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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 · 10/07/2026

And the interactive site is now live with the new analysis! eesc.usgs.gov/mbr/bbs2025/... Note: might not work well on a cell phone browser.

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Eastern Ecological Science Center - Bird Population Studies

USGS Eastern Ecological Science Center - Bird Population Studies

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Jeff Hostetler @jeffhostecology.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

And of course, thanks to the BBS volunteers, whose hard work collecting the data makes all of this possible.

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Jeff Hostetler @jeffhostecology.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Thanks to my coauthors on this release: @shannonskalos.bsky.social, Mikey Lutmerding, and Dave Ziolkowski for a timely release of the BBS data; John Sauer for his work developing the analysis methods and review of the metadata; and Jim Hines for working to get the website live so quickly.

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Jeff Hostetler @jeffhostecology.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Work on updating our interactive site (eesc.usgs.gov/mbr) to include 2025 is ongoing and should be done soon.

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Jeff Hostetler @jeffhostecology.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

This analysis provides estimates of annual relative abundance at the state/province, bird conservation region (BCR), country, and range-wide scales, and trends over the whole 60-year period, since 1993, and since 2015.

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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 · 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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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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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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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 · 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 · 13/01/2025

Thanks to all my coauthors (including @clarkrushing.bsky.social and several others not yet on Bluesky) on this large, collaborative undertaking! And thanks to anyone who's been waiting on me to complete this thread for your patience...

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Jeff Hostetler @jeffhostecology.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

We also developed updated vignettes detailing how to use the MigConnectivity package (smbc-nzp.github.io/MigConnectiv...).

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MigConnectivity package

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Jeff Hostetler @jeffhostecology.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

• Basic plotting of transition probabilities and other estimates • In addition to bootstrapping, allow users to estimate transition probabilities using MCMC (for some data types) • New data simulation functions

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Jeff Hostetler @jeffhostecology.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

• Separating estimation of transition probabilities and MC into different functions (estTransition and estStrength) • Allowing integration of any combination of GPS, geolocator, isotope, genetic, and mark-recapture data in estimating transition probabilities

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Jeff Hostetler @jeffhostecology.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

It turns out it's possible to estimate unbiased breeding to nonbreeding transition probabilities with a weighted bootstrap, as long as one has migration data from all nonbreeding regions and estimates of the relative abundances of those regions.

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Jeff Hostetler @jeffhostecology.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Through simulation, we show that this approach often generates biased transition probability estimates with bidirectional migration data. How then to integrate these increasingly common data types?

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Jeff Hostetler @jeffhostecology.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Earlier we had developed methods for estimating transition probabilities and MC (a measure of migratory connectivity strength) using statistical bootstrapping (doi.org/10.1111/2041...), but only from unidirectional migration data.

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Quantifying the strength of migratory connectivity

Technological advancements have spurred rapid growth in the study of migratory connectivity, the linkage of individuals and populations between seasons of the annual cycle. The strength of migrat...

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Jeff Hostetler @jeffhostecology.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

In this paper, we show how one can integrate bidirectional migration data (e.g., animals whose breeding location is known and nonbreeding location is estimated with animals whose nonbreeding location is known and breeding location is estimated) to estimate migratory transition probabilities.

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Jeff Hostetler @jeffhostecology.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Migratory connectivity, the linkages of migratory populations between seasons, is a rapidly growing field. As more migration data from multiple sources become available, flexible methods to estimate migratory transition probabilities using data integration are key.

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Jeff Hostetler @jeffhostecology.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Why does They Might Be Giants keep photobombing my selfies?

Bald bearded guy selfie at a concert. I'm the background are the band They Might Be Giants.

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Jeff Hostetler @jeffhostecology.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Punk, industrial, high-energy hip hop, metal, international dance music... I think for me it's less about getting into the zone and more about staying awake

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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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“Eerie Pall” gHostetler @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.

Brian Bilston

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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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Jeff Hostetler @jeffhostecology.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

Thanks! I'll admit to a slight bias in favor of the wood thrush. But they're both important parts of the natural bird community.

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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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University of Chicago Press Journals: Cookie absent

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Jeff Hostetler @jeffhostecology.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

Nope! Good guess. I was 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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