Alec Wilken
@alec_wilken
(he/him) PhD candidate @UChicago, Functional Morphology, Paleontology, Anatomy
Excited to be part of this article in @PNASNews ably led by @alec_wilken & @CrocHolliday presenting results of our @NSF 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…
More stellar science for the clavicle superstar herself!!
My last paper may have left you wondering, “What about the #trabecularbone?” Well don't you worry, "Locomotor signals in the trabecular structure of the hominoid clavicle" is out in @JournalofAnat! #OpenAccess 🦴💪 🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jo… 🧵👇
Check out this great new work from Hannah!!
Excited to share my first paper is out in #JHE! Big thanks to my co-author Zeray, + funding from @UChicago, @TheLeakeyFndtn, and @NSF! We explore how the cross-sectional geometry of the ape clavicle through ontogeny reflects their locomotor behaviors 🦍🦧🧵sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
Excited to share our latest paper, new in @ScienceMagazine : science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… #ScienceResearch
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…
The first chapter of my PhD is out today in @Ecol_Evol! We analyzed seasonal patterns of henipavirus seroprevalence in African Straw-Coloured Fruit Bats 🔓⬇️ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ec… (1/)
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…