Lovely wildflowers are decorating the foothills of the Santa Ana Mtns. 🖌️🌸 #Castilleja #Bloomscrolling

BRICONS (Building Resilient Irish Coasts through Oyster Restoration) - are looking for a new postdoctoral researcher - deadline 19th February - details 👇 🦪🌊 @drjosemfarinas.bsky.social @annikaclements.bsky.social briconsproject.com/2026/02/06/n...

New round of NSF GRFP declines without review. If you were affected: 1) Write NSF 2) Write your Congressperson 3) CC us at [email protected] so we can compile + follow up Details and template at grant-witness.us/grfp-letter This is the link to the post: bsky.app/profile/noam...

"Seaweed forests are crucial for protecting communities and homes against coastal erosion, providing the bedrock of the food chains, being a nursery for fish populations, while also being a rich part of the heritage and folklore along the west coast."

Excellent work on geographic variation in responses of seaweeds to marine heatwaves! #PhycologyFriday #MarineLife 🌊🦑

Seaweed science! #PhycologyFriday

Hey friends! I’m giving a talk to the Kelp Kulture group on Wednesday the 11th from 12-1 PDT “From phycology to policy: turning passion into action” Register here: kelpkulture.com/rsvp-kelpkul... #phycologyFriday #phycyeah!

#PhycologyFriday #SciArt 🌊🦑🐡

#PhycologyFriday #SciArt 🌊🦑🐡

A slice of kelp in the sand at Torrey Pines State Beach, San Diego. #sandiego #california #southerncalifornia #beach #beaches #sunset #goldenhour #kelp #seascape #sealife #plants #cliffs #coast #coastal #ocean #sea #nature #landscape #photography #photographer #art #artist #sand #reflection

As a keen forager whose speciality is seaweed and sustainable sourcing I beg you to sign this. There are currently two corps with applications to strip the Irish west coast of seaweed. We cannot let this happen. Please sign and share. #irish #ireland

The calcified “slender coral weed,” Jania crassa, is our seaweed of the week #PhycologyFriday

State of the Kelp Industry: A Decade in Review and the Road Ahead | Ocean Farming Hub hub.greenwave.org/lms/resource...

Last year we published the longest post in the more than 17 year history of our science blog. It contains a panel of experts (including me) responding to nearly 50 common questions that people have about marine biology career advice. Please read and share! I'm happy to answer any questions. 🧪🦑🌍

🚨Job Alert🚨 @uafairbanks.bsky.social College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences is hiring a zooplankton specialist. Apply by February 18. 🧪🌊🦑 careers.alaska.edu/jobs/zooplan...

🧪📍🌊 🦑🍎 Ocean Exploration Trust is hiring independent contractors for at-sea positions of data engineers, video engineers, and ROV engineers for our 2026 expedition season aboard E/V Nautilus. More information at nautiluslive.org/about/employ.... Questions can be directed to [email protected].

“ Fascism is fear bossing you. Fascism is worse than all of these things, and fascism is more closer to you than I can make you see. I’m trying to wake you up to tell you that you’re sleeping with something ten times more dangerous than a poison-fang snake in your bed.” – Woody Guthrie

Help Us Name Our ROV! This month, an NSF-supported research team led by DRI, @usf.edu, and @scrippsocean.bsky.social will deploy to the Antarctic Peninsula aboard the R/V Sikuliaq—and their ROV needs a name. 💬 Reply to us with your best suggestion and help us name our new member of the team!

The portal beckons…

one of the best things ever is when you see a cat and you just put your hand out and the cat's tail perks up and they trot over and rub their little soft face on your hand

Have you given a listen to White Squall by the mighty Stan Rogers yet? Hop on over to youtube and check it out! www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVnR... #TheLongestJohns #StanRogers #Winter #FolkMusic

Most people are worried about climate change - but most don't hear or talk about regularly. That's why I started my free newsletter Talking Climate. Every week I share good news, not so good news, and what people can do. If you aren't a reader yet, see below. I have 6 different ways to subscribe!

New paper out! Here's a puzzle: phototrophy, the ability to use light for energy, is one of life's great innovations. It evolved early and transformed the biosphere. But it evolved 2x. Why not just once, why not more? Our work suggests the answer is priority effects. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

New study uses #satellite records and shows that #SouthernOcean #phytoplankton responds in contrasting ways to marine #heatwaves and #cold spells. The impacts vary sharply by region, exposing distinct #ecological sensitivity to #climate -driven extremes. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

It's "throw beans at the demons to drive them away" day in Japan. Setsubun is Feb 3, and mamemaki is the act of throwing beans. Oni wa soto! Devils out! Fuku wa uchi! Fortune in! (If only it was this easy to get rid of demons!)

Here’s a useful reminder of what our federal courts SHOULD be doing to uphold our constitutional traditions:

Flowering trees are showing off on the @ucirvine.bsky.social campus rn. As someone who spent most of his life at higher latitudes, I find Southern California’s February “spring” flowers both unsettling & amazing. #Bloomscrolling 🌸

It's the end of the era of the mass market paperback. This makes me sad. As a kid these were the first "adult" books I read, the fantasy and sci-fi, and part of the reason I could grab them and gobble them was because they were so CHEAP! www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

NSF GRFP applicants (and mentors): Was your application Returned Without Review and deemed ineligible despite fitting in the allowed topics? 1) Write NSF 2) Write your Congressperson 3) CC us at [email protected] so we can compile + follow up Details and template at grant-witness.us/grfp-letter

Cool postdoc opportunity in Norway to evaluate global-change impacts on marine communities. Application info at euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/403197 🌊🦑

Oysters aren’t just shellfish. They’re infrastructure. A single adult oyster can filter ~30–50 gallons of water per day. Multiply that by billions, and you don’t just clean water—you reshape an entire estuary. #Oysters #LivingInfrastructure #OceanHoptimism

New postdoc opportunities in my group at Rutgers-New Brunswick, working on sea-level rise projections and/or coastal climate risk assessment & management

trundle, trundle, trundle 😍 🌿

Bad Bunny thanked his mom for having him in Puerto Rico, told the people on the island there's nothing they can't do, and dedicated his award to all Latinos and to immigrants who keep pushing forward with a lot of strength.

Petalonia binghamiae (“sea petals”) is our seaweed of the week #PhycologyFriday

#phycologyfriday the pain is real...

Trippy #kelp for #PhycologyFriday! #SciArt #MarineLife 🌊🦑🐡

Literally obsessed with this pic I got of one Cedar Waxwing getting very mad at another for drinking in the same spot as him despite there being a whole stream

The International Pacific #Halibut Commission set the 2026 harvest at a historic low during an annual meeting that drew a Trump administration political appointee to lead tense U.S. negotiations with Canada over shares of a shrunken #fishery. www.adn.com/business-eco...

Who doesn't love a Tardigrade? One of three found in a clump of moss under pine trees in Brede High Woods. Could be Macrobiotus cf hufelandi, but if anyone knows better ... #Tardigrade #HighWeald

Manzanitas are a local, native spring early bird, which the bees REALLY appreciate. 💖🐝💖

Friends, please help spread the word about our microbiology REU program at Montana State University. www.montana.edu/mbi/reu/ Each student receives a stipend ($7000 for 10 wks). Travel compensation, room, and board are also provided. Details in the attached pic--Feb 14 deadline 🧫🧪🦠#microsky

California's largest river, the Sacramento, is losing spring and summer runoff as climate change increases temperatures, changes snow to rain, and accelerates snowmelt in the winter months. #climatechange #water #climate

Over the past two decades, seaweed blooms have expanded by a staggering 13.4 per cent a year in the tropical Atlantic and western Pacific, with the most dramatic increases occurring after 2008, according to researchers. www.nationalobserver.com/2026/01/28/n...

Some of our specimens laid out at the University of Michigan Herbarium _______ #herbarium #scientificart #naturalhistory #botany #museums #flora #fungi #algae #biodiversity

I truly enjoy discovering various items on the beach. The diverse textures and unique objects you can find, particularly after a storm, are quite exciting. 🐚🪨⛱️🌊🫶🏻 #beach #beachfinds #nature #seashore #seafront #shells #seaweed #stones #mothernature

“Harvesting 40,000 mt of Ascophyllum nodosum/Fucus spp. in the intertidal zone in 21 specific Management Areas along the west coast of Ireland.” 🌊🦑 #MarineLife

Confusing Crustaceans III: Cumacea August 3–7, 2026 @ NHMLA This third workshop in the 'Confusing Crustaceans' series will introduce techniques to collect, study, and identify cumaceans. Applications are due March 15th. See: www.peracarida.org/workshops/20...

It's certainly morning. 🪶