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Happy Valentine's Day from these Lovebirds! #bird #valentine #valentinesday #love #lovebird #photography #wildlife #wildlifephotography #bluemoonistic

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Size in the city: morphological differences between city and forest great tits have a genetic basis https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.05.636678v1

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New in Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment: Birds in cities can be both good & bad for human well-being, but their impact is under-studied and likely varies across groups & cityscapes 📄Bird-mediated ecosystem services and disservices in cities and towns doi.org/10.1002/fee....

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This year at #IUWC2025 we have a ~new and improved~ Mentor and Mentee program. We pair early career folks with more experienced professionals to facilitate networking and communication at the conference. Visit www.urban-wildlife.org/mentormentee... for more information and to sign up!

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Don't forget to register for the best conference of all time! See you in Atlanta! 🎡#IUWC2025

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Things are heating up in the "war on rats". 🧪🦊 www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/arti...

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Come do a PhD with Sinead English @englishse.bsky.social , Dan Padfield @padpadpadpad.bsky.social and me on Gulls! GPS- and Bluetooth-tracking! Microbiomes & AMR acquisition & transmission! Human-wildlife conflict & mitigation! should be fun :-)

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The Urban Wildlife Working Group is excited to announce a FREE workshop on Wildlife Field Worker Safety in Urban Spaces taking place on Zoom on February 24th from 1-3 pm Eastern Time. See you there! 🦺 #UrbanEcology #FieldWork Register here: umd.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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Thank you @sfgate.com for this wonderful piece on our new study! www.sfgate.com/local/articl...

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Thank you @katkerlin.bsky.social for writing such a great press release on this work!

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I'm so excited to share that my first dissertation chapter on SF coyotes is out in the #OpenAccess journal Ecosphere @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social. We DNA metabarcoded and genotyped hundreds of scats to explore dietary variation across the city 🧬💩 🧪 doi.org/10.1002/ecs2...

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The next seminar in our Wild Animal Lives series will be on January 29 at 3 pm GMT. Focusing on #urbanecology, it will feature Amanda Trask of @zslscience.bsky.social, Charlotte Burn of RVC, and Marion Chatelain of the University of Innsbruck. Register here: https://buff.ly/4gBx7VP

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NEW PAPER: diet, but not blood parasite infection, influence microbiota diversity in house sparrows, suggesting local microbial adaptations to urban habitats. ➡️ https://vist.ly/3msntki #Ornithology #UrbanEcology #Microbiota #Birds #AvianMalaria @NordicOikos.bsky.social

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Check out the awesome #urbanbiodiversity and #urbanecology lab happening at Living Earth Collaborative!

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We have finally joined y'all here just in time to start getting everyone stoked for the International Urban Wildlife Conference in Atlanta this June #IUWC2025. Peep our conference website--we'll be announcing our plenary speakers, field trips, workshops, and more soon! 👀 www.urban-wildlife.org

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Yesterday a coyote went into a grocery store in Chicago. news.wttw.com/2025/01/13/c...

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When I see coyotes in SF, they often have their ears like this—what I've heard called "airplane ears". What's going on here? It's making me think of this paper on how traits that predict domestication also predict adaptation of wildlife to urban environments. ✈️ 🐾 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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🐦🧬 Bird feathers signal gut health New research published in @oikosjournal.bsky.social reveals that wild cardinals' feather colour and body condition predict gut microbiome diversity - shedding light on bird fitness and health links. 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/oik.... #Birds #Microbiome #SciComm 🧪

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We are meeting with a lot of county agriculture commissioners right now as we prepare to launch a new study (in January) on reducing livestock🐂🐑🐐🦙depredation by cougars🐱 in California. I hope we can get lots of #LivestockOwners to participate!

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Cities are making brushtail possums sick! Check out Tara’s poster 168 and speed talk at 5:20pm at the Nature in Cities symposium @ESAus2024

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My student Griffin just sent me this profoundly sad photo of a Great Bowerbird bower. The painting on the right depicts what the bower should look like, filled with pebbles, shells, and bones. Nowadays, the birds use what they can most easily find in their surroundings: garbage.

submitted 80 days ago • 8 comments

Thanks @physaliacourses.bsky.social and @leeselab.bsky.social and @shump.bsky.social for teaching this amazing course as our latest #eDNA #microgrant!!

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I recommend this for all models

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Is there a tool that can identify where citations in a manuscript might be missing information (e.g., issue numbers, page numbers)? The good news is that I had a paper accepted! The bad news is that I've been told that not every citation has complete information... #ScientificResearch #PhDLife

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For you SoCal people, if you have not seen this episode of 'Nature' (San Diego - America's Wildest City), you need to. My Ecosystems of California class will be watching it today discussing the awesome ecology, and identifying the plants, & wildlife featured. www.pbs.org/video/san-di...

submitted 81 days ago • 2 comments

urbanevolution-litc.com is BACK! whew! so many hours lost and I learned more about sql databases than I ever cared to know this past week. But the important thing is, we're back. Next up I'll get us on BlueSky so we can roll out our #urbanevolution #urbanecology content here!

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New study shows that wolves boost scavenger biomass, but plant resources are key for their dynamics. Human hunting impacts scavengers only when wolves are absent. Adapting hunting strategies is crucial as wolves and boars return. #WildlifeResearch #Ecology onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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ICYMI: Gray wolves in California are on the rise! Two new packs were confirmed last month, and wildlife officials say more are poised to form. It's a stunning turnaround for the native species that was hunted to oblivion a century ago. More in my latest: www.latimes.com/environment/...

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In the middle of the San Francisco Bay, Angel Island (known as the “Ellis Island of the West”) has been a Coast Miwok hunting ground then an immigration station. Now it’s a State Park. It’s full of deer. And coyotes are swimming to it. baynature.org/2024/11/19/c... @baynatureinstitute.bsky.social

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