Super excited to share this work looking at seaweed trait differences across microhabitat! Proud of this team of undergraduates for working so hard to make get this paper published. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/author...

Fascinating dive in a kelp forest to urchin barren transition zone yesterday in Monterey! 🌊🤿

How very disappointing and backwards… www.theguardian.com/environment/...

No drones, no AI, not very high-tech at all, only hard working people shaking and rinsing Ascophyllum to get all associated fauna out for biodiversity analyses 💪🏼🌱 #PhycologyFriday

Woah!...

The achievable carbon uptake from planting trees is much lower than previous estimates, and even lower than many nations have committed to. New paper by Wang et al. in Science. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🧪🌏🌳🌲🌐

The importance of large herds of mega-herbivores. Interesting paper in Science. #EcosystemFunctioning www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🧪

Despite all my rage, I’m still just a kelp in a cage.

Smashing urchins. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... 🦑🧪

Vi måste avverka mer för att kunna skydda mer skog? 🙃

”Utan intäkter från ett aktivt skogsbruk saknas resurser för skogsvårdande åtgärder och för att utveckla den biologiska mångfalden.” Vad menas med ”utveckla” tro?

Ojoj, vilket inlägg i debatten om skogsbruk. Monokulturer och nya trädarter…

Once again on the “achievements” of the most right wing government in the history of #Finland. Sigh. To warn others to learn from our mistakes. On the left, government projections of new jobs (blue) vs the reality (red); on the right, distribution of tax cuts by income decile.

Greetings from Arctic Norway, 70.7°N. Tomorrow we go to one of our Ascophyllum sites to measure Asco properties, identify all species in frames and associated with the rockweed. Or aim is to compare structure, function and biodiversity in harvested areas with the unharvested control.

I missed this when it came out last September - excellent essay! Not-so-mutually beneficial coral symbiosis: Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol...

Läget är allvarligt för Sveriges biologiska mångfald. Många av de arter och livsmiljöer som finns i Sverige är idag under stor press. Endast omkring 40 procent av arterna och 20 procent av livsmiljötyperna bedöms ha gynnsam bevarandestatus i hela landet. www.naturvardsverket.se/om-oss/aktue...

Just out in @jexpbiol.bsky.social: Great work by @racinerangel.bsky.social documenting effects of a 6-month factorial field manipulation of warming X CO2 on intertidal mussel shell thickness, strength, & corrosion. #SitkaNSF @cascadejbs.bsky.social journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

Climate change threatens even the tough ones. Our new study shows that even Ascophyllum nodosum, a tough brown seaweed, struggles with rapid temperature swings during low tides, and populations across Europe vary in their heat tolerance. Read more here: jecologyblog.com/2025/05/20/c...

New paper out! 🌊 We show that southern populations of Fucus spp. are especially vulnerable to repeated low-tide heat stress — a key factor for their future under climate change. 👉 doi.org/10.1016/j.ma...

Well this is worrying.

How many ants??? 20 quadrillion!!! Here's the paper with the maths... www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... 🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜

Hot take. Conferences should be at locations where as many people as possible can get as easy as possible (minimizing transportation and CO2 footprint), not where people want to take vacation.

Check out our new review paper, championed by Lydia White, "A path towards appropriate degradation experiments for assessing carbon sequestration potential of macroalgae". Read it here: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @coastclim.bsky.social @tvarminne.bsky.social #mCDR

OPINION Counterintuitive Range Shifts May Be Explained by Climate Induced Changes in Biotic Interactions 🔗 buff.ly/4Uf5v3p

We are so proud of our sea star wasting work that came out today. This interactive article is very complete and includes beautiful videos. Unmasking the Sea Star Killer www.biographic.com/unmasking-th...

I used to be a textbook neoliberal. But while doing my accidental PhD, I encountered too much evidence to maintain my former beliefs. Great #Inequality makes societies worse in practically every measure so far devised to measure societal success. Only fair societies can survive AND prosper.

“Fulfilling Koch’s postulates, V. pectenicida strain FHCF-3, cultured from the coelomic fluid of a diseased sunflower sea star, caused disease and mortality in exposed sunflower sea stars, demonstrating that it is a causative agent of SSWD” (www.nature.com/articles/s41...) 🦑🌊🧪 #MarineLife

Stands of Fucus serratus (jagged edge) and Fucus vesiculosus (paired bladders) on the white sands of the Brittany coast #Seaweeds

This looks like an important read! 🦑🧪

#PhycologyFriday #MarineLife 🌊🦑

Don't be misled by the proportions of ink spent on the book vs on Altman himself in my blog post, as the important entity to evaluate here is of couse Altman! The book is unimportant.

Ouch. “If we plan restoration targets to match future climatic conditions and consider state transitions of currently natural ecosystems due to climate change, the potential for natural climate solutions related to ecosystem restoration is close to zero.”

Can’t get to the water this summer? Enjoy the view with our live-streamed underwater camera! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ejes...

This false assertion about the ocean producing 50% of the oxygen we breathe is so widespread that @jpgattuso.bsky.social @bopplaurent.bsky.social and others have written about it here.

@ohaggstrom.bsky.social is a professor in mathematical statistics, and is an expert in AI development. He reviews the Sam Altman biography and is not impressed, not with the book, and not with Altman himself.

Field work on the islands close to Arjeplog, northern Sweden, can sometimes be quite magical 😍

This week: Breakthrough for high quality marine protected areas in Norway! The government introduces three big zero-fishing zones. First time they use this tool. Placed in the Oslo fjord, where the cod stocks and ecosystem are near collapse due to overfishing and pollution. 🎣🙅‍♂️🐟🧵

Dr Aaron Eger from @unsw.edu.au is a finalist in the Eureka Prize for Emerging Leader in Science. Learn more: youtu.be/M06od5P7s1s #EurekaPrizes

Just out! 10-yr labour of love exploring how Plymouth’s coastline transformed over centuries by land reclamation & how changes are often forgotten. Shout out to incredible crack team: historians, geologists, remote sensors, archaeologists, artists, ecologists🧠🌍🎨 www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/1...

In this blog post, Yunhui Liu and team share insights from their recent global meta-analysis on how cover crop mixtures can enhance agricultural sustainability by promoting multiple ecosystem functions 🌱💭 appliedecologistsblog.com/2025/07/24/c...

Absolutely wild phytoplankton blooms happening in the Baltic Sea right now. This scene was captured with the Sentinel-2 satellite on July 21, 2025. Zoom in.

Vill sitta slutdansad på en klippa i soluppgång och höra the Orb

Cover photo of Dan Hartl’s Principles of Population Genetics does not exist anymore (Pisaster, or Asterias, or others, in that density). May as well be AI.

#PhycologyFriday #MarineLife 🦑🌊

Kelp Rescue is excited to announce the publication of our 1st ever kelp restoration peer-reviewed paper! 🎉Since our start in 2021, we've been testing scientific approaches to kelp restoration, and this paper is the culmination of a huge team effort. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Bye forever, WeTransfer.

Happy Non-binary People’s Daaaaaay! Stuff: - there are older people who are non-binary. - there are Indigenous people who are non-binary (but we’re not your ‘proof of concept’). - the binary is a key element of the colonial project of gender. -we’re an integral part of our community.

Hello bluesky! Happy to transition here and kick it off with a new publication and alltogether great collaboration with @a-h-mcgrath.bsky.social: microbes may increase kelp gametophyte thermal resilience and help them have sex 🦠🌊🌿! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Headed home from an amazing #ITRS2025 meeting, tired but intellectually energized by all of the creative research going on in temperate reef systems. It was great to spend time with old friends, meet new ones, & share our science. Merci to @aec13.bsky.social & the other organizers!