From Ojibway Park to South Windsor, chipmunks are expanding their territory Experts say eco-crossing and food supply are driving chipmunk expansion in Windsor www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

New paper published in Molecular Ecology on Canadian Lynx genomics and climate change, led by @tanyalama.bsky.social and @blairbentley.bsky.social @sbs-umass.bsky.social @umasscns.bsky.social @umassamherst.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/author...

Striped, common, and rosyface shiners, along with several other Kawartha species spawning on a rock pile nest made by a fallfish.

Long term trends in a 75 year time series of small mammal populations in Algonquin Park presented @bryanhughes2.bsky.social at #CSEE2026

Today begins the 75th year of the Algonquin Small Mammal Project! @albrechts-h.bsky.social @bryanhughes2.bsky.social algonquinsmallmammals.wordpress.com

The input data and code used to build our predictive model for evaluating candidate protected areas can be found at doi.org/10.6084/m9.f...

New research led by @paulpobrien.bsky.social 🧪🌎 In this work, we developed a tool to estimate the effect of any future park or protected area on the connectivity of an existing parks and protected areas network. doi.org/10.1371/jour...

Community Science: Big Insights From Small Mammal Data - Sherbourne - 2026 - Ecology and Evolution - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Community Science: Big Insights From Small Mammal Data - Sherbourne - 2026 - Ecology and Evolution - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Home of the Kawartha Flying Squirrel Project, which is starting its 25th year. Sound on.

Now published - Wildlife surveillance for SARS-CoV-2 following the discovery of divergent lineage B.1.641 in white-tailed deer from Ontario #wildepi www.facetsjournal.com/doi/10.1139/...

1/ 🦟 Big news: #Pathoplexus now supports Dengue virus & Yellow Fever virus - two arboviruses responsible for over 400 million infections and up to 94,000 deaths per year. Here's what’s new in our latest update 👇🏻 Read the full update: pathoplexus.org/news/2026-03... 📰

April's Conservation Cafe pub talk will be high tech and high colour! Join us at 7:30 pm at the Publican on April 14th for an electrifying discussion on bluetooth butterflies 🦋🛜

‪ @eveliendegreef.bsky.social's latest is out in the @asn-amnat.bsky.social feature exploring the challenges of genetic forecasting😀 "Identifying Areas of Potential Risk Based on Future Genetic Adaptability in Three Arctic Whale Species" doi.org/10.1086/738889 🧪🌎🧬🌐 #consgen #popgen #evobio

New 📰| Invertebrate communities rebound after Phragmites australis treatment in a Great Lakes wetland🌿 https://ow.ly/qfcQ50YegXs 📷 facets-2025-0244, Fig. 2 👥 Meghan Ward, Samantha Fitzgerald, Jeff Bowman #Wetlands #Ecology #Restoration #GreatLakes

When species meet, do they always get along? Do they perhaps sometimes get along all too well? Trent's own Dr Joanna Freeland brings us into the weird world of plant hybrids + ecosystem action on March 10th. Same plant time (7:30 pm), same plant channel (Upstairs at the Publican) 🌿

Now published: Landscape connectivity across Canada and the USA. A seamless, high resolution connectivity map across both countries. 🧪🌎 Open access in Facets, including open data www.facetsjournal.com/doi/full/10....

New One Health case study about avian influenza surveillance in Ontario, Canada www.cabidigitallibrary.org/doi/10.1079/...

#Smammal! Exploration and docility in coexisting rodents! academic.oup.com/biolinnean/a... @albrechts-h.bsky.social

Thanks to @graham-raby.bsky.social, Amber Fedus, and Michael Fox, along with members of the Stoney Lake community for supporting the project. I will conclude with a clip of some otters checking out my camera setup, captured during the project. @amfisheriessoc.bsky.social

Very proud of this project and the resulting paper. Underwater video is a promising alternative to capture-based fish sampling methods.

How useful is underwater video as a fisheries assessment tool in freshwater? @jacobbowman.bsky.social asked this question for his honours thesis, by comparing video against other ways of counting fish. Editor's Choice in TAFS: academic.oup.com/tafs/advance...

Ever wonder why wild turkey choose certain roost trees? Using GPS- tagged birds over multiple years, recent MSc graduate student Kayla Martin showed that tree size is much more important than microclimate @jeffcbowman.bsky.social 🧪 nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

And the results are in! After carefully reviewing the results of a national poll the Board of Directors of the Society for Canadian English (SCE) has determined that this year’s Canadian Word of the Year (CWOTY), the first of its kind, will be “maplewashing.”

And we're back in action Dec 9th! Join us at the Publican at 7:30 pm for drinks, good company, and an account of the conservation fight for arctic shorebirds with Paul A. Smith

🌍 Nipah virus (NiV), a zoonotic paramyxovirus from the Henipavirus genus, primarily infects Pteropus bat species across Southeast and South Asia. Article: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New 📰| Elimination of Arctic fox variant #rabies from southern Ontario, Canada 🦊 https://ow.ly/A9VA50XqwHw#rabies Discover the history of Arctic fox virus variant in Ontario and methods used to eliminate the disease in southern parts of the province.

New research using 46 GPS datasets from 17 wildlife species to validate our pan-Canadian connectivity model rdcu.be/eMWN5

New from my fellow LTR-CSEE member Mel Boudreau: Understanding the breadth and depth of long-term ecological data collection in Canada and the United States doi.org/10.1139/face... @facetsjournal.bsky.social @csee-scee.bsky.social #LongTermResearch

New article covering our study on epigenetic aging in polar bears! You can also read the preprint here: doi.org/10.1101/2024...

New from Rebekah Persad and the Kawartha Flying Squirrel Project: Home range size, habitat selection, and mycophagy of sympatric North American flying squirrels esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

New publication - this one has been a long way time in the making, but I am very proud of the work that went into it. Take a peek at our new review article on coronaviruses of wild small mammals: www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...

Happy Canada Day!

New research: Landscape connectivity across Canada and the USA. A seamless, high resolution connectivity map across both countries. 🧪🌎 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

🚨 Out Now! In a new Perspective, Yadav et al. discuss NiV outbreaks, transmission cycles and the role of reservoir and bridging hosts. They also discuss a One Health approach to mitigate the risks of NiV epidemics and pandemics. #MicroSky @virology.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We are looking for small mammals!

New research: Landscape connectivity across Canada and the USA. A seamless, high resolution connectivity map across both countries. 🧪🌎 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Photoperiod influences visceral adiposity and the adipose molecular clock independent of temperature in wild-derived Peromyscus leucopus faseb.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1096/...

WELKER: Does the US still want to make Canada the 51st state? MARCO RUBIO: I think the president has stated repeatedly he thinks Canada would be better off as a state

One of several Wild EPI projects on the go. Learning heaps from everyone. Many thanks, especially to Vikram Misra and Christina Davy, who started this bat story.

🚨 NEW PUBLICATION. The beginning of a new series of wildlife zoonotic virus genotype to phenotype collaboration. A fantastic group of researchers and a true interdisciplinary effort. 🦇#LZCI www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Wildlife Research Analyst position with Ontario MNR. Focus on combining telemetry and genomics datasets. Apply by May 1st: www.gojobs.gov.on.ca/Preview.aspx...

Canadian Geographic has released a fantastic new website "Right of Passage" about ecological corridors and connectivity in Canada rightofpassage.canadiangeographic.ca It includes an interactive map showing national priority areas for corridors: rightofpassage.canadiangeographic.ca/23-national-...

Dear Canada, I felt compelled to make something. To stick up for, and to honour. To show our strength, beauty, genius, empathy, light & heart. It's made with deep gratitude for the people and places of this beautiful land. Vive le Canada 🇨🇦❤️✌️💪 vimeo.com/1056619122/f...

Thrilled to share my third first-author paper from my master's work with @albrechts-h.bsky.social and @jeffcbowman.bsky.social - this time diving into ectoparasite community dynamics of North American red squirrels! 🐿️ www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

WildEpi was well represented at the One Health - AMR and Zoonosis meeting in Calgary. Dr. Samira Mubareka and Dr. Finlay Maguire. @smubareka.bsky.social @finlaym.bsky.social

Brief but notable observation: Clade 2.3.4.4b A(H5N1) avian influenza in Canadian poultry has reassorted with a North American lineage virus, acquiring oseltamivir (Tamilflu) resistance. A concerning development in flu evolution. #IDSky 🧪 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

here is why systematic surveillance of H5 viruses is crucial, also in wildlife. Circulation of AI viruses in Canada with resistance to oseltamivir, which is one of the few drugs that can be used to prevent and (less well) treat H5N1 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The Canadian One Health Training Program for Emerging Zoonoses (COHTPEZ) website is up. Today, we launch our first cohort of trainees. Over the next 6 years, we aim to train a vibrant community of trainees who will tackle interdisciplinary problems. #OneHealth #Zoonosis onehealthcanada.ca

We're back in February for more conservation science! Join Dr. Mark Ridgway for the scoop on Algonquin Park lake fish. There's more going on beneath the waters than we thought!