Scientist working to better value and incorporate nature into our decisions. Conservation, Communities, Climate, let's do this! Senior researcher at PERC (Property and Environment Research Center)
Sophie Gilbert
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Incentives matter for conservation, and in this case, captive breeding created gecko abundance and affordability for EU pet owners (price dropped from $1500 to $40!), easing pressure on wild populations. 🧪🦎
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▶️AI‑generated #climate #disaster images look persuasive but don’t boost climate action. Across 3 experiments, they raised emotions but also reactance, lower trust, and reduced willingness to act when people suspected the images were AI‑made.
🧪https://www.nature.com/articles/s44458-026-00092-0
I'd love to hear your own trajectories of transformation, big and small. How and what changed? Was it hard? Was it worth it? 🧪
One year preprint ban for failing to capitalize on an obvious pun opportunity.... still insufficient punishment?!
This is my first time reviewing a paper where the authors are english-as-a-second-language and say they edited with ChatGPT, and the resulting writing is technically correct but absolutely exhausting to read and comprehend, far beyond the average...are others experiencing this? 🧪
Kids are rad, because they are tiny people (minus the inhibitions and prejudices, and plus some wild creativity), oh and people are rad too.
Cool math trick: $0*2 = $0, so he's right.
I quit my tenured professor job in 2022. Change makes us deeply uncomfortable, which is why it mostly happens when it’s the only acceptable option. I’m sharing my own change journey over the last 5 years, now with the benefit of hindsight.
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Good news on mangroves! They are awesome, protecting coasts from storm damage, and ppl took notice (i.e., their ecosystem service is an incentive to locals to stop cutting >> benefits from cutting them down to do fish farming), and once we stop the chop, they recover.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Beauty is a curse — at least for the turquoise dwarf gecko of central Tanzania. Between December 2004 and July 2009, demand for this gecko from collectors in Europe boomed, leading to the capture and ...
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Sophie Gilbert
Sophie Gilbert
Sophie Gilbert
Sophie Gilbert
Sophie Gilbert
Sophie Gilbert
Sophie Gilbert
Support for climate action decreases when highly realistic disaster images are suspected to be generated by artificial intelligence, as shown by three large experiments testing emotional and resistanc...
