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Christine Wilkinson, PhD 🌈 @scrappynaturalist.bsky.social · Feb 25

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]
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A GPS-collared coyote walking at night with Los Angeles visible in the background. Photo by Johanna Turner

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Christine Wilkinson, PhD 🌈 @scrappynaturalist.bsky.social · 3d

When my nephew was born, I got him many misunderstood animal stuffies, starting with a tarantula. I was inspired by this photo of young Dr. Jane Goodall with her stuffed chimpanzee, hoping my nephew would come to love these critters.

Now 11, he recently told me he wants to be an entomologist.
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a young Jane Goodall with her stuffed chimpanzee

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 4d

Before you hit the streets on No Kings Day, join the @aclu.org’s know your rights, protest safety, and de-escalation training to take action safely and confidently. Learn how to protect yourself and your community while standing up for your rights.

No Kings: Protest Safety, Know Your Rights & De-Escalation Training

I'm attending this event - sign up now to join me!

act.aclu.org

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Jason Bittel @bittelmethis.bsky.social · 6d

I've got a whole chapter on the mercurial, undefeatable coyote in GRIZZLED, with insights from @scrappynaturalist.bsky.social!

www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/804002...

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Christine Wilkinson, PhD 🌈 @scrappynaturalist.bsky.social · 12d

another day another smug yote
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#coyote
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a coyote sits in brown grass, looking toward the camera

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Christine Wilkinson, PhD 🌈 @scrappynaturalist.bsky.social · 14d

sent to me by my mechanic in Kenya (George)!

so glad we’re on air there!! 🎉🐾👣🇰🇪

#CloseEncountersOfTheWildKind

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 18d

anakin amidala memo: he says that hunger rates now at zero, she asks if it is because they reduced actual hunger

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Christine Wilkinson, PhD 🌈 @scrappynaturalist.bsky.social · 26d

I am so excited to be featured on Plimsoll Productions’ latest show, Close Encounters of the Wild Kind - all about the behaviors and conservation science underlying the world’s wildest animal encounters! 👣🐾🦁🦬🐊

Premieres Sunday 14 Sept at 7pm on NatGeo Wild UK, w/ a wider release coming soon..!
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Christine smiles at the camera while holding a clapperboard from the show Close Encounters of the Wild Kind

a promo poster for the show Close Encounters of the Wild Kind, premiering sunday 14 sept 7pm on NatGeo Wild UK

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Morgan Tingley @mwtingley.bsky.social · Aug 26

A bunch of wonderful scientists are working to study how the LA fires in January impacted our local nature. We had a great time working with @brookejarvis.bsky.social and @nytimes.com on this beautiful article.

feat. @kendallcalhoun.bsky.social @ltkelly.bsky.social et al.

What the Bloom After L.A.’s Wildfires Reveals About Our Ecological Future

www.nytimes.com

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.bsky.social · Aug 25

Sign on here. Stand up for science

www.standupforscience.net/fema-katrina...

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Noam Ross @noamross.net · Apr 19

🚨Report your NSF grant terminations! 🚨

We are starting to collect information on NSF grant terminations to create a shared resource as we have for NIH. The more information we collect, the more we can organize, advocate, and fight back! Please share widely!

airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni...

NSF Grant Termination Information Collection Form

Please use this form to submit information identifying specific NSF grants that have been cancelled for any reason after January 20, 2025.

We are tracking these grants to increase transparency, organize affected PIs, and facilitate responses, including via litigation. Please share the form as widely as possible with your networks.

We are actively building a pipeline to organize these terminations and will soon have a tracker akin to our NIH grant tracker at https://airtable.com/appjhyo9NTvJLocRy/shrNto1NNp9eJlgpA

WE WILL NOT DISCLOSE THE IDENTITY OF ANYONE WHO USES THIS FORM TO PROVIDE INFORMATION. We will keep your identity confidential.

These resources are maintained by Noam Ross of rOpenSci and Scott Delaney of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, with input and support from additional volunteers. For any questions, please contact Scott Delaney on Signal (sdelaney.84).

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ASSISTANCE!

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Christine Wilkinson, PhD 🌈 @scrappynaturalist.bsky.social · Aug 8

Hey folks!

I wanted to share this collaborative resource I made a few years ago, and ask for your help in updating it! This is a list of grants, scholarships, and fellowships for which African nationals are eligible. Please share widely & add resources- thanks!!
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tinyurl.com/AfricanFellowships

Fellowships, Scholarships, and Research Grants for African Nationals (Focus: Conservation, Biology, Ecology, Evolution)

tinyurl.com

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Christine Wilkinson, PhD 🌈 @scrappynaturalist.bsky.social · Aug 6

even though i look terrifying (😅), i love taiko so, so much. especially San Francisco Taiko Dojo. go fill up your soul at a taiko show if you’ve never experienced it 💛🤗

thanks to Jim Kerns for the first two photos :).

christine strikes a pose while playing taiko

christine plays taiko while making a ridiculous face

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Dr. Heather McFarlin @volcanoheather.bsky.social · Jul 30

For everyone paying attention to earthquake & tsunami info, a lot of funding for tsunami & earthquake monitoring comes from NOAA, but the fed gov is cutting their funding. Call your legislators, tell them to fund NOAA & USGS, who in turn funds regional network operators, like AK Earthquake Center

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Standing Together @standing-together.bsky.social · Jul 23

Yesterday, we organized the Flour March. Thousands of us, Jewish and Palestinian, marching with sacks of flour in our hands and fire in our hearts. We came because we refuse to stay silent as our government commits atrocities in Gaza.

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Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County @nhm.org · Jul 23

🦜💡 A new discovery has taken flight!

In a new publication, Dr. Allison Shultz has found a new part to the typical body feather which determines a bird's color!

Read more about it in the newly published Ornithology paper here: nhm.org/stories/hidd...

#science #discover #new

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Maureen H. Murray @mhmurray.bsky.social · Jul 22

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

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Christine Wilkinson, PhD 🌈 @scrappynaturalist.bsky.social · Jul 7

🎉 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?"

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Christine Wilkinson, PhD 🌈 @scrappynaturalist.bsky.social · Jul 17

anyone in the Bay Area need an adorable kitten with perfect toe beans? bonus: he has a human name (Eric). find him at sfacc!

the adorable pink toe beans of a grey kitten

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Christine Wilkinson, PhD 🌈 @scrappynaturalist.bsky.social · Jul 9

new headshots from National Geographic Explorers Festival 🌿

thanks to Mark Thiessen 📸

and to Nova West for making me laugh 😋

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · Jul 9

“Shark Whisperer” Villainizes Native Hawaiians Like Me |

“Shark Whisperer” Villainizes Native Hawaiians Like Me

"'Shark Whisperer' claims to honor marine life, but it often confuses reverence with control," writes Kaniela Ing.

time.com

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Christine Wilkinson, PhD 🌈 @scrappynaturalist.bsky.social · Jul 8

we discuss wildlife, human, and environmental health as outcomes and drivers of interactions between people and wildlife. there’s a link to the paper included if you’d like to read it.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · Jul 8

Shooting our videos is a little bit different now.

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Christine Wilkinson, PhD 🌈 @scrappynaturalist.bsky.social · Jul 7

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Tom of Bedlam 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇲🇽🇺🇦🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇬🇧🇪🇺 @t595.bsky.social · Jul 4

If you don't read @orionmagazine.bsky.social , you should.
Long form thoughtful articles.

This is one of the 25 most read and the fulcrum sentence is

"And so I ask myself: what, at this moment in history, would not be a waste of my time? And I arrive at five tentative answers:"

#anthropocene

Dark Ecology - Orion Magazine

Searching for truth in a post-green world

orionmagazine.org

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Christine Wilkinson, PhD 🌈 @scrappynaturalist.bsky.social · Jun 27

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Christine Wilkinson, PhD 🌈 @scrappynaturalist.bsky.social · Jun 26

the truck we’re getting! and our logo just because!

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