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George Allen @gallenbees.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Britain's favourite butterfly will certainly not be the speckled wood - but it is mine! britainsfavouritebutterfly.co.uk/butterfly/sp... Speckled Wood

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Ellen Knight 🌿 @ellenknight.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Check out our new paper in Ecological Modelling!

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Alexa Varah @alexavarah.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Nice posters from two of my current PhD students at #BES2025 😀. 🌳🌾🌳🌾 @ellenknight.bsky.social 's is on pollinators in silvoarable systems. 🦋 Rosa's is from her previous research on butterflies. Check them out!

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George Allen @gallenbees.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Presented my 2nd PhD chapter at #BES2025 yesterday! Pollinator responses to national parks in France Thanks for all the great feedback and questions! Love this conference. +made it into German radio 🎊

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George Allen @gallenbees.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Today I had the pleasure of presenting my second PhD chapter at the International Society for Ecological Modelling conference (Kashiwa, Japan). This work focused on modelling landscape-scale responses of pollinator species to national parks and their surrounding areas. This work should be out soon!

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Pollinating London Together @pollinatinglt.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Yesterday we were out catching and marking pollinators on three rooftops, two of them more than 10 stories high, to see if they were travelling between them! #PollinatingLT

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Doctoral & Researcher College, University of Reading @unirdg-phd.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

🦋 A great film from George Allen about his important PhD research on national parks and pollinators #PhD #Pollinators @uor-research.bsky.social

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George Allen @gallenbees.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Here's a short video (in English) all about my two years of research on wild pollinators in France's newest national park! We're talking protected areas, forest networks, roadsides and legislation. Hope you enjoy! 🐝

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À la rencontre des pollinisateurs du Parc national de forêts

YouTube video by Pollinis

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George Allen @gallenbees.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Pollinator surveys are off to a flying start in Parc National de Forêts! This year I'll be studying functional and taxonomic turnover along gradients from core zones to buffer zones, with a particular focus on road verge habitats. I also have a very special helper this year - Sammy the cat!

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Yes, because what's holding the US back from greatness is our lack of "wood independence". 🙄 Logging these >100 year old trees will be disastrous for climate.

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Trump administration orders half of national forests open for logging

An emergency order removes protections covering over half the land managed by the U.S. Forest Service as the president aims to boost timber production.

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George Allen @gallenbees.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Thanks supervisors @deepasena.bsky.social, Mike Garratt and Joann Sy for joining me in France's Park National de Forêts this week. We presented results from 2024's work on woodland pollinators, shared future ideas with the park and visited some field sites for this year's study. (+slow worm!)

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Research at Reading @uor-research.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

You too can be a citizen scientist! Dr Chris Wyver @chriswyver33.bsky.social explains just how easy it is to get involved with the #FruitWatch 2025 project. Just take a photo of a fruit tree in your area that is starting to bloom and submit it to fruitwatch.org. 🌸

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Be a Citizen Scientist and help Fruit Watch 2025

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George Allen @gallenbees.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Had a good time at the Pollinating London Together @pollinatinglt.bsky.social AGM in London last night with Joris and Konstantinos. And made it onto the report! Great to see all of PLT's achievements in conserving urban pollinators so far.

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George Allen @gallenbees.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Had a great time presenting my 2nd chapter PhD results at the bi-annual Bumblebee Working Group conference 2025, held at Cambridge University! What a mouthful. An amazing bunch of people all doing cutting-edge pollinator research. Can't wait for the next.

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Pollinating London Together @pollinatinglt.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Did you know the violet carpenter bee (Xylocopa violacea) is one of the largest bees in Europe? These pollinators are more commonly seen in the warmer regions of Europe but can occasionally be found in the UK too. Photo by @gallenbees.bsky.social

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Doctoral & Researcher College, University of Reading @unirdg-phd.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

🐝 George Allen, PhD researcher in the School of Agriculture, Policy and Development, shares how he is working to generate positive landscape management outcomes for pollinators in national parks ow.ly/5YlY50VfNNM #PhD #PhDLife #Pollinators #Agriculture #NationalParks

Photo of George Allen, a PhD student in the School of Agriculture, Policy and Development, collecting research samples.

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George Allen @gallenbees.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

I had a great time at my first British Ecological Society conference! I met lots of friends old and new, and had the chance to share some research from the first year of my PhD. Thanks #BES that was fun! #POLLINIS #UniversityOfReading #UKCEH

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