Moore Lab of Zoology at Occidental College

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Moore Lab of Zoology at Occidental College

Moore Lab of Zoology at Occidental College

@OxyMLZ

World's largest Mexican bird collection, at @Occidental. High bird-to-student ratio. Exploring the unknown in museum genomics. Curator: @LAevolving

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Moore Lab of Zoology at Occidental College
Moore Lab of Zoology at Occidental College@OxyMLZ·
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
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John McCormack
John McCormack@LAevolving·
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/pdf/10.111…
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Occidental College@Occidental·
Today's @latimes spotlights the Free Flying Los Angeles Parrot Project based in Occidental’s Moore Laboratory of Zoology (@OxyMLZ) where researchers are investigating why feral Mexican parrots are making a home in Southern California. latimes.com/environment/st…
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Jaime A. Chaves
Jaime A. Chaves@chavecito76·
“Evolution is taking its course yet again in this new setting.” Deadly avian flu reaches Galápagos Islands | Science | AAAS science.org/content/articl…
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Duncan Irschick
Duncan Irschick@duncanirschick·
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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John McCormack
John McCormack@LAevolving·
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/journal/204577… Photos: Nick Athanas ML137103221 & Dubi Shapiro ML455767361
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John McCormack@LAevolving·
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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John McCormack@LAevolving·
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
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John McCormack@LAevolving·
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!
Alana Pizarro@alanapiz

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/full/10.10… Pic by @DirtbagDarling

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John McCormack@LAevolving·
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
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D
Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D@SarahMackAttack·
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).
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John McCormack
John McCormack@LAevolving·
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 #google_vignette" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">academic.oup.com/evolut/advance…
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John McCormack@LAevolving·
Hole in the ground? Ink spill? Rip in the fabric of space-time? Naw, just a raven absorbing all visible light
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John McCormack@LAevolving·
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/Great_Flo…
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