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Keeping up with the scientific literature is difficult! I have been experimenting with #ChatGPT alerts to produce a weekly, curated #pollination briefing. In this post, I reflect on what makes that approach useful, and why it still needs informed human judgement: jeffollerton.co.uk/2026/07/24/k...

Keeping up with pollination: using ChatGPT as a research alertThere is too much science. That is not a complaint about the quantity of research being done. Quite the opposite: it is remarkable how much good work is now being published across the world. But th…jeffollerton.co.uk

It was a real pleasure to be invited to Westminster to give evidence to this inquiry. I look forward to seeing the final report in November.

Escape the European heatwave - stay indoors, stay cool, and enjoy tomorrow's webinar on Plant-Pollinator Interactions and the UN Sustainable Development Goals! There's still time to sign up: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/plant-poll... #Biodiversity #Ecology #Pollinators #UNSDGS #Bees

Plant-Pollinator Interactions and the UN Sustainable Development GoalsLearn why plant–pollinator interactions matter, how they underpin the UN SDGs, and what actions can support a pollinator-friendly future.www.eventbrite.co.uk

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...

When an old experiment revealed a new story about flowersSometimes, 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…jeffollerton.co.uk

Could LLMs like ChatGPT ever replace part of the academic peer-review process? An experiment that I recently conducted suggests possibly yes! jeffollerton.co.uk/2026/04/27/c... #ChatGPT #AI #LLMs #AcademicPublishing

Could LLMs like ChatGPT ever replace part of the academic peer-review process?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 …jeffollerton.co.uk

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 news.mongabay.com/2026/04/pete... #biodiversity #botany

Peter Raven, botanist and advocate for biodiversity, has died, aged 89Life 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...news.mongabay.com

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: jeffollerton.co.uk/2026/04/23/w... #biodiversity

What the COVID lockdowns taught us about plant-pollinator specialisation in gardensOne 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 …jeffollerton.co.uk

Edible #Apocynaceae: a new global synthesis of diversity, conservation and pollination just published – and a personal landmark for me! jeffollerton.co.uk/2026/04/08/e... #biodiversity #food #IUCN #pollinators #sustainability #UNSDGs #botany

Edible Apocynaceae: a new global synthesis of diversity, conservation and pollination just published – and a personal landmark for me!This year – 2026 – marks the 40th anniversary of my first publication. Forty years. Imagine that – I certainly can’t! It feels like a long time ago, a distant memory, anothe…jeffollerton.co.uk

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: jeffollerton.co.uk/2026/04/02/h...

Help us uncover the hidden lives of Europe’s ground-nesting beesWhen 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…jeffollerton.co.uk

Why should the #legal profession care about #pollinator decline? Because #pollinators sit right at the intersection of #biodiversity loss, food security, business risk, and emerging regulation. Read more about my recent article on this topic here: jeffollerton.co.uk/2026/04/02/p...

Pollinator decline for legal professionals – a new article explains this complex and important issueOxford University Press recently commissioned me to write a piece for their Expert Essentials series, which is designed to give legal professionals an overview of complex topics that increasingly a…jeffollerton.co.uk

Why should the #legal profession care about #pollinator decline? Because #pollinators sit right at the intersection of #biodiversity loss, food security, business risk, and emerging regulation. Read more about my recent article on this topic here: jeffollerton.co.uk/2026/04/02/p...

Pollinator decline for legal professionals – a new article explains this complex and important issueOxford University Press recently commissioned me to write a piece for their Expert Essentials series, which is designed to give legal professionals an overview of complex topics that increasingly a…jeffollerton.co.uk

Book review: “The Ecology of Ecologists” by Jeremy Fox - essential reading for anyone who is, or is hoping to be, a professional academic ecologist. jeffollerton.co.uk/2026/03/26/b... #ecology #BookReview #biodiversity

Book review: “The Ecology of Ecologists” by Jeremy FoxThere are probably few people who have thought more about what it means to be an academic ecologist than Jeremy Fox, Professor of Ecology at the University of Calgary in Canada. The Dynamic Ecology…jeffollerton.co.uk

What China’s mountain meadows and forests can teach us about #pollinators. In a newly published paper led by Dr Xin Xu, we have studied pollination networks on Yulong Snow Mountain in Yunnan. Discover more about our findings here: jeffollerton.co.uk/2026/03/26/w... #ecology #biodiversity #bees

What China’s mountain meadows and forests can teach us about pollinatorsFor several years now I have been fortunate to collaborate with colleagues in China on the ecology of plant–pollinator interactions. One of the things that makes that work so exciting is the sheer …jeffollerton.co.uk

At the end of March and the end of May I will be presenting two webinars which explore the connections between, #biodiversity, #pollinators and the #UNSDGs, showing why the conservation of nature is central to a just, healthy, and sustainable future - details here: jeffollerton.co.uk/2026/03/23/j...

Join me for two webinars exploring the links between biodiversity, pollinators and the UN Sustainable Development GoalsThe diversity of life on Earth, and the interactions between the species that make up that diversity, are fundamentally important to the functioning of ecosystems and to human well-being. Yet these…jeffollerton.co.uk

Last week I posted a #preprint entitled “The global relationship between flowering plant and #pollinator diversity holds true across scales, latitude, and human influence”. I was not prepared for what happened after it went live on 2nd March! Read more here: jeffollerton.co.uk/2026/03/12/t...

The global relationship between flowering plant and pollinator diversity…and what they don’t tell you about posting preprints!Last week I posted a preprint on the platform Research Square of a new manuscript entitled “The global relationship between flowering plant and pollinator diversity holds true across scales, …jeffollerton.co.uk

If you're near Leicester, come and join me for a talk at the Botanic Garden next week. jeffollerton.co.uk/2026/02/17/j... #pollinators #biodiversity #bees #ecology

Join me on 26th February in Leicester for a talk: “Adventures in Pollination!”On Thursday 26th February I’m giving a talk to the Friends of the University of Leicester Botanic Garden with the title that you see above. The talk starts at 7.30pm and non-members are welco…jeffollerton.co.uk

A new UK government report warns that global #biodiversity loss threatens food security, economic stability, and geopolitical order. In my latest blog post I ask whether pollination should now be considered a #nationalsecurity issue: jeffollerton.co.uk/2026/01/26/p... @butterfly-project.bsky.social

Pollination as a matter of national securityIn these turbulent times it’s hard to know where to focus one’s gaze. Do we concentrate on Ukraine? Greenland? Venezuela? Sudan? China? Russia? The Middle East? The rise of the far righ…jeffollerton.co.uk

In piece that I posted on my blog before Christmas, I made the offhand comment that “we need to think of #AI as a collaborator as much as a tool“. I decided to ask the question of #ChatGPT itself and we ended up having quite a long conversation on this topic: jeffollerton.co.uk/2026/01/12/s...

Should AI be thought of as a science tool or collaborator? A conversation with ChatGPTIn a piece that I posted before Christmas, I made the offhand comment that “we need to think of AI as a collaborator as much as a tool”. It’s offhand in the fact that I’d no…jeffollerton.co.uk

If you're reading Jeremy Fox's book book "The Ecology of Ecologists", let him know what you think of it for a chance to win a signed bookplate: dynamicecology.wordpress.com/2026/01/05/s... #ecology #biodiversity #books

Spread the word about The Ecology of Ecologists and get a free signed bookplate! (UPDATED)I hope you had a happy holiday. I certainly did, in no small part because my book is finally out! (woohoo!) (update: link fixed) The Ecology of Ecologists: Harnessing Diverse Approaches for a Stron…dynamicecology.wordpress.com

A Christmas lesson from plant ecology: why plants like holly and mistletoe may not be as well defended as we think: jeffollerton.co.uk/2025/12/24/a... Merry Christmas everyone! #ecology #biodiversity #Christmas

A Christmas lesson from plant ecology: why plants like holly and mistletoe may not be as well defended as we thinkChristmas is a time of expectations, when we assume that familiar traditions will work as they always have. Some traditions are associated with plants such as holly and mistletoe. In ecology, we ma…jeffollerton.co.uk