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Aimee M. Van Tatenhove @full-o-fulmars.bsky.social · Nov 21

👋 Hey I'm Aimee, a Rose postdoc at the #CornellLab!

Recently finished my PhD at Utah State University studying American white pelican demography+movement and am now building gnarly integrated population models with avian data.

Love nerdy tech stuff and obsessed with making weird kinds of bread 🍞

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Catherine Sheard @sheardcat.bsky.social · 1d

"Right now, if one of my students came to me and said, 'Hey, as part of my Ph.D. I want to enter the world's birds into a dataset,' I'm like, 'No, you're not doing that. You'll never finish your Ph.D.' "

Too true omg 😂

Anyway, this is a very exciting dataset!

phys.org/news/2025-09...

BIRDBASE dataset tracks ecological traits for 11,589 species of birds

Çağan Şekercioğlu was an ambitious, but perhaps naive graduate student when, 26 years ago, he embarked on a simple data-compilation project that would soon evolve into a massive career-defining achiev...

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Jeffrey J. Hall @mrjeffu.bsky.social · 19d

Video: a Japanese scientist was attacked by flies while giving the acceptance speech for his Ig Nobel Prize-winning research paper that proved painting Zebra-like stripes on cows led to a decrease in biting fly attacks.

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Armand Sarlangue @armandsarlangue.bsky.social · 10d

Frozen art from nature in Greenland…

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The Institute for Bird Populations @instbirdpop.bsky.social · 7d

🪶 If you are able, you donate here: birdpop.org/pages/do...
We lost roughly $1 million in funding without warning. Projects cancelled included all of our bird monitoring work for the National Park Service & projects w/ the Bureau of Land Management on Gunnison's Sage-Grouse, Pinyon Jays & more. 1/4

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Steve Lieber: NYCC K-19 @stevelieberart.bsky.social · 12d

Dress for the job you want

a vetis wearing a giant bird head mask as she hand feeds some baby birds.

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The Institute for Bird Populations @instbirdpop.bsky.social · 12d

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Photo by Julio Mulero of a White-throated Swift in flight with a large bulge below its beak. Text on the image says: Hope your weekend is as full of fun as this White-throated Swift's mouth is full of insects! Bonus Unsolicited Bird Fact: When White-throated swifts are collecting insects to bring back to their nestlings, they glue them together with their saliva to form a "bolus" (that's science speak for blob.) They hold the bolus in their mouth, not their crop, so there's often a visible bulge.

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Aimee M. Van Tatenhove @full-o-fulmars.bsky.social · 19d

Happy to share that the American white pelican Birds of the World account version 2 has just been released! If there's anything we missed, give me a shout!

doi.org/10.2173/bow....

American White Pelican - Pelecanus erythrorhynchos - Birds of the World

Species accounts for all the birds of the world.

doi.org

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Dr. Dawn Wright @deepseadawn.bsky.social · 27d

Scientists take on Trump: these researchers (including the amazing @noamross.net) are fighting back

Through lawsuits, grant tracking, whistle-blowing and more, resistance to the US war on science is growing.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Scientists take on Trump: these researchers are fighting back

Through lawsuits, grant tracking, whistle-blowing and more, resistance to the US war on science is growing.

www.nature.com

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Armand Sarlangue @armandsarlangue.bsky.social · Apr 13

Le Mont Saint Michel Rising from a sea of low fog…
Captured Friday morning in this iconic location, which happens to be super close from my home.

#photography #art #landscape

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Jonathan Lenoir 🌳🌲🌴 @jonlen.bsky.social · Sep 7

I am so glad to have contributed airborne lidar scanning #ALS data from several temperate forests 🌳🌳🌳 in 🇨🇵 #IMPRINT

Plenty to do w/ this global atlas on tree canopies #GCA, the 8th contient 🌐🌎🌲🌳

@agencerecherche.bsky.social
@cnrs-hautsdefrance.bsky.social
@cnrsecologie.bsky.social
@cnrs.fr

Tommaso Jucker @tommaso-jucker.bsky.social · Sep 5

Only a pre-print for now, but after 4 years of hard work I couldn't resist sharing this!

The Global Canopy Atlas: analysis-ready maps of 3D structure for the world's woody ecosystems

📜: doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Huge team effort led by the brilliant Fabian Fischer!

Global distribution of forest landscapes covered by airborne LiDAR

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Roger Kristiansen @rogerkristiansen.bsky.social · Dec 1

There is little that can compare with a beautiful sunset by the sea.. The calm of the ocean sounds and watching the sun setting behind the horizon..

#sunset #naturephotography

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sam henri gold @samhenri.gold · Sep 6

Did you know your MacBook has a sensor that knows the exact angle of the screen hinge?

It’s not exposed as a public API, but I figured out a way to read it and make it sound like an old wooden door.

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Aimee M. Van Tatenhove @full-o-fulmars.bsky.social · Sep 5

Unbreaking has added an ton of stuff since they started tracking current US policy's effects on immigration, food safety, personal data security etc. a handful of months ago!

If you're not familiar, they build citation-heavy timelines of current events and topical explainers at unbreaking.org

Unbreaking

How the administration is breaking the government, and what that means for all of us.

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Arctic Data Center @arcticdatactr.bsky.social · May 6

The Arctic Research Consortium of the U.S. (ARCUS) put together an anonymous survey to better understand the challenges faced by Arctic researchers under the current U.S. landscape to determine how to best support researchers. Complete the survey here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Survey on Recent Policies Impacting U.S. Arctic Research

The Arctic research community is experiencing significant impacts from recent U.S. policy actions, affecting funding, careers, international collaboration, and long-term U.S. Arctic research capacity....

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Helen Czerski @helenczerski.bsky.social · Sep 5

My feed is full of depressing and serious things, but there IS still beauty and fun in the world, so here’s a pelican in St James’s Park gently trying to filch @davidho.bsky.social ‘s shoe. It decided it wasn’t worth it and solemnly set about collecting leaves in its beak to make a nest on a bench.

Pinkish pelican putting its beak around someone’s shoe

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Maya Kaufman @mayakaufman.bsky.social · Sep 4

BREAKING, from NY Playbook PM: New York Gov. Kathy Hochul will sign an executive order allowing pharmacists to prescribe and administer Covid vaccines to New Yorkers who request them.

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Aimee M. Van Tatenhove @full-o-fulmars.bsky.social · Sep 4

The American Ornithological Society just put together a resource hub to help support avian research and guide scientists through the rapid policy changes we're facing here in the US.

Much of it is applicable to ecologists of all flavors so go check it out!
americanornithology.org/professional...

Supporting AOS members in uncertain times - American Ornithological Society

The AOS has taken several actions over the past several months to support our members and speak up for scientific research and for scientists, and we have compiled resources to help our members naviga...

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Yes That Eleri @eleritmlh.bsky.social · Sep 2

Analytical AI is doing amazing things in science and medicine. Generative LLMs are theft. Do not conflate the two.

Aliette de Bodard @aliettedebodard.com · Sep 2

This is a prime example of:
-misleading headline
-missing context (gives rate of false negatives but tools with high false negatives are used in medicine all the time, so that rate might not be significant)
-use of "AI": conflating generative AI with the analytical AI that's widely used in medicine

Euronews @euronews.com · Sep 1

About two-thirds of patients who were flagged by the AI stethoscope as potentially having heart failure did not actually have it.

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nancyforde.com @nancyfjorde.bsky.social · Sep 2

Rest in peace and power to elder and actor Graham Greene who belonged to Oneida of the Six Nations, People of the Standing Stone, and who hailed from Ohswekan which I visited in 2018 to interview an Indigenous Seedkeeper. Condolences, solace to his family and community. Huge loss and far too young.

P/hotograph of a green sign that says 'Osweken' amidst green trees and bushes and against a blue August sky. Photo credit: Nancy Forde. August 8. 2018. All rights reserved.

P/hotograph of a Grand River near Osweken (in southwestern Ontario about an hour drive from where I was born.) Trees line the banks of the river against a blue August sky. Photo credit: Nancy Forde. August 8. 2018. All rights reserved.

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Aimee M. Van Tatenhove @full-o-fulmars.bsky.social · Aug 29

Still open with a soft closing date of mid-September!

Aimee M. Van Tatenhove @full-o-fulmars.bsky.social · Aug 21

Hey bird postdocs!

Open now: a three-year PI position with @cornellbirds.bsky.social overseeing the longterm Hubbard Brook avian monitoring program. Looking for people w/ a strong research & field background

(FYI the due date is wrong—should be fixed soon)

Reach out w/ questions & please share!

Cornell University, Lab of Ornithology

Job #AJO29599, WDR-00050928 Research Associate, Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Lab of Ornithology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, US

academicjobsonline.org

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Inês Silva @ecoisilva.bsky.social · Aug 4

✨ New preprint! "Too few, too many, or just right?" 🌍🌎🌏 We explore how to evaluate study design in animal tracking studies by assessing sampling duration, interval, and, now, the number of individuals needed for reliable population-level estimates. #movementecology www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Graphical abstract for a manuscript titled "Too few, too many, or just right? Optimizing sample sizes for population-level inferences in animal tracking projects". The workflow presented in this manuscript evaluates sampling design by assessing sampling duration, sampling interval, and the number of sampled individuals needed to obtain reliable population-level estimates.

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lights out for migrating birds @lightsoutforbirds.bsky.social · Aug 26

aeroecolab.com/illinois
turn off non-essential outdoor lighting from 11 pm–6 am & close shades to reduce skyglow for migrating birds

Night of August 25, 2025
Chicago
Rockford
Aurora
10.1 M birds flying over Illinois
Birds forecast over city area
29.8 K Chicago
10.5 K Rockford
6.3 K Aurora
Lights out alert level
None Low Med
High

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Enzo Giordani @enzogiordani.bsky.social · Aug 22

A tūturiwhatu (New Zealand dotterel) keeping an eye on me this morning. 🪶🇳🇿

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Aimee M. Van Tatenhove @full-o-fulmars.bsky.social · Aug 23

Top contender for my next potluck contribution

A page from a mid-century recipe book that includes a recipe for idiot salad

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Dr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦 @watershedlab.bsky.social · Aug 23

The Department of Biological Sciences at @ucalgaryscience.bsky.social is seeking a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Freshwater Ecology. lnkd.in/gMt2i9C7
#FreshwaterEcology #AcademicJobs #AcademicChat #EnvironmentalScience #AquaticEcology 🧪

This link will take you to a page that’s not on LinkedIn

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