Maureen H. Murray

Researchers test plant-based birth control on Lincoln Park rats after deaths of owl family The aim is to reduce the rat population without harming urban wildlife, including owls and hawks, which can die after eating poisoned rodents.

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 🧵

Gaza: 'I witnessed war crimes,' former worker at GHF aid site tells BBC A retired US soldier reveals why he quit working at Israel and US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation aid hubs.

"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 Health ministry says dozens have died this month as aid agencies warn that even their workers are suffering from malnutrition

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

Big thanks to @scrappynaturalist.bsky.social @masonfidino.bsky.social @sbmagle.bsky.social @urbanzoochory.bsky.social @drjuliekyoung.bsky.social Kelli Larson, Anita Morzillo, Anne Short Gianotti, Chris Schell, Seth Riley, and Jeff Sikich. What a dream team!

Two photos of the mountain lion P22, one where he has lesions on his face indicative of notoedric mange, and one where he has recovered

We also showcase mountain lion P22 as an example of coexistence, except for two periods when he was in poor health and came into conflict with people. This is a great example why wildlife health should be centered in conflict prevention strategies.

A figure with health tradeoffs for wildlife and people associated with bird feeding, with pathogen transmission for individual birds and people in the middle, scaling up to community health impacts for wildlife such as interspecies pathogen transmission and community health impacts for people such as birdwatching events that can promote physical activity and mental health benefits

We use bird feeding as a case study to show how human-wildlife interactions can create health tradeoffs for both wildlife and people, scaling up from individuals to communities

Urban rat exposure to anticoagulant rodenticides and zoonotic infection risk | Request PDF Request PDF | Urban rat exposure to anticoagulant rodenticides and zoonotic infection risk | Anticoagulant rodenticides (ARs) deployed to control rodent pest populations can increase the risk of patho...

I've been thinking about these relationships for a long time - coyotes with mange being more likely to use human resources (www.researchgate.net/publication/...), and rat poison potentially affecting rat infection dynamics (www.researchgate.net/publication/...)

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

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

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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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?"

🎉 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 🧪🌍🐾👣

My linocut print on Arches paper with a deckle edge shows a common milkweed plant on collaged washi papers in green and plum overprinted with magenta sans serif text “WE’RE NOT WEEDS” with the Robobee pollination drone in black on an angle inside the O. The little drone is a vertical shaft with a dot and two wings at the top and a tripod at the bottom.

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!

It's a space full of optimism - that people want to learn new things, meet people, and share ideas. It's also one of the few places you can go without buying something. The library is one of my son's favorite places and I'm grateful for mine

Black and white etching-style triptych showing 8 hours for work on the left, 8 hours for rest in the middle, and 8 hours for “what we will” on the right

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.

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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

Federal Election 2025 Leader Profiles Party Platforms · 2025 Federal Election Results ELECTED AND LEADING 172 seats for majority ELECTED 0/343 seats reporting LIB CON NDP BQ GRN

2025 Federal Election Results link here for tonight #FederalElection #Canada #cdnpoli #Elxn45 🍁

Link 🔗 www.ctvnews.ca/federal-elec...

A block print of three Ukrainian Easter eggs in pink, teal, and yellow

Celebrating spring with Lino stamps and voting for Mark Carney

#cdnpoli #easter #printmaking #lino #linocut #blockprinting #printsky

Seth Rogen presenting the Breakthrough Prize for physics (Getty)

“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

A black and white linocut block print of two rats running in a circle

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

#linocut #printmaking #rat #WorldRatDay

Eastern Monarch Butterfly Population Nearly Doubles The population wintering in central Mexico's forests occupied 4.42 acres, up from 2.22 acres during the previous winter.

Who wants some good news?

The overwintering monarch population, which had plummeted last winter, has doubled this winter! www.worldwildlife.org/stories/east...

Don’t wait out four hard years: speak truth to power The importance of diversity in science is an unshakeable reality that the scientific community must stand by.

"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...

At Least Now We Know the Truth It’s ugly, but necessary to face.

"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 :)

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

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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Poster highlighting the economic blackout (no spend day) on Friday, February 28th.

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!

Thanks!

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