Aimee M. Van Tatenhove
Rose Postdoctoral Fellow @cornellbirds | quantitative ecologist | sci-comm🎙️| foodie 🧀 | she/they | personal account; opinions my own ✨
- The Cornell Lab of Ornithology is #hiring a NestWatch/FeederWatch RA! Job includes working with #bigdata from across the Lab to answer ecological questions (including, of course, NestWatch and FeederWatch data). Apps reviewed starting March 9th. Please share! #jobs #cornell #boost
- Great account of shenanigans in Minnesota, but uhh, probably don't read at work
- A tad bit snowy
- Reposted by Aimee M. Van Tatenhovetomorrow, StandWithMinnesota.com will hit a million site visits and over 650,000 unique visitors. i made it 10 days ago with $600 from you guys for hosting and cloudflare. thank you. thank you.
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- Reposted by Aimee M. Van TatenhoveDid you ask for a bird fact? No, but you're getting one whether you like it or not. 🪶
- The Cornell Lab of O is hiring a temporary comms assistant to help manage/curate/share Bird Cam content with the public. It's a hybrid, 6–12 month position. Please share! jobs.hr.cornell.edu/us/en/job/WD... #jobs #cornell #boost
- Reposted by Aimee M. Van TatenhoveShared among some EEB groups, there is a new affinity group for trans scientists: transscientistcollective.carrd.co Please share.
- Important research coming out of the Lab of O!
- Reposted by Aimee M. Van TatenhoveThey have moved the website to here: science.nasa.gov/specials/you... This is one of the things that NASA GSFC brought you, and Trump is trying to destroy GSFC.
- Reposted by Aimee M. Van TatenhoveIt’s official: I’m joining the School of Earth, Environment, and Sustainability at the University of Iowa as an assistant prof starting Fall 2026! I’ll be recruiting multiple grad students and postdocs to join my lab, so if you’re into disturbance ecology and conservation science… watch this space!
- Reposted by Aimee M. Van TatenhoveSometimes the timing of things that happen can't be beaten. To mark transition and progression, the moveTraits paper was published just before year's end. A movement based trait database. dx.doi.org/10.1111/ele.... @larissabeumer.bsky.social @thomasmueller.bsky.social @animaltracking.bsky.social
- Reposted by Aimee M. Van TatenhovePhD position (London, UK) Real-time modelling of infectious disease outbreaks. with @sbfnk.bsky.social @anne-cori.bsky.social @seabbs.bsky.social at @epiforecasts.io @cmmid-lshtm.bsky.social More details: iddjobs.org/jobs/2440
- Reposted by Aimee M. Van TatenhoveIt's been more than five years since the "three billion birds paper," about the shocking decline in North American bird populations since 1970, made headlines. What's happening with recovery efforts? #ornithology
- Reposted by Aimee M. Van TatenhoveACTUAL GOOD NEWS EVERYONE: The Paleontological Research Institution and the Museum of the Earth have made it through the crisis! Thanks to everyone who shared or donated-every donation mattered! Please share the good news just as widely!⚒️🧪🦑 Together we did #savePRI www.ithaca.com/news/ithaca/...
- Reposted by Aimee M. Van Tatenhoveone unexpected outlook change from being a dad is taking the self care people 10x more seriously when it comes to dealing with weirdly directed anger and rage (including Online). many angry posts should have been naps or little packets of crackers
- Reposted by Aimee M. Van TatenhoveJoin EDGI & data experts across the country calling for the preservation of NSF’s National Center for Atmospheric Research. NCAR provides critical climate & weather data we all rely on. Sign: tinyurl.com/y68m276s Thanks @publicenvirodata.bsky.social, @theimpactproject.bsky.social for drafting.
- Reposted by Aimee M. Van TatenhoveNEW JOB in #ornithology with @vogelwarte.bsky.social to unravel the demographic drivers of population change in Alpine #swifts in #Switzerland: buff.ly/crV1rT8
- Digging through photos and came across some old slow-mo videos of how quickly (and powerfully) soft catch foothold traps close. Used these to capture pelicans for GPS tagging in Utah! Got my fingers caught in them enough times to prove they're still quite gentle, despite the look of them
- Necessary disclaimer that all pelicans were captured by trained professionals and with proper state and federal capture permits
- Reposted by Aimee M. Van Tatenhove{ggview} can print plots to Viewer (Rstudio or Positron) with true scaling. Adjust plot settings and see the final proportions immediately. Save the plot once 👌 e.g.: ggplot(...) + ggview::canvas(width = 220, height = 220*2/3, units = "mm", dpi = 300) per @nrennie.bsky.social #datavis #rstats
- Now my favorite part of writing any paper: repeatedly recompiling ggplot graphs to get the text size right #rstats
- New USPS van sighting!
- Reposted by Aimee M. Van TatenhoveThere are 10 days left to leave your comment on proposals to gut the Endangered Species Act. Support for the ESA is over 80%, at a time when nothing gets 80%. It isn't perfect, but it's one of the best laws we have. My latest for @sierramagazine.bsky.social: www.sierraclub.org/sierra/prote...
- Reposted by Aimee M. Van Tatenhove14 2y postdoc positions to rescue you from the US: Early Career Rescue Fellowship Programme 2026 uni-tuebingen.de/fakultaeten/...
- Reposted by Aimee M. Van TatenhoveI'll be on sabbatical starting January 1, 2026, and if anyone is looking for a guest speaker for department seminars, I'm happy to discuss possible dates. Reskeet widely! 🧪⚒️
- Reposted by Aimee M. Van Tatenhovein a week, I'll start reviewing applications for this postdoc. come work with me in Santa Cruz, CA on fitting Bayesian hierarchical models to whale tag and photo datasets. position starts in fall 2026. ask me questions and apply here: recruit.ucsc.edu/JPF02003
- Reposted by Aimee M. Van TatenhoveI’m recruiting a PhD and MSC student for fall 2026 working on the movement ecology and conservation of Mexican spotted owls in SW forests and rocky canyonlands. Exciting partnership with Los Alamos National Laboratory. Great vibrant lab group, high impact research! 🦉 gavinmjones.com/opportunities/
- Interesting map by Honor the Earth: proposed or expanding data centers on/near Indigenous lands www.honorearth.org/datacentertr...
- Reposted by Aimee M. Van TatenhoveSatellite Imagery xkcd.com/3173/
- Yup, that's turkey ice cream (stuffing was a tad over-herbed, but otherwise pretty decent)
- You know you're from the boonies when an airplane hits a deer at your hometown municipal airport www.burnettcountysentinel.com/news/cessna-...
- A couple of fine multigrain sourdough sandwich loaves, if I do say so myself! Had a heck of a time trying to get the dough to rise the past few times, so it's nice that my starter has decided to play nice again
- Reposted by Aimee M. Van TatenhoveCan anyone direct me to any theory or studies about how abundance varies on the edge of an expanding species range ? Does abundance "build up" and then overflow? Smooth across the range? Always a low abundance edge? Etc. #biogeography #invasivespecies #ecology
- This lasagna is so huge it maxed out our kitchen scale
- Reposted by Aimee M. Van TatenhoveDo you teach #rstats? Do your students complain about how lame and old-fashioned dplyr is? Don't worry: I have the solution for you: github.com/hadley/genzp.... genzplyr is dplyr, but bussin fr fr no cap.
- Reposted by Aimee M. Van TatenhoveI had student meetings yesterday for my class. It was a writing class so most meetings started with my comments on their papers, but I told them they could ask about anything. Some asked for advice for gap years, how to choose the next career step, even audio books :) my favorite question was...🧵
- Northeast fall is something else
- Reposted by Aimee M. Van TatenhoveInterested in a PhD in ornithology? Funding available for projects at the interface of ecology, behaviour & evolution from Oct '26 working on long-term population studies of tits at Wytham, based in @biology.ox.ac.uk in the new Life & Mind Building in Oxford www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
- Reposted by Aimee M. Van TatenhoveYears ago, I attempted a self-assessment of my potential gender biases in an academic research setting: ecoevoevoeco.blogspot.com/2016/04/subt... Today, I happened on a very nice summary of how to avoid such biases in letters of recommendation, which provides an comprehensive outline. Check it out
- Please share! Folks at CSU and USDA-APHIS are looking for a #postdoc to predict avian-aircraft collisions around airports. Preferred skills include #avian movement modeling, Bayesian hierarchical modeling, machine learning, and radar #ecology. Apply here: jobs.colostate.edu/postings/166... #boost
- A very nice summary and rebuttal (and well worth reading through the 18-post thread)
- Reposted by Aimee M. Van TatenhoveIf anyone's interested, they would need to have a proposal ready to go in the next week and a half....so short notice! 🧪
- Please share! Cornell Biomedical Sciences is doing a survey to gauge feelings about birth control with the goal to shape future male contraception options They're aiming for male participants but anyone can join (I did—it was lovely) It's a ~20min confidential Zoom interview (signup links ⬇️)
- You can schedule through Calendly: calendly.com/jzl23-cornel... calendly.com/ccp64-cornel... Now go complain about our current lack of male contraceptives :P
- You've heard of eBird, now get ready for dBird (the dead bird app)! dBird.org
- Reposted by Aimee M. Van TatenhovePOSTDOC JOB AD: I'm hiring a Bayesian ecologist to build a (IMO, extremely fun) model of humpback whale spatiotemporal dynamics in California 2-year position starting fall 2026. in-person in Santa Cruz; collab w with Mevin Hooten's lab at UT Austin. ask me Qs or apply: recruit.ucsc.edu/JPF02003
- Reposted by Aimee M. Van TatenhoveI don’t think most people (including academics) realize just how screwed American universities are right now. Yes, the Trump attacks hurt. But the deeper crisis comes from the slow rot of a corporate mindset in university leadership that traded mission for growth. Let’s talk about that. A 🧵 1/10
- Reposted by Aimee M. Van TatenhoveCome work with me!
- We're Hiring!!! #ornithology #waterbirds We're seeking an Editor-in-Chief for our journal, Waterbirds. The EIC is responsible for professional services in editing & publication of the Society’s journal ornithologyexchange.org/jobs/board/n... Please share! Questions: managingeditor@waterbirds.org
- Reposted by Aimee M. Van TatenhoveOut now on the cover of @journal-evo.bsky.social! Led by Sarah Khalil, we took a genomic approach to investigate the hybrid zone between different-colored Red-backed Fairywren subspecies. We found some interesting candidate genes under selection. Check it out! academic.oup.com/evolut/advan...
- Reposted by Aimee M. Van TatenhoveMy lab is hiring a 2-yr hummingbird evolution and genomics postdoc and a 1-yr salaried research and lab tech. Both with full U. Wyoming benefits. Please spread the word! Info below. Best consideration date Nov 1, start dates early Spring 2026.
- Post-conference jaunt to the Canadian Rockies
- Reposted by Aimee M. Van Tatenhove🐦Funded PhD @Bristol for UK-domiciled applicants of Black heritage ✨ How does human pressure impact the stability and longevity of bird populations in the Global South 🌍 Train in R & Bayesian modelling with partners in Tanzania, Kenya, SA, @zslscience.bsky.social www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
- Reposted by Aimee M. Van Tatenhove"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...
- Reposted by Aimee M. Van TatenhoveVideo: 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.
- Reposted by Aimee M. Van TatenhoveFrozen art from nature in Greenland…
- Reposted by Aimee M. Van Tatenhove🪶 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
- Reposted by Aimee M. Van TatenhoveDress for the job you want
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- 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....
- Reposted by Aimee M. Van TatenhoveScientists 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...
- Reposted by Aimee M. Van TatenhoveLe 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
- Reposted by Aimee M. Van TatenhoveI 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
- 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!
- Reposted by Aimee M. Van TatenhoveThere 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
- Reposted by Aimee M. Van TatenhoveDid 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.
- 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
- Reposted by Aimee M. Van TatenhoveThe 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...
- Reposted by Aimee M. Van TatenhoveMy 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.
- Reposted by Aimee M. Van TatenhoveBREAKING, 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.
- 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...
- Reposted by Aimee M. Van TatenhoveAnalytical AI is doing amazing things in science and medicine. Generative LLMs are theft. Do not conflate the two.
- Reposted by Aimee M. Van TatenhoveRest 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.
- Still open with a soft closing date of mid-September!
- 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!
- Reposted by Aimee M. Van Tatenhove✨ 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...
- Reposted by Aimee M. Van Tatenhoveaeroecolab.com/illinois turn off non-essential outdoor lighting from 11 pm–6 am & close shades to reduce skyglow for migrating birds
