In his ECR Spotlight, Alec Wilken discusses how a high school zoology class ignited his passion for biology, why the thing he enjoys most about research is doing ‘napkin science’ & why shrews are his favourite animals journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/22…

The first chapter of my PhD is out today in Ecology and Evolution! We analyzed seasonal patterns of henipavirus seroprevalence in African Straw-Coloured Fruit Bats 🔓⬇️ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ec… (1/)

Thrilled to share: out now in nature (!) & just in time for US Thanksgiving, the dinosaurian history of how your turkey does the twist. Fibular reduction enabled mid-drumstick mobility, unlocking extreme knee long-axis rotation in theropods 🍗🦖🧵 nature.com/articles/s4158…

Excited to share our latest paper, new in Science Magazine : science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… #ScienceResearch

Check out this great new work from Hannah!!

Our latest John Fulkerson paper, led by student J. Sieberer, is out in The Knee (my favorite journal name yet). We create & test an AI-driven workflow to automatically calculate patellar tilt in 3-D, facilitating clinical diagnosis of patellar instability. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

More stellar science for the clavicle superstar herself!!

Excited to be part of this article in PNASNews ably led by Alec Wilken & Casey Holliday presenting results of our U.S. National Science Foundation grant on the interplay of brain expansion, jaw muscle reorientation, & cranial kinesis in bird evolution. pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn… news: biologicalsciences.uchicago.edu/news/bird-skul…