Max Tercel

Entomologist. he/him. Ants, species interactions, conservation, metabarcoding; other exciting things! Currently working on army ant ecology in central Africa

[Max Tercel @MaximumInsect]

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 📃

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https://t.co/h4ssUGv4yR

[Ant Research CB @antscience]

Postdoc fellowship with me available to compete for to work on ant community ecology (and including field work in Taiwan) https://t.co/1MNMDogE7V

[Max Tercel @MaximumInsect]

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

[Jordan Cuff 🕸️🧬🕷️ @JordanCuff]

🚨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! 🪲🍽️💻

https://t.co/PgIbsg64dU

[Jordan Cuff 🕸️🧬🕷️ @JordanCuff]

Read about our latest paper in @Oikos_Journal in this great article from @Rothamsted! 🕷️🧬🕸️🍽️ https://t.co/Uttu83U5zC

[Max Tercel @MaximumInsect]

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 👇

[Jordan Cuff 🕸️🧬🕷️ @JordanCuff]

📜🎉New paper in @Oikos_Journal🎉📜

Prey nutrient content is associated with the trophic interactions of spiders and their prey selection under field conditions

https://t.co/Uttu83U5zC

I'm super excited to see this out! Read about our exciting results in the thread below: 🧵👇

[Jordan Cuff 🕸️🧬🕷️ @JordanCuff]

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! 🇨🇿🕷️

[Tom Rhys Bishop @TomRBishop]

🚨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!

[Tom Rhys Bishop @TomRBishop]

🚨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: https://t.co/qAoyzdW6lF

[Felipe Rocha @FelipePdaRocha]

Our review on the dual role of ants as ecosystem engineers and providers of ecosystem services was published yesterday!
https://t.co/wYvXGaxp8D
Together with it, you can read a short interview I gave to the Myrmecological News blog about the article:
https://t.co/BNN5j4N9wR

[Max Tercel @MaximumInsect]

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🤞 🔍

[Max Tercel @MaximumInsect]

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

[Max Tercel @MaximumInsect]

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

[Jordan Cuff 🕸️🧬🕷️ @JordanCuff]

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!
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https://t.co/ovJLWERTfQ

[J. Manuel Vidal-Cordero (Mirmeco_Cosas) @jmvidalcordero]

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!
ℹ️https://t.co/lmTdyZ53va

[François Brassard @ant__frank]

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

[Max Tercel @MaximumInsect]

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

[Nate Sanders @Nate_J_Sanders]

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.
https://t.co/6nWkhEkMUo
#RobertGregg #GoBuffs

[Max Tercel @MaximumInsect]

@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.

[Max Tercel @MaximumInsect]

🐜🐜 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!

[Max Tercel @MaximumInsect]

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