This project was years in the making, but I'm very excited with the finished product. Huge shout out to @mhmurray.bsky.social, @urbanzoochory.bsky.social, and all of our UWIN members! I'm very lucky to have such excellent collaborators.

Maureen H. Murray@mhmurray.bsky.social · 2mo ago

🕷️🐺Excited to share a new manuscript co-led by Tiziana Gelmi Candusso about the impacts of urbanization and climate on mange in urban coyotes out today in Nature Cities @natureportfolio.nature.com @urbanzoochory.bsky.social Link: nature.com/articles/s44284-026-00501-4 A thread 🧵

Some new research! We found that redlined neighborhoods in 177 U.S. cities had less greenspace, less naturally shaped greenspace, and lower connectivity among patches of greenspace. This relationship also increased with city population size! 🧪 esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Legacy effects of redlining on the distribution of greenspaces in US cities

We investigated how a discriminatory housing policy—redlining—has shaped the spatial patterns and configurations of greenspaces throughout 177 cities in the contiguous US. Housing segregation has bee...

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Out today, a companion article for my autoOcc R package: Estimating species occupancy across multiple sampling seasons with autologistic occupancy models via the autoOcc R package. #rstats 🧪 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Took a little walk just outside @lpzoo.org and came across a family of Cooper’s hawks. There were four flying from tree to tree, got a good picture of two of them!

In the past I've told people that "I've seen it all" when it comes to conducting an urban #cameratrapping study for 15 years. But today, after literally millions of images collected, we now have our first image of a deer peeing in the woods, so I guess there is still more to see out there 🤣🤣🤣🧪

Really excited about our new pub on how health (of people, animals, and ecosystems) can affect, and are affected by, human-wildlife interactions tinyurl.com/OneHealthHWIs In the BioScience One Health collection @aibsbiology.bsky.social 🧪 #humanwildlifeconflict #onehealth #urbanwildlife 🧵1/4

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🎉 Excited to share our new publication, out now in BioScience: “Health as an outcome and driver of human-wildlife interactions” Check it out here: tinyurl.com/OneHealthHWIs Huge thanks to @mhmurray.bsky.social for leading us, and to the rest of our amazing team! @aibsbiology.bsky.social 🧪🌍🐾👣

Online now: Disability in ecology and evolution

Disability in ecology and evolution

In this TrendsTalk series ‘Disability in ecology and evolution’ in Trends in Ecology and Evolution, we hear from people about their experiences being disabled in ecology and evolution. We are asking ecologists and evolutionary biologists with disabilities what the community could do to make our field more inclusive – these changes can be very practical things (e.g., large fonts), they could be institutional, or involve people’s attitudes and beliefs. If you identify as disabled or have a chronic condition, and would like to share your thoughts, please get in touch – tree@cell.com, we would love to hear from you.

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Apps are open for the 2026 Biota Awards postdoctoral fellowship! My coworkers and I would love to chat about this opportunity with recent PhD grads (or those close to finishing). We've been honored to receive funding from the Walder Foundation in the past! 🧪 www.biotaawards.org/2026-applica...

🦨 Ever wonder how skunks decide where to live in urban landscapes like Chicago? New research from @masonfidino.bsky.social, @lizalehrer.bsky.social, & @sbmagle.bsky.social from @lpzoo.org used nearly a decade of data to find out! 🦊🌍🧪 A 🧵

Do you study wildlife disease? Don't just share your sequences - share your testing data! We've developed a minimum data standard and an R package to help you, and wrote a little how-to-share-data handbook for disease ecology and One Health surveillance projects 🦇🦟🦠🗺️🔢 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A minimum data standard for wildlife disease research and surveillance - Scientific Data

Scientific Data - A minimum data standard for wildlife disease research and surveillance

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NEW! 🎉 We need wildlife disease surveillance to predict epidemics, but data sharing is rare - we found that only 2-3% of studies share raw data. So, we spent three years developing a data standard and R package to help get wildlife disease data into FAIR repositories. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Have you ever cited or come across a mention of the 'human shield hypothesis' and wondered: what is the evidence for this hypothesis, and what is the quality of that evidence? Wonder no more! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

The Human Shield Hypothesis: Does Predator Avoidance of Humans Create Refuges for Prey?

The human shield hypothesis posits that predators avoid areas of human disturbance due to perceived risk from humans, and prey therefore seeks refuge in these areas of perceived safety. Our systemati....

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Tiny Diel.Niche R package update, bin.diel.times() outputs the proportion of time diel periods take up over a day (e.g., night, day, twilight) by setting prop.time = TRUE. VERY helpful if you want to quantify use of a given diel period relative to availability! #rstats 🧪 github.com/diel-project...

GitHub - diel-project/Diel-Niche-Modeling

Contribute to diel-project/Diel-Niche-Modeling development by creating an account on GitHub.

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An update from the team on the uncertain future of our program and the impact of NSF budget cuts. Please share and reach out 🦠

🌆🐾 The International Urban Wildlife Conference kicks off this weekend in Atlanta! We’re bringing together researchers and practitioners to explore the ecology and evolution of cities. Stay tuned for updates, session highlights, and behind-the-scenes glimpses of #IUWC2025! 🌇🦝🧬🌳

Ecologists’ endless quest for automatic inference statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/05/28/e...

🐺🐺🐺 NEW PAPER! 🐺🐺🐺 Recovering wolves in WA tolerate threats except high harvest, high lethal removals, and lack of immigration With @labgardner.bsky.social, Sarah Converse, & Ben Maletzke zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Forecasting Dynamics of a Recolonizing Wolf Population Under Different Management Strategies

We use a novel spatially explicit projection model to evaluate how different management strategies and system uncertainties affect the recolonization dynamics of wolves. We found that scenarios relat....

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By far the largest glue up I’ve done. My shop isn’t great for dimensioning boards this size, so I’ve been putting off doing this for a while. Hopefully this does indeed become the top to my dresser!

Check out the @uofubiology.bsky.social press release on our recent paper documenting advances in molt phenology! attheu.utah.edu/research/as-...

As climate warms, migratory songbirds’ fall feather molt advances by a day every year - @theU

Study by U biologists taps data from 22,000 songbirds captured at Bonderman Field Station to reveal changes in how they replace their feathers

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Reviewing a revised manuscript and the other reviewer linked to this blog post of mine in one of their comments. It's little things like this that makes me think my statistical musings are actually helpful. 🙂 masonfidino.com/camera_days/

New blog post sharing updates on the latest version of the Diel.Niche R package, which we just released about an hour ago. Interested in quantifying if a species is nocturnal with data? Well it is easier than ever now! 🧪 #rstats #cameratrapping masonfidino.com/Diel.Niche_u...

Arguably the goofiest goose #cameratrapping photo we have collected in over 15 years of biodiversity monitoring throughout #Chicago. Be on the look out for laser eyes here in Humboldt Park! 🧪

Looking for ideas of how to structure a repository when publicly sharing data files from research projects? I've created a sample project on @cos.io to help you think through this. 👇 #databs #edresearch osf.io/59gte/

My graduate school held onto this banner for years (I placed in a research image competition while I was there), and now it has made its way back to my office.

In stark comparison to a recent paper I helped lead with over 200 coauthors, I just submitted my first sole authored paper today. VERY DIFFERENT WRITING PROCESSES.

New publication out this week in @stacksjournal.bsky.social where we looked at the relative roles local and long-distance colonization play on the distribution of striped skunks throughout the Chicago Metropolitan area! 🧪 www.stacksjournal.org/article/kase...

Local and long-distance colonization influence the distribution of a species in a fragmented landscape - Stacks Journal

Peer-reviewed research - Local and long-distance colonization influence the distribution of a species in a fragmented landscape

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Ah, yes, the joys of cleaning data from large-scale collaborations.

Our analysis of BBS data (through 2023) just came out! doi.org/10.5066/P1F2...

SAY CHEESE 🧪 #cameratrapping

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/...