Aimee M. Van Tatenhove

Out 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...

My 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.

A person give the thumbs up sign in front of a forest and distance jagged mountain peaks

A waterfall flowing from moss covered rocks surrounded by conifers

A deep gorge with a bright blue river flowing through it

An entrance sign to Banff National Park in front of a conifer forest and a cliff

Post-conference jaunt to the Canadian Rockies

🐦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...

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...

"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...

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.

Frozen art from nature in Greenland…

Graphic with the following text followed by The Institute for Bird Populations logo: Emergency Appeal: Federal Funding Cut Last week 9 of our federal grants were abruptly cancelled without cause. If you can make a donation today, it will have a big impact. Thank you for your support, The Institute for Bird Populations

🪶 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

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

Dress for the job you want

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.

🪶

American White Pelican - Pelecanus erythrorhynchos - Birds of the World Species accounts for all the birds of the world.

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....

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.

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...

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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....

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...

Pinkish pelican putting its beak around someone’s shoe

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.

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.

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...

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...

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

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.

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

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.

✨ 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...

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

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

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

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

Top contender for my next potluck contribution

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 🧪

Fight Cuts, Defend Higher Education at the University of Oregon The University of Oregon is planning to lay off an undisclosed number of faculty—including many tenured faculty—and to close units based on a projected budget deficit that was discovered late spring t...

University of Oregon is attacking its faculty and the right to tenure. Help them fight back by signing here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/fi...