Jeff Bowman
@jeffcbowman.bsky.social
Canadian scientist, wildlife ecology and evolution, connectivity, One Health, https://wildepi.ca.
Web page: https://bowmanecology.wordpress.com
Web page: https://bowmanecology.wordpress.com
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Jeff Bowman
@jeffcbowman.bsky.social
· May 12
New research: Landscape connectivity across Canada and the USA. A seamless, high resolution connectivity map across both countries. 🧪🌎 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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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
December 30, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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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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:
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@jacobbowman.bsky.social asked this question for his honours thesis, by comparing video against other ways of counting fish.
Editor's Choice in TAFS:
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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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December 30, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Very proud of this project and the resulting paper. Underwater video is a promising alternative to capture-based fish sampling methods.
Reposted by Jeff Bowman
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...
@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...
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
academic.oup.com
December 29, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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...
@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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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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December 15, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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/...
nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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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.”
December 13, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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.”
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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
November 28, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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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🌍 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...
Article: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
November 25, 2025 at 12:57 PM
🌍 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...
Article: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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New 📰| Elimination of Arctic fox variant #rabies from southern Ontario, Canada 🦊 https://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.
Discover the history of Arctic fox virus variant in Ontario and methods used to eliminate the disease in southern parts of the province.
November 12, 2025 at 2:49 PM
New 📰| Elimination of Arctic fox variant #rabies from southern Ontario, Canada 🦊 https://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.
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
October 27, 2025 at 3:33 PM
New research using 46 GPS datasets from 17 wildlife species to validate our pan-Canadian connectivity model rdcu.be/eMWN5
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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
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
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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October 10, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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
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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New article covering our study on epigenetic aging in polar bears! You can also read the preprint here: doi.org/10.1101/2024...
August 25, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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/...
July 14, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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/...
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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...
www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...
July 11, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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...
www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...
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New research: Landscape connectivity across Canada and the USA. A seamless, high resolution connectivity map across both countries. 🧪🌎 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
May 12, 2025 at 1:03 PM
New research: Landscape connectivity across Canada and the USA. A seamless, high resolution connectivity map across both countries. 🧪🌎 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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🚨 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...
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 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...
www.nature.com
June 3, 2025 at 4:30 PM
🚨 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...
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!
May 15, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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...
May 12, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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/...
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May 8, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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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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
MARCO RUBIO: I think the president has stated repeatedly he thinks Canada would be better off as a state
April 27, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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
MARCO RUBIO: I think the president has stated repeatedly he thinks Canada would be better off as a state
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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.
April 26, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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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🚨 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...
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
High host specificity of alphacoronaviruses in Nearctic, insectivorous bats - npj Viruses
npj Viruses - High host specificity of alphacoronaviruses in Nearctic, insectivorous bats
www.nature.com
April 26, 2025 at 6:41 PM
🚨 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...
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...
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April 24, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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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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-...
rightofpassage.canadiangeographic.ca
It includes an interactive map showing national priority areas for corridors:
rightofpassage.canadiangeographic.ca/23-national-...
April 23, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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-...
rightofpassage.canadiangeographic.ca
It includes an interactive map showing national priority areas for corridors:
rightofpassage.canadiangeographic.ca/23-national-...
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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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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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March 12, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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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