It furthers understanding of hunting behaviours and motivations in the Temburong district of Brunei Darussalam, how hunting trends may change over time, & how hunting may interact with infrastructure expansion.

Plain language summary: tinyurl.com/ykfp87en

#hunting #borneo #wildmeat #conservation

The first paper from my PhD thesis is out! "Hunting motivations, behaviour and forest access: Characterising wildlife hunting practices in a multi-ethnic, forested landscape of Brunei Darussalam, Southeast Asia" is now available online in People and Nature!

Link to paper: doi.org/10.1002/pan3...

Forgot to post here but I passed my viva on 4th June and am #phdone! From navigating international travel during the pandemic, to hiking through tropical rainforests, to data analysis back at my desk in Newcastle it's been a huge adventure. Thanks to my supervisors and everyone who supported me!

Our textbook chapter is out! I collaborated with an amazing team to pull this together - Prof Marion Pfeifer, Dr Rebekah Puttick and Dr @ldbraunholtz.bsky.social. Look out for our work on #biodiversity, function and change of the tropical rainforests of #Borneo in Terrestrial Biomes, out now 🌳

@aliceoswald.bsky.social's systematic map protocol is out! I assisted Alice with the screening stage after working on FCS at @naturalengland.bsky.social last year. Congrats Alice! 🎉

Great public talk by @mattywin.bsky.social at @newcastleuni.bsky.social tonight. Climate change with a side of early 2000s pop and Peppa Pig having fracking energy #scicomm #climatechange

Collaborated with some @newcastleuni.bsky.social colleagues on a book chapter about fieldwork in Brunei, and wrote a blog post about it - check it out here!:

from.ncl.ac.uk/under-the-ca...

The issue of BirdingAsia including our article is available to purchase and download: www.orientalbirdclub.org/birdingasia-41

And have shared our article on ResearchGate: tinyurl.com/3hsrt4vs

Happy reading!🐦📖
#scicomm #phdlife #phdchat #science #research #ecology

The Bornean ground cuckoo has a cool association with bearded pigs. The birds follow the pigs which upturn earth allowing the birds to better forage for invertebrates (image: Ulmar Grafe).

Fun fact: these birds have also been described as "unpalatable and smelly" 😅

This species had not been recorded in Temburong, my study region, since 1986! Local collaborators from Universiti Brunei Darussalam and I teamed up to write an article published in BirdingAsia summarising 14 new Bruneian records from 2020 - 2022, the first in the country since 2010.

✨Rare bird sighting✨ Finally talking about a cool finding from my fieldwork back in 2022! While I was aiming to record mammals in Brunei, I also captured some images of the very rare and elusive Bornean ground cuckoo (Carpococcyx radiceus).

#wildlife #birds #nature

Ain't no party like an ecology party cos an ecology party has a really chaotic ceilidh? #bes2024

Ft. video of some of my interesting findings... vimeo.com/1035178122?s...

Here's the full version for anyone who wants a look! Find out more about my PhD research camera trapping in Brunei, Borneo #phdchat #ecology #tropicalforest #cameratraps

Poster presentation at my first BES Annual Meeting done! #phdlife

Amazing walk-shop around Liverpool today at the @britishecolsoc.bsky.social Annual Meeting exploring ecology's roots in enslavement. So many places across the city with connections to slavery, and so many connections with natural history #liverpool #ecology #decolonisation

I'll be at @britishecolsoc.bsky.social in Liverpool next week presenting a poster - come say hi! #phdchat #phdlife

Hi, just moved over here from the other place (🐦) I'm in the final year of my PhD "Biodiversity responses to infrastructure expansion and hunting in Brunei Darussalam". This has been mainly working with camera trap data I collected in Brunei's rainforests in 2022.