💜Back at UW SAFS for my seminar hosted by my advisor Prof. Jacqueline Padilla Gamino 🌊 @uwsafs.bsky.social Shared ~3+ years of postdoctoral work in a community that’s shaped it from the start—grateful doesn’t even begin to cover it 🧬

🦪🌊 VIMS visit recap~~Oyster farms, hatcheries, algae rooms + big conversations on coastal futures 💙🤎Grateful to Prof. Bill Walton for the visit—small oysters, big impact!

💙🐻 UC Berkeley @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social seminar recap~Shared my work across FHL larval sea cucumbers, plastics, + EcoTrace Belize — all in one story, in its fullest form yet 🌊🧬Felt the growth. Final year postdoc energy. Grateful for the space + community. I did it! 💫

New pub in press! 🌊📚 “Here Comes the Hurricane” explores viral hurricane dance parodies as embodied climate response 🌪️ Honored to present this work w/ @UCLAradicalimaginations. Marine ecology meets performance meets resist-dance.🔥 Link 🔗https://ucla.zoom.us/my/oliviasimon

Presented my work on peptide-induced spawning & long-term larval culture of the Giant sea cucumber at #SICB2026 🧬🌊 Grateful to share this research and kick off my final year as a postdoc alongside such an inspiring community!

Updated flyer! TODAY🦑 Giving a Halloweek seminar at Western Washington University! 🎃 I’ll be sharing my talk: ✨ EcoTrace Project: Mapping Environmental Pollution & Community Awareness in Belize ✨ Bringing ocean + community storytelling to WWU!🌊💙 #WWU #EcoTrace #MarineScience #Conservation

🦑 Giving a Halloweek seminar tomorrow at Western Washington University! 🎃 I’ll be sharing: ✨ EcoTrace Project: Mapping Environmental Pollution & Community Awareness in Belize ✨ Honored to bring ocean + community storytelling to the WWU crowd 🌊 #WWU #MarineScience #Halloweek #Conservation

Final lap of my WRF Postdoc 🎉 #tbt 2025 Symposium + feeling grateful to present with such a powerhouse cohort. This year is finishing reports, manuscripts, invited talks, stepping into independence as a scientist through eco-entrepreneurship—Year of risks. Year of growth. Let’s go. 🚀

#CucSquad 2.0 has entered the chat! 💫💜 Working alongside legends like Prof. Billie Swalla @ Friday Harbor Labs. Let’s gooo 💪🏽 sea cucumbers have spawned! 🌊✨ I’m kicking off a study on how plastic leachates impact early development! 🎉 #WomenInSTEM #PlasticPollution #CucSquad

The waterfront is calling! Join me & @waterfrontparkseattle for the 5K Community Celebration on Sat, May 31, 10am–2pm at Overlook Walk & Pier 62. I’ll be hosting the Ocean Poetry Table—come co-create poems by the sea! #SeattleWaterfront #EcoArt #Poetry

COUNTDOWN DONE!✅ My 138 samples are officially off to Dartmouth for metals testing! 🧪📦 Collected in 🇧🇿 by fishers & students!: 🐊 Croc nails & scutes 🐟 Finfish gills & fins 🌊 Sediment from mangroves 🦑 Sea cucumber tissue Processed by hand with care—data coming soon! #CommunityScience #WomenInSTEM

It’s official! I’m co-facilitating the Marine Science Ocean Arts workshop at #FridayHarborLabs 🌊🎭🎨 Grateful to Marjorie Wonham & Astrida Neimanis for the vision 💙 As a marine scientist & artist, I’m so excited to dive into this eco-art adventure! 🐚✨ #SciArt #OceanArts

💙🐻 Fun fact: my parents met at UCLA!—now I get to give a seminar there! Speaking @ #UCLA next week for the RUA Research Exchange! 🗓️ Apr 16 🕐 12pm PST 🔗 Zoom Link: lnkd.in/gb9cKae2 👉🏽 Second photo is of little me!—this moment’s a long time coming 💫 #RUA #BruinBaby @uclaioes.bsky.social

So excited to have launched my Ocean Improv Poetry Table here @scistoriesproject.bsky.social !🩵🌊✨

🌊💙 Full circle @scrippsocean.bsky.social ! Grateful to return as an invited speaker, sharing how research, communities & storytelling shape my work. 📸 Presenting, reconnecting with mentors from my REU days, & iconic Scripps views. Until next time, Scripps! 💙✨ #JT-SURF #Mentorship #FullCircle

▶️Check this interview from my mentor Dr. Arlenie Rogers during the research expedition I led in August! 🎥🌊 Stay tuned for my segment soon! 🪸🐚 Video: youtu.be/XJwTLcSMlOw Article: earthjournalism.net/stories/will...

🎣✨ Fieldwork memories from 2024! #tbt Out on the open ocean with Placencia fishing legend Doyle Gardiner & team, collecting predatory fish for the EcoTrace Project. Monitoring heavy metals in seafood across ecosystems. 🌊🐟

🎄✨ Brewing poetic ocean steam this holiday season at #GeorgetownSteamPlant ! ✨Using a typewriter, I’m crafting ocean poems, blending improv, sharing the gift of words for the holidays!🎁💌 www.youtube.com/watch?v=OF__...

✨ From Placencia to the @uwsafs.bsky.social lab bench, here’s a glimpse of the #EcoTraceProject ! 🌊🐚This fall, we’ve investigated heavy metals in Belizean sea cucumbers. 💪 Excited to share results in Placencia in the Spring. Until then, the grind continues! ✨ #MarineBiology #Belize #SeaCucumber

Thank you, UB, for including UW in this year’s partners list—it’s a privilege!✨ Honored to partner with the University of Belize & @uwsafs.bsky.social for my postdoc! 🌊🐚 Excited for more in 2025! 💡🐟 www.facebook.com/share/p/18Ad...

🌊✨ Hi Bluesky! I’m Dr. Xochitl Clare, a Marine Biologist & Performing Artist ( #DancingBiologist ). Afro-Latina 🇯🇲 🇧🇿 🇺🇸 studying community-based climate solutions in WA & Belize. 🎭🌊 Ph.D., 🧜🏾‍♀️ diver, 🩰 dancer, & filmmaker mentoring future scientists. Let’s connect! 💙 #blackinmarinescience

📣CUC SQUAD, a marine science pilot I directed this Spring, hits UW Environment FieldNotes' latest issue with some pitchy science journalism by our very own Anouk Janess 💦🐙 Read on Cuc Squad’s latest accomplishments @ UW SAFS! fieldnotesjournal.org/new-blog/202...

🌵🏜️💛 #tbt An unforgettable week @ the #2024NDiSTEM conference! 🌵✨Connecting with folks share both scientific & cultural backgrounds close to my own 🌄🧡🌞 Thanks to #UWEnvironment & #SACNAS ! 🌵🌞 #SACNAS2024

✔️Temperature loggers deployed! 🌡️✨ #tbt Tough day in the mangroves, but big smiles! 🌿 Huge thanks to Crocodile Research Coalition intern Alejandra Ariza for the help! 🙌🏾 Monitoring temperature our sites for EcoTrace 🌱🌊

✔️✔️Croc surveys complete! 🐊✨#tbt First time this close to a croc! These predators face coastal pollution just like the smaller species in our project. After safely collecting samples with the #CrocodileResearchCoalition we returned him to the water! Next up: fish & temp loggers 🌊🙌🏾

✔️✨ Collected sea cucumbers & sediment in a 3-site mangrove crawl @ lagoon & reef! 💦 Dream team: University of Belize Prof. Arlenie Rogers, fishermen & students. 🙌🏾🌊 #tbt my EcoTrace Project analyzing pollutants in marine life & sediment!🐙

🏅🌟Cheers to completing my first full academic year as a postdoctoral researcher ! Such an honor to be a part of this feature by UW SAFS--Year 2 let's go! #cantstopwontstop fish.uw.edu/2024/03/an-a...

#tbt Juneteenth in Miami🌺✨with BIMS! Meeting Presidents of the National Association of Black Scuba Divers & celebrating the BIMS Immersion Program (BIP) was everything #WEOUTSIDE #blackinmarinescience

🌊💜#tbt Sharing my Thinktank on Mentoring in an REU Setting for the FHL Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) mentors ! I shared my work on our UCSB FUERTE “Mentoring the Mentors” (Hofmann et al., Oceanography 2023) publication

#tbt 🌊💜My first Open House with the Padilla-Gamino Lab!🔬🪸🐠🐙It was a blast teaching the public about all our invertebrate eco-physiology research! 🌊💜 #sciencecommunication #marinescience #marinebiology #education

📆 🎙️#tbt My first talk on my holistic marine science work in Belize 🇧🇿& PNW🏔️ @ UW SAFS last year !➡️Swipe to see how it went! Was super nervous sharing complex work so close to my heart ! So proud! 💜✨ #SciComm #HolisticMarineBiology #blackinmarinescience

📣🏅#repost I’m a 3 yr Washington Research Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship @ the University of Washington @ Padilla-Gamiño Lab in Marine Biology🌊📣🏅🔥More to share as I get more comfy on here! #AddtoBlackSky #blackinmarinescience