Mark Wong

Ecologist & Entomologist. Incoming DECRA & Lecturer @Sydney_Uni. Associate Editor @InsectDiversity & @AsianMyrmecol. Explorer @NatGeo. DPhil from @UniofOxford.

[Mark Wong @MarkKLWong]

Please share! 🙏
Recruiting a PhD student in Sydney in 2026 ✨🎓✨
Exciting fieldwork & experiments on ants in Australia 🐜
International and domestic applicants welcome 🌍
Details: https://t.co/c42iqURldU
#PhDPosition #GradSchool #Ecology #Zoology #Biodiversity #Entomology #Ant

[Functional Ecology @FunEcology]

📰Published📰 When differences help – or hinder – coexistence: #Functional insights from #mangrove #ants🐜

https://t.co/dlMbiLehwr

[Mark Wong @MarkKLWong]

Do you like functional traits, competition, mesocosm experiments, ants and rigorous fieldwork in unusual tropical systems?

Then you might like this new paper - the last from my DPhil @UniofOxford - in @FunEcology:

https://t.co/dAGMGtTZZs

[Mark Wong @MarkKLWong]

New paper in #BiologicalConservation: Artificial light at night has surprisingly limited effects on ant communities in a field experiment💡🐜 Research by fantastic students @BiolSci_UWA @uwanews I had the pleasure of supervising. https://t.co/TxJl7OJPHQ #ALAN #Ecology #Insects

[Mark Wong @MarkKLWong]

With global warming, non-native ants currently confined to indoor environments (e.g. buildings, greenhouses) may march outdoors, impacting nature and society. Our new study:

[Toby Tsang @NoobieToby]

📄 Climate Change Can Exacerbate Ant Invasion Impacts by Unleashing Indoor Populations Into Outdoor Environments
🔗 https://t.co/HlZ0zIBYp3
(Open access!)

[Toby Tsang @NoobieToby]

📄 Climate Change Can Exacerbate Ant Invasion Impacts by Unleashing Indoor Populations Into Outdoor Environments
🔗 https://t.co/HlZ0zIBYp3
(Open access!)

[Toby Tsang @NoobieToby]

🚨 New publication alert! 🚨
Our new study shows how climate change could unleash non-native ants from indoor spaces (yes, including your home!) into outdoor environments. 🐜🌍

[Mark Wong @MarkKLWong]

New paper in #BiologyLetters: preliminary evidence for a less appreciated latitudinal biodiversity gradient – in how communities partition time⌛️🌞🌔

https://t.co/dE2tRP4uZK

@RSocPublishing

[Mark Wong @MarkKLWong]

New preprint:

Ant Diversity and Foraging Across the Diel Cycle is Unaltered by Experimental Exposure to Artificial Light at Night

https://t.co/iEn6Or0kNq

[Mark Wong @MarkKLWong]

New preprint:

Functional traits drive the competitive assembly of mangrove ant communities and influence colony performance in competition mesocosms

https://t.co/kEIdfgOzr7

A fun study in a unique ecosystem that never made it to my DPhil thesis but is finally(!) written up

[Caio Graco-Roza @GracoRoza]

1/ 🚨 New Preprint Alert! 🚨
We just published our latest work: "Human pressure homogenises species and traits globally". 🌍🦋🪴 Dive into the findings below or check out the preprint here:

https://t.co/eyTY4NSYjn.

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[Mark Wong @MarkKLWong]

Check out our new preprint:

Human pressure homogenises #species and #traits globally

[Caio Graco-Roza @GracoRoza]

1/ 🚨 New Preprint Alert! 🚨
We just published our latest work: "Human pressure homogenises species and traits globally". 🌍🦋🪴 Dive into the findings below or check out the preprint here:

https://t.co/eyTY4NSYjn.

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[Mark Wong @MarkKLWong]

First Happy Meal in decades and look what came in the box! A bug-themed card game, even allocating points to different ‘functional’ #traits like Size, Speed and Brains! Honestly well done @maccas. Hope this will inspire all the little entomologists 🐜🦋🪲🐝

[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

[Mark Wong @MarkKLWong]

@ruthwrightINNS An imperfect answer to your question.. https://t.co/RN4mIs3fAu

[Mark Wong @MarkKLWong]

Grateful that @ConBiology published my letter about the use of inaccurate images in #invasivespecies news. Another journal had dismissed it as (simply) anecdotal. Responses to the article now suggest this may be a pervasive problem and for many taxa 🤔

https://t.co/2uSxbMsntk

[Mark Wong @MarkKLWong]

Grateful that @ConBiology published my letter about the use of inaccurate images in #invasivespecies news. Another journal had dismissed it as (simply) anecdotal. Responses to the article now suggest this may be a pervasive problem and for many taxa 🤔

https://t.co/2uSxbMsntk

[Mark Wong @MarkKLWong]

New letter @ConBiology, on the problematic misrepresentation of #invasive species in the mass media with images of unrelated organisms, e.g.: invasive fire ants misportrayed by images of weaver ants in @guardian & @Telegraph. #Conservation #Ecology

https://t.co/A7DIbLIL7u

[Colin Bean @ProfColinBean]

Seen examples of this many, many times over the years - and also for native species.

Misrepresentation of invasive species in the mass media with images of unrelated organisms. Conservation Biolog. e14382. https://t.co/B5HU7A3SHI

[Mark Wong @MarkKLWong]

@CassieFreund @ConBiology @guardian @Telegraph Thank you! Completely agree. I think better comms btwn journalists & scientists/experts is key.. e.g. checking w. experts if a (stock)photo designated for use is taxonomically accurate.. And experts should always promote the use of scientific names in general

[Mark Wong @MarkKLWong]

New letter @ConBiology, on the problematic misrepresentation of #invasive species in the mass media with images of unrelated organisms, e.g.: invasive fire ants misportrayed by images of weaver ants in @guardian & @Telegraph. #Conservation #Ecology

https://t.co/A7DIbLIL7u

[Anthony Ricciardi @EcoInvasions]

This happens frequently with aquatic invasive species in the news media.