Biodiversity scientist, focused mainly on pollinators and their interactions with plants. Author of 'Pollinators & Pollination: Nature and Society' (Pelagic 2021) and 'Birds & Flowers: An Intimate 50 Million Year Relationship' (Pelagic 2024).
Prof. Jeff Ollerton
Escape the European heatwave - stay indoors, stay cool, and enjoy tomorrow's webinar on Plant-Pollinator Interactions and the UN Sustainable Development Goals!
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#Biodiversity #Ecology #Pollinators #UNSDGS #Bees
Peter Raven has passed. A very sad loss, but also a life well lived, and that should be celebrated. I was glad to have the chance to meet Peter, briefly, when I was introduced to him at the International Botanical Congress in Shenzhen. RIP
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#biodiversity #botany
Could LLMs like ChatGPT ever replace part of the academic peer-review process? An experiment that I recently conducted suggests possibly yes!
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#ChatGPT #AI #LLMs #AcademicPublishing
Sometimes, #science does not go the way you plan.
That is usually framed as failure: the experiment did not work, the results were inconclusive, the story was unclear. But science can also advance when we go back to old data and ask a different question:
jeffollerton.co.uk/2026/05/21/w...
What the COVID lockdowns taught us about plant-pollinator specialisation in gardens. One of the few positive things to come out of the COVID lockdowns was the unexpected opportunity to look much more closely at the nature right outside our doors:
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#biodiversity
Why do pollinators matter for the UN SDGs? They support food, healthy diets, resilient ecosystems & biodiversity—linking to SDGs on hunger, health, climate & nature 🌎 🧪
Join our webinar with Prof. @jeffollerton.bsky.social on 26th May to learn more!
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Last chance! 🐝🦋
Join Professor @jeffollerton.bsky.social tomorrow for our Skills for Ecology webinar: “Plant–Pollinator Interactions Underpin SDGs”. Explore how pollinators support food security, biodiversity, climate resilience and sustainable development 🧪 🌎
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What does Biodiversity Net Gain mean for pollinators? 🐝
Prof @jeffollerton.bsky.social discusses how BNG may overlook insect needs—and how it could evolve to better support the pollinators behind ~75% of wild plants 🌎 🧪
Watch: youtu.be/PNnUEDs8KeM
@britentsoc.bsky.social @amentsoc.bsky.social
Prof. Jeff Ollerton
Prof. Jeff Ollerton
🐝 Want to survey pollinators with confidence?
Join the self‑paced Surveying for Pollinators course with Pollinator Specialist @jeffollerton.bsky.social. Learn techniques & study design for effective monitoring, for ONLY £12.50.
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Prof. Jeff Ollerton
Prof. Jeff Ollerton
Prof. Jeff Ollerton
We're looking for records of ground nesting bees around Europe! Can you help? Follow the simple steps below! @aicbrn.bsky.social @esai-irl.bsky.social @ucdearth.bsky.social @pomscheme.bsky.social @climatecocentre.bsky.social
Learn practical and advanced pollinator survey techniques in this online course. From transects to trapping, discover methods to monitor bees, butterflies, and more — and see how your data can inform ...
Join a new citizen science project and help us to uncover the hidden lives of Europe’s ground-nesting #bees - please share with your networks:
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When most people think about pollinators, they picture bees visiting flowers. But for many species, a large part of life happens elsewhere: in the soil. Many pollinators do not just feed above grou…
Sometimes, science does not go the way you plan. That is usually framed as failure: the experiment did not work, the results were inconclusive, the story was unclear. But science can also advance w…
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Life on Earth is often described as a web, but for much of modern science it was catalogued as a ledger: names, specimens, distributions, relationships drawn in careful lines. Over the course of the 2...
One of the few positive things to come out of the COVID lockdowns was the unexpected opportunity to look much more closely at the nature right outside our doors. In 2020 I coordinated the Lockdown …
Recently, I made a comment over on Steve Heard’s Scientist Sees Squirrel blog: I have never published a paper that’s not been improved, to some degree, by peer review, and broadly the system …
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Learn why plant–pollinator interactions matter, how they underpin the UN SDGs, and what actions can support a pollinator-friendly future.
