This is not a field for people who are not keen on with working with people. Yes, it's important to be a good scientist, but being in this space is often just as much about diplomacy, tact, and people skills, which we're not taught in school. Build your "soft skills". Hard.

That being said, I think the biggest skillset to build if you're interested in coexistence work is empathy and patience. People will not agree with you. They may not share your values. One of the most humbling things you'll learn is your viewpoint isn't objectively the right one.

I genuinely thought that I'd grow up to be Miles Morales, but after I seeing #IntotheSpiderverse, I realize I'm probably Spiderpunk 😂

🎞️Understanding superstitious beliefs about wildlife, mobilising traditional ecological knowledge & practitioners, and examining values were all covered in the culture and traditional knowledge symposium at #HWCC2023: youtube.com/playlist?list=…

Kea 😍

It's good to be back!

Looking for a 🔵🌌 invite if anyone has one! 👀 Seems doomsday is near for this app.

Just a reminder to folks that I'll be transitioning largely over to Instagram @bescicurious soon, as Twitter continues to be less of an active platform. This account will still exist, but for more active scicomm, or to connect with me, please check me out there!

New neighbors unlocked 🎉🎉 Saw this group of giraffes (technically, a "tower") standing near the roadside on one of the game farms while going to a farm visit this morning in Ghanzi District, Kalahari, Botswana

omg

Imagine if someone stole your stuff took professional photos of it, and then tweeted about how important your stuff is to you.

When I received 2 scholarships back in April, the first thing I thought was “Did I receive these because I check a diversity box?” which was really crappy

Isn’t pursuing a PhD supposed to be a time to learn how to be a researcher? It seems at time (at least on Twitter) folks want aspiring PhD students to be fully formed researchers. That’s not how that works.

This afternoon I successfully defended my dissertation on my work with Black children in nature. Dr. Jones in full effect!!! 🎉🎉🎉

Emerging from my six month study cave hibernation to say: passed my PhD qualifying exam!!!!! And it went super well???!??! Thrilled and so excited. 🎉✨👏🏽🔥 Get hype, world. We're gonna do some dope science together.

Come join my lab at MS State! I’m investigating relationships between bird communities, fine-scale urbanization, & participatory science. More info & application instructions here: jobs.rwfm.tamu.edu/view-job/?id=8…

New interview up! I've slowed down on the interview circuit in 2023 because I've been pretty snowed under trying to hit my PhD landmarks but super proud to talk human-wildlife conflict mitigation in Sub-Saharan Africa with K9 Podcasts! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/k9-… #ScienceTwitter

Gabi (Gabi Fleury (they/them) 🏳️‍🌈 🇧🇷 🇦🇴 🐆) featured in a WILDLABS Community piece! Very cool! wildlabs.net/article/holist…

International field biologists who have flown with rechargeable batteries for camera traps - please connect with me! Trying to figure out how best to get a bunch of camera batteries to Botswana and which kind of rechargeable batteries to purchase.

Super excited to have written a profile of the awe-inspiring Gabi Fleury (they/them) 🏳️‍🌈 🇧🇷 🇦🇴 🐆 for Rotary International Magazine. The print edition looks stunning while the online version can be read here: rotary.org/en/interspecie… Gabi is shaking up the conservation field and human-wildlife interactions.