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Jeff Hostetler

@jeffhostecology.bsky.social
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Quantitative population and migration ecologist at U.S. Geological Survey Eastern Ecological Science Center in Laurel, MD. Among other things, I analyze Breeding Bird Survey data.

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The Institute for Bird Populations @instbirdpop.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
🪶 New study using data from our MAPS bird monitoring program out now! Read it here: royalsocietypublishi...
Photo of a female Black-headed Grosbeak by Sharon Lee. Text on graphic says: Female North American passerine birds have lower apparent survival than males
Wu et al., 2026
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Jeff Hostetler @jeffhostecology.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
I am happy to announce that the latest USGS analysis of North American Breeding Bird Survey (BBS) data, incorporating data through 2025, has now been released. Metadata and csv files can be downloaded at doi.org/10.5066/P1OS....
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Jeff Hostetler @jeffhostecology.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
I was on a podcast! Talking about bird trends! youtu.be/ZJGXBOkVwCU?...
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EP:444 | The Decline of America’s Wild Birds
YouTube video by Mossy Oak Gamekeepers
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Jeff Hostetler @jeffhostecology.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
My sister on the local news, promoting native plants www.fox5dc.com/video/170780...
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Maryland's best native plants
Fall leaves are here—but should you rake them? Kristin Hanna from the Maryland Department of Agriculture and Janet Hostetler from Bloom-Wild.com. joined us to share why leaving leaves can actually ben...
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Jeff Hostetler @jeffhostecology.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
This is so depressing. Ceding the future to other countries while we make our air dirtier and our planet hotter. Gift link, if you dare. Really hope this horrible bill fails completely. wapo.st/44EZL4X
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Senate’s tax bill seeks to gut clean energy; Musk calls it ‘utterly insane’
The Republican-controlled Congress is poised to score a major win for President Trump by repealing green energy incentives that Democrats passed in 2022.
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Jeff Hostetler @jeffhostecology.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Our analysis of BBS data (through 2023) just came out! doi.org/10.5066/P1F2...
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The North American Breeding Bird Survey, Analysis Results 1966 - 2023
This data product consists of a database of population change and abundance estimates for North American birds, estimated from North American Breeding Bird Survey (BBS) data. Data are presented for 54...
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Trevor Caughlin @trevorcaughlin.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
New paper out, led by @villarreal-miguel.bsky.social. There's a disconnect between remote sensing advances and application to ecology (including only 11 UAS papers in Landscape Ecology!). We provide a guide for using drones to answer ecological ?s: link.springer.com/article/10.1... #uas #drones
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Killian Gregory @killiangregory.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
2nd chapter of my PhD just published in @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/2041... Another step towards linking animal migration and population dynamics using integrated modelling! The secret lies in a neat equation relating survival and transition probabilities between migratory regions
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An integrative framework to combine migratory connectivity and demographic data
Migratory species experience various conditions and events throughout their annual cycle that influence their spatial and demographic dynamics. To understand these dynamics, it is essential to des...
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Nick Clark 💹 @njclark.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
I'm currently seeking PhD candidates to help me work on exciting ecological forecasting problems using #rstats ecogambler.netlify.app/opportunities/ 🌎
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Research opportunities | GAMbler
If you are interested in joining my research group, or for any other enquiries, please contact me. You can find my most up-to-date contact details on my [University of Queensland page](https://about.u...
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Richard Hall @richardlovesbirds.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Post-migratory movements in the nonbreeding season are in fact displayed by a surprising number of birds around the world, with diverse resource- or weather-based cues. Two former students in the lab wrote a paper documenting examples of this: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Post‐migratory nonbreeding movements of birds: A review and case study
While many migratory birds are conceptualized as using a single wintering site, technological advances that enable detailed tracking of individual birds are uncovering more examples of post-migratory....
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American Bird Conservancy @abcbirds.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
Long-billed Curlew and 'Akikiki may be an ocean apart, but they have at least one thing in common: They both benefit from funds coming from the United States federal budgeting (AKA, appropriations) process. 🪶
Image featuring two birds: on the left, a Long-billed Curlew standing amidst vegetation, and on the right, an 'Akikiki perched on a tree branch, with a blurred green background.
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Jeff Hostetler @jeffhostecology.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
Check out our article here!
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Joshua Twining @joshuaptwining.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Are you looking to get a graduate degree in Fisheries, Wildlife, and Conservation Sciences? This funded MS project at OSU is focused on testing a range of non-invasive method for small mammals (enclosed camera trapping + thermal cameras mounted on drones) against SCR applied to live trapping data.
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Jeff Hostetler @jeffhostecology.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Our article in @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social on migratory connectivity, data integration, bidirectional data, and more just came out! 🧵 (eventually) besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Challenges and opportunities for data integration to improve estimation of migratory connectivity
Understanding migratory connectivity, or the linkage of populations between seasons, is critical for effective conservation and management of migratory wildlife. A growing number of tools are avai...
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Jeff Hostetler @jeffhostecology.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
This would be grand! Of course Zotero would have to guess which articles I actually read and which ones I just skimmed the abstract.
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Jeff Hostetler @jeffhostecology.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Our article in @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social on migratory connectivity, data integration, bidirectional data, and more just came out! 🧵 (eventually) besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Challenges and opportunities for data integration to improve estimation of migratory connectivity
Understanding migratory connectivity, or the linkage of populations between seasons, is critical for effective conservation and management of migratory wildlife. A growing number of tools are avai...
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Robert Fletcher @fletcherecology.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Excited to share a new opportunity in my new lab at Cambridge! We are looking for a highly motivated, early-career, postdoctoral scientist to be part of a growing effort in #connectivity conservation. 3-yr position housed in the Cambridge Conservation Initiative! www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49330/
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Postdoctoral Research Associate (Fixed Term) - Job Opportunities - University of Cambridge
Postdoctoral Research Associate (Fixed Term) in the Department of Zoology at the University of Cambridge.
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Mike O'Brien @obrien.page · 29/11/2024
Learn how to draw a North Atlantic Right Whale at the Science Museum of Virginia. Sad thing is that enough kids draw these each day to represent the entire population (c. 375) 😔 🦑
Four steps to draw a North Atlantic Right Whale. 1) Start with basic shapes. 2) Add flipper shapes, mouth and eye. 3) Add facial features and markings. 4) Add details and shading.
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Florian Keil @floriankeil.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
In "Consequences of cross-season demographic correlations for population viability," the authors establish positive correlations between population growth rates for three distinct groups of Atlantic puffins. t.co/vFyPXFI3yD
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Paul Hostetler @phostetlerart.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Do you like calendars? I do! Maybe we could like them in the same room sometime. Please buy so I can continue to afford comics: www.calendars.com/shop/Samurai...
Photo of an illustrated calendar aptly named “samurai cats.”Photo of a wall calendar featuring two erotically entangled tree sloths, titled “sloth Kama sutra.”A Japanese woodcut image of a grumpy samurai cat in full armor covered in unrolled rolls of toilet paper.
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Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Today’s poem is called ‘The Importance of the Oxford Comma’.
The Importance of the Oxford Comma
 
Owing to ambiguities caused by its omission,
the Oxford comma was the subject of a petition
raised by serious serialists keen to ensure
its mandatory use in lists of three things or more.
 
And what a response! From across every nation,
the signatures poured in beyond all expectation –
from the investment bankers, robbers and thieves,
to the politicians, self-servers and exponents of sleaze.
 
There were the Daily Mail readers, the clowns and deluded;
the climate change deniers, the daft and the stupid;
the morally bankrupt, Donald Trump and Piers Morgan;
Elon Musk, a Bond villain and a trafficker of organs;
 
plus the poets, the drug fiends and chronically poor –
all supported this change to grammatical law.
This formal petition was then presented in hope
to Sir David Attenborough, the King and the Pope.


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Jocelyn Poissant @jocelynpoissant.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
I get that scientists want/need to reach out to as many people as possible and that this involves posting on multiple platforms. But if we want the migration of science to Bluesky to be successful, IMO we shouldn’t keep contributing scientific content to X
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Jeffery Cannon, Landscape Ecology Lab @jefferybcannon.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Ready to learn how to use LiDAR for research in #forestry and natural resources using #R? This week I am releasing a 7-part series to help you get started! Share with anyone you know who wants to get started. Part 1 covers acquiring, & viewing LiDAR data! bit.ly/lidR-module1
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Module 1: Getting started with LiDAR processing for forestry and natural resources - The Jones Center at Ichauway Research Labs
If you are interested in learning to use LiDAR for forestry and natural resources, this tutorial can help you get started. You will learn to view large datasets, create raster products, map trees, and...
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Jose Soto-Shoender @jsotoshoender.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Need some cheering up? How about some coati babies :-) from the Central Volcanic Chain of Guatemala. Kudos to my collaborators for picking this cool spot to set up a camera trap.
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American Naturalist / ASN 🐌 @asn-amnat.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
Was Clements wrong? Resasco et al. revisit the Clements and Gleason debate with plant distributions from Pikes Peak, Clements’s life-long study site. Read this new historical perspective now ahead of print! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
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Jeff Hostetler @jeffhostecology.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
I'm a quantitative ecologist, focused on wildlife population ecology, wildlife migration, and conservation biology. I mostly study birds and marine mammals. One of my primary tasks is analyzing data from the North American Breeding Bird Survey. 🐦🦅🐦‍⬛🦆🐳 🧪 🌍
Me in my Halloween costume as a cowbird egg in a wood thrush nest (not to scale). The nest is mixed media: laundry basket, twigs, wood glue, and planter lining. The cowbird egg is my bald head, painted to be speckled.
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Jeff Hostetler @jeffhostecology.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
Another advantage of histograms over stacked bar charts is you can easily include error bars if you have a measure of uncertainty
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American Naturalist / ASN 🐌 @asn-amnat.bsky.social · 04/11/2024
Two snowstorms in 2021 set new records of snow and subfreezing temperatures in southeastern US. Then, people reported massive die-offs in wildlife, including among Eastern Bluebirds. Rolland et al. investigate what allowed some to survive. Read now! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
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Jeff Hostetler @jeffhostecology.bsky.social · 02/11/2024
Amazing work painting my "egg!"
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Jeff Hostetler @jeffhostecology.bsky.social · 31/10/2024
Preliminary Halloween costume: cowbird egg in a wood thrush nest (not to scale)
Me with a large nest fitted above my ears, so that my bald head appears to be an egg. Smaller blue egg also seen.Me with a large nest fitted above my ears, so that my bald head appears to be an egg. Smaller blue egg also seen.Overhead view of nest with five blue plastic eggs and my "egghead."
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Adam C Smith @adam-birdstats.bsky.social · 09/10/2024
Just Released: The State of Canada's Birds. Birds Canada and Canadian Wildlife Service collaborated to create the go-to source for information on the status of every species of bird that regularly occurs in Canada. #ornithology #ecologicalMonitoring #birds naturecounts.ca/nc/socb-epoc...
naturecounts.ca
The rise and fall of bird populations tells us how they, and by extension their habitats, are doing. Birds reflect our impact on the environment, tell us where conservation action is working, and show us where we need to focus more effort.
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Jeff Hostetler @jeffhostecology.bsky.social · 02/10/2024
Interested in migratory connectivity? Data integration? Come see my talk tomorrow at 11 at #AOS24 to learn more! @amornith.bsky.social
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Jeff Hostetler @jeffhostecology.bsky.social · 02/10/2024
@arpatoz.bsky.social looks like great work as usual!
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Jeff Hostetler @jeffhostecology.bsky.social · 01/10/2024
#AOS24 bound. Hope to see some of you in Estes Park!
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Jeff Hostetler @jeffhostecology.bsky.social · 23/09/2024
Who's going to the American Ornithological Society conference this year (next week!)? #aos2024 🌎 🐦🕊️🐤🦜🦩🦆🐧🦢🦚
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Jeff Hostetler @jeffhostecology.bsky.social · 18/09/2024
Honored to be a part of this cool research led by Ryan Burner on accounting for Breeding Bird Survey stop location uncertainty. doi.org/10.1093/orni...
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Informative priors can account for location uncertainty in stop-level analyses of the North American Breeding Bird Survey (BBS), allowing fine-scale ecological analyses
Abstract. Ecological inferences are often based on the locations at which species are present, but many species records have substantial uncertainty in spa
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Methods in Ecology and Evolution @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social · 18/09/2024
We are very excited that our new Pielou Review, by Hanna Kokko, is now out! Check it out here 👉 buff.ly/3TwlVAD
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Jeff Hostetler @jeffhostecology.bsky.social · 24/08/2024
Hello Bluesky! I'm a quantitative population ecologist that has branched out into migration research. These days I'm mostly focused on birds and marine mammals. Looking forward to learning what folks are up to!
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