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Atticus Murphy @atticusmurphy.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

(the issue cover photo is not a bicolored striped sweat bee, but yay for it being a bee! 😀)

Atticus Murphy @atticusmurphy.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Are urban flowers 'the only show in town' for bees? Karen Dooley, Elizabeth Crone, and I have a new paper out today using mark-recapture to ask how capture probabilities and abundance vary across an urban landscape, w/ bicolored striped sweat bees. esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

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Landscape context affects both capture probability and abundance of solitary bees in cities

It is intuitive to hypothesize that urban landscapes are broadly hostile to insects, but responses of wild bees to urbanization are inconsistent and often positive. Many people have interpreted this ...

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Atticus Murphy @atticusmurphy.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Working with address data is always an adventure. There are inevitably weird one off conventions apparently used a single time in an entire city -- maybe just on the whim of some anonymous official ~100 years ago! (also, the absolutely classic Massachusetts move of one short street having 3 names)

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Atticus Murphy @atticusmurphy.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

one way context differs: 80+% of Hungarian public says climate change is a serious issue; comparable number is 54% for U.S. (and only 23% of Republicans in latest cycle)

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Atticus Murphy @atticusmurphy.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Always interesting to see how group discourse can align and not align with actual behaviors...evidence from Hungary of right-wing neighborhoods recycling _better_ (nb social context is obv important and who knows if this exact result is transferable to U.S.) journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

Screenshot of quote from a paper reading as follows: We concentrate on one particular environmental practice: waste separation. Surprisingly, we find that districts with a higher left-wing vote
share engage less in waste separation on average. This result, although surprising, is
consistent with previous survey-based evidence. We provide suggestions on how to
interpret and explain our findings.

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Atticus Murphy @atticusmurphy.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Pollinator gardens are having a moment, with good reason! But what can these gardens realistically achieve for conservation and for the people who make them? Led by Nick Dorian, we take a stab at these questions, out today in Conservation Biology: conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Setting goals for pollinator gardens

In recent years, declines in animal pollinators have stimulated tremendous interest in pollinator-friendly gardening. There is a widespread notion that pollinator gardens are beneficial, but the spec...

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Atticus Murphy @atticusmurphy.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

I have spent the past few days desperately trying to remember the name of this band; yesterday I gave up, and of course immediately the answer appeared in front of me. Thank you!!

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Atticus Murphy @atticusmurphy.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

who knew! bad luck to pay money for your bees! (all the more reason to conserve our wild pollinators 😉). -- Lupton, 'A thousand notable things' 1748

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Caleb Scoville @calebscoville.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

if any journalists want to talk about this EO, let me know.

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Atticus Murphy @atticusmurphy.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Ever-prescient Marshall McLuhan, 1969: "Under electric conditions there can be no privacy. The privacy invaders are the bulwark of the new knowledge industries, from the pollsters, to the insurance companies, and the credit ratings, ‘the eye in the sky,’ the age of the ‘snoop’."

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Atticus Murphy @atticusmurphy.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

As someone born after the Web's invention, there is something kind of sad about looking back at a time when we felt entitled to this amount of privacy. It would never have crossed my mind!

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Atticus Murphy @atticusmurphy.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Fascinating to see people grapple with the Information Age when it was really starting to rev up -- what do we do with all this information? what should we be allowed to do? it all seems very quaint now, though I'm not sure we ever answered these questions... (Bowker & Star 1999)

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Atticus Murphy @atticusmurphy.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

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Atticus Murphy @atticusmurphy.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

As someone born after the Web's invention, there is something kind of sad about looking back at a time when we felt entitled to this amount of privacy. It would never have crossed my mind!

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Atticus Murphy @atticusmurphy.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Add this to the pile of reasons why permitting denser #housing by law is a good idea. Current zoning restrictions (min. lot sizes + min. setbacks) create larger yards and thus more lawns (low diversity, high chemical and water inputs).

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Atticus Murphy @atticusmurphy.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Out now in Landscape and Urban Planning: the first pub from my dissertation! We used Google Street View to map urban pollinator gardens. Gardens were more common on small + wealthy lots. Suggests unexpected biodiversity benefits to denser housing development! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Pollinator gardening is constrained by income but not lot size in urban front yards

Flower gardens can create valuable habitat for urban pollinators, but little is known about the existing spatial pattern of gardens on the landscape, …

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