VancouverRatProject

The first in-depth study of urban rats and rat-associated health risks in Canada.

[One Health - U of Guelph @OneHealthUofG]

Urban rats continue to flourish in cities. An entrenched “war-on-rats” paradigm drives rat management, but in this @ncceh webinar, Michael J. Lee explores how reconceptualizing the problem as an unsolvable one, can change how cities approach management: https://t.co/SaQowTvijp

[VancouverRatProject @VanRatProject]

VanRatProject's @kaylee_byers 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 🐀🧬🔬🎙

[GenomeBC @GenomeBC]

Who took this photo? What is it? How did it change the world?

Join host @kaylee_byers & guest @heysciencesam as they chat girl boss Rosalind Franklin, Jurassic Park, Christmas (Island) rats & brains.

Find Nice Genes! wherever you get your podcasts or: https://t.co/OOcKC8ULvm

[CoPEH-Canada @copeh_canada]

We were happy to have Dr. Chelsea Himsworth and Dr. @kaylee_byers 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.
@VanRatProject

@CWHCRCSF

[Jonathan Richardson @JRichardson_44]

This is an excellent short video summary of the great work being done by @VanRatProject, @kaylee_byers, 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!

[Pint of Science CA @pintofscienceCA]

Spoiler alert: if you live in a city, you live with rats

@kaylee_byers'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 @VanRatProject

Spoiler #2: rats in this video are cute

[Koby Michaels @kobymichaels]

Had so much fun collaborating with @VanRatProject and @kaylee_byers to condense 7 years (!) of research into a video. Some of the coolest interdisciplinary science around!

[VancouverRatProject @VanRatProject]

#SciComm Vancouver Rat Project Phase 2 Summary https://t.co/dOdYIgh3oB via @YouTube

[VancouverRatProject @VanRatProject]

What health risks do urban #rats pose to people? How might pest control impact those risks? How could rat movement determine where the disease-causing bacteria carried by rats are found? What can this teach us about managing rats? Learn more in this video about our findings

[VancouverRatProject @VanRatProject]

New study in @WildlifeDisease - 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 @ubcspph https://t.co/lnZw9xqLZo

[CWHC BC @CWHC_BC]

Our new @VanRatProject study in collaboration with @HillLabSask revealed that #Vancouver rats and their fleas carry multiple species of Bartonella bacteria
https://t.co/xQgiBqYGlw

[VancouverRatProject @VanRatProject]

The #VanRatProject is part of the BC node of the @cwhcrcsf which is officially on twitter! Follow @cwhc_bc for more on our wildlife health research

[VancouverRatProject @VanRatProject]

New two part series on #rats from @cbcideas features work from the @cwhc_bc #VanRatProject.

[CBC Radio's Ideas @cbcideas]

For more on the contributions rats have made to humanity and how they became to be known as cultural villains, read this:

https://t.co/8D6yxsdnqe (includes audio for part one in this series)

@mlynk @rodentologist @MichaelGVann @visualplague @kaylee_byers @nataliekofler

[Dr. Jamie Rothenburger @JRothenburger]

@HelsinkiRats @VanRatProject 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: https://t.co/Mr28jJp7WQ

[CBC Radio's Ideas @cbcideas]

Rodents make up 43 per cent of all mammal species, and of these rodents, rats —thanks to their ability to exploit human environments — stand out as tenacious survivors.

https://t.co/8D6yxsdnqe

@rodentologist @MichaelGVann @visualplague @kaylee_byers @nataliekofler

[Dr. Jamie Rothenburger @JRothenburger]

Remarkable image of cannibalism in rats 🐀. This likely contributes to the maintenance and spread of Capillaria hepatica, a liver worm (parasite) that can also infect people. Here’s a link to our @VanRatProject study on it

https://t.co/eyrV2QJQgk

[CoPEH-Canada @copeh_canada]

We're happy to have Dr. Chelsea Himsworth, UBC, back for our webinar on transdisciplinarity to talk about her work with urban rats: the Vancouver Rat Project. @VanRatProject
@CWHCRCSF

https://t.co/18bgzBPRGW

[Dr. Jamie Rothenburger @JRothenburger]

A very interesting line of study - does repeated rat eradication efforts lead to more sickly rats?
Certainly, many of the rats in the @VanRatProject had severe disease including respiratory infections. Could this be a function of poor fitness?
https://t.co/7nnLhZj0Pa

[UBC Science @ubcscience]

Rats are popular in horror stories. But unlike ghosts and goblins, getting rid of them is more difficult than calling Ghostbusters. #UBC researcher Kaylee Byers explains what we've gotten wrong in our battle with these critters. https://t.co/vLlyYChi9J

[SoCal Urban Wildlife @SCUWMCouncil]

Special issue on commensal #rodents from the Journal of Human-Wildlife Interactions with papers from @ucanr @OCVector @USDA @FordhamNYC @VanRatProject @BASF #pestmanagement #rodenticides #disease #genetics

https://t.co/w5jSnsPxT5

[Bloomberg CityLab @CityLab]

"As someone who has trapped more than 700 rats, I can tell you that this lack of information is partly because rats are notoriously difficult to study." https://t.co/wJTkHbqcql