Our huge tropical-temperate aquatic-terrestrial isotope comparison study is out in @Ecology_Letters. This was a massive piece of work and one which I am super proud of, and which deserves a quick summary thread: 1/5 Paper is open-acces here - https://t.co/m2u7xkLKoW

Nice to be back at QM for a day dressed as Henry VIII

Exciting ⁦@QM_SBBS⁩ Doctor of Philosophy graduation yesterday. Wonderful to celebrate with ⁦@LNMNash⁩ and his family! Very proud of your achievements, Liam!!

Really honoured to accept the bronze Brian Moss Student Award for one of my papers. Thank you to all my collaborators and to @SILcongress for the opportunity to present, come back to Brazil, and for an amazing week. You can check out the research here: https://t.co/bBQwwkXm17.

"Diversity both in biology and research critical for freshwater system survival" - great kick off to #SIL2024! Very excited to be back in Iguaçu for the 37th #SILCongress - check out my Brian Moss Student Award talk on Thursday for all things emerging insects 🦟🪰🦟 @SILcongress

Are you interested in stable isotope analysis, arthropods🐛🕷️🐞, tropical & temperate streams, and fluxes across ecosystems? So you may want to read this piece brilliantly led by @LNMNash. https://t.co/la1vhNTi5W. @CaroRecaldeRuiz, @KratinaLab and team

You can see a nice write-up of the article by @QMULSciEng here:

Huge thanks to all my coauthors and collaborators: @KratinaLab @gqromero @CaroRecaldeRuiz and the rest of all the teams! This work would absolutely not have been possible without everyone from the field, lab and office!!! 5/5

We suggests tropical riparian biodiversity is more vulnerable to aquatic-terrestrial link disruption. At a time when they are under particular threat – e.g. tropical freshwaters most threatened globally / Brazil diluting its riparian buffer zone policies in the last decade... 4/5

Main takeaway: Major diffs in aquatic prey use and trophic structure in tropical vs temperate terrestrial predators w. tropical predators more reliant and impacted by aquatic prey Exception: I (temperate) was particularly impacted by tropical aquatic insects (see pic 4)... 3/5

This was a big dataset, and one which took the bulk of my PhD’s time... My posture after measuring stable isotope signatures of >6000 inverts (focussed on predators, mostly spiders, collected along transects from 48 streams in Brazilian rainforests and British woodlands): (2/5)

Thrilled to see my second PhD chapter published today in @Ecology_Letters 🎊 See the thread below for a little write-up of the piece by @QMULSciEng

How important are aquatic insects to #TropicalForests? New research published in @Ecology_Letters by Dr Pavel Katrina and @LNMNash has found that tropical forest ecosystems are more reliant on aquatic insects than temperate forest ones.

Yesterday, I passed my viva! Huge thanks to my examiners @FilipeEco and @EdgarCTurner - it was a pleasure. And of course to @KratinaLab, @gqromero and everyone else in the UK and Brazil, without which this journey would not have been possible🥹

For anyone who missed my entoLIVE webinar, its now up on youtube! Part of an excellently ran series of talks by @KeironDBrown - check it out for an accessible overview of my PhD and other fun facts about insect emergence - hopefully I can convince you midges are pretty cool 🦟~

It is time for the jellyfish talk! Amy Pilsbury, who runs the national jellyfish survey at the Marine Conservation Society, takes a deeper dive into these weird and wonderful marine invertebrates. Subscribe to our YouTube channel for more talks! https://t.co/APjuUJVGDb

Last two days to apply for this cool PhD project with @KorichevaLab and our lab 👇

A super cool study led by @LNMNash with the participation of a fantastic team composed of @KratinaLab, @gqromero, Lucas, and myself! We did a global synthesis of latitudinal aquatic insect emergence trends in @GEB_macro! See an excellent summary of our study on @LNMNash Twitter!

Have you ever wondered how freshwater insect emergence 🦟changes across latitude and what is the role of climate☀️🌧️? Check out this new global meta-analysis by brilliant @LNMNash, with @pabloantiqueira, @tigerfoodman, @gqromero, Lucas Zorzetti. Thanks to @royalsociety; @QM_SBBS

6/5 Bonus plug for a free webinar which I will be giving on July 24th for all things emerging aquatic insects! Organised as part of the EntoLive series by @KeironDBrown with @BritEntSoc @RoyEntSoc: