World's largest Mexican bird collection, at @Occidental. High bird-to-student ratio. Exploring the unknown in museum genomics. Curator: @LAevolving
Los Angeles, CA
Joined June 2013
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As a natural history collection, you should have:
• a few decaying taxidermy mounts of unknown provenance
• an entire file cabinet of someone’s printed-out emails from the early 1990s
• Thousands of invaluable specimens that help stitch our knowledge of biodiversity together
Moore Lab of Zoology at Occidental College retweeted
Pleased to share our paper on the wild parrots of Los Angeles. Turns out they've made quite a niche shift from their native ranges in Mexico, which makes their thriving in Southern California all the more remarkable. Here's the story 1/x onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
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“Evolution is taking its course yet again in this new setting.”
Deadly avian flu reaches Galápagos Islands | Science | AAAS science.org/content/article/…
Moore Lab of Zoology at Occidental College retweeted
In collab w/@MarineMegafauna, @DigitalLife3D is pleased to release 3D whale shark - Individual TZ 209 (subadult male) filmed w/gopros off Mafia Island, Tanzania 11/22. Thx to Chris Rohner, Steph Venables & Jon Bayuk for supporting research!
Model link below!
@UMassAmherst
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Moore Lab of Zoology at Occidental College retweeted
Our latest paper in @Ecol_Evol uncovers the amazing evolutionary journey of a most interesting group of American jays in the genus Cyanolyca, including the Beautiful Jay & the Dwarf Jay
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/jour…
Photos: Nick Athanas ML137103221 & Dubi Shapiro ML455767361
Moore Lab of Zoology at Occidental College retweeted
Expansion of Red-Whiskered Bulbul in Los Angeles from a stronghold near the @TheHuntington & Arboretum, where they first took hold in the 1960s
Photo: @MarkyMutchler
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I've been more active with the Moore Lab newsletter lately. If you want to sign up to get news from the Lab including early notice of events and new science, just scroll down a little on the website main page and add your info! moorelab.oxy.edu/
Moore Lab of Zoology at Occidental College retweeted
I've been more active with the Moore Lab newsletter lately. If you want to sign up to get news from the Lab including early notice of events and new science, just scroll down a little on the website main page and add your info! moorelab.oxy.edu/
Moore Lab of Zoology at Occidental College retweeted
Folks, do me a favor & amplify Alana's tweet on her first paper. Let's welcome her into the museum science community. She's been doing great work at @OxyMLZ as a curatorial assistant!
So excited and grateful to share my first-ever publication in @Ecol_Evol with @LAevolving and @Dev_Der! We used museum specimens and @inaturalist photos to assess the Black- and White-throated Magpie-Jay hybrid zone over time: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
Pic by @DirtbagDarling
Moore Lab of Zoology at Occidental College retweeted
So excited and grateful to share my first-ever publication in @Ecol_Evol with @LAevolving and @Dev_Der! We used museum specimens and @inaturalist photos to assess the Black- and White-throated Magpie-Jay hybrid zone over time: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
Pic by @DirtbagDarling
Moore Lab of Zoology at Occidental College retweeted
So proud of @OxyMLZ super-star @kelseyreck 🐣💫👏
I am *beyond* excited to announce that I will be joining the @mwtingley lab this fall at @UCLA to start my PhD in Ecology & Evolutionary Biology! 🐤🐦🐧 #GoBruins !!!
Moore Lab of Zoology at Occidental College retweeted
Need some vintage specimen cases in your life?
We are giving away around 40 to good homes, preferably natural history collections in need—but also to interested parties in the Los Ángeles area. Dimensions: 43" high, 27" wide, 44" deep.
*Birds not included
Moore Lab of Zoology at Occidental College retweeted
We heard from @OxyMLZ that it’s a good idea to go to a random ass parking lot in LA to look at a frankly absurd number of feral parrots, and a bunch of @Ologies ologists showed up (the birds did too).
ALT six people crowd around under a light by a nail salon Cheesin for the camera.
Moore Lab of Zoology at Occidental College retweeted
Pleased to share our paper in @journal_evo revisiting Charles Sibley’s classic species conundrum in hybridizing Pipilo towhees, a case study that influenced cline theory & Mayr's and others' views on the nature of species during the Modern Synthesis
academic.oup.com/evolut/adva…
Marty was interim Director of the Moore Lab for one year after Luis Baptista left for Cal Academy
Sad news: Martin L. “Marty” Morton died on January 25
As a professor in the Biology department at @Occidental College Marty inspired many w/ his research on White-crowned Sparrows at Tioga Pass. He was President of the Cooper Society in the 90s
More details & obituary to follow
Moore Lab of Zoology at Occidental College retweeted
Hole in the ground? Ink spill? Rip in the fabric of space-time?
Naw, just a raven absorbing all visible light
Moore Lab of Zoology at Occidental College retweeted
In 1861, it rained in Los Angeles for 28 straight days due to an atmospheric river like the one hitting SoCal now
The Santa Ana, San Gabriel & Los Angeles rivers merged, creating one large river mouth that stretched from Long Beach to Huntington Beach
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grea…
Moore Lab of Zoology at Occidental College retweeted
Love adding new species to the @OxyMLZ collection thanks to our incredible staff. This bird was found deceased.
