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...

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 🧵

"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/...

Doctors and health officials report wave of hunger deaths in Gaza https://on.ft.com/3IJ5jTB

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

🎉 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 🧪🌍🐾👣

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. 🧵

If you love libraries, tell us why and repost this!

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 🧵

What a great endorsement to vote Liberal or NDP or Green (depending on your riding) today 🇨🇦 If you're worried about splitting the vote, you can check here: smartvoting.ca/ridings/fede... #CdnPoli #CanadianElection

2025 Federal Election Results link here for tonight #FederalElection #Canada #cdnpoli #Elxn45 🍁 Link 🔗 www.ctvnews.ca/federal-elec...

Celebrating spring with Lino stamps and voting for Mark Carney #cdnpoli #easter #printmaking #lino #linocut #blockprinting #printsky

“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

Happy World Rat Day! 🐀 Here's to staying curious about rats and improving rat management #linocut #printmaking #rat #WorldRatDay

Who wants some good news? The overwintering monarch population, which had plummeted last winter, has doubled this winter! www.worldwildlife.org/stories/east...

"If [Galileo] had had grant funding and a website, the Catholic Church would have suspended the former and scrubbed the latter" www.nature.com/articles/d41...

"We’re witnessing the self-sabotage of the United States" from @davidfrum.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

In honour of today’s economic blackout 🐛🦋✊ #printsky #linocut #printmaking #boycott

I’m somehow on a Heritage Foundation mailing list (😂) and they sent a survey to see what we think of DOGE. Who wants to offer some m-fing feedback?!? secured.heritage.org/the-heritage... Please share with a friend or a thousand :)

Excited to share our new study "Environmental health and societal wealth predict movement patterns of an urban carnivore"- out today in Ecology Letters! All about how social-ecological features influence coyote movement. (1/n) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11… [📸 Johanna Turner] 🧪🌎

We’re partnering w/ a number of groups participating in an #economicblackout THIS Friday, 2/28. Do not spend, if possible. No Starbucks on your way to work. No drinks w/ the coworkers after work. No dining out. No Walmart run. No quick McDonald’s drive-thru hit. Hurt their wallets!

Nice feature in NYC news! To be clear, I can’t emphasize enough how much rats love garbage. They cut my garbage rant! #rats #climatechange #urbanecology

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

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

Have you signed the Pledge for Canada? We have almost 50,000 names. Let's get to 60,000. Sign and share. actionnetwork.org/petitions/pl...

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/...

Despite all of the chaos right now, it’s nice to celebrate Monarch day! We planted some milkweed last year and got to witness monarch caterpillar growth and emergence. If you build it they will come 🌸🐛🦋 #MonarchButterfly #Savethepollinators #wildlifegardening

I don't know how else to put this: This is fucking insane. NSF, a $10 billion grantmaking agency, is planning to lay off between a quarter and a half of its staff in the next two months.

Remember to keep buying Canadian as much as possible until the next tariff deadline. Standing up to bullies is extra important right now 🇨🇦

“Since 1980, Congress has mandated that the agency seek to broaden participation of underrepresented groups […] The NSF spokesperson did not respond to a query about concerns that Trump’s executive orders are at odds with the agency’s responsibilities, as codified in law.”

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

Wood fern prints 🌿 another beautiful Acadian forest native plant My first time using hessian backed grey lino and… it is rough going with beginner’s ink #linoprint

“Now is the time for science, not silence”

This is a great time to support your local farmer's market in Canada (if you can). I've been surprised at how often prices are the same or even lower for produce, meat, and eggs. 🇨🇦 www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

If you’re in the US and you’d like to know what projects and vital services federal grants currently fund in your state, you can search here: www.usaspending.gov And you can find the contact information for your elected representatives here: www.usa.gov/elected-offi... They need to hear from you.

I think some people hear “grants” and think that without them, scientists and government workers just have less stuff to play with at work. But grants fund salaries for students, academics, researchers, and people who work in all areas of public service. “Pausing” grants means people don’t eat.

My favorite conference by far! But I’m biased 😊

Pandemics, global change, and biodiversity loss? In a new paper published in the first issue of @natrevbiodiv.bsky.social, we argue that these are three facets of an ongoing polycrisis, with common roots, and hopefully common solution. A short thread. 🧪😷 www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Did your child lose their book collection in the Los Angeles fires? Are you a teacher at a school that lost its library or your classroom library? Whether you need one book or a whole library, we can replace your books. 📚 Everyone else, please boost this post so we can connect with those in need. 🙏

Bumping some timely work by @giuliapullano.bsky.social - wildfire smoke drives people indoors, which is problematic during respiratory virus season (now), especially for flu. But - if even 10% of people mask, it makes a big difference (and protects them from smoke!): www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

Bunchberry #linocut cards - now in colour! Part of Acadian forest native plant series

Occasional reminder that there’s no, “it’s too late, its over” for anthropogenic climate change. Every molecule of CO2 that doesn’t go into the atmosphere makes a difference. Preventing 0.1 degree of warming makes a difference. Every bit of climate resilience we build together makes a difference.

An LA organizer I trust shared this General Resource Spreadsheet with me. It includes nonofficial shelters and other resources for people affected by the LA fires.

Gave an interview about bird flu in Illinois--probably a good idea to keep your cats inside (actually that's always a good idea) and take down your bird feeders if you're near outbreaks. news.wttw.com/2024/12/30/i...

Are you a researcher/practitioner working on urban ecology and conservation? We still have space in the starter pack! go.bsky.app/29rs45P 🌆🌇

Great article about improving #rat management in #Chicago that highlights the Chicago Rat Project. It's complex because rat problems are really people problems 🐀🗑️ news.wttw.com/2024/12/23/n...

Research explains how foxes hunting mice can plunge down into the snow at high speeds without injuring their poor little snouts.

PSA for cat owners in the US: cats have been contracting H5N1 (bird flu). They are very susceptible to it and the fatality rate for cats is 67%. To avoid it: -keep your cats indoors. They can catch it from infected birds and mice. -do not feed them raw dairy -do not feed them raw meat

They're escorting this kid like he's a literal superhero. Could mutate at any moment. What a bunch of dorks (derogatory).