Conbio postdoc at @sdnhm, urban ecologist 🏙🐿🦝🦌, artist 👩🏻🎨 (she/her) | art insta: @ sciurusstitches | also @ rlarson92.bsky.social
Joined May 2015
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17 Nov 2024
I’m moving to the other site just like everybody else. Find me with the same handle
bsky.app/profile/rlarson92.b…
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8 Feb 2025
This postdoc would work closely with me on the Urban Nature Alliance. Let’s be postdoc friends!
7 Feb 2025
Come work with us! The Schell Lab is looking for a new postdoc to work on urban biodiversity initiatives in the Bay Area and throughout California. The future postdoc will also be an integral partner of the California Urban Nature Alliance. aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04…
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Rachel Larson, PhD retweeted
23 Jan 2025
Fun Fact: Thorny devil lizards drink water with their feet. They step in water on the ground and the grooves on their skin channel water to their mouths through capillary action. This allows them to drink passively without lowering their guard.🦎🥤🐾
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8 Jan 2025
PLEASE JOIN ME IN WELCOMING THE NEWEST MEMBER OF THE #squirrel TREE OF LIFE:
Urocitellus idahoensis
Snake River Plains ground squirrel
ALT PHOTO by Alex Lamoreaux via iNaturalist
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Rachel Larson, PhD retweeted
28 Nov 2024
Fun fact: Baby birds often ‘gape,’ opening their mouths wide to signal hunger. Parents feed them by regurgitating food until they’re weaned and learn to eat on their own. 🐥🦜
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26 Nov 2024
Some of my favorite photos from our 1st season of #cameratrap sampling in #SanDiego
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Rachel Larson, PhD retweeted
21 Nov 2024
Throwback fact: Porcupines are covered in around thirty-thousand quills. Each quill has barbs at the tips that make them difficult to remove. 🌵🐖💺 #naturalhabitat #naturalhabitatshorts #naturalhabitok
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Rachel Larson, PhD retweeted
14 Nov 2024
Fun fact: Flamingos can drink near-boiling water. They can even drink super salty and alkaline water.🦩☕️🔥
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Rachel Larson, PhD retweeted
31 Oct 2024
Spooky fact: Chipmunks’ stripes allow them to blend in to their wooded environment and hide in plain sight. 🐿️🌳📞 check out our merch at Naturalhabitatshorts.store #naturalhabitatshorts #naturalhabitat #naturalhabitok
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28 Oct 2024
More of my dissertation work is published in the Journal of Mammalogy! - "Variation in species-specific responses to habitat fragmentation and land cover structure urban small mammal communities"
doi.org/10.1093/jmammal/gyae…
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28 Oct 2024
However, there were some pretty interested species-specific responses to both vegetation cover and habitat fragmentation - for example, deer mice do not like urban environments, but short-tailed shrews seem to benefit
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28 Oct 2024
Summary metrics, like species richness, are useful but only part of the story. It's important to understand how individual species respond to urbanization, especially species of management concern like deer mice (they carry Lyme disease)
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24 Oct 2024
My favorite part of #TWS2024 (besides meeting other passionate wildlife biologists, obviously) was walking away with more squirrel & coyote swag from @BlueAsterStudio - I love seeing artists with booths at conferences!
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21 Oct 2024
If you’re looking for more small mammal research after today’s talks, check out my talk tomorrow afternoon (3:30pm in Peale) on the relationships between predator occurrence and urban deer mouse abundance
#TWS2024
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20 Oct 2024
If you’re also at #TWS2024 this week and want to meet up, you can find me wearing my woodland cardigan (that I knit myself, btw!)
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Rachel Larson, PhD retweeted
17 Oct 2024
Spooky fact: When threatened, Horned lizards shoot blood from their eyes as a defense mechanism. Their blood is also toxic from a diet of venomous ants. 🦎🩸💀 #naturalhabitatshorts #naturahabitat #naturalhabitok
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Rachel Larson, PhD retweeted
12 Oct 2024
Refuge Week 2024 starts tomorrow and we're kicking things off with Urban Wildlife Conservation Day!
This gorgeous sunset photo was taken at Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge, located just 10 miles northeast of downtown Denver, Colorado.
Photo by Patrick Gautier
ALT A sunset-colored sky is reflected off of a wetland below.
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8 Oct 2024
I can’t believe Zoom did me dirty this morning by AUTO-UN-MUTING ME in the all staff meeting while I was talking to my coworker. I ended up accidentally talking over someone else who just wanted to talk about saving Joshua trees 😭
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