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Maureen H. Murray

@mhmurray.bsky.social
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One Health ecologist focused on human-wildlife interactions in cities 🏙️ Research on rats, coyotes, raccoons, ticks, community gardens 🦝🐝🌸 Usually thinking about rats 🐀 Often making crafts 🎨

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Maureen H. Murray @mhmurray.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Thank you for sharing!
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Maureen H. Murray @mhmurray.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Huge thanks to our collaborators, including @masonfidino.bsky.social, @sbmagle.bsky.social, @mellamorooster.bsky.social, @urbanxnaturelab.bsky.social, @ecojeff.bsky.social, @micheltkohl.bsky.social, @rlongeco.bsky.social, @raisedbyfieldguide.bsky.social
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Maureen H. Murray @mhmurray.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Mange was also more common in cities with warming winters, and we predicted increases in mange occurrence in 9/10 cities based on IPCC projections. Warming winters might allow mangy coyotes and mites to survive longer, prolonging the time when mites can be transmitted
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Maureen H. Murray @mhmurray.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Mange was more common in cities with less green space, especially if they were surrounded by cropland rather than forest, suggesting that habitat availability influences where mangy coyotes are relegated or that transmission is more likely where coyotes must share space
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Maureen H. Murray @mhmurray.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
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Maureen H. Murray @mhmurray.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Using data from 10 cities in the Urban Wildlife Information Network, coyote occupancy was negatively associated with urbanization while occupancy of coyotes with sarcoptic mange (losing hair from Sarcoptes scabiei mites) was positively associated with urbanization
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Maureen H. Murray @mhmurray.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
🕷️🐺Excited to share a new manuscript co-led by Tiziana Gelmi Candusso about the impacts of urbanization and climate on mange in urban coyotes out today in Nature Cities @natureportfolio.nature.com @urbanzoochory.bsky.social Link: nature.com/articles/s44284-026-00501-4 A thread 🧵
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Maureen H. Murray @mhmurray.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
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...
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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.
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
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 🧵
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
"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/...
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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.
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 23/07/2025
Doctors and health officials report wave of hunger deaths in Gaza on.ft.com/3IJ5jTB
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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
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Maureen H. Murray @mhmurray.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
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!
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Maureen H. Murray @mhmurray.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
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.
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
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Maureen H. Murray @mhmurray.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
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
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
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Maureen H. Murray @mhmurray.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
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/...)
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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...
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Maureen H. Murray @mhmurray.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
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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Maureen H. Murray @mhmurray.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
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 🧵1/4
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Christine Wilkinson, PhD 🌈 @scrappynaturalist.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
🎉 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 🧪🌍🐾👣
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?"
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Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
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. 🧵
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.
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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
If you love libraries, tell us why and repost this!
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Maureen H. Murray @mhmurray.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
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
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Isaac Rowlett @isaacrowlett.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
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. A 🧵
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
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Maureen H. Murray @mhmurray.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
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
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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
2025 Federal Election Results link here for tonight #FederalElection #Canada #cdnpoli #Elxn45 🍁 Link 🔗 www.ctvnews.ca/federal-elec...
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Maureen H. Murray @mhmurray.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Celebrating spring with Lino stamps and voting for Mark Carney #cdnpoli #easter #printmaking #lino #linocut #blockprinting #printsky
A block print of three Ukrainian Easter eggs in pink, teal, and yellow
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 16/04/2025
“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
Seth Rogen presenting the Breakthrough Prize for physics (Getty)
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Maureen H. Murray @mhmurray.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Happy World Rat Day! 🐀 Here's to staying curious about rats and improving rat management #linocut #printmaking #rat #WorldRatDay
A black and white linocut block print of two rats running in a circle
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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 18/03/2025
Who wants some good news? The overwintering monarch population, which had plummeted last winter, has doubled this winter! www.worldwildlife.org/stories/east...
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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.
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Richard Sever @richardsever.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
"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...
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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.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 28/02/2025
"We’re witnessing the self-sabotage of the United States" from @davidfrum.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
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At Least Now We Know the Truth
It’s ugly, but necessary to face.
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Maureen H. Murray @mhmurray.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
In honour of today’s economic blackout 🐛🦋✊ #printsky #linocut #printmaking #boycott
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Caroline-of-the-Cornfields @ahoycaroline.com · 26/02/2025
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 :)
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Christine Wilkinson, PhD 🌈 @scrappynaturalist.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
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] 🧪🌎
A GPS-collared coyote walking at night with Los Angeles visible in the background. Photo by Johanna Turner
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General Strike US @generalstrikeus.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
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!
Poster highlighting the economic blackout (no spend day) on Friday, February 28th.
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Maureen H. Murray @mhmurray.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Thanks!
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Maureen H. Murray @mhmurray.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
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
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Maureen H. Murray @mhmurray.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Thanks! You lead the dream team!
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Maureen H. Murray @mhmurray.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
We've been getting a ton of press for our study about urban rats and climate change, but I think a career highlight for me is getting featured on Atlas Obscura! @jrichardson44.bsky.social @atlasobscura.com #rats #climatechange #urbanecology
Preview of an article from Atlas Obscura with a photo of a rat under a garbage bag by some cobblestones and the headline "Rat populations are rising"
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Maureen H. Murray @mhmurray.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
This is why One Health is important - communication between the veterinary community and wildlife health community can help prevent unintended harms #OneHealth
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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Have you signed the Pledge for Canada? We have almost 50,000 names. Let's get to 60,000. Sign and share. actionnetwork.org/petitions/pl...
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Sign the Pledge for Canada
This petition is intended as an invitation to Canadians to reflect on the current challenges Canada faces and what we can all do to respond to the risks and to contribute to building a more resilient ...
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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
N.B. Liquor won't buy U.S. alcohol, even with tariff delay #NewBrunswick With trade threat delayed but not gone, premier says stores won’t order more American booze www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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N.B. Liquor won't buy U.S. alcohol, even with tariff delay | CBC News
New Brunswick had planned to remove U.S. alcohol from N.B. Liquor stores and avoid signing all but the most essential contracts with U.S. firms before Trudeau announced the tariffs would be delayed a ...
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Maureen H. Murray @mhmurray.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Despite all of the chaos right now, it’s nice to celebrate Monarch day! We planted some milkweed last year and got to witness monarch caterpillar growth and emergence. If you build it they will come 🌸🐛🦋 #MonarchButterfly #Savethepollinators #wildlifegardening
A black, white, and yellow striped monarch butterfly caterpillar on a green swamp milkweed leafAn orange, black, and white monarch butterfly resting near a piece of apple
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
I don't know how else to put this: This is fucking insane. NSF, a $10 billion grantmaking agency, is planning to lay off between a quarter and a half of its staff in the next two months.
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Science funding agency threatened with mass layoffs
National Science Foundation staff heard the plans at a meeting Tuesday.
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Maureen H. Murray @mhmurray.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
#Canada #tariffs #buyCanadian
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Maureen H. Murray @mhmurray.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Remember to keep buying Canadian as much as possible until the next tariff deadline. Standing up to bullies is extra important right now 🇨🇦
A table with Canadian versions of different types of foods
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 04/02/2025
“Since 1980, Congress has mandated that the agency seek to broaden participation of underrepresented groups […] The NSF spokesperson did not respond to a query about concerns that Trump’s executive orders are at odds with the agency’s responsibilities, as codified in law.”
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Darby Saxbe @darbysaxbe.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
list of banned keywords
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Maureen H. Murray @mhmurray.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Wood fern prints 🌿 another beautiful Acadian forest native plant My first time using hessian backed grey lino and… it is rough going with beginner’s ink #linoprint
Four linocut prints of ferns, two of which are copper coloured and two of which are green
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
“Now is the time for science, not silence”
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