fields when we stop looking? 🤔🌾❓ A lot of biocontrol that current monitoring and research is overlooking! 🫨 Read about our review and proposal for year-round monitoring of biocontrol below! 🧵 doi.org/10.1111/afe.12…

Our last paper is out! Some red-necked #nightjars suffer bite attacks that cause mutilation of the feet and toes. The crime scene is located over 3,000 km apart, and a tropical #ant species turned out to be the main culprit! ℹ️onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…

A group of spider ants (Leptomyrmex sp.) hunting a poney ant (Rhytidoponera sp.). PNG 🇵🇬 2023.

@BenSJHawthorne @AFEntomology Huge congrats on a truly excellent first first-author paper Ben!!

This one's been been in the making for a long time. It was great to work with star ecologist @Julian_Resasco and rising star Anna Paraskevopoulos on it. doi.org/10.1002/ecy.43… #RobertGregg #GoBuffs

@JCTrager @CIBIO_InBIO Thanks James! It feels a little surreal - it’s been a dream of mine to study driver ants for a long time. Very very excited.

@MaximumInsect @CIBIO_InBIO This is exciting, and I think must be to all myrmecologists. I'm sure there is yet so much to learn about these wonderful and frankly a bit daunting creatures.

🐜🐜 INCREDIBLY EXCITED 🐜🐜 to announce that I'm joining @CIBIO_InBIO as a postdoc researching Dorylus driver ant/siafu ecology in the rainforests of Central Africa! Dreamy! Exciting! ARMY ANTS!

@mafalda_b_costa @CIBIO_InBIO Yep! Moving there in May (or at least visiting for a while)

@MaximumInsect @CIBIO_InBIO Will you be spending some time in Portugal as well?