Importantly, we also find that whiter and wealthier neighborhoods have higher rates of participation on Nextdoor, indicating researchers must consider biases from differential reporting when interpreting these data.

Wilson Sherman@wilsonsherm.bsky.social · last yr.

We find that black bear and coyote reports show distinct spatial and temporal patterns, and that reports of these species on Nextdoor were 11 times more numerous than reports on iNaturalist in the area and timeframe we studied.

We find that black bear and coyote reports show distinct spatial and temporal patterns, and that reports of these species on Nextdoor were 11 times more numerous than reports on iNaturalist in the area and timeframe we studied.

Wilson Sherman@wilsonsherm.bsky.social · last yr.

"The wildlife Nextdoor: Socioeconomics and race predict social media carnivore reports" is out in Science of the Total Environment. @scrappynaturalist.bsky.social, Christopher Schell, and I looked at how people post about coyotes and black bears on Nextdoor. doi.org/10.1016/j.sc...

"The wildlife Nextdoor: Socioeconomics and race predict social media carnivore reports" is out in Science of the Total Environment. @scrappynaturalist.bsky.social, Christopher Schell, and I looked at how people post about coyotes and black bears on Nextdoor. doi.org/10.1016/j.sc...

Those interested in human-wildlife histories, LA, or helicopters will enjoy the latest episode of The Labyrinth Project’s podcast. My advisor Christopher Kelty tells the story of ongoing wildlife relocations from LA to the nearby forest, and of our shifting ideas about where animals belong.

The Los Angeles Animal Airlift

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Thanks so much to Lila for this LA Times article about our new publication about social-ecological influences on coyote movement in Los Angeles! 🧪🌎🏙️ Check out the publication here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Environmental Health and Societal Wealth Predict Movement Patterns of an Urban Carnivore

Using GPS collar data from coyotes (Canis latrans) in Los Angeles, California, we show that movement models with societal covariates outperform those considering only linear infrastructure and ecolog....

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Lila Seidman@lilaseidman.bsky.social · 2y ago

Contrary to their hypothesis, researchers found that L.A. coyotes appear not to prefer wealthy areas. Why? A new study suggests residents in affluent areas may be more likely to pay to kill them. The authors wondered if they were aware of the threat. www.latimes.com/environment/...

Hey all! 🦋 A really lovely group of co-authors and I wrote this recent piece for the special issue @society4conbio.bsky.social. We talk about both the challenges and strengths that come with being Black and queer in conservation ✊🏾🏳️‍🌈🌱 Always a re-energizing read for me! ❤️ doi.org/10.1111/cobi...

Queer Black voices in conservation

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AWESOME work by some incredible scientists. Papers like these that investigate how we think about and conduct our science are so important. Read, read, read it! Congrats to my grad school labmate Ren, @leafwarbler.bsky.social, and coauthors :)

Madhusudan 🦉 Katti@leafwarbler.myatproto.social · 2y ago

1. Thrilled to share a new paper from my group out this week in Ecosphere where we critique the much researched “luxury effect” in urban ecology and offer a power-based socioecological framework to complicate our understanding of how wealth may or may not influence biodiversity. #oa 🧵:

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

The Coyotes Arrived. Now, They’re Changing Angel Island. - Bay Nature

Years ago, a scientist proposed introducing coyotes to control the island’s deer population. Now, it seems coyotes have since swam over on their own.

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