Zachary Klukkert

Tips for evaluating current and prospective position after candidate moves for a lower rated player (<1000)? Guides often dive deep into positional concepts and long lines that are harder to grasp and apply at this level.

New Anatomy Pub! 🦴🫁🧠 We report count and pattern of facial nerve branches near the TMJ based on cadaveric dissections - we also found that pics in anatomy texts are WAY OFF! Please pay for new #medicalillustration instead of repeating old errors! #anatomy #AnatomyEd #TMJ #MedEd #art 🔗 rdcu.be/egiKs

7 Simple Actions — #BringBirdsBack

Support birds where you live and be a part of the bird-friendly movement! Learn more about the 7 simple actions you can take to help birds at www.3billionbirds.org/7-simple-act.... 🐦

The dogwoods are just getting started

50!!! Boy I miss birding in the north!

Snow in Tulsa, crystallizing on the backs of hungry birds. #birds #birdphotography #winter 🪶❄️📷

All are welcome in the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology! In collections? Education? Ethics? Methods? Become a member today! Already a member? Share with your community and help build a more inclusive discipline!

Two lifers on my trip to LA for a conference, Anna’s and Allen’s hummingbirds 🪶 (looking forward to the name updates):

Growing Medical Educators from Medical Students by Supporting Self-directing Learning Opportunities Born Out of Cadaveric Dissection - Medical Science Educator This study focuses on a subset of medical students who participated in an anatomy dissection program and undertook an additional self-directed learning (SDL) project investigating incidental findings ...

Just out - clinical anatomy students exploring anatomical pathology in cadavers w/faculty support benefit as educators themselves. 🔬🧠🫁🫀🥼This work is an outgrowth of a summer anatomy program I taught at CMU College of Medicine. #MedEd #anatomyEd #anatomy #dissection #pathology #OpenAccess

Join us! I am looking for a Postdoc to join my WWTF VRG Group at the University of Vienna investigating nut-dropping behaviour in crows using biologging technology. Funding available for 3 years! All info here: jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi... Application deadline March 20th.
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Journal cover for Animal Behaviour and Cognition, February 2024. A blue and white frame with the journal title surrounding a photo of a speckled black bird pecking at a piece of dark-coloured wool

New paper from me: wild Orkney starlings use pieces of wool to clean themselves! I spotted this tool use by chance out the window, so we can chalk this one up to daydreaming.

Some starlings even made tools, gathering bits of wool into a clump 🧪🪶🛠️🐑

www.animalbehaviorandcognition.org/article.php?...

A group photo from UNLAB's Field Trip to Solstice Canyon, October 2023.

Searcher Cassandra Garcia photographed in NHMLA's Mammalogy Collections, July 2023.

Are you a Post-baccalaureate interested in Biological Science Research? Through "Understanding Nature and Los Angeles Biodiversity" training, hosted researchers will engage with NHMLAC Mentors in a year-long research and preparation program.

Applications due February 29, 2024 12AM PT: nhm.org/unlab

Enjoying the snowbirds. Dark-eyed juncos are so variable they used to be called different species.. if I’m honest, the different types with different colors and ranges SEEM like different species… but what do I know. I wish you could at least specify type on eBird. Below, slate-colored type. 🪶❄️

I had just been taking anatomy with J Reidenburg, then found that series. I still hope I’ll someday have a reason to dissect some of those giants… all my monkeys are tiny, and the clinical anat course is more focused than exploratory. … maybe it’s time to rewatch those!

I LOVED that series!

Recovering from COVID, I haven’t had a chance to get out birding in a while. All the more reason to be grateful for the back yard birds in winter, reliable fluffs of joy for just the cost of a few peanuts and seeds. White-breasted nuthatch in Tulsa, OK. 🪶 #feederbirds #backyardbirding

What a difference a season makes. Adorable Canada Geese 🪶 #michigan #birds #gosling

Though I know it’s the most colorful, flashy birds that usually draw us into birding, I’ve come to be more interested in the subtleties that distinguish diverse but sometimes overlooked groups, like sparrows. Here, though soon to be renamed, a juvenile Harris’ Sparrow in Bixby, OK USA. 🪶

Speaking of cold and snowy, here is one of my favorite Snowy Owl pictures from Michigan last year. The only reason it isn’t my favorite is that it happens to also be the moment I learned you can’t shoot out the window of a hot car in the cold without getting haze - darn! 🪶🦉❄️🤍

Applications for SOAR 2024 are now open! This summer undergraduate research internship program is a great opportunity for undergrads to do PAID research in anatomy, functional morphology, bioanthropology, and biomechanics.

Apply at unthsc.edu/soar.

As I turn my attention to the AABA meetings this spring, I am excited to see friends and colleagues for the first time since pre-pandemic, and also happily remembering more recent acquaintances, as pictured (L. catta Tsimanampesotse park, Madagascar). @biologicalanth.bsky.social

Though I am looking forward to the spring migration, a perk about my recent move to OK is that the sparrows that passed by me quickly in MI are here for the whole winter. Here is a Savannah Sparrow I saw in MI last spring, maybe it's here in OK now! #Birds #migration #sparrow #imisshashtags

This time last year I was heading to the “UP” - the upper peninsula of Michigan for a winter birding tour. This snowy obliged our wish for some great pics. Stunner. #birds #birding #winter #SnowyOwl #Michigan

Sure! I have plenty of bird pics

Lincoln’s Sparrow wintering in Tulsa. The morning light really brings out those gold and copper tones in what some would call an “LBB” - “little brown bird”

Winner of the 2024 Charles R. Darwin Lifetime Achievement Award: Dr. Laurie Godfrey. Dr. Godfrey has been a leader in the fields of primate evolution, paleobiology, and evolutionary ecology for over 40 years. As emphasized by her nomination, she has championed and advanced our understanding of the extinct ‘subfossil’ lemurs of Madagascar through dental microwear, isotopes, histology, ontology, computed tomography, scanning electron microscopy, ancient DNA, and many other methods. “With infectious enthusiasm she has inspired early career scholars and peers to study a diverse array of research topics in Madagascar and beyond.”

We are thrilled to announce the winners of the 2024 American Association of Biological Anthropologists awards. The winner of the Charles R. Darwin Lifetime Achievement Award is Dr. Laurie Godfrey. Join us at #AABA2024 in LA to celebrate Dr. Godfrey!

We just emailed all first authors of accepted abstracts for AABA 2024 with presentation details! If you didn't get it, check your spam folder. Looking forward to seeing y'all in LA! @biologicalanth.bsky.social

Ha! Glad I saw this. It was indeed in my spam folder. Thanks!