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Jeff Bowman

@jeffcbowman.bsky.social
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Canadian scientist, wildlife ecology and evolution, connectivity, One Health, wildepi.ca. Web page: bowmanecology.wordpress.com

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Trent Centre for Communicating Conservation @trentconservation.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
October's here, and with it a new pub talk on high-tech ways to hang out with wolves. Join us for a wolf's eyed view of the moose hunt! 7:30 pm, upstairs at the Publican, free with a cash bar. 🐺🤳
A photo taken from a camera under the chin of one wolf, looking out across a snowy field with another wolf in the foreground. The text reads: Harnessing New Technologies to Understand Wolf Predation on Moose in Northern Ontario. Dr. Brent Patterson, OMNR. Oct 13th
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Simon Jeeves @simonjeeves.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
We just published our work on coronaviruses of Southern Ontario wild small mammals. This paper was co-first authored by myself and Dr. Jon Kotwa and has been a long time in the making. Check it out here: doi.org/10.1038/s442... #science 1/4
An image of the manuscript header of our new article titled "Genomic analysis and evolutionary insights of betacoronaviruses in wild Peromyscus mice and other terrestrial small mammals."
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Trent Centre for Communicating Conservation @trentconservation.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
We're back to school and back to our pub talks this September! In a few short weeks come join us at The Publican for an exciting and accessible view on using biocontrols to push back against invasive species in our province. Jenn Baici, of the University of Toronto, will walk us through new research
A woman in a cameo hat in profile is leaning into a thick patch of grass--the kind you see growing 7 feet tall along highways. The text reads Biocontrol of Invasive Plants in Ontario. Sep 8, 7:30 pm, Upstairs at The Publican, 294 Charlotte St.
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Jacob Bowman @jacobbowman.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Do we sample enough habitat during stream fish surveys? Just-in at Environmental Reviews @envreviews.bsky.social with Nick Jones (OMNR). Monitoring fish biodiversity in rivers and streams: A review of sampling effort requirements cdnsciencepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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Monitoring fish biodiversity in rivers and streams: A review of sampling effort requirements
Biological conservation requires effective monitoring and an accurate understanding of biodiversity patterns. It is important to examine how stream ecologists have quantified fish richness because it ...
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Jeff Bowman @jeffcbowman.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
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....
A map showing the probability of movement for terrestrial animals across Canada and the USA.
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Denise Horoky @fadedbleujeans.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
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/...
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Windsor’s cutest rodents are on the move, and South Windsor backyards seem to be the new hot spots | CBC News
Chipmunks have been around Ojibway Park for years, but seeing them east of the Herb Gray Parkway used to be unheard of. Wildlife experts explain why chipmunks are suddenly showing up in South Windsor ...
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Jason Kamilar @jasonkamilar.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
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...
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Jacob Bowman @jacobbowman.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Striped, common, and rosyface shiners, along with several other Kawartha species spawning on a rock pile nest made by a fallfish.
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Albrecht Schulte-Hostedde @albrechts-h.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Long term trends in a 75 year time series of small mammal populations in Algonquin Park presented @bryanhughes2.bsky.social at #CSEE2026
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Jeff Bowman @jeffcbowman.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Today begins the 75th year of the Algonquin Small Mammal Project! @albrechts-h.bsky.social @bryanhughes2.bsky.social algonquinsmallmammals.wordpress.com
Three people standing in front of a white garage door
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Paul O’Brien @paulpobrien.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
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...
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Jeff Bowman @jeffcbowman.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
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...
A map of southern Ontario, Canada, showing the cost two movement of different landcover types, locations of sentinel nodes for estimating movement and simulated park locations.
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Small Mammal Specialist Group @iucn-small-mammals.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Community Science: Big Insights From Small Mammal Data - Sherbourne - 2026 - Ecology and Evolution - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Community Science: Big Insights From Small Mammal Data
Community science databases can support biodiversity surveys, especially for easily identifiable species, but they are less effective for rare or cryptic species. In a study of small mammals in Ontar...
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Jeff Bowman @jeffcbowman.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Community Science: Big Insights From Small Mammal Data - Sherbourne - 2026 - Ecology and Evolution - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Community Science: Big Insights From Small Mammal Data
Community science databases can support biodiversity surveys, especially for easily identifiable species, but they are less effective for rare or cryptic species. In a study of small mammals in Ontar....
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Jeff Bowman @jeffcbowman.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Home of the Kawartha Flying Squirrel Project, which is starting its 25th year. Sound on.
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Jeff Bowman @jeffcbowman.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
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/...
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Testing for a wildlife reservoir of divergent SARS-CoV-2 in white-tailed deer
The 2021 discovery of a divergent lineage (B.1.641) of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) in free-ranging white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) in Ontario raised concern...
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Pathoplexus @pathoplexus.org · 12/03/2026
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... 📰
A screenshot of the new Pathoplexus homepage showing all viruses now supported, including Dengue and Yellow Fever, which are circled in red
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Trent Centre for Communicating Conservation @trentconservation.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
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 🦋🛜
A photo of a gorgeous orange and black monarch butterfly resting on someone's hand. The text imposed reads: Monarchs and the internet of things: tracking eastern migratory monarch fall migration using bluetooth low energy beacons. April 14 7:30 pm upstairs at the Publican, 294 charlotte st. Greg Mitchell. Research Scientist. Human Dominated Ecosystems, wildlife research division, environment and climate change Cnada
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Colin Garroway @colingarroway.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
‪ @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
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FACETS Journal @facetsjournal.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
New 📰| Invertebrate communities rebound after Phragmites australis treatment in a Great Lakes wetland🌿 ow.ly/qfcQ50YegXs 📷 facets-2025-0244, Fig. 2 👥 Meghan Ward, Samantha Fitzgerald, Jeff Bowman #Wetlands #Ecology #Restoration #GreatLakes
"Emerging aquatic invertebrate trap (EAIT) deployed in the Treated site at Point Pelee National Park. EAITs measure 50 cm × 50 cm and sit on the surface of the water to catch all emerging aquatic invertebrate." From facets-2025-0244.
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Trent Centre for Communicating Conservation @trentconservation.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
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) 🌿
A poster with catails in bloom in the background. The text reads: From failed crosses to runaway hybrids: How plant hybridization can shape ecosystems. Mar 10, 7:30 pm, the publican, Dr Joanna Freeland, Trent University
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Jeff Bowman @jeffcbowman.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
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....
A map showing the probability of movement for terrestrial animals across Canada and the USA.
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Jeff Bowman @jeffcbowman.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
New One Health case study about avian influenza surveillance in Ontario, Canada www.cabidigitallibrary.org/doi/10.1079/...
An agricultural landscape including a tractor, a barn, a wetland, and several wild animals
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Tristan A.F. Long @thelonglab.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
#Smammal! Exploration and docility in coexisting rodents! academic.oup.com/biolinnean/a... @albrechts-h.bsky.social
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Exploration and docility in coexisting rodents
Abstract. There is increasing interest in understanding how behaviour influences trade-offs that facilitate species coexistence. In the absence of spatiote
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Jacob Bowman @jacobbowman.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
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
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Jacob Bowman @jacobbowman.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
Very proud of this project and the resulting paper. Underwater video is a promising alternative to capture-based fish sampling methods.
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Graham Raby @graham-raby.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
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...
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How useful is underwater video as a fisheries assessment tool in temperate freshwater ecosystems?
ABSTRACTObjective. Remote underwater video (RUV) is a noninvasive survey technique that has long been used in marine ecosystems and is now gaining interest
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Gary Burness @garyburness.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
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/...
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Wild turkey roost selection is more consistently associated with tree traits than microclimate
Animals must cope with a range of climatic conditions across seasons, and they can accomplish this by selecting habitats that are favourable for thermoregulation. Sheltering from environmental condit...
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Canadian English Dictionary @canadiandictionary.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
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.”
"Canadian Word of the Year" on a red banner. Beneath the banner reads "maplewashing" and "the deceptive practice of making things look more Canadian than they actually are"
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Trent Centre for Communicating Conservation @trentconservation.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
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
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FACETS Journal @facetsjournal.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
New 📰| Elimination of Arctic fox variant #rabies from southern Ontario, Canada 🦊 ow.ly/A9VA50XqwHw Discover the history of Arctic fox virus variant in Ontario and methods used to eliminate the disease in southern parts of the province.
An arctic fox with white fur camouflages against the snowy landscape, showcasing nature's elegance.
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Jeff Bowman @jeffcbowman.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
New research using 46 GPS datasets from 17 wildlife species to validate our pan-Canadian connectivity model rdcu.be/eMWN5
A map of Canada showing animal icons where 46 GPS datasets were used from 17 different species
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Dr. Andrea Wishart @wishartae.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
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
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Understanding the breadth and depth of long-term ecological data collection in Canada and the United States
While several formal long-term ecological monitoring or research networks have been established, efforts are undertaken by many different organizations, leaving little understanding on the breadth of ...
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Levi Newediuk @levinewediuk.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
New article covering our study on epigenetic aging in polar bears! You can also read the preprint here: doi.org/10.1101/2024...
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Climate change, age acceleration, and the erosion of fitness in polar bears
Climate change is increasingly disrupting evolved life history strategies and reducing population viability in wild species. Using estimates of epigenetic age acceleration, a cellular biomarker of lif...
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Jeff Bowman @jeffcbowman.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
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/...
A map showing telemetry and roost locations of sympatric northern and southern flying squirrels at a location in Ontario, Canada
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Simon Jeeves @simonjeeves.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
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...
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Jeff Bowman @jeffcbowman.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Happy Canada Day!
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Jeff Bowman @jeffcbowman.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
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 landscape connectivity map of Canada and the USA.
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Nature Microbiology @natmicrobiol.nature.com · 03/06/2025
🚨 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...
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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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Jeff Bowman @jeffcbowman.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
We are looking for small mammals!
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.
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Jeff Bowman @jeffcbowman.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
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 landscape connectivity map of Canada and the USA.
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Jeff Bowman @jeffcbowman.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Photoperiod influences visceral adiposity and the adipose molecular clock independent of temperature in wild-derived Peromyscus leucopus faseb.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1096/...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 27/04/2025
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
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Samira Mubareka @smubareka.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
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.
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Jeff Bowman @jeffcbowman.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
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...
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Ontario Public Service Careers - Job Preview
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Andy Gonzalez @bio-diverse.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
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-...
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Tim Thompson @b0undless.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
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...
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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,…
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Jasmine Veitch @jsmveitch.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
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...
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