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1 week ago | 
phys.org | Jacqueline Garget
AI is a computing tool. It can process and interrogate huge amounts of data, expand human creativity, generate new insights faster and help guide important decisions. It's trained on human expertise, and in conservation that's informed by interactions with local communities or governments—people whose needs must be taken into account in the solutions. How do we ensure this happens?
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1 week ago | 
cam.ac.uk | Jacqueline Garget
Have you ever persisted in following your SatNav even when you knew you were going in the wrong direction? If so, you’ll know that placing all your trust in a machine powered by AI, without also engaging your own intelligence, does not always get you where you want to go. This is the message that a group of conservation scientists at Cambridge is pushing hard.
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1 month ago | 
cam.ac.uk | Jacqueline Garget
"We're in a time of unprecedented change. We must accelerate progress towards equitably rebalancing how humans and nature coexist across the world. AI is our chance to do it!" Anil Madhavapeddy, Professor of Planetary Computing, Department of Computer Science and Technology “Around one third of the world’s land surface has been transformed for human use in the last 60 years. It’s mad just how terrible local decision-making can be for preserving global biodiversity.
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Jan 16, 2025 | 
cam.ac.uk | Jacqueline Garget
Continental European snakes, geckos and Italian wall lizards are making their way to northern Europe undetected among imports of ornamental olive trees destined for gardens and green spaces. These hitchhiking intruders can become invasive pests that cause extensive damage to the natural environment - as has happened in previously snake-free islands of the Mediterranean like Majorca.
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Oct 6, 2024 | 
cam.ac.uk | Jacqueline Garget
Azim Surani has followed his curiosity for over half a century, rewriting science in the process. I was convinced that I was going to get a mouse to have a virgin birth on Christmas Day. Another scientist at Cambridge had managed to switch on the development of mouse eggs in the lab as if they’d been fertilised. It was like magic. I wondered if I could get them to develop to term.
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Oct 3, 2024 | 
cam.ac.uk | Jacqueline Garget
Nobody needs reminding that just a few years ago we were all plunged into a state of maximal uncertainty. We didn’t know what was going on, we couldn’t predict what would happen next, and the lockdowns were completely disruptive to normal life. Drug treatments and therapies for depression and anxiety do exist - but they’re only effective in 50% of people so it’s a ‘try and see’ approach, often with side-effects along the way.
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Sep 29, 2024 | 
cam.ac.uk | Jacqueline Garget
Jean Adams, Professor of Dietary Public Health at the University of Cambridge’s MRC Epidemiology Unit andMartin White, Professor of Population Health Research at the University of Cambridge’s MRC Epidemiology Unit If we want to address high levels of obesity and weight-related diseases in our population, we need both to treat people living with those conditions and prevent more people developing them.
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Aug 20, 2024 | 
eastangliabylines.co.uk | Jacqueline Garget
Many have said it’s an impossible task. But a new approach is astonishing scientists by clearing the UK of destructive American mink – the lasting hangover of mink farming – unbelievably quickly. Early trappers of American mink were onto a lucrative business: across the world people were going crazy for its fur. UK mink farms, first opened in the 1920s, proliferated into the hundreds at the industry’s height. But, through escape or release, mink ventured out across Britain’s landscape.
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Aug 12, 2024 | 
cam.ac.uk | Jacqueline Garget
A new generation of trappers is ending a catastrophic UK invasion symbols. Many have said it's an impossible task. But a new approach is astonishing scientists by clearing the UK of destructive American mink - the lasting hangover of mink farming - unbelievably quickly. Early trappers of American mink were onto a lucrative business: across the world people were going crazy for its fur.
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Jul 14, 2024 | 
cam.ac.uk | Jacqueline Garget
Patients are vital to advances in tackling cancer Involving the community that benefits from the work may sound obvious, but patient involvement in cancer research has only recently become an accepted priority. “If we want a new scientific discovery or new treatment to be accepted, we have to explain it properly and build trust with the people who are going to use it.
