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Aimee M. Van Tatenhove
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Rose Postdoctoral Fellow @cornellbirds | quantitative ecologist | sci-comm🎙️| foodie 🧀 | she/they | personal account; opinions my own ✨
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This lasagna is so huge it maxed out our kitchen scale
A huge pan of lasagna sits on a kitchen scale. The scale is on a dark countertop in front of some condiment bottles. The kitchen scale's readout reads "Err". A massive piece of lasagna sitting on a white plate with a fork.
November 17, 2025 at 2:33 AM
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Our recycling carts have opinions on recycling as well
A large blue recycling cart parked in a hallway that someone has added the words "actually" and "don't" to the "we recycle" image on the side. It now reads "we actually don't recycle"
November 9, 2025 at 1:51 AM
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Northeast fall is something else
A road intersection with pedestrians, a bus, and a red car. Trees with bright fall colors are on the hillside behind the intersection. A walking path through a deciduous forest. It is evening time and the setting sun is illuminating yellow fall foliage.
November 4, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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Post-conference jaunt to the Canadian Rockies
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
October 15, 2025 at 4:13 AM
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Top contender for my next potluck contribution
A page from a mid-century recipe book that includes a recipe for idiot salad
August 23, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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Neat view in line for takeoff at the Denver airport
A line of commercial jets lined up on the tarmac waiting for their turn to take off. In the background is the white tented roof of the Denver International Airport.
August 9, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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Series of firefly shots from the back balcony :)
Fireflies glowing in front of a dark forest Fireflies glowing in front of a dark forest Fireflies glowing in front of a dark forest Fireflies glowing in front of a dark forest
July 25, 2025 at 2:27 AM
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Some spring Finger Lakes food adventures!

New goal: try all of the local ice creameries and wineries
A glass jar filled with an orange substance, labeled "saffron butter 5/15/25" A flight of ice cream consisting of eight ice cream scoops of different flavors in individual jars. The jars are arranged on a wooden board A flight of wine consisting of five small glass carafes sitting on a slate slab A loaf of braided bread sitting on a cutting board
June 14, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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Also kitties :3
A black cat loafs on pieces of cardboard
June 8, 2025 at 3:51 AM
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Had an absolutely fantastic week hanging out at the University of Georgia Marine Institute on Sapelo Island, helping with painted bunting research! So many cool people, awesome wildlife, and lots of sunburn (owie)

(Birds handled with proper permits!)
A person holding a brightly colored songbird. The person is smiling at the camera and is outdoors. A heron standing in ocean surf A horseshoe crab shell partially buried in sand A red and white striped lighthouse surrounded by small trees. There is an open grassy area between the lighthouse and camera
June 8, 2025 at 3:47 AM
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I take it the cleaning machines at work are big eBird fans
A floor cleaning machine sitting in a hallway. The machine has a sticker with the word "eBird" pasted to its front
May 31, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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Spelling stupid things with model indices is way more amusing to me than it should be
A screenshot of a snippet of R code, where parameter eta.p is indexed by r, a, t
May 27, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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Wild weekend driving around western Oregon!
A person sits in a red kayak floating in the ocean. There is a large rock face behind them partially obscured by fog. A large lake with a conical island in the middle. The lakeshore and island are covered in snow. A person stands on a huge tree stump, surrounded by extremely large redwood trees. An emu stands facing the camera on a green lawn. In the background are some trees.
May 15, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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Benefits of having vernal pools at work: salamander eggs!
A clear plastic food container filled with water and a translucent greenish blob of salamander eggs. The container is sitting outdoors on a bed of dried fallen leaves.
May 7, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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Happy 18th birthday to this little shrimp!
A dark tortoiseshell cat is lying in the shape of a circle with her belly facing up in on a tan carpet
April 20, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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Also a problem with my velcro cats 😹
A Reddit post in search of a double-wide desk chair to accommodate a human and a needy dog
April 16, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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Goal: tea infused vodka
Result: magic potion
A hand holding a glass bottle of bright green liquid up to a light
April 14, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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Cornell celebrated its annual Dragon Day today! The meme costumes were a little weak this year, but the dragon was fun—it started out white and was decorated with colored chalk once it came to rest at the end of the parade 🐉
A large white cloth and wood dragon is paraded down a street surrounded by spectators and people dressed in costumes A large, white cloth and wooden dragon head hovers above a crowd of people People in white shirts fling colored chalk at a large white cloth and wood dragon. Caution tape surrounds the dragon and two people with yellow security vests stand in the foreground observing A crowd of people dressed in costumes stands in front of a large cloth and wooden dragon that is covered in colored chalk
March 28, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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Ventured out to Montana this past weekend to see the snow goose migration! A high count of over 30,000 geese—absolutely wild to see that many birds overhead

Highly recommend the Montana Public Radio story my good pal put together about the event 😊
www.mtpr.org/montana-news...
A large flock of white and grey birds hovers in a cloudy sky above a brown grassy field with a pond in the center. There are small groups of people standing in the field watching the birds. Flocks of geese flying in vee formations high in a partially cloudy sky. Four swans are flying in the foreground Five people in heavy winter clothing look out into a brown field where thousands of white geese are beginning to take flight. The people are standing next to a blue car and are facing away from the camera. A white and tan goose feather caught on some brown grass. The early morning light tints the scene slightly pink.
March 27, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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Whipped up a pizza (pie) to celebrate #PiDay with some random stuff in the fridge. Basically came out to be eggplant parm with corn, which was far less weird than I expected!
A pizza topped with eggplant, corn, and cheese sits on a cooling rack
March 15, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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Definitely worth getting up at 3am for the lunar eclipse!
The eclipsed moon in a black night sky. The moon is colored red because of the eclipse The full moon in a black night sky
March 14, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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Oh yeah, also forgot to post that I made vegan meringues! Absolutely did not think this would work, but they're nearly indistinguishable from egg white meringues. Uses canned chickpea juice (aquafaba) as the base

Recipe: www.allrecipes.com/recipe/25420...
Bite-sized meringues sit on a sheet of parchment paper
February 6, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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Basque cheesecake! A ton of sugar in this to give it the caramelized crust, so I think I like the flavor of New York style better. But I can't complain, it's still cheesecake!

#cheesecake #baking #desserts #food
A close-up of a rustic, caramelized basque cheesecake sitting on parchment paper A slice of cheesecake with preserved strawberries on top sits on a plate A caramelized basque cheesecake in a springform pan on a cooling rack Cream cheese and cream a yellow stand mixer
February 6, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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Busy week driving the ring road around Iceland and consuming way too much coffee and butter

1) obligatory northern lights photo
2) touching two continents while diving Silfra Fissure
3) volcanooooo
4) super cool ice cave
Northern lights over a snow-covered road A person in a scuba dry suit bridges a gap in two underwater rocks with their arms A volcano spewing lava in the darkness A small crowd of people in a blue ice cave with a dirt floor
December 10, 2024 at 3:12 AM
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Can't really complain about winter storm warnings when the view from work ends up looking like this
A pond surrounded by trees, with a dock structure at the right of the scene. It's snowing and there is snow covering the shoreline and trees.
November 22, 2024 at 6:39 PM