4) In small populations and especially when there are severe penalties for homozygosity, however, random mating systems are more likely to persist and polygyny does especially badly, the latter because of the reduced Ne that polygyny causes, leading to rapid loss of genetic diversity.
3) We find a complex relationship between mating system and evolutionary rescue. When populations are large or the cost of homozygosity is low then mate-choice polygyny is the best, with mutual choice monogamy intermediate.
1) New manuscript preprint up: we model adaptation to changing environments under mating systems ranging from random mating via mutual choice monogamy through to female choice polygyny. 🧪www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03...
The second chapter of my PhD is now available as a preprint 🦚. A lot of it came together during long days in front of my blue screen, and weekends spent watching puffins in the UK. With an amazing team @robknell.bsky.social @jacek-radwan.bsky.social Jonathan Parrett and @ecologycoder.bsky.social
Next talk 👇
🌿🐛 The UK’s uplands are facing major land-use change as part of net-zero strategies.
Franky Rogers explores how afforestation and peatland restoration could affect biodiversity using a multi-taxa approach across 1600+ invertebrates.🗺️ 🌱
@ecologycoder.bsky.social
#CEECRebellion2026
Thanks again for coming along!
We've been at #BES2025 all week and have loved hearing how citizen science and biological recording can support research and conservation policy; biodiversity data needs for Scotland’s nature recovery and how the global ecological community accesses, uses & shares data. We're in the Lennox Suite!
Welcome to BES2025! 💫
Today, we are so excited to welcome ecologists from 58 countries, encouraging innovative research and practice in ecology.
We have exciting talks and sessions ahead in the next days from agriculture, human's place in nature, AI to green finance and much more.
Most Brits want climate action but think their neighbours don't. Most Brits support renewable energy but think their neighbours don't.
This is the work of relentless misinformation by our right-wing press and the oiligarchy.
Title presentation slide showing a sloping open landscape with the title “For the many, not the few: a multi-taxa analysis of the impacts of upland land-use change” with subheading “Franky Rogers”. Logos for the University of East Anglia, RSPB and ARIES doctoral training partnership are included in the top right corner
On my way to Edinburgh for #BES2025. I will be presenting my PhD research so far at the Conservation Science and Policy: Spatial Prioritisation session tomorrow at 5.30pm.
The new Red List for Vascular Plants published this week by @bsbibotany.bsky.social highlights the serious decline in Britain’s freshwater plants.
New OA publication from TreE_PlaNat project @uktreescapes.bsky.social in Ecological Solutions and Evidence: Creating woodland through natural processes: Current understanding and knowledge gaps in Great Britain besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
A photograph of an upland landscape in northern England with text over it. Title reads: “Expert input needed for multi-taxa biodiversity research project across northern England’s uplands”. Subtitle reads: “Species, habitat or regional specialists please contact franky.rogers@uea.ac.uk”. Logos for the University of East Anglia, RSPB and ARIES DTP in the top right corner.
Do you have knowledge or expertise in taxonomic groups found in the UK’s uplands? I’m looking for naturalists to contribute to autecological analysis as part of a #biodiversity audit assessing impacts of land-use change across eight of northern England’s protected landscapes 1/4
Hi Darren, thanks for this - hoverfly knowledge would be very useful! Could you DM me the best email to get hold of you in the near future? Thanks!
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Presumably the same account that’s changed usernames but if not, there’s another to report and block. Very strange!
A bit daunting when I realised quite how many people were in the audience, especially as I was talking about career plans changing due to chronic illness. I wrote it with my past-self in mind, so hopefully it will help some students in a similar position.
Photo showing a protected presentation featuring various photographs (graduation, wildlife and fieldwork photos) behind someone (me!) stood at a lectern.
Had a great time at a 6th form STEM conference last week talking to students from Folkestone and Dover grammar schools about my career path from A-Level to now!
This is a non-profit study funded by @aries-dtp.bsky.social #NERC, conducted at @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social in partnership with @rspb.bsky.social ( #RSPBScience ) 4/4
A washed out photograph of an upland landscape in northern England with text over it. A map on the right shows northern England, with several protected landscapes outlined. Title: “Further biological records?” Body text: “Seeking invertebrate and plant biological records not held by NBN or Local Environmental Record Centres in the following protected landscapes: - Forest of Bowland National Landscape, - Lake District National Park, - Nidderdale National Landscape, - Northumberland National Park, - North Pennines National Landscape, - North York Moors National Park, - Peak District National Park, - Yorkshire Dales National Park.” The footer contains logos for University of East Anglia, RSPB and ARIES DTP and text reading “please contact franky.rogers@uea.ac.uk”
To understand potential winners and losers of land management options, multi-taxa analysis is being conducted using biological records from the protected landscapes highlighted on the map. If you have data in these areas, please contact franky.rogers@uea.ac.uk 3/4
A washed out photograph of an upland landscape in northern England with text over it. A map on the right shows northern England, with several protected landscapes outlined. Title: “Ecological expertise?” Body text: “If you could help to validate species lists for a taxonomic group, or provide comment on autecological interpretations of species recorded across uplands in northern England’s protected areas, please contact: franky.rogers@uea.ac.uk This is a non-profit study, designed to provide conservation guidance for landscape and site managers to support large numbers of priority species cutting across multiple taxa. Please circulate these posts and spread the word with anyone you think might be able to contribute.” The footer contains logos for University of East Anglia, RSPB and ARIES DTP and text reading “please contact franky.rogers@uea.ac.uk”
This #BiodiversityAudit will collate management requirements for invertebrates and plants found in the landscape. For this, validation and autecological input is needed to capture the knowledge not found in literature. Willing to contribute? DM or ✉️ franky.rogers@uea.ac.uk 2/4
A photograph of an upland landscape in northern England with text over it. Title reads: “Expert input needed for multi-taxa biodiversity research project across northern England’s uplands”. Subtitle reads: “Species, habitat or regional specialists please contact franky.rogers@uea.ac.uk”. Logos for the University of East Anglia, RSPB and ARIES DTP in the top right corner.
Do you have knowledge or expertise in taxonomic groups found in the UK’s uplands? I’m looking for naturalists to contribute to autecological analysis as part of a #biodiversity audit assessing impacts of land-use change across eight of northern England’s protected landscapes 1/4