Helsinki Urban Rat Proj @helsinkirats.bsky.social VancouverRatProject Yes there were including parks, empty lots and food gardens. Green spaces were also assessed in some of the environmental factors associated with carriage of zoonotic pathogens. For example: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29427247/

New two part series on #rats from CBC Radio's Ideas features work from the @cwhc_bc #VanRatProject.

The #VanRatProject is part of the BC node of the Canadian Wildlife Health Cooperative which is officially on twitter! Follow CWHC BC for more on our wildlife health research

New study in WDA - Wildlife Disease Association - In it we find that the distribution of #rats carrying the bacteria #Leptospira interrogans in #Vancouver was not associated with characteristics of the urban environment or measures of rat population density UBC's School of Population and Public Health meridian.allenpress.com/jwd/article-ab…

New video summarizing 7 years of research with VancouverRatProject. We dive into some of the health risks that #rats pose to people, how rat movement and pest control can impact those risks, and what this can teach us about management #SciComm #Zoonoses youtu.be/FPNuTqCeyF8

Spoiler alert: if you live in a city, you live with rats Kaylee Byers, PhD's work is about managing rat population to limit health risks for humans in Vancouver Check out this short entertaining and informative video about the VancouverRatProject Spoiler #2: rats in this video are cute

This is an excellent short video summary of the great work being done by VancouverRatProject, Kaylee Byers, PhD, et al., covering the basic ecology & applied public/mental health aspects of urban rats. Now I need to squeeze this into our "pest" section of my Urban E&E course!

We were happy to have Dr. Chelsea Himsworth and Dr. Kaylee Byers, PhD from the British Columbia Canadian Wildlife Health Cooperative for our webinar on transdisciplinarity to talk about their work with urban rats: the Vancouver Rat Project. VancouverRatProject Canadian Wildlife Health Cooperative

New paper out led by Mike Lee from Canadian Wildlife Health Cooperative VancouverRatProject in Frontiers - Ecology & Evolution about humans’ approach to rat management. In over a century of trying to manage #urban #rats, what have we learned? 🧵 frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

VanRatProject's Kaylee Byers, PhD is hosting GenomeBC podcast Nice Genes! While the podcast is about what #genomics reveals about the world around us, it also includes a sprinkling of info about #rats and how we've studied them in #Vancouver #yvr. Link to Nice Genes! below 🐀🧬🔬🎙

Urban rats continue to flourish in cities. An entrenched “war-on-rats” paradigm drives rat management, but in this NCCEH | CCNSE webinar, Michael J. Lee explores how reconceptualizing the problem as an unsolvable one, can change how cities approach management: tinyurl.com/fsawxhvw

This NYC "Director of Rodent Mitigation" posting calls for "the killer instinct needed to fight the real enemy [rats]". So here's a short video from our team VancouverRatProject about why focusing on killing #rats isn't the answer. System level change is. m.youtube.com/watch?v=sOLKFj…

Video about the need to rethink rat management is here: m.youtube.com/watch?v=sOLKFj… And was made with the fantastic team at Avo Media Koby Michaels @jesselupini Lucas Kavanagh #rat #rats #wildlife #SciComm

I grew up watching CBC Docs The Nature of Things. I learned a lot, but it mostly made me love asking questions. Coming full circle, I'm sharing some of my favourite questions we've answered and some we haven't about #rats on Rat City this Friday!! Trailer: youtu.be/8uylV13z71g

Huge thanks to anil oza and NPR's Short Wave for including me and VancouverRatProject in this story on urban #rat management. Why doesn't our whack-a-rat approach work? Simple solutions won't address a complex issue! Check out this clip - full video here: youtu.be/sOLKFjRmbYk