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Marine biodiversity -
https://faculty.sites.uci.edu/biodiversity/
- he/him/his
pinned post!
It is amazing to have this field site only a few minutes from my home & campus!
#MarineLife
#Seaweed
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Point Blue Conservation Science
about 12 hours ago
🌏🧪🦑 Did you see the purple waves along Point Reyes? Researchers believe they were caused by huge concentrations of doliolids, small gelatinous planktonic tunicates that can rapidly bloom under the right conditions. Point Blue's Dr. Jaime Jahncke shares insights with
@baynature.org
shorturl.at/lfQCM
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CSU COAST
about 13 hours ago
The
@farallonesnews.bsky.social
is hiring a Kelp Restoration Fellow to help restore northern CA
#bullkelpforests
. This paid role suits students or recent grads seeking
#marinescience
experience
#Fellowship
#OceanConservation
#KelpRestoration
Apply by June 1, 2026
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Job Opening - Kelp Restoration Program Fellow - Greater Farallones Association
Conserving the wildlife and habitats of Greater Farallones National Marine Sanctuary through scientific research, environmental education, and community-based conservation.
https://farallones.org/job-openings/kelp-fellow/
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Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️
2 days ago
Name a song with girl in the title but replace girl with squirrel: Rebel squirrel (You are the queen of my world!)
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I loved my time as a postdoc at Bodega Marine Lab & UC Davis - this is an opportunity not to be missed!
#MarineLife
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Sunburst! ☀️🌊🌸
#MarineLife
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Chris Mah
about 22 hours ago
oh lovely! Unidentified sea anemone with tentacles in 6 clusters! South Africa
www.inaturalist.org/observations...
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Sea Anemones (Order Actiniaria)
Sea Anemones from long beach, Simon's Town, Cape Town, 7975, South Africa on June 12, 2017 at 10:30 AM by Georgina Jones
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/292043113
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でんか
2 days ago
I’m an account that casually shares the strange little creatures found along the rocky shores of Japan 𓂃◌𓈒𓐍 These ever-changing shallow waters are full of tiny yet fascinating animals that have adapted to their environment 🦀✨️
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Jackie Caplan-Auerbach
6 days ago
In light of our recently published
@science.org
paper about The Tracy Arm landslide, I'm gonna tell a little story about being wrong and how science works. Join me.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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A 481-meter-high landslide-tsunami in a cruise ship–frequented Alaska fjord
Early in the morning of 10 August 2025, a >64 × 106 m3 landslide struck Tracy Arm fjord in Alaska. The landslide was preconditioned by glacial retreat caused by climate change. The resulting 481 m run...
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aec3187
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Sandy Kawano, PhD
1 day ago
Job Alert! I am recruiting a postdoc (and soon a lab tech) to study the functional morphology and biomechanics of walking-like behaviors in fishes at the University of Virginia. Details at:
jobs.virginia.edu/us/en/job/R0...
. Ads for postdoc+lab tech on salamander locomotion grant coming soon! 🧪🐟🦎
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Research Associate in Biology in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America | Research at University of Virginia
Apply for Research Associate in Biology job with University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America. Research at University of Virginia
https://jobs.virginia.edu/us/en/job/R0083232/Research-Associate-in-Biology
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Helen Park | Seaghetti
1 day ago
I wrote a little thing about the history of sugar kelp farming in the North Atlantic, and where the industry is today. Kelp is such an underrated food, working on make it the future of food ~
pastafromthesea.com/sugar-kelp-i...
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The History of Kelp and the Future of Sugar Kelp Farming
Learn how sugar kelp became a promising sustainable crop, from farming history of kelp to today’s growing role in food, climate, and ocean agriculture.
https://pastafromthesea.com/sugar-kelp-in-the-north-atlantic-a-brief-history-of-kelp-farming-and-where-the-industry-stands-today/
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Ryan J Hollister
1 day ago
Of course it is… JFC.
www.latimes.com/california/s...
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Oil rig off Southern California coast catches fire, dozens of workers evacuated, officials say
An oil platform off the coast of Carpinteria caught fire Monday morning, triggering a response from the U.S. Coast Guard and local county firefighting agencies.
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-05-11/oil-platform-fire-california
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Some chitons have aragonite eyes (“ocelli”) embedded in their plates! Maybe this would be like having eyes on your vertebral column? it would make it harder for someone to sneak up behind you…
#MolluskMonday
#MolluscMonday
#MarineLife
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socialecology.uci.edu
2 days ago
Steve Allison, director of the School of Social Ecology's Newkirk Center for Science & Society, is among the speakers on "Partner Perspectives on Connecting Research and Society" from 4:15-4:45 p.m. Tuesday, May 12, during the
UC Irvine
Climate Collaboration in ISEB 1010.
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Jarrett Byrnes
7 days ago
Stoked to see this piece by Billie Beckley out looking at the tangled web of forces leading to giant kelp productivity! A lovely use of
#SEM
paired w/ FE models get at
#causalinference
based on decades of natural history knowledge in the system.
esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Direct and indirect effects of disturbance on net primary production in giant kelp forests
Disturbances can strongly impact the biomass, abundance, and size and age structure of plant populations, with cascading consequences for net primary production (NPP). Studies investigating sources o...
https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ecy.70393
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Chiton camouflage. It is so hard to find & count these in our intertidal surveys. It doesn’t help that this little one was ~1/4 the size of my pinky nail.
#SwelterShelterNSF
#MolluskMonday
#MolluscMonday
#MarineLife
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akmk
2 days ago
Nope. Mega dams kill salmon. Will we ever learn?
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It’s time for Alaska to reconsider the Susitna-Watana Hydroelectric Project | Alaska Beacon
The assumptions that once sidelined the hydroelectric project may no longer hold true for a resource large enough to meet about 60% the current Railbelt electric demand.
https://alaskabeacon.com/2026/05/08/its-time-for-alaska-to-reconsider-the-susitna-watana-hydroelectric-project/?emci=b35e7e84-0f4b-f111-8ef2-000d3a14b640&emdi=0f2eb0b3-414d-f111-8ef2-000d3a14b640&ceid=146426
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Absolutely! Bull
#kelp
(*Nereocystis luetkeana*) makes delicious pickles.
#MarineLife
🦑
www.barnaclefoods.com/products/kel...
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Mike Henry
3 days ago
Tribute to Mother’s Day continues… 🪶🌵
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Climatologist49
3 days ago
An epic webcam capture of the sun skirting the horizon at Utqiaġvik, Alaska, this morning.
@alaskawx.bsky.social
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Miguel Bastos Araújo, PhD
3 days ago
We are launching the Biodiversity Futures Working Groups. The call supports small, focused synthesis groups addressing frontier questions in biodiversity science. We welcome proposals from researchers at any career stage. Deadline: 30 June 2026, 23:00 CET
www.maraujolab.eu/2026/05/09/2...
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2026 Announcement - Biodiversity Futures Working Groups -
At a glance Up to €10,000 in catalytic support per working group Two in-person meetings (3-5 days each) […]
https://www.maraujolab.eu/2026/05/09/2026-announcement-biodiversity-futures-working-groups/
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Mike Melton
2 days ago
Female Pale-billed Woodpecker this afternoon at
@casabentbill.bsky.social
#costarica
#birds
#woodpeckers
#nature
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Plot set-up & initial site surveys for the Southern California node of our
#SwelterShelterNSF
project are finished - many thanks to our awesome crew! Next stop: Alaska…
#MarineLife
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Katie O'Reilly
3 days ago
An old
#SundayFishSketch
for all the moms out there - thanks for taking care of your kids, even if it means holding them in your mouth for an extended period of time to protect them from being eaten by predators. A clearly universal experience for moms everywhere.
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Steven Gawoski
3 days ago
Ink 10/14/2019 Speedball 107nib 6" X 8" [15.2 X 20.3 cm]
#sciart
#gawoski
#trilobite
#fossil
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amyb
3 days ago
Happy Mother's Day to all who celebrate including the Loggerhead turtle mama who laid her eggs last night. Here are the tracks she made as she headed back out to sea. 🐢🦑💚
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Coral Morphologic
3 days ago
✨💐 Happy Mother’s Day 💐✨
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Chapps
5 days ago
Art of the ancient Americas may not be your thing, but you have to love this earthenware crab vessel. I'm sorry, I don't make the rules. 🦀 This is going into our imaginary museum replica store, pronto.
#LACMA
Colombia, Calima style, Ilama period, ca. 1500 BCE-100 CE. 🏺 1/ 📸 me
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“You can’t see me!” - Elo, maybe. 🐈
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Ocean Hoptimism
3 days ago
To the mothers who taught us wonder. And to the ocean itself—Earth’s original mother—cradling plankton, whales, kelp forests, coral reefs, and us. 🌊 Happy Mother’s Day to the nurturers, protectors, tide-turners, and fierce defenders of life in all its forms.
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Portland Press Herald
3 days ago
Bountiful kelp harvest gives UNE students a taste of the blue economy
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Bountiful kelp harvest gives UNE students a taste of the blue economy
By managing every step from the ocean to the consumer, a student-run business seeks to turn seaweed into a sustainable campus staple.
https://www.pressherald.com/2026/05/10/bountiful-kelp-harvest-gives-une-students-a-taste-of-the-blue-economy/?utm_source=bsky.app&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=newbot-pressherald.com_localstate-BlueSky
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Translation: researchers have figured out how to produce food-grade alginate - a versatile natural product used as a thickener & stabilizer in foods & cosmetics - from the *Sargassum*
#seaweed
that is washing up on Caribbean & Gulf of Mexico shorelines. 🌊🦑
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Lucas Eckert
7 days ago
How useful can
#herbarium
collections be for genetic monitoring? 🌿 We show that Earth’s currently digitized herbarium specimens can be clustered into HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of historical “populations” suitable for population genetic studies 🔗
doi.org/10.1093/bios...
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The utility of herbarium collections for genetic monitoring
Abstract. Despite growing evidence of widespread genetic responses to anthropogenic activity, data shortfalls constrain genetic monitoring efforts and prec
https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biag048
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Laurel Gale
3 days ago
For Mother's Day, here are some of my favorite animal mamas. First up, a tired great horned owl with her wide awake owlet.
laurel-gale.pixels.com/featured/bab...
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#owls
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charlie
4 days ago
Striped shore crab in colored pencil
#sciart
#art
#artist
#illustration
#drawing
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Chris Mah
4 days ago
So, this astropectinid (genus Psilaster) sea star isn't supposed to have an anus-and YET it has this central opening on the disk. This requires contemplation.
#echinoday
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Girls Running From Houses
4 days ago
When the girl arrives, the house seethes with snails. When she leaves, it will be haunted by forgotten history.
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This is a really neat & effective use of
#seaweed
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Ocean Hoptimism
4 days ago
Scientists crossing Patagonia are documenting how warming oceans are changing giant kelp forests—underwater ecosystems that shelter fish, absorb carbon, and support coastal life. The findings are a stark reminder that climate change is now reaching even Earth’s cold southern seas.
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Scientists embark on 1,200km 'megatransect' of Patagonian kelp forests. What they find could be crucial | Discover Wildlife
Researchers are surveying one of the world's largest intact kelp forests to learn more about the species that live there and the ecosystem's role as a powerful natural carbon sink.
https://www.discoverwildlife.com/environment/patagonia-megatransect
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#Seaweed
- based plastics are emerging as a viable, sustainable alternative to traditional, petroleum-based products. 🦑
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This week, we’ve been surveying Southern California intertidal rocky reefs to begin our new project testing whether habitat-forming “foundation species” - rockweeds & mussels - can protect other organisms against intensifying heat waves.
@cascadejbs.bsky.social
#SwelterShelterNSF
#PhycologyFriday
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Jitka Polechová
5 days ago
New
#ecoevo
paper
@pnas.org
: Evolution of species’ range and niche in changing environments. I show that feedback between evolutionary and population dynamics can create a tipping point where genetic variance erodes, and species’ ranges contract or fragment
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
#popgen
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Adi Khen
5 days ago
Dictyopteris undulata, or “netted wing weed,” is our seaweed of the week!
#PhycologyFriday
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Sustainable housing built of
#seaweed
bricks 🌊 🌱🧱
#PhycologyFriday
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#MarineLife
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Madhusudan 🦉 Katti
5 days ago
Still processing this shocking news which I only just saw this morning. I only knew Dr. Adriana Romero-Olivares (
@fungi-lover.bsky.social
) a little as a
@ecologicalsociety.bsky.social
Fellow and when she coauthored this essay with
@pkashwan.bsky.social
for a collection I coedited. What a huge loss!
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Dr. Asmeret Asefaw Berhe
14 days ago
Prof. Adriana Romero-Olivares, UC Riverside, was doing incredible work on how fungi and ecosystems respond to global change. A rising voice, a dynamic scientist and educator, a young mother, wife and daughter gone far too soon. A huge loss. Her family, students and community are in my thoughts.
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Dr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦
5 days ago
This is one of those "wait for it" things: simulation of the
#TracyArm
landslide tsunami by Pat Lynett for our paper that came out this week in
@science.org
. This one is from the vantage point of a jetski at sea level. 🧪⚒️
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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