Interacting effects of human presence and landscape modification on birds and mammals | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Long overdue but fun to work with this group still on Mongolian saiga (& their interactions with domestic sheep)! Read the paper here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🧪🐐🐑

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New paper on beavers 🦫 out today 🧪 We looked for linkages between animal behavior and translocation success. authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

Our paper came out today on experimental insights into scent-marking behavior of coyotes during territorial establishment and re-establishment. This was a FUN experiment to run!🧪 cdnsciencepub.com/doi/full/10....

Happy news came today! This letter should come with a tweed sports coat with elbow patches. 🎓

Roland Kays made a cool vidoe of our work here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZ22... The paper is here: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧪🐾

Honored to join the IUCN SSC Human-Wildlife Conflict & Coexistence Specialist Group! www.hwctf.org/about

🧪🐻🚨We're hiring techs for bear work this summer: jobs.rwfm.tamu.edu/view-job/?id...

Fun interview today: youtu.be/3UWeiWiS3sY?... 🧪👩‍🔬

New paper out today on genetic connectivity of cougars in Utah🐈🧪🧬 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

South Jackson Sr Wildl Biol position @ WGFD in Star Valley, Lincoln County, WY. Potential applicants are welcome to reach out to learn more.

Cool coyote article about ❤️‍🩹! www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/arti...

April Wood and I were interviewed about the status of our nonlethal tool research to reduce depredations by mountain lions in California. Listen here: www.cfbf.com/ag-news/voic... 🧪🐱🐑🐂🐐🐎

Our study is published on linking behavior and predation data to improve inference on interspecific risk perception in carnivores. learn all about how 🐱deal with 🐻! 🧪https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ecs2.70503

Final paper by Mitch and all! On how introduced wild pigs affect the foraging ecology of a native predator as both prey and scavenger. 🧪🐖🐱https://nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/wlb3.01581

USU Today wrote about our research on a new device for deterring livestock predators. 🧪🐑🐂 Commercially available soon - bug herddogg.com! url:https://www.usu.edu/today/story/simple-flashing-ear-tag-technology-shows-promise-for-deterring-livestock-predators

Fun to be a small part of a big 🔥🐆🦌🐻 paper published in @ecography.bsky.social doi.org/10.1002/ecog...

🧪🐷🦌New paper out today on (lack of) competition between native deer and wild pigs: esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Tool use by wolves! So cool: www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

🚨 Hiring a field technician! Help us live-trap (for GPS collars) and camera-trap mesocarnivores in Wichita, KS! See details here: docs.google.com/document/d/1... 🧪🦊🐱

🚨 Live or want to visit Michigan this winter? Come work for us! Short-term tech job in December, with housing: jobs.rwfm.tamu.edu/view-job/?id... 🐻🧪❄️

Hey grad students studying animal behavior! Need a little extra research $$? (Don't we all?) Apply for an ABS Student Research Grant! We award grants up to $2,000 to grad students & give feedback on the proposals. Deadline Dec 15. More info here: www.animalbehaviorsociety.org/web/awards-s...

Our paper just came out on animal behavior & translocations! 🧪 kwnsfk27.r.eu-west-1.awstrack.me/L0/https:%2F...

Fun to be a tiny part (cougar & coyote data from Utah) of this research by Fagan & team! 🐱🐺🧪 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

🚨Great job with great people in Alaska 🐺🦌🧪 We are recruiting for a wildlife biologist to support our predator-prey program in Southeast Alaska. This application is now open. This is a great career starting point with room for growth in this field. www.governmentjobs.com/careers/%7B0...

Graduate position (PhD or MS) available on mountain lions🐱 at USU! Check it out: drive.google.com/file/d/1CahA...

Come join my lab!!! 🧪🦊🐺🐱seeking a PhD student for urban mesocarnivore research. Details at jobs.rwfm.tamu.edu/view-job/?id... or my website: drjuliekyoung.weebly.com

Now it made it to @npr.org on @waitwaitdonttellme.bsky.social! 🧪🐺🐮🤩

Grad student Lori McCurdy in my lab is working on reducing wolf depredation and created this clip of 'voices' for intense human sounds 😂 Intense scene from Scarlett Johansson and Adam Driver’s film ‘Marriage Story’ is great for scaring away wolves, apparently share.google/mcvEDx3nN0iI...

Nice coverage of our research about how livestock guardian dogs help in farms! www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/c...

We're hiring! Remote work on red wolf behavior 🐺🧪 jobs.rwfm.tamu.edu/view-job/?id...

Morning panel at the Red Wolf workshop. 🧪🐺

New paper out: Food Subsidies Reduce Livestock Depredations by a Recovering Carnivore - Hyde - Animal Conservation - Wiley Online Library zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 🐺🧪🐮

Fun to be a part of this group of urban ecologists, led by @mhmurray.bsky.social ! Here's our first publication: track.smtpsendmail.com/9032119/c?p=...

Meet Patches, as the cemetery staff call him.

Back to urban wildlife work 🧪🦊🤞

The Berryman Institute brings you the second edition of The Human-Wildlife Report - a quarterly newsletter with updates on the most recent research by our faculty & students, news & media highlights, & education and outreach events & opportunities. Signup at: usu.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Anyone remember a few years ago when there were these videos of 'extreme' sheepherding with lights?!? Like this: www.youtube.com/watch?v=L90Z... Well, I saw one video and immediately thought: no carnivore is going near those lit up herds, lol. Then...I thought WAIT, let's try it. 🧪🐑🐺

The bears like our [duct tape] hair snare! 😍🧪🐻

I was in the field so delayed to share this new paper led by Heather Abernathy & Mark Ditmer showing that deer respond more to humans than cougars. Cool application of smart phone data!📱😺🦌🚶🧪 nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Anna Miller and I spent this week with MS student Sara and her fantastic techs building hair snares in Michigan for our Baldwin Black Bear Project. Hoping for lots of samples! 🐻🤞🐻

We're hiring a part-time field tech in California! Hoping to find someone local to help us out! Check it out on the opportunities tab of my website: drjuliekyoung.weebly.com/opportunitie...

I've joined the 21st century and made a lab website! Check it out: drjuliekyoung.weebly.com. It's unfinished for lab alumni but getting there. Thoughts for this luddite?

Apparently we get mistaken for one another (why?). But it's fun to have a gang of female biologists who study carnivores!

First ever newsletter for the Berryman Institute just dropped! Read about our relaunch and human-wildlife interactions here: usu.mmsend.com/link.cfm?r=U... 🧪🦁🦌🚶‍♂️

Back @utahstate.bsky.social and listening to the WILD graduate student symposium talks! What a great crew of students and upcoming research projects!

It's really been a nice week at the WAFWA mountain lion workshop. Learning a lot while feeling a sense of relief to be surrounded by people who value wildlife and science! 🧪🦁

Our study on urban canids is published @wildlifebiology.bsky.social with Kansas Parks & Wildlife: nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... Unexpectedly found benefits to the state wildlife agency beyond gaining information about their wildlife!

Yesterday was a good day for our mountain lion research. We detected first lion at a deterrent and this podcast came out (start at 4:30): open.spotify.com/episode/5ef1...