Jeff Bowman

A map showing telemetry and roost locations of sympatric northern and southern flying squirrels at a location in Ontario, Canada

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/...

#wildepi

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!

A landscape connectivity map of Canada and the USA.

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

A One Health approach to understanding and managing Nipah virus outbreaks - Nature Microbiology In this 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 epidemic...

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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...

A poster asking for Ontario observations of eastern moles, star-nosed moles, woodland voles, least shrews, short-tailed shrews, water shrews, northern flying squirrels, and least weasels.

We are looking for small mammals!

300 m. Dataset will be fully open.

A great collaboration with @paulpobrien.bsky.social @richpither.bsky.social @smubareka.bsky.social, Simon Tapper, Mike Brown, and Angela Brennan. #wildepi

A landscape connectivity map of Canada and the USA.

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/...

Mesocarnivores

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.

High host specificity of alphacoronaviruses in Nearctic, insectivorous bats - npj Viruses npj Viruses - High host specificity of alphacoronaviruses in Nearctic, insectivorous bats

🚨 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... Dear Canada... I felt compelled to do something, to make something for my country. To stick up for, and to honour it. To show our strength, beauty, genius, empathy,…

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 🇨🇦❤️✌️💪

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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

Neuraminidase reassortment and oseltamivir resistance in clade 2.3.4.4b A(H5N1) viruses circulating among Canadian poultry, 2024 We report the detection of a clade 2.3.4.4b A(H5N1) reassortant virus with a neuraminidase surface protein derived from a North American lineage low-pathogenic avian influenza virus. This virus cau...

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....

Neuraminidase reassortment and oseltamivir resistance in clade 2.3.4.4b A(H5N1) viruses circulating among Canadian poultry, 2024 We report the detection of a clade 2.3.4.4b A(H5N1) reassortant virus with a neuraminidase surface protein derived from a North American lineage low-pathogenic avian influenza virus. This virus cau...

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....

If dry and at room temp, quite likely ok.

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

A poster for our pub talk Islands of Water in a Sea of Land: Newly Discovered Species Diversity of Fish in Algonquin Park. Feb 11, 7:30 pm, the Publican. Dr. Mark Ridgway is pictured holding up a 2 foot fish with blue lakewater stretching out in the background

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.

Local conditions drive interpopulation variation in field-based critical thermal maximum of brook trout Abstract. Individual- and population-level responses to thermal change will be pivotal for species’ resilience and adaptive responses to climate change. Th

📣 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? 🌡️

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doi.org/10.1093/conp...

Trent-Severn Waterway featured in New York Times ’52 Places to Go in 2025′ | kawarthaNOW By Bruce Head. Peterborough's Canadian Canoe Museum, Le Boat, 100 Acre Brewing Co., and Taste of the TSW all receive special mentions.

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...

A poster describing the same details of the post, but with a photo showing salt on a roadway.

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

Great Lakes coastal wetland plant biodiversity increases following the manual removal of invasive Phragmites australis - Wetlands Ecology and Management Invasive Phragmites australis australis is invading and homogenizing Great Lakes coastal wetlands at an alarming rate. Phragmites australis is thought to reduce wetland biodiversity both directly and ...

New wetland conservation research from @meglovesbugs.bsky.social
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