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Franky Rogers

@ecologycoder.bsky.social
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Code-wrangling ecologist. PGR in upland biodiversity & impacts of land use (UEA/ARIES DTP). Prev.: RA for North Norfolk Biodiversity Audits @ UEA. Background in palaeontology and evolutionary biology. They/them

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James Bullock @jmbecologist.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
“each species will likely receive between $500,000-1M for the five-year project” This is the problem with species-based conservation. Short-term focus on a few declining species We need to focus more on process-based conservation, to create robust ecosystems news.mongabay.com/short-articl...
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100 species on the brink get a $200m conservation lifeline
Recovery projects for 100 critically endangered and extinct-in-the-wild species across the world are set to receive new funding under a conservation initiative announced Aug. 4. Re:wild and the Bezos ...
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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
“My contention is that grouse moor owners have turned the upland moors into a tinderbox” - my comment to the FT on how the Victorian anachronism of grouse shooting has “transformed the ecosystem for the worse” “You don’t fight fire with fire - you fight it with water”: www.ft.com/content/c25a...
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‘Glorious 12th’ kicks off UK shooting season as debate rages about its future
Landowners and environmentalists disagree about how to protect Britain’s wild moorland
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Franky Rogers @ecologycoder.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Not uncommon but great to see up close- black garden ants farming black bean aphids for their honeydew. Every flower stem on this evening primrose plant is absolutely covered in aphids being tended to by ants.
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UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH) @ukceh.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
It's #InsectWeek! We gave Robin Hutchinson, an entomologist at UKCEH, 40 seconds to explain why insects are so important 🪰 #StandTallForTheSmall @royentsoc.bsky.social
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Royal Entomological Society @royentsoc.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
#InsectWeek is back and bigger than ever 🪰 Whether you're fascinated by butterflies, curious about beetles or simply want to spend more time connecting with nature, there's something for everyone! Join us in celebrating the little things that run the world 🔽 buff.ly/gCVYfHw #StandTallForTheSmall
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Insect Week 2026 Expands Across Five City Hubs to Inspire a New Generation of Nature Champions
The Royal Entomological Society announces ambitious nationwide programme for Insect Week 2026 On the leadup to a big week in the insect science community, the Royal Entomological Society has unveiled…
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James Bullock @jmbecologist.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Ecosystem functions are the basic machinery of complex nature - the linkages & flows of energy, matter, nutrients Ecosystem services are the benefits we get from nature - underpinned by those functions It’s unclear why so many are confused about the distinction - including ecology professors
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Aldina Franco @aldinafranco.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Great day for our second field trip to @NWT reserve Sweetbriar Marshes with the 1st year UEA students @ueaenv.bsky.social and @biouea.bsky.social. Lots of birds today, including swifts and swallows and many others. With @pauldolman.bsky.social @willnash.bsky.social @bibekrajshrestha.bsky.social
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Aldina Franco @aldinafranco.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Excellent day for a field trip with the @ueaenv.bsky.social and @biouea.bsky.social 1st year students to monitor plants, invertebrates and birds @NWT reserve Sweetbriar Marshes @ueaceec.bsky.social with Will Nash and @pauldolman.bsky.social
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Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · 10/04/2026
Tens of thousands of publications from 2025 might include invalid references generated by AI, a Nature analysis suggests. #ResearchPublishing #Academicsky 🧪
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Hallucinated citations are polluting the scientific literature. What can be done?
Tens of thousands of publications from 2025 might include invalid references generated by AI, a Nature analysis suggests.
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Rob Knell @robknell.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
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.
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Rob Knell @robknell.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
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.
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Rob Knell @robknell.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
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. 🧪https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03.30.715329v1
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Neelam Porwal @neelamporwal.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
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
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UEA CEEC @ueaceec.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
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
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NBN Trust: National Biodiversity Network Trust @nbntrust.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
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!
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British Ecological Society @britishecologicalsociety.org · 16/12/2025
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.
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Gregory Norminton @gregorynorminton.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
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.
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Poll: Majority of Brits support renewables, but think their neighbours disagree with them
Major poll reveals 70 per cent of Brits would back a new solar farm in their local area, but only 27 per cent think that other people would support such a development
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Franky Rogers @ecologycoder.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
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.
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
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Freshwater Habitats Trust @freshwaterhabitats.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
The new Red List for Vascular Plants published this week by @bsbibotany.bsky.social highlights the serious decline in Britain’s freshwater plants.
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Julia Koricheva @juliakoricheva.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
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/...
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Creating woodland through natural processes: Current understanding and knowledge gaps in Great Britain
Natural colonisation can successfully create structurally diverse, locally adapted woodlands in Britain, but the outcomes of this process can vary considerably. Combining natural colonisation and tre...
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Franky Rogers @ecologycoder.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
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
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.
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Franky Rogers @ecologycoder.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
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!
Photo showing a protected presentation featuring various photographs (graduation, wildlife and fieldwork photos) behind someone (me!) stood at a lectern.
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Franky Rogers @ecologycoder.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
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
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.
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