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Christine Wilkinson, PhD 🌈
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Carnivores, communities, EJ: NHMLAC & California Academy of Sciences | NatGeo Explorer | Schmidt Science Fellow | SciComm: United Talent Agency | Co-founder, Black Mammalogists Week ✊🏽| Creator: Queer is Natural 🦩

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📣New publication! “The gendered costs of human-wildlife conflict: A global systematic review” in @ambio-journal.bsky.social. Led by Katie Adler, also w/Dr. Meredith Gore. We found that costs vary significantly by location & context, & deserve more study.

Check it out:
doi.org/10.1007/s132...
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Figure 1 from Adler et al. 2025 (The gendered costs of human-wildlife conflict: A global systematic review). A map showing the distribution of studies regarding the gendered costs of human-wildlife conflict, with pie charts showing the relative gendered cost type studied per country, and bar charts showing the # of studies covering each cost type per continent.
November 8, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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Please see below the ICE rapid response community network phone numbers for the Bay Area. Share widely.
Poster that says Ohlone Land Bay Area ICE rapid response community networks San Francisco 415-200-1548 San Mateo 203-666-4472 Santa Clara 408-290-1144 Santa Cruz 831-239-4289 Contra Costa 925-900-5151 Alameda 510-241-4011
October 23, 2025 at 4:27 AM
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✅ I finally got a chance to ask my “fifth committee member”, Jeff Goldblum, to sign my dissertation, which is titled “Life Finds a Way: Carnivore Movement and Conflict in Developing Landscapes”. 😋

My work on human-wildlife interactions continues to embody this iconic Jurassic Park phrase 🐾👣🌱.

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Jeff Goldblum’s signature on the title page of a bound dissertation titled “Life finds a way: Carnivore movement and conflict in developing landscapes” Jeff Goldblum signing a bound dissertation
October 15, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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When my nephew was born, I got him many misunderstood animal stuffies, starting with a tarantula. I was inspired by this photo of young Dr. Jane Goodall with her stuffed chimpanzee, hoping my nephew would come to love these critters.

Now 11, he recently told me he wants to be an entomologist.
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a young Jane Goodall with her stuffed chimpanzee
October 5, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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another day another smug yote
🙄😍

#coyote
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a coyote sits in brown grass, looking toward the camera
September 26, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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sent to me by my mechanic in Kenya (George)!

so glad we’re on air there!! 🎉🐾👣🇰🇪

#CloseEncountersOfTheWildKind

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September 24, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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I am so excited to be featured on Plimsoll Productions’ latest show, Close Encounters of the Wild Kind - all about the behaviors and conservation science underlying the world’s wildest animal encounters! 👣🐾🦁🦬🐊

Premieres Sunday 14 Sept at 7pm on NatGeo Wild UK, w/ a wider release coming soon..!
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Christine smiles at the camera while holding a clapperboard from the show Close Encounters of the Wild Kind a promo poster for the show Close Encounters of the Wild Kind, premiering sunday 14 sept 7pm on NatGeo Wild UK
September 12, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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even though i look terrifying (😅), i love taiko so, so much. especially San Francisco Taiko Dojo. go fill up your soul at a taiko show if you’ve never experienced it 💛🤗

thanks to Jim Kerns for the first two photos :).
christine strikes a pose while playing taiko christine plays taiko while making a ridiculous face christine strikes a pose while playing taiko christine hugs two taiko drums
August 6, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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anyone in the Bay Area need an adorable kitten with perfect toe beans? bonus: he has a human name (Eric). find him at sfacc!
the adorable pink toe beans of a grey kitten
July 17, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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new headshots from National Geographic Explorers Festival 🌿

thanks to Mark Thiessen 📸

and to Nova West for making me laugh 😋
a headshot of christine smiling at the camera a headshot of christine smiling at the camera
July 9, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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🎉 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?"
July 7, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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the truck we’re getting! and our logo just because!
a silver-gold truck a brown and green logo with the silhouettes of a person and a hyena , with text that says Humans and Hyenas Alliance
June 26, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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Happy #Pride! Today’s #QueerIsNatural: common vampire bats 🦇🧛🌈, who have the strongest anticoagulationships 😉.

check out my tiktok for more queer and misunderstood animals! www.tiktok.com/@thescrappyn...

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June 20, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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occasionally trying to learn to paint stuff 🙃

i was trying to find something to paint in my favorite color (cerulean) and the Ulysses butterfly fit the bill
a watercolor painting of two ulysses butterflies on a yellow/peach background
June 20, 2025 at 2:42 AM
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old news but adding this to the list of reasons why i should have kids 😅
a headline says “Airdrie warns public of brazen coyote after 6-year-old attacked at light festival”. subtitle reads “child is safe but disappointed he didn’t turn into a werewolf, mom says”
June 18, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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absolutely loved attending my first National Geographic Explorers Fest! buckets of incredible people doing the most inspiring work. bonus - i got lots of hangout time with my dear friend, Jenny Gil, the algae extraordinaire. more pics to come! 🌊💛🧪🌎
two people smile for the camera in front of a screen that says “National Geographic Explorers Festival 2025”
June 16, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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missing my dad today (and every day)

hold your people close. ❤️
a dad and his two teenage daughters sit on a couch together. the middle daughter has a Christmas stocking on her lap
June 16, 2025 at 2:29 AM
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National Geographic x Pride 🌈🌿🐾👣
a pin with the BIPOC Pride flag encased in the National Geographic yellow border
June 10, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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and the day after i washed my car, too. 10/10 no notes

#humanwildlifeconflict
a car door handle with bird poop on it, perfectly placed where a person’s forefinger and thumb would go when they open the door
May 19, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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so great to be at the opening @gsvalkyries.bsky.social game 💜🎊👏🏽
a basketball court in the background with a light purple tshirt saying “First of a Lifetime”
May 17, 2025 at 5:24 AM
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On the subject of coyotes, today’s CA Fish & Game Commission meeting will include an important discussion about the proposal to remove coyotes from the list of “non-game” wildlife, thereby ending indiscriminate killing of coyotes in CA. Attend the meeting virtually: fgc.ca.gov/Meetings/2025
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A screenshot from the zoom event for the May 15 California Fish & Game Commission meeting. Text says “California Fish and Game Commission Wildlife Resources Committee Meeting. Meeting will begin at 10:00am. Discussion of Item 4, Take of Coyotes, will not begin before 1:00pm.”
May 15, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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the Giant Dipper was more invigorating than expected 😅
two folks smiling at the camera while seated in a rollercoaster car
May 3, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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never gets old…
a red rose
April 25, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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in other news here’s a v cute v pensive spotted towhee (captured and handled with the proper permits)

photo by Andy Cornell
christine holding a spotted towhee. the towhee is looking down toward their feet
April 21, 2025 at 2:54 AM
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scenes from coyote-livestock coexistence fieldwork today with EBRPD & the rest of the east bay Coyote Workgroup. 🐾👣🐮🧪🌎
three bulls standing on a grassy hill with power lines and a blue sky on the background several AWD vehicles in a line with grassy fields stretching into the background
April 16, 2025 at 11:10 PM