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Maureen H. Murray

@mhmurray.bsky.social

One Health ecologist focused on human-wildlife interactions in cities 🏙️ Research on rats, coyotes, raccoons, ticks, community gardens 🦝🐝🌸 Usually thinking about rats 🐀 Often making crafts 🎨

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Maureen H. Murray@mhmurray.bsky.social · last yr.

Excited to share a @chicagotribune.com article featuring our work on contraception to manage #rats in cities. Contraception is a promising tool to reduce our use of rat poison, which harms the health of people, pets, and wildlife🐀🦉 #onehealth #urbanwildlife www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/27/c...

Researchers test plant-based birth control on Lincoln Park rats after deaths of owl family

The aim is to reduce the rat population without harming urban wildlife, including owls and hawks, which can die after eating poisoned rodents.

chicagotribune.com

Anonymous@youranoncentral.bsky.social · last yr.

Former US special forces soldier working for the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), Anthony Aguilar, recounts how a 5 year old Palestinian kissed his hands to thank him for the food he gave him. Seconds later, Israeli soldiers executed the starving child. #3E #FreePalestine 🧵

elia ayoub@ayoub.bsky.social · last yr.

"I witnessed the IDF shooting at the crowds of Palestinians," Anthony Aguilar told the BBC. He added that he has never witnessed such a level of "brutality and use of indiscriminate and unnecessary force against a civilian population, an unarmed, starving population" www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...

Gaza: 'I witnessed war crimes,' former worker at GHF aid site tells BBC

A retired US soldier reveals why he quit working at Israel and US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation aid hubs.

bbc.co.uk

Maureen H. Murray@mhmurray.bsky.social · last yr.

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

Christine Wilkinson, PhD 🌈@scrappynaturalist.bsky.social · last yr.

🎉 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 🧪🌍🐾👣

Figure 2 from the described publication: A conceptual framework showing the links among human health, wildlife health, and environmental health in the context of human-wildlife interactions as well as key guiding questions to advance health equity and human-wildlife coexistence. The three main components of health included in the diagram are human health, wildlife health, and environmental health. Questions included are "Who disproportionately experiences the health benefits and risks of HWI?", "Who is more likely to experience HWI because of land use and climate change?", and "How do human actions to promote or prevent HWI affect wildlife health?"
Ele Willoughby@minouette.bsky.social · last yr.

A piece for Manufactured Ecosystems about the future of pollination about who decides what gets pollinated if humans and our devices are the only pollinators. 🐡🧪 The definition of “weed” is usually pretty arbitrary and usually all sorts of native plants get caught up in our human biases. 🧵

My linocut print on Arches paper with a deckle edge shows a common milkweed plant on collaged washi papers in green and plum overprinted with magenta sans serif text “WE’RE NOT WEEDS” with the Robobee pollination drone in black on an angle inside the O. The little drone is a vertical shaft with a dot and two wings at the top and a tripod at the bottom.
Isaac Rowlett@isaacrowlett.bsky.social · last yr.

Did you know the “weekend” and working only 8 hours per day used to be considered a radical, liberal idea? 139 years ago today, in Bay View, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 7 workers (including a 13 yo) lost their lives to advance this revolutionary idea. A 🧵

Black and white etching-style triptych showing 8 hours for work on the left, 8 hours for rest in the middle, and 8 hours for “what we will” on the right
Dr. Lucky Tran@luckytran.com · 2y ago

“It’s amazing that others in this room underwrote electing a man who, in the last week, single-handedly destroyed all of American science. It’s amazing how much good science you can destroy with $320 million and RFK Jr, very fast.” — Seth Rogen’s censored remarks presenting the Breakthrough Prize

Seth Rogen presenting the Breakthrough Prize for physics (Getty)
Maureen H. Murray@mhmurray.bsky.social · 2y ago

We've been getting a ton of press for our study about urban rats and climate change, but I think a career highlight for me is getting featured on Atlas Obscura! @jrichardson44.bsky.social @atlasobscura.com #rats #climatechange #urbanecology

Preview of an article from Atlas Obscura with a photo of a rat under a garbage bag by some cobblestones and the headline "Rat populations are rising"
Jonathan Richardson@jrichardson44.bsky.social · 2y ago

Our study looking at global trends in urban rat numbers is out now in @science.org Advances. This project started b/c we were frustrated that there were lots of media reports about rat increases, but not backed by solid data. Here, we tried to provide that data: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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

This is why One Health is important - communication between the veterinary community and wildlife health community can help prevent unintended harms #OneHealth

Brigit Strawbridge@brigitstrawbridge.bsky.social · 2y ago

"100% of the nests contained fipronil, banned in the UK and EU for agricultural use, and 89% contained imidacloprid, banned in the EU as a plant protection product. Both are still widely used in pet flea treatments..." #neonics #cats #dogs #birds #pesticides www.theguardian.com/environment/....

Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁@minibubbly.bsky.social · 2y ago

N.B. Liquor won't buy U.S. alcohol, even with tariff delay #NewBrunswick With trade threat delayed but not gone, premier says stores won’t order more American booze www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

N.B. Liquor won't buy U.S. alcohol, even with tariff delay | CBC News

New Brunswick had planned to remove U.S. alcohol from N.B. Liquor stores and avoid signing all but the most essential contracts with U.S. firms before Trudeau announced the tariffs would be delayed a ...

cbc.ca