Thank you @amandabartlett.bsky.social and @sfgate.com for this wonderful piece about my recently published research on San Francisco #coyotes. Read it to learn more about how studying the diet of urban animals can help us learn to better coexist with them 🐾

📢I’m excited to share that my second dissertation chapter has now been published in Ecology Letters! We used stable isotope analysis to examine if urbanization influences individual dietary specialization 🧪 🧵 Read it here: doi.org/10.1111/ele.... #OpenAccess #UrbanEcology #UrbanWildlife

After a long posting break, it’s time for a big life update! 🎓 I graduated from @ucdavis.bsky.social in June, and today I'm starting as an NSF PRFB postdoc in Chris Schell’s lab at @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social. Though SF coyotes will always have my heart, I'm pivoting from coyotes to raccoons 🦝

🌆🐾 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! 🌇🦝🧬🌳

Ready to connect with urban ecologists and wildlife managers from around the world? The International Urban Wildlife Conference starts June 1st in Atlanta! 🦝🎡🌎 Workshops, field trips, plenaries & more: www.urban-wildlife.org/about #IUWC2025 #UrbanWildlife #UrbanEcology #UrbanEvolution

It was great being part of this longform @nytimes.com article about the San Francisco coyotes- with @talicaspi.bsky.social, Chris Schell, & @drpheebs.bsky.social . Loren Elliott's photos are incredible! Check it out. 🧪🌎 www.nytimes.com/2025/05/19/u...

SF coyotes in the @nytimes.com! Feat. the most incredible photography by Loren Elliot (@lorenelliotphoto). "After a long absence from the city, the animals have become ubiquitous again. Some residents find them delightful, but others view them with disdain." www.nytimes.com/2025/05/19/u...

I'm just going to keep telling you to look at our zine because this shit is cute and maybe you'd want to make one for your city too 👀

I wrote a piece for The Academic Minute! Listen to learn more about our work on San Francisco #coyote diets 🎧 academicminute.org/tali-caspi-u... #UrbanWildlife #UrbanEcology

"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...

🧵🐺🧬 An important point is getting lost in the discussion abt today's "deextinction" news: Colossal is not just claiming to have created something akin to a dire wolf. They claim they've made new/unpublished genetic discoveries that would rewrite our understanding of dire wolf evolution & anatomy 🧪

Happy to answer any questions about #IUWC2025 if you have them! See you in Atlanta!

We are excited to share that we have THREE incredible plenary speakers presenting at #IUWC2025 this year! They will give talks that fit with our theme of Urban Reflections: What We’ve Learned About Nature, Our Communities and Ourselves. Stay tuned as we announce our speakers over the next few days 👀

Bay Area peeps! If you like art and coyotes, come check out this collab in Bernal on April 5th! I'll be giving a talk on SF coyotes and artist Frances Berriman will be showing her beautiful paintings showcasing the city's most iconic carnivores 🎨🐺🐾 #UrbanEcology #UrbanWildlife #SciComm #EcoArt

Join SF Animal Care & Control & Rec & Park for a virtual coyote coexistence workshop on Thursday, 2/27 from 5:30-7PM. Keli Hendricks from @projectcoyote.bsky.social will present on best practices for coyote coexistence including hazing for coyotes. Register for the meeting here: tinyurl.com/ye25dvzc

Our common garden experiment with urban and forest great tits is out early view in Evolution! doi.org/10.1093/evol... @denisreale.bsky.social @annecharmantier.bsky.social

thanks so much for the press release about our new urban coyote movement study, @calacademy.bsky.social !! 🧪🌎 www.calacademy.org/press/releas...

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....

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

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

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....

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!

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

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

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 :-)

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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...

🐦🧬 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 🧪

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!

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

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.

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

I recommend this for *all* models

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

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...

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!

Chris Schell talks #UrbanEcology and how forces of systemic racism impact wildlife. For instance, in St. Louis, groups of raccoons have noticeably different health markers depending on if they live in neglected Black neighborhoods or gentrified areas. 🦝 🐺 www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth...

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....

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/...

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

Well this was an excellent way to procrastinate this morning! Loving these vague words like "dynamics", "across", "depend", and "within" 🙃

We've been doing camera trapping in urban greenspace throughout the Chicagoland area for the last 15 years. We've amassed MILLIONS of images. This last Fall deployment was special though, as we photographed a North American River Otter for the VERY FIRST TIME! 🧪 shorturl.at/r6XMR