Wilson Sherman
@wilsonsherm.bsky.social
PhD Student in UCLA’s Institute of the Environment and Sustainability studying people and American black bears in California.
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Wilson Sherman
@wilsonsherm.bsky.social
· Apr 14
"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.
doi.org/10.1016/j.sc...
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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.
doi.org/10.1016/j.sc...
doi.org/10.1016/j.sc...
April 14, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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.
doi.org/10.1016/j.sc...
doi.org/10.1016/j.sc...
April 14, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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.
doi.org/10.1016/j.sc...
doi.org/10.1016/j.sc...
April 14, 2025 at 6:31 PM
"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.
doi.org/10.1016/j.sc...
doi.org/10.1016/j.sc...
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.
The Los Angeles Animal Airlift
The Labyrinth Project · Episode
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March 10, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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.
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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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Check out the publication here:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
February 25, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Check out the publication here:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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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...
Queer Black voices in conservation
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doi.org
November 26, 2024 at 4:27 PM
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...
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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 :)
1. Thrilled to share a new paper from my group out this week in Ecosphere where we critique the much researched “luxury effect” in urban ecology and offer a power-based socioecological framework to complicate our understanding of how wealth may or may not influence biodiversity. #oa
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Biodiversity is not a luxury: Unpacking wealth and power to accommodate the complexity of urban biodiversity
A positive correlation between wealth and biodiversity within cities is a commonly documented phenomenon in urban ecology that has come to be labeled as the “luxury effect.” We contend that both this...
esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 26, 2024 at 4:35 PM
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 :)
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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.
baynature.org/2024/11/19/c...
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The Coyotes Arrived. Now, They’re Changing Angel Island. - Bay Nature
Years ago, a scientist proposed introducing coyotes to control the island’s deer population. Now, it seems coyotes have since swam over on their own.
baynature.org
November 23, 2024 at 4:59 PM
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.
baynature.org/2024/11/19/c...
@baynatureinstitute.bsky.social
baynature.org/2024/11/19/c...
@baynatureinstitute.bsky.social