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!

It was a pleasure to be Erin's research assistant on this project in 2021! Here are some of the amazing and variable streams we visited during our fieldwork.

📣 Just published in @conphysjournal.bsky.social with @jacobbowman.bsky.social, Chris Wilson, and Graham Raby How much does upper thermal tolerance vary among wild populations of brook trout? What drives this variation? 🌡️ 🧵1/5 doi.org/10.1093/conp...

Trent-Severn Waterway featured in New York Times '52 Places to Go in 2025'. #Ptbo Canadian Canoe Museum, Le Boat, 100 Acre Brewing Co., and Taste of the TSW all receive special mentions. kawarthanow.com/2025/01/08/t...

Conservation Cafe happening this Tuesday, January 7th, at The Publican in Peterborough, 7:30 pm. Stephanie Melles on salinization of freshwater ecosystems.

New wetland conservation research from @meglovesbugs.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1...

New research evaluating relationship between invasive hybrid cattails in Great Lakes wetlands and declining muskrat abundance 🌍 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

December's Conservation Cafe, Tuesday December 10, Dr. Alexander Mills, 7:30 pm at the Publican. Deadbeats, surrogates, sitters, and suckers.

Parasite species co-occurrence patterns on North American red squirrels (Tamiasciurus hudsonicus) www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

🌟 Hi everyone, excited to join the BlueSky community! I am a wildlife biologist interested in the little things that run the world (in this case, macroparasites, viruses, microbes). I am currently working on my PhD at the University of Calgary to investigate the gut microbiome of bighorn sheep 🐏

We strongly suggest that academic publishers and other platforms that host research rapidly implement a Share to Bluesky button for their articles. Here's how: docs.bsky.app/docs/advance... #AcademicSky #HigherEd #Altmetrics

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Tonight is the night for the Conservation Cafe in Peterborough! We will hear from Dr. Vivian Nguyen of Carleton University, 7:30 pm upstairs at The Publican. The presentation is entitled "Bridging the knowledge-action gap in conservation".

New research. 🧪🌎 We introduce the concept of the 'sentinel node' as a landscape connectivity indicator for Protected Area networks, and demonstrate with a case study in Ontario. Out today in PeerJ peerj.com/articles/163...

📢 We're excited to introduce Pathoplexus, a specialized sequence database for human viral pathogens! 🌍 🧬 Launching with 4 viruses, Pathoplexus.org combines modern open-source software with transparent governance to improve global pathogen sequence sharing. 1/14

Action-thriller series 'Reacher' is filming in downtown #Millbrook. Actor Alan Ritchson on set on King Street as titular character in an episode for season three of the popular Amazon Prime Video series. kawarthanow.com/2024/04/24/a...

📣RFP now open for the NW Climate Adaptation Science Center’s NEW Faculty Fellowship Program, supporting the skills needed to make climate adaptation research more easily applied to natural resource decision-making. Learn more here: bit.ly/43BrsJU

Last week, the Keeling Curve clocked a new record measurement of atmospheric #CO2 concentration several weeks ahead of the typical yearly peak. Learn more about the longstanding climate record developed and maintained by Scripps Oceanography scientists.