Evolutionary biologist, bird person | NSERC Postodoctoral fellow @Harvard @MCZHarvard | she/her
Joined November 2012
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24 Jul 2025
The final chapter of my PhD is finally published today in Nature Ecology and Evolution! Extremely proud of this culmination of years of work on the avian sternum, and grateful to everyone who contributed. Please reach out if you'd like a PDF 🎉
nature.com/articles/s41559-0…
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Research Briefing: Bird sternum evolution facilitated the origins of powered flight nature.com/articles/s41559-0…
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26 Mar 2025
Bone and cartilage staining protocol for large avian specimens: late-stage embryonic emu (Dromaius novaehollandiae) and adult ... biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/… #biorxiv_zoology
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21 Jan 2025
📢This year’s NorthEast Regional Vertebrate Evolution Symposium (NERVES) will take place on Friday April 11th, 2025 at @stonybrooku , NY!🥳🎉
Deadline for submitting a presentation title and author list will be March 14th.
Spread the word far & wide!
For more info, see below⬇️
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30 Nov 2024
I think I’ll try defining gravity
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13 Nov 2024
Tired of flattened early bird fossils?
Today is your lucky day.
Very happy to finally welcome 'Navaornis hestiae' to the world! It allowed us to see for the first time a (near)complete enantiornithine brain.
Today in @Nature: nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
#spinningskull
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Talia Lowi-Merri, PhD retweeted
8 Nov 2024
🚨 New Paper 🚨 Our team @NYITAnatomy used #microCT and #GMM to examine how changes in muscle loading affects skull development in chicks. This one is particularly special because it marks the first experimental #embryology study out of my lab 🐣 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
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24 Oct 2024
Hey folks, my PhD advisor, Dean Adams, EEB Dept at Iowa State, is recruiting a PhD student in morphometrics and macroevolution. Lab link: faculty.sites.iastate.edu/dc…
Email dcadams@iastate.edu for inquiries. I'm also happy to answer questions about the lab, department, and school!
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Talia Lowi-Merri, PhD retweeted
21 Oct 2024
🚨 Postdoc Position 🚨 @NYITAnatomy is looking for talented postdocs to teach human anatomy and conduct independent research. Prior experience taking/teaching Human Anatomy preferred, but not required. RTs appreciated! careers-nyit.icims.com/jobs/…
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23 Oct 2024
.@NYITCOMDO sure knows how to throw a fall festival! 🍁🎃
23 Oct 2024
Annual Pumpkin Carving event @NYITCOMDO 🎃 The @NYITAnatomy postdocs @TaliaMLM and @gabbydelphis did a spectacular job carving an anatomy-themed masterpiece that also helped students learn/review facial nerve branches!
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11 Oct 2024
Bonus pic of Benji not caring about the northern lights and wanting to go home and go to bed. Literally breathtaking natural phenomenon around us and he’s like “why are we still outside”
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27 Sep 2024
What an exciting week here @CanGeo !!
1) Dr @RobertaBondar talk on the power of visual storytelling for wildlife (🐦) protection, and 2) launch of Biinaagami initiative that promotes the use of Indigenous ways-of-knowing (with AR!) for watershed protection in the Great Lakes.
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Talia Lowi-Merri, PhD retweeted
26 Sep 2024
Permanent senior level bird job in California!
Based in Sacramento
$7,336.00 - $9,126.00 per Month
Due: 10/14/2024
I am happy to answer questions about the Department and application process.
calcareers.ca.gov/CalHrPubli…
ALT Job Posting: Statewide Avian Conservation Coordinator State Seal Logo Department of Fish and Wildlife JC-450962 - Statewide Avian Conservation Coordinator SENIOR ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENTIST (SPECIALIST) $7,336.00 - $9,126.00 per Month Final Filing Date: 10/14/2024
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Talia Lowi-Merri, PhD retweeted
20 Sep 2024
BREAKING DUCK NEWS!
Congratulations to the winner of the 2024 Federal Duck Stamp Art Contest, Adam Grimm of Wallace, SD. His acrylic painting of spectacled eiders will be made into the 2025-2026 Federal Migratory Bird Hunting and Conservation Stamp. More: ow.ly/WoaZ50Ts3Mj
ALT Two ducks rest next to the waters edge. Large snowy mountains are off in the distance.
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18 Sep 2024
First paper from my Newton Fellowship published 🥳 @RSocPublishing
Describing tactile structures in the beaks of penguins and albatrosses - unknown foraging strategy in seabirds, or remnants of distant past?
with @sjportugal1979 @kiwi_sjc @TheLabAndField @fieldpalaeo
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Talia Lowi-Merri, PhD retweeted
4 Sep 2024
How is the cetacean backbone patterned compared to terrestrial mammals? 🐋
Happy to share that we provide answers this question in the 1st publication of our #Back2Sea @MSCActions project with @MCZpaleo and @Kjonesthebones!
You can check the paper... 👇doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-5…
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Talia Lowi-Merri, PhD retweeted
7 Aug 2024
Ever wondered if the wonderchicken is really a chicken? Our reinterpretation of the lower jaw of Asteriornis shows that the holotype does not preserve a key galloanseran jaw feature. Nevertheless, our analyses still find it to be a member of Galloanserae!
sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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5 Aug 2024
📢📢ATTENTION ALL! We are hiring! 🥳🎉
The Department of Anatomical Sciences at @stonybrooku invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position at the rank of Assistant or Associate Professor in the area of MAMMALIAN evolutionary morphology. 🐭🐒🐺🦓🐃🐪🦣
More below ⬇️
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1 Aug 2024
The University of Essex, UK, is seeking a Lecturer conducting research in evolutionary biology or a related field.
Application closing date 16/09/2024
Details of the post and application process can be found at the following url:
vacancies.essex.ac.uk/tlive_…
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