🚨New paper!🚨

Can we negotiate our cohabitation with rats? Karolina Lukasik spearheaded study, which suggests there might not be alternative!

Out now in a special issue on urban multispecies justice of npj Urban Sustainability: doi.org/10.1038/s429...

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🚨New research klaxon! 🚨

Out in now in Mammalian Biology, our ethology paper on social interactions between rats based on trail camera material!
doi.org/10.1007/s429...

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Obviously I took a short video of Markus Krunegård's concert:

Ready to start International Conference on Urban Pests in Lund, Sweden.

So, a triptych taken during Markus Krunegård's concert in Stadsparken:

One of my finer quotes:

Happy to participate in RESET Symposium @helsinki.fi last week: A full day about resilient and just systems, and protocols of care, multimodalities, citizens in circular economy, petromasculinities, interdisciplinary roles, etc. As highlighted, it is especially important in the time of banned words.

Nyt on vahva anti-sokeri- ja paperitoukkakampanja meneillään, ottaen huomioon kuinka vähäinen haitta on.

Viimeisimmän jutun sävy on sen verran yliampuva että lipsahtaa melkein campin puolelle.

Hallinto-oikeuden päätös on suoraviivainen: Riistakeskus ei ollut päätökseensä riittävästi selvittänyt taustatietoja tautisuojaukseen tai lintujen suojelutasoon liittyen.

Tämä Riistakeskuksen selvitys on ns. surullinen - skarpatkaa Riistakeskus ja Ruokavirasto!

Similarly, a number of reasons to reduce feeding in addition to rats such as too picky birds, corvids eating too much, hawks and cats predating, pathogens being spread, worry about messing with nature, municipal or building rules, tits pecking cows' udders, and neighbors shouting over the fence. 6/8

People described a number of reasons to increase feeding such as caring for endangered species, empathy or interest in birds, keeping up traditions, supporting biodiversit or wanting to provide nature connection to children or cats looking behind the window. 5/8

Now out in npj Biodiversity: Multispecies relations shape bird-feeding practices

Link: doi.org/10.1038/s441...
From the bird-feeding section of
@helsinkirats.bsky.social w/ @informedbirds.bsky.social @aksulehikoinen.bsky.social

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Now out in Eurosurveillance: our parasite and pathogen survey of Helsinki rats where we look for a number of viral, bacterial and helminth taxa.

Link: doi.org/10.2807/1560...
@helsinkirats.bsky.social

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This cool paper (even though I say so myself) is now out: Bird feeding devices exclude unwelcome visitors. More-than-humans shaping the architecture and technology of birdfeeders in twentieth-century Finland.

Link to the paper: doi.org/10.1177/2514...

New paper alert! Our rat educational science out now in Environmental Education Research: t.co/vKDQrLkG25
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Almost a year since I've last been on site for PhD defence! I wonder whether I still remember how to behave on these occasions.

Se aika vuodesta kun pääsee opettamaan loisista.

Infographics!