Apply to join our team at @nhm.org ! We are hiring a Program Manager of Community Science- full time temporary for 4 months (on grant funds) and part-time permanent after that. Application review begins January 5. tinyurl.com/NHMCS2025 🧪🌎

Introduce yourself with 5 animals you’ve seen in the wild: Gila monster American badger Mink Steindachner’s ebony tarantula Ovenbird

I worked in the scat analysis part of this as an undergrad way back when! So cool to see this work published thanks to Kate Weiss

This crucially important and obviously visionary work makes me feel vindicated for having said the same thing last year, albeit with much less evidence, while being mercilessly mocked by the city and its residents. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

The GRFP lives!! (due end of October) www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

So amazing our team’s work is getting recognized on @npr.org for our successful bi-national translocation of California red-legged frogs. Was super fun chatting with Nate about the project!

EEB Mentor Match for 2025 is now open! This is an opportunity for students applying to graduate school in Ecology, Evolution, or Behavior to be matched with a mentor to guide them through the application process. Mentors can sign up too! eebmentormatch.com

On my way home with my fresh-off-the-needles raccoon socks from the best conference in the world. Hope to see everybody again in 2027 in Milwaukee! #IUWC2025

From Akinwale Oladimeji (my academic sibling): Patterns of wildlife occurrence in urban Cape Town 🇿🇦 - there are significant species-level differences, but most species responded negatively to impervious cover #IUWC2025

From Shawn Fujioka: A plant talk at a wildlife conference! Increased management effort by park staff leads to increased native plant biodiversity and reduced threats from invasive species #IUWC2025

From Mark Johnston: Powerline right-of-ways as corridors for movement of wildlife through urban landscapes #IUWC2025

From Nicole Kemon: Bird feeder cleaning is correlated with motives behind feeding birds, with attitudes of care & environmental stewardship leading to more frequent cleaning compared to self-interested feeders #IUWC2025

From @kayleebyers.bsky.social: Based on currently-published literature, we know very little about chronic wasting disease dynamics in urban landscapes #IUWC2025

From Zehidul Hussain: Looking forward to seeing the integration of behavioral videos, collar data, and landscape information to understand urban deer ecology #IUWC2025

From Andrea Darracq: An interesting longitudinal (and ongoing!) dataset of coupled human health & biodiversity data to investigate OneHealth mechanisms #IUWC2025

From Andrea Flores: More frequent rat sightings reduces the perceived restorative benefits of connection to nature in Chicago’s urban gardens #IUWC2025

From Marie Lilly: Functional connectivity for deer drives distribution of tick-borne pathogens in New York City #IUWC2025

Ready to (almost) close out the all-day UWIN symposium with my talk on white-footed mice! Come learn about the small warm-fuzzies in the big city! #IUWC2025

From Amanda Zellmer: AI detection tools work really well to catch most target species for wildlife cameras. They just don’t work as well for smaller species like rats/lizards/songbirds #IUWC2025

From Laura Limonciello: A super interesting overview of the state of urban biodiversity research & urban mammal occupancies in Italy 🇮🇹 #IUWC2025

From Taylor Readyhough: Red fox avoidance of coyotes is dynamic and was significantly impacted by COVID lockdowns in Cleveland #IUWC2025

From @sciencewithtyus.bsky.social: Cat temporal oscillation effect - cats alter their space use throughout the day to maximize access to resources (anthro subsidies in residential areas during day; natural areas at night to hunt prey) #IUWC2025

From Emily Blackwell: Raccons may be more susceptible to heat stress, given their responses (site occupancy & activity patterns) to urban heat islands #IUWC2025

Looking forward to future camera collar data from @mellamorooster.bsky.social on urban white-tail deer! #IUWC2025

From @urbanzoochory.bsky.social: Mangy coyotes are more likely to occur in cities with milder winters & higher humidity. Thus, mange could become more common in cities at higher latitudes under climate change #IUWC2025

From Austin Green: Fawning mule deer alter their activity patterns in response to urbanization and coyote presence more strongly than lone deer #IUWC2025

From @testudinidude.bsky.social: cool work emphasizing the importance of species-level variance within bird responses to urbanization #IUWC2025

From Ann Smithson: Even a quirky system is better than no system in the opinions of wildlife management agencies when it comes to conflict reporting systems #IUWC2025

Cool talk on eco forecasting from @masonfidino.bsky.social predicting urban wildlife distributions in unsampled cities #IUWC2025

So ready for the all day UWIN symposium & learning all about my friends’ and colleagues’ cool research! #IUWC2025

From @urbanbirdnerd.bsky.social: Different components of urban environments impact song structure & reproduction in different ways in American robins #IUWC2025

From Melissa Gonzalez: Modern birds reflect more heat than historic (1880-1930) birds due to decreases in black carbon air pollution #CollectionsMatter #IUWC2025

From Kate Weiss: Toward a social-ecological-evolutionary-phenotype approach to understand wildlife adaptation to urbanization #IUWC2025

From @wild-summer.bsky.social: LA coyote populations have varying levels of genetic diversity but we’re still trying to understand why, as it’s not easily explained by common urban metrics like impervious surface cover #IUWC2025

From Cassandra Rodriguez: Traditional pedigree have methods consistently underestimated inbreeding in LA pumas, highlighting the increasingly critical need for wildlife corridors/crossings #IUWC2025

From Tiffany Chen: Sunda pangolins are very sensitive to human activity, highlighting the importance of protected areas next to urban development in Vietnam #IUWC2025

From Amy Greene/Bell Isle Nature Center: Outdoor sports (eg kayaking, pickle ball, etc.) are an important source of connection to nature for folks. They also identified outdoor cooking classes, date nights, & en plein air art programs as addt’l ways to connect #IUWC2025

From Adam Rohnke: More examples of desire from the public to engage with #UrbanWildlife but a desire for more resources, even at HOA’s across the economic spectrum #IUWC2025

Cool plenary from Dr. Stweard Pickett - makes me feel like I’m back in a #HumanGeography grad seminar with all the talk of “co-production” and “place and space”

Ready for my absolute fav conference to start! #IUWC2025

1st incident of camera vandalism in our #SanDiego #UrbanWildlife project: melting the plastic shields over the motion sensor and LEDs

Congrats to my UCSD undergrad mentee Sandra for presenting our preliminary camera trapping results at her first-ever conference at #WCBSURC!

They are in a band together 🧪 #cameratrapping

Check out this promo for the museum’s healthy canyons project featuring me! 👩‍🔬🧪 www.instagram.com/share/BACZUv...

Looking for an urban ecology postdoc? Want to be partners in crime with me to shape an alliance for urban nature amongst California's largest science institutions? Love camera trapping? Apply for this position! 🧪👩‍🔬🌎🌿🌱 #EcoECRcareer aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04719

Using @masonfidino.bsky.social’s blog post as a tutorial, I have successfully run my first #NIMBLE occupancy model! 🧪🎉

Some of my favorite photos from our 1st season of sampling in #SanDiego 🧪🌎🌿

I made a starter pack for researchers with UWIN--the Urban Wildlife Information Network (www.urbanwildlifeinfo.org). Let me know if you want in! go.bsky.app/Eei6Tbs

If you’re looking for more small mammal research after yesterday’s talks, check out my talk this afternoon (3:30pm in Peale) on the relationships between predator occurrence and urban deer mouse abundance #TWS2024

If you’re also at #TWS2024 this week and want to meet up, you can find me wearing my woodland cardigan (that I knit myself, btw!)