Importantly, we also find that whiter and wealthier neighborhoods have higher rates of participation on Nextdoor, indicating researchers must consider biases from differential reporting when interpreting these data.

We find that black bear and coyote reports show distinct spatial and temporal patterns, and that reports of these species on Nextdoor were 11 times more numerous than reports on iNaturalist in the area and timeframe we studied.

"The wildlife Nextdoor: Socioeconomics and race predict social media carnivore reports" is out in Science of the Total Environment. @scrappynaturalist.bsky.social, Christopher Schell, and I looked at how people post about coyotes and black bears on Nextdoor.

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Those interested in human-wildlife histories, LA, or helicopters will enjoy the latest episode of The Labyrinth Project’s podcast. My advisor Christopher Kelty tells the story of ongoing wildlife relocations from LA to the nearby forest, and of our shifting ideas about where animals belong.

Thanks so much to Lila for this LA Times article about our new publication about social-ecological influences on coyote movement in Los Angeles! 🧪🌎🏙️

Check out the publication here:
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Hey all! 🦋 A really lovely group of co-authors and I wrote this recent piece for the special issue @society4conbio.bsky.social. We talk about both the challenges and strengths that come with being Black and queer in conservation ✊🏾🏳️‍🌈🌱 Always a re-energizing read for me! ❤️ doi.org/10.1111/cobi...

AWESOME work by some incredible scientists. Papers like these that investigate how we think about and conduct our science are so important. Read, read, read it! Congrats to my grad school labmate Ren, @leafwarbler.bsky.social, and coauthors :)

In the middle of the San Francisco Bay, Angel Island (known as the “Ellis Island of the West”) has been a Coast Miwok hunting ground then an immigration station. Now it’s a State Park. It’s full of deer. And coyotes are swimming to it.

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