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
We are having fantastic time presenting and discussing our work at #ESEB2025
- Neelam Porwal answered a question "How sexual selection shapes small populations demography under recurrent heatwaves"
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
Is male aggression good or bad for populations under heatwaves? Find out in our recently published article onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
This study examines how male aggression influences population survival under recurrent heat stress using experimental evolution in Sancassania berlesei. We show that while sexually selected tr initia....
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We explore evolution’s thrilling battles, between and within sexes and, hosts vs. parasites. Our focus? Conservation genomics, experimental evolution, adaptation, and mutation dynamics, with special attention to sexual selection 🦌 in mites and host-pathogen coevolution in Borrelia and bank voles 🐀.
24hrs straight under the microscope and many many hours of counting later. Cheers to Neha for leading this study and all the people. Happy to have been a part of this. Still traumatised by the deutonymphs though.
Neelam Porwal
Neelam Porwal
Evolutionary Biology Group, Adam Mickiewicz University
Rob Knell
@neelamporwal.bsky.social ‘s talk about estimating extinction risks under sexual selection using simulations, at PEC2025 won the first prize for the best student talk. So, should animals swipe right for survival?🐧
Inaugural lecture! I will be talking about my research on how mating systems alter evolutionary processes and why this is important. This is a public lecture and should be fun and accessible to everyone: all welcome. Links in next post. 🧪
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
@neelamporwal.bsky.social has just published this work on interacting eco-evo feedbacks between heatwaves and sensual selection on population dynamics - first output from an exciting project with a team inc @jacek-radwan.bsky.social @robknell.bsky.social #ecology #evolution
Evolutionary Biology Group, Adam Mickiewicz University
Neelam Porwal
www.biorxiv.org
Evolutionary Biology Group, Adam Mickiewicz University
Rob Knell
Rob Knell
New paper out in #Ecology Letters: We manipulated the presence of "fighter" and "scrambler" males in soil mite populations and showed that aggressive male behaviour reduces population size and stability. 🧪#SexualSelection #PopulationEcology onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Tom Cameron
We are having fantastic time presenting and discussing our work at #ESEB2025
- Neelam Porwal answered a question "How sexual selection shapes small populations demography under recurrent heatwaves"
Using experiments on soil mites, we show that sexual selection associated with an armed and aggressive male phenotype can reduce population size and stability, which lowers their resilience against a...
