Julie K. Young

Wild canids and felids differ in their reliance on reused travel routeways | PNAS Diverse factors, including environmental features and cognitive processes, can drive animals’ movements and space use, with far-reaching implicatio...

Fun to be a tiny part (cougar & coyote data from Utah) of this research by Fagan & team! 🐱🐺🧪
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

🚨Great job with great people in Alaska 🐺🦌🧪

We are recruiting for a wildlife biologist to support our predator-prey program in Southeast Alaska. This application is now open. This is a great career starting point with room for growth in this field.

www.governmentjobs.com/careers/%7B0...

Graduate position (PhD or MS) available on mountain lions🐱 at USU! Check it out: drive.google.com/file/d/1CahA...

Come join my lab!!! 🧪🦊🐺🐱seeking a PhD student for urban mesocarnivore research. Details at jobs.rwfm.tamu.edu/view-job/?id... or my website: drjuliekyoung.weebly.com

Oops, wrong tag. It's @wwdtm-podcast-bot.bsky.social

I've worked with >1 guy named Wolf(e) now...and know a kid named Fox (after his grandpa) by his dad who studied foxes. All too common, just look at bird people and they're last names 🧐

Now it made it to @npr.org on @waitwaitdonttellme.bsky.social! 🧪🐺🐮🤩

Intense scene from Scarlett Johansson and Adam Driver’s film ‘Marriage Story’ is great for scaring away wolves, apparently | CNN A tense scene between Scarlett Johansson and Adam Driver in their 2019 film “Marriage Story” was great bait for 2020 Oscar voters but apparently there’s another wild species that’s not a fan.

Grad student Lori McCurdy in my lab is working on reducing wolf depredation and created this clip of 'voices' for intense human sounds 😂

Intense scene from Scarlett Johansson and Adam Driver’s film ‘Marriage Story’ is great for scaring away wolves, apparently share.google/mcvEDx3nN0iI...

I'm not certain the policies of WCC, who will be the hiring org. I suggest applying and to reach out to the contact on the advertisement to see.

Thanks!

Grizzlies Were Raiding Montana Farms. Then Came Some Formidable Dogs.

Nice coverage of our research about how livestock guardian dogs help in farms! www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/c...

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

Joe, Lovin, Emily, and Julie behind Red Wolf SAFE sign.

Morning panel at the Red Wolf workshop. 🧪🐺

Correct! But also that we could do better at finding livestock depredations.

Food Subsidies Reduce Livestock Depredations by a Recovering Carnivore Diversionary feeding—providing food caches to divert predators away from preying on livestock—is a strategy to reduce depredations by Mexican gray wolves but has not been evaluated for its effectiven...

New paper out: Food Subsidies Reduce Livestock Depredations by a Recovering Carnivore - Hyde - Animal Conservation - Wiley Online Library zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 🐺🧪🐮

Health as an outcome and driver of human–wildlife interactions Abstract. Human–wildlife interactions (HWIs) influence the health of humans and wildlife but a unifying framework is needed to understand the causes of HWI

Fun to be a part of this group of urban ecologists, led by @mhmurray.bsky.social ! Here's our first publication:
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Ref fox laying in grass at a cemetery, missing 1 eye

Meet Patches, as the cemetery staff call him.

Fried chicken wings!

Hanging lure in a box trap for red fox 🦊

Back to urban wildlife work 🧪🦊🤞

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Thanks for sharing. One correction: it's not a harness (a harness may alter wool growth?) but simply a modification to the ear tags sheep and cattle already wear. The new version of the ear tag is much more durable than the prototype we used for the research!

So excited to see this come to fruition & owe a HUGE debt of gratitude to Stewart for not thinking my idea was dumb when I roped him in, Aaron for taking up the writing as part of his dissertation, all of the other co-authors, & especially the ranchers willing to work with us. It was a fun project.

Beta design of Flashtag on domestic sheep

Our original design was primitive (I'm a biologist not an engineer!) but an engineer made a slick new design and a private company has agreed to produce them!!! 👨‍🔬🧪🐑🐺🐄

OK, not exactly but we made FlashTags for livestock and it works! 🧪🐺🐑🐄
Check out the paper here:
digitalcommons.usu.edu/hwi/vol18/is...

And footage here:

Anyone remember a few years ago when there were these videos of 'extreme' sheepherding with lights?!? Like this: www.youtube.com/watch?v=L90Z...

Well, I saw one video and immediately thought: no carnivore is going near those lit up herds, lol. Then...I thought WAIT, let's try it. 🧪🐑🐺

Sara read the paper on sun bears and wanted to try it for black bears. We also have traditional corrals out too in case this isn't a good technique.

I don't know which one is here without looking at the data sheets. We have 2 lures rotated weekly, plus fish oil.

Mother and 2 black bear cubs at a hair snares made of duct tape

Black Bear cub hugging hair snare tree with mom in foreground

The bears like our [duct tape] hair snare! 😍🧪🐻

Glad you saw her talk!

Haha. Good catch on my too quick posting