
Brian Weeks
@briweeks_mi
assistant prof @UMSEAS - I think about bird morphology, global change, and where in Ypsi I'm most likely to run into Iggy Pop
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So excited and grateful to share my first-ever publication in Ecology and Evolution with John McCormack and Devon DeRaad! We used museum specimens and iNaturalist photos to assess the Black- and White-throated Magpie-Jay hybrid zone over time: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10… Pic by Johnie Gall


Eleanor gave me my first con bio job, helped me figure out whether to go to grad school, helped me get into grad school, helped me get through grad school, and was a cherished mentor in my current position. She changed my life. She was the best. Eleanor Sterling rdcu.be/c97js


Smallest shifting fastest: Bird species body size predicts rate of change in a warming world news.umich.edu/smallest-shift… Check out this new PNASNews paper by Benita Wingerson UMich Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Brian Weeks U-M SEAS Marketa Zimova Appalachian State & colleagues Field Museum Penn State LSU USGS. University of Michigan

Smaller species are changing faster as temperatures warm! New paper out led by Marketa Zimova, from her time as a postdoc U-M SEAS - cool to integrate Chicago and Amazonian data with help from Vitek Jirinec and co. As always, fun to work with Benita Wingerson pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…


Are you into mountain birds and climate change? I'm recruiting graduate students and postdocs to join my lab GA Tech Biology. Job ad coming soon, some details here: benjamingfreeman.com/opportunities

Hoping to start a PhD next year? Like macroevolution / mammals / morphology? Want to live next to the beach and just outside the Cairngorms? I'm advertising a PhD position at the University of Aberdeen 🏴. Open to international students; deadline Nov 27! findaphd.com/phds/project/e…






How do birds fly without getting overheated? They slough off lots of heat from their wings - bird wings are longer in warmer climates for >1500 species. Allen's Rule, likely driven by heat dissipation demand. With Joe Tobias Dr. Catherine Sheard and others onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.11… U-M SEAS

Happy to share our recent publication in Nature Ecology & Evolution, with Kim Rosvall, Mark Hibbins, Great Lakes Swashbuckler, and many more! nature.com/articles/s4155…


