- Congratulations to Quinn Moon from the Tim James Lab for winning one of the inaugural "What if?" grants from The Science Foundation! Be sure to check out Quinn's video here.  

- Olivia Vought and Aimee Classen have a new paper out in Functional Ecology on how warming and invasive plant species affect carbon dynamics in montane ecosystems of New Zealand. 

- You can help create a more bird friendly campus! The Arts Initiative and Planet Blue are working with EEB's own Ben Winger to reduce bird-building collisions. You can design a mural to be placed on windows at a couple of locations on campus to reduce the likelihood of bird-building collisions. 

- George Zhang and Jiachen Li (a student in Bioinformatics) have an impressive paper in Nature Communications titled "Repeatability of gene expression evolution in experimental environmental adaptation".

- Michael Hogan, Ramon Nagesan, Alison Davis Rabosky and friends have a new paper in a Special Feature of Toxins on Inter- and Intraspecific Venom Variation in the Reclusive Rear-Fanged Black-Striped Snakes (Coniophanes). There are some really cool CT scans in the paper that are worth checking out. 

- UMich News has a great story up about work by Teresa Pegan (PhD '23), Vera Ting, Brett Benz, and Ben Winger published in American Naturalist. In the paper, they compare wing tip shape of migratory versus sedentary populations of a widespread songbird, the Yellow Warbler (Setophaga petechia), to deconstruct variation in the individual skeletal and feather components of the hand-wing. (By the way, Vera minored in EEB, went on to be an artist in residence at UMBS, and now is a professional artist with an impressive portfolio you can check out here).