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Tiziana A. Gelmi Candusso

@urbanzoochory.bsky.social

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Research fellow at UWI, prev. at UofT Spatial ecologist | Urban mammals | Modeling animal movement, habitat selection, connectivity, species interactions and HW coexistence. Working with camera traps and GPS tracking data. Twitter was @UrbanZochory

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Tiziana A. Gelmi Candusso @urbanzoochory.bsky.social · Nov 16

We have a starter pack for scientists using camera traps! 📸 If you work with camera trap data in any way, either collecting data, running ecological models, training CV/ML models, let me know I’ll add you to this list 🎉 go.bsky.app/CbJkbVw

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Tiziana A. Gelmi Candusso @urbanzoochory.bsky.social · 10d

Enough is enough. It was enough on day zero, it is day 251.

Dan Mihalopoulos @dmihalopoulos.bsky.social · 10d

Downtown Chicago, today.

The little girl …

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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 21d

🚨 NEW: Climate change is already causing 30,000 deaths per year - a global annual economic loss of $100-350B USD - but the true damage is probably 10x higher. Out TODAY in Nature Climate Change: the first systematic look at the science of "health impact attribution" 🔓 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

"Health losses attributed to anthropogenic climate change," a brief communication in the journal Nature Climate Change. There's a map showing regions of the world, and pie charts of relevant studies as they apply to different health impacts like "heat-related deaths" and "maternal and child health"

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Tiziana A. Gelmi Candusso @urbanzoochory.bsky.social · Aug 30

Urban planning success story. It can be done!

Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · Aug 29

“Over the past 20 years, Paris has undergone a major physical transformation, trading automotive arteries for bike lanes, adding green spaces and eliminating 50,000 parking spaces.

Part of the payoff has been invisible — in the air itself.”

Leadership, strategy, real action, common sense. #Paris

Paris said au revoir to cars. Air pollution maps reveal a dramatic change.

Air pollution fell substantially as the city restricted car traffic and made way for parks and bike lanes.

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Congresswoman Andrea Salinas @salinas.house.gov · Aug 29

The Trump Administration is undoing protections for 60 million acres of pristine wilderness across the country, including 2 million right here in Oregon. This is an incredibly shortsighted and backward decision.

Trump officials plan to remove protections on 2 million acres of national forests in Oregon • Oregon Capital Chronicle

Rescinding the 2001 Roadless Rule would open up 58 million acres of national forest land across the country to logging and development.

oregoncapitalchronicle.com

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amy brown @amybrown.xyz · Aug 22

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

Why should I write better when a machine can do it for me?
Because actually no one can do it for you, because your voice is unique among all the people on earth. Siri never petted a horse's neck. Alexa has never been ghosted by the captain of the football team. But you have lived, your heart is beating, you have suffered, and you have something important to say. It's a human's job, to use words, and whatever job you give to a machine, that part of your brain goes dark. Maybe it's worth it when it comes to remembering phone numbers and directions, but when that part of your brain that uses words goes dark, that's a vast area that's very close to your soul. Don't let some internet platform convince you that what you have to say and create isn't worthwhile. Words are the echo of your soul. Honing that echo matters.

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Tiziana A. Gelmi Candusso @urbanzoochory.bsky.social · Aug 24

If she says inappropriate one more time, Beetlejuice will appear

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Matthew Archer @matthewarcher.bsky.social · Aug 23

while we’re sharing

ChatGPT, etc.

Please don't use ChatGPT or other forms of "generative AI" in this course. ChatGPT makes things superficially easier, but in doing so, it prevents you from learning and retaining things. On top of that, even short periods of regular ChatGPT use are rotting your brains, and the rapid spread of these AI assistants is killing the planet (see module 2 and inter alia), which is facing enough problems already. Presumably, you have signed up for this class because you are interested in learning about certain topics. The best way to do that is by struggling with the texts yourself, engaging with your teacher and your peers to understand the different concepts and arguments, and using your own brain to come up with an original take on the topics we will discuss.

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Stacy VanDeveer @stacydvandeveer.bsky.social · Aug 19

Yep. We are flying blind toward many disasters

The Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com · Aug 19

The data you depend on – about jobs, weather, health, water and more – is quietly vanishing from federal sites.

Here’s how it’s happening and how you can join efforts to help save it:

Data that taxpayers have paid for and rely on is disappearing – here’s how it’s happening and what you can do about it

Detailed data that US government agencies collect and make available has underpinned research about people, medicine, science, crime, jobs, housing, climate and the economy.

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Matthew R. Helmus @mrhelmus.bsky.social · Aug 4

Stop using MAXENT for invasive niche modeling. Instead embrace mechanisms. Check out this great review on mechanistic niche models for invasives from ‪@erolafenollosa.bsky.social‬ in ‪@ecography.bsky.social‬ 🌐 #ecology #invasivespecies nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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Gabby Palomo, PhD @gabspalomo.bsky.social · Aug 8

I’m teaching a class in which my students learn how to put together a research proposal. I was wondering if any of you have any successful proposals that wouldn’t mind sharing with me so I can use it as an example in class? It doesn’t matter what year they were approved or where. Thank you!! 🌎🗺️🌍

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Elkeblom @ellyblom.bsky.social · Aug 3

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · Aug 3

Remember: Almost all of us are the descendants of immigrants who fled persecution, or were brought to America under duress, or sought better lives for themselves and their descendants.

Politicians who stoke fear and hatred over immigration want you to forget this.

Do not.

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Jennifer Keith @jkcreative8.bsky.social · Aug 1

We can agree to disagree, but I will share the document that convinced me:
thecommoncoalition.com/wp-content/u...

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Dr. Thilina Surasinghe @thilinas.bsky.social · Jul 31

led by @mhmurray.bsky.social @sbmagle.bsky.social @masonfidino.bsky.social @urbanzoochory.bsky.social and #UWIN partners

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Dr. Thilina Surasinghe @thilinas.bsky.social · Jul 31

Urban green spaces can support both biodiversity & human wellbeing—but we need coordinated, place-based research across cities to inform effective, equitable policy.

📄 Read more: doi.org/10.1093/bios...
🌍 #UrbanWildlife #UrbanBiodiversity #conservation 🌐🧪🌱

Multicity research networks are needed to address global One Health challenges

Urban areas are Earth's fastest growing land-use type (Gao and O'Neill 2020) and face unique One Health challenges at the intersection of human, animal, an

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Dr. Thilina Surasinghe @thilinas.bsky.social · Jul 31

Just out! our new paper calling for multicity research networks to tackle urgent #OneHealth challenges in our rapidly urbanizing world.
As cities 🏙️ grow, so do risks: Pollution; #Zoonotic 🦠spillover; Habitat loss

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Julie K. Young @drjuliekyoung.bsky.social · Jul 22

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

Breeding Behavior Technician - Red Wolf | Natural Resources Job Board

jobs.rwfm.tamu.edu

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

Our framework posits that human-wildlife interactions affect human health, and these health risks and benefits inform how humans respond and manage wildlife. These actions can affect wildlife health, affecting future rates of HWI. All in the context of environmental health and resource availability

Figure showing connections among human-wildlife interactions, human health, human responses, wildlife health, and all in the context of environmental health

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Where there are helpers, there is hope. @waystohelp.bsky.social · Jul 3

Someone made this list of the reps that are publicly on the fence. Call these ones, even if they are not in your district!

Flippable Reps Fax Numbers

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Tiziana A. Gelmi Candusso @urbanzoochory.bsky.social · Jul 13

Hope you feel better soon! I still remember when I got stung by one, cant imagine 10!! 😣

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flsucks.bsky.social @flsucks.bsky.social · Jul 3

Read about how Abrego Garcia was treated at CECOT. A Frigging horror story of abuse.

www.reddit.com/r/law/commen...

From the law community on Reddit: Abrego Garcia v. Noem amended complaint - detailing his torture at CECOT.

Posted by BitterFuture - 9,533 votes and 523 comments

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Danger Din @ogcountry.bsky.social · Jul 3

Communities need to start a pool, buy all the Meal team six shit off Amazon, all the fake ice shit, the masks etc, then go out and intervene.

Cause confusion, create fog and friction, find the opportunity and rush in and rescue the innocent being kidnapped then retreat with high point coverage.

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Kyle Thiem @kylethiem.bsky.social · Jul 2

Godspeed to the ~800 probationary NOAA employees who filed a class-action lawsuit on Monday after being unjustly terminated months ago.

These are real people, not numbers—scientists, public servants, dedicated workers. They didn’t deserve this ruthless attack on their careers & livelihoods.

federalnewsnetwork.com

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Ben in L.A. @bentarzynski.bsky.social · Jul 2

But there's a human administrator/bureaucrat somewhere with authority whose job is to disburse those funds and instead they're following an illegal order by not sending it through. We need the federal bureaucrats to stop enabling this nonsense and follow the law.

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Nonia Pariente @npariente.bsky.social · Jun 27

Too poor to science: how wealth determines who succeeds in STEM

Thought-provoking read, especially in these times of questioning diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives
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PLOS Biology @plosbiology.org · Jun 25

From student to researcher, a #career in #science can come with a high price tag. @drcraigmc.bsky.social ‬explores how wealth shapes opportunity in #STEM and proposes structural changes to support #equity and inclusion. 🧪
plos.io/4edGlY4

Too poor to science: How wealth determines who succeeds in STEM

From student to researcher, a career in science can come with a high price tag. This Perspective explores how persistent financial barriers limit who can succeed in science, revealing how wealth shape...

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