@sbmagle

Urban wildlife enthusiast, board game hoarder, cat and small human dad, secret prairie dog. Director of @LPZ_UWI, Founder of @uwi_network. He/him/his.

 Chicago, IL
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Joined September 2012
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I had a lot of fun interviewing for this story. Always looking to start conversations about how to live with our wildlife neighbors! Based on work from ⁦@jeffrey_haight⁩ and ⁦@uwi_network⁩ ! chicagotribune.com/news/envi…

As rising temperatures threaten urban wildlife, Chicago experts recommend protecting green spaces:...

When a family of red foxes popped up in Lurie Garden in May, frolicking through Millennium Park and grooming each other on a concrete slab, Seth Magle said it was an exciting development for a...

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It's been six months since this paper came out so now it's open access. Check it out now if you have not, and I'll be talking about this paper at TWS next week as well!
Mason Fidino, PhD@masonfidino15 Apr 2024
Beyond thrilled to share the new @uwi_network paper out today in @PNASNews where we show that gentrification drives patterns of wildlife diversity in cities. #urbanecology #cameratrapping #mammals 🧵1/14 pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.23…
Fidino, M., Sander, H., Lewis, J., Lehrer, E. W., Rivera, K., Murray, M. H., Adams, H. C., Kase, A., Flores, A., Stankowich, T., Schell, C. J., Salsbury, C. M., Rohnke, A. T., Jordan, M. J., Green, A. M., Gramza, A. R., Zellmer, A. J., Williamson, J., Surasinghe, T. D., Storm, H., Sparks, K. L., Ryan, T. J., Remine, K., Pendergast, M. E., Mullen, K., Minier, D. E., Middaugh, C. R., Mertl, A. L., McClung, M. R., Long, R. A., Larson, R. N., Kohl, M. T., Harris, L. R., Hall, C. T., Haight, J. D., Drake, D., Davidge, A. M., Cheek, A. O., Bloch, C. P., Biro, E. G., Anthonysamy, W. J., Angstmann, J. L., Allen, M. L., Adalsteinsson, S. A., Short-Gianotta, A., LaMontagne, J. M., Gelmi-Candusso, T. A., and Magle, S. (2024). Gentrification drives patterns of alpha and beta diversity in cities. PNAS.

ALT Fidino, M., Sander, H., Lewis, J., Lehrer, E. W., Rivera, K., Murray, M. H., Adams, H. C., Kase, A., Flores, A., Stankowich, T., Schell, C. J., Salsbury, C. M., Rohnke, A. T., Jordan, M. J., Green, A. M., Gramza, A. R., Zellmer, A. J., Williamson, J., Surasinghe, T. D., Storm, H., Sparks, K. L., Ryan, T. J., Remine, K., Pendergast, M. E., Mullen, K., Minier, D. E., Middaugh, C. R., Mertl, A. L., McClung, M. R., Long, R. A., Larson, R. N., Kohl, M. T., Harris, L. R., Hall, C. T., Haight, J. D., Drake, D., Davidge, A. M., Cheek, A. O., Bloch, C. P., Biro, E. G., Anthonysamy, W. J., Angstmann, J. L., Allen, M. L., Adalsteinsson, S. A., Short-Gianotta, A., LaMontagne, J. M., Gelmi-Candusso, T. A., and Magle, S. (2024). Gentrification drives patterns of alpha and beta diversity in cities. PNAS.

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Ever felt like the global landcover maps were a bit lacking in urban areas? We used the OpenStreetMap database to make fine resolution LULC maps. The beauty is OSM is vector-based so you can go as fine as you want. Now published in @WileyEcolEvol shorturl.at/KDbRu
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Today our Assistant Director of One Health @maureenhmurray (far right of photo), is in New York for the first National Urban Rat Summit! Dr. Murray was invited to the summit to speak about her rat research in #Chicago.
A photo of four people, one of whom is holding a national urban rat summit sign.

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🧵 We are excited to share our new pub with @STOTEN_journal titled: "Widespread exposure to anticoagulant rodenticides among common urban mesopredators in #Chicago.“ This pub is OA for the next 50 days using sciencedirect.com/science/ar… (1/8)
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The next season of Chicago Wildlife Watch is now live! Come help us comb through our July 2024 camera trapping season! #cameratrapping zooniverse.org/projects/zoon…

Chicago Wildlife Watch | Zooniverse - People-powered research

Help us understand how animals—from coyotes to chipmunks—share this great city with us.

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We are very excited to have Dr. Tiziana Gelmi Candusso (@UrbanZoochory) to join our team! We’ve been collaborating for years via @uwi_network and are looking forward to do some really great human-wildlife conflict work across multiple cities with her!
Tiziana A. Gelmi Candusso@UrbanZoochory30 Aug 2024
Replying to @UrbanZoochory
Next week I start a new chapter in the same book, along my awesome partners @LPZ_UWI , inc @maureenhmurray @masonfidino @sbmagle, who I already saw as colleagues after 4 years of meetings and collaborations through the @uwi_network . I’m excited to become a part of their team.
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Hey, Chicago! Are you a dog owner who visits Montrose Beach? ⬇️ If you’re an adult who visits the Montrose Beach area with your dogs, please take a moment to fill out our survey and help us understand how you and your pup use the beach. survey.alchemer.com/s3/78181…
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This bat 🦇 acoustic recorder survived the tornado on Monday 💪@LPZ_UWI
A microphone on a pole in the middle of a rooftop garden with high rise buildings in the background

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Attending the Congresso Italiano di Teriologia (Italian conference on Mammalogy) in beautiful Pesche. Excited for a day of talks on mammals I know nothing about! (Delivered, reasonably enough, in a language I do not speak)
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We'd be thrilled to discuss an application for this post-doc award with interested Ph.D students or recent grads. Our network provides amazing opportunities to produce high impact publications quickly!
Urban Wildlife Inst.@LPZ_UWI19 Jun 2024
The 2025 Biota awards application for post-doctoral research has been posted! We'd love to explore this possibility with people wrapping up their PhDs to co-develop a project that interfaces with all the data coming out of @uwi_network. Please share! walderfoundation.org/2025-bi…
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Check out this article to learn more about black-crowned night herons, one of the coolest wild species living @lincolnparkzoo, and be on the lookout for the herons who have GPS backpacks, which we use to learn about their foraging and migratory habits! news.wttw.com/2024/06/14/lin…

Lincoln Park Zoo’s Wildest Residents Are a Colony of Free-Range Night Herons Who Like Having Wolves...

The endangered black-crowned night herons aren’t captive, they just happened to build their nests on the grounds of Lincoln Park Zoo. Why? Because they like having bodyguards.

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Fantastic thread from @masonfidino
Mason Fidino, PhD@masonfidino31 May 2024
Yesterday I saw cliff swallows building nests, a beaver swimming in a pond, a least bittern, and many other amazing species. Was I in some far off locale away from people? No. I was walking distance from Downtown #Chicago at Nature Boardwalk @lincolnparkzoo 1/5 🧵
Nature Boardwalk at the Lincoln Park Zoo

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Urban wildlife exists all around the world. How can researchers at @LPZ_UWI work with researchers in other cities to share and compare data, and even work on collaborative studies? That's where the Urban Wildlife Information Network comes in lpzoo.org/uwin-studying-urba…
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We are LIVE with another season of Chicago Wildlife Watch--photos are from Winter 2024! @LPZ_UWI
A black and white photo of an eastern cottontail rabbit. There is snow on the ground and snow falling.

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Bats, rats, and coyotes, oh my! It’s an urban wildlife takeover ‼️ This week we’ll be #DivingDeeper into what it means to coexist with wildlife in an urbanizing world. Whether you live in an urban, suburban or rural area, you share your environment with wildlife!
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We already started getting some great press for our recent @PNASNews paper, titled "Gentrification drives patterns of alpha and beta diversity in cities." Check it out! thehill.com/policy/energy-en…

From rats to foxes: How gentrification transforms cities’ wildlife populations

Low-income urban residents get rats and pigeons. But when the wealthy move in, they get species like rabbits and flying squirrels. As gentrification displaces lower-income people from American neig…

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My current favorite paper from @uwi_network ! Until the next one. Great job, @masonfidino and everyone!
Mason Fidino, PhD@masonfidino15 Apr 2024
Beyond thrilled to share the new @uwi_network paper out today in @PNASNews where we show that gentrification drives patterns of wildlife diversity in cities. #urbanecology #cameratrapping #mammals 🧵1/14 pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.23…
Fidino, M., Sander, H., Lewis, J., Lehrer, E. W., Rivera, K., Murray, M. H., Adams, H. C., Kase, A., Flores, A., Stankowich, T., Schell, C. J., Salsbury, C. M., Rohnke, A. T., Jordan, M. J., Green, A. M., Gramza, A. R., Zellmer, A. J., Williamson, J., Surasinghe, T. D., Storm, H., Sparks, K. L., Ryan, T. J., Remine, K., Pendergast, M. E., Mullen, K., Minier, D. E., Middaugh, C. R., Mertl, A. L., McClung, M. R., Long, R. A., Larson, R. N., Kohl, M. T., Harris, L. R., Hall, C. T., Haight, J. D., Drake, D., Davidge, A. M., Cheek, A. O., Bloch, C. P., Biro, E. G., Anthonysamy, W. J., Angstmann, J. L., Allen, M. L., Adalsteinsson, S. A., Short-Gianotta, A., LaMontagne, J. M., Gelmi-Candusso, T. A., and Magle, S. (2024). Gentrification drives patterns of alpha and beta diversity in cities. PNAS.

ALT Fidino, M., Sander, H., Lewis, J., Lehrer, E. W., Rivera, K., Murray, M. H., Adams, H. C., Kase, A., Flores, A., Stankowich, T., Schell, C. J., Salsbury, C. M., Rohnke, A. T., Jordan, M. J., Green, A. M., Gramza, A. R., Zellmer, A. J., Williamson, J., Surasinghe, T. D., Storm, H., Sparks, K. L., Ryan, T. J., Remine, K., Pendergast, M. E., Mullen, K., Minier, D. E., Middaugh, C. R., Mertl, A. L., McClung, M. R., Long, R. A., Larson, R. N., Kohl, M. T., Harris, L. R., Hall, C. T., Haight, J. D., Drake, D., Davidge, A. M., Cheek, A. O., Bloch, C. P., Biro, E. G., Anthonysamy, W. J., Angstmann, J. L., Allen, M. L., Adalsteinsson, S. A., Short-Gianotta, A., LaMontagne, J. M., Gelmi-Candusso, T. A., and Magle, S. (2024). Gentrification drives patterns of alpha and beta diversity in cities. PNAS.

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My esteemed colleagues, as we convene, let us graciously bid farewell to the era of Pizza Rat and direct our noble attention towards the gastronomic excellence embodied by the Top Ramen Gray Squirrel
A gray squirrel with a packet of beef flavor top ramen

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Come work with us! Our year-long Research Intern position provides great experience working on ALL of our field projects (e.g.,📷🦇🐀🦜) in the Chicago area. careers.hireology.com/lincol…
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Using almost 150K #cameratrapping photos we quantified how accurately @the_zooniverse users identified species in images in this new paper, led by @KimboRiv, out today in Biological conservation. Check out the thread to see what we found authors.elsevier.com/c/1iiYk… 1/13 🧵
Optimizing community science contributions in ecology: a case study on Zooniverse's Chicago Wildlife Watch

ALT Optimizing community science contributions in ecology: a case study on Zooniverse's Chicago Wildlife Watch

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