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@brackenlab.bsky.social
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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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Who needs anemone?
#MarineLife
#Invertebrate
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derek guy
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oil prices are about to make polyester a noble fiber
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Nahel Belgherze
1 day ago
As the first reanalysis data become available, I think I can say with a fairly high degree of confidence that the March 2026 heatwave will go down as the most anomalously extreme heat event ever observed at any time of year in the southwestern U.S.
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NBC News
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A former cancer nurse who became a priest at the age of 40 has been installed as archbishop of Canterbury, celebrating her election as the first woman to lead the Church of England.
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Woodland Park Zoo
1 day ago
Happiest Birthday, all you beautiful March babes! March 4, 2020, Kitoko the western lowland gorilla March 3, 2017, Stevie the cock-of-the-rock March 6, 2016, "The Dude" the western pond turtle March 24, 2016, Amarillo the nine-banded armadillo
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Shade of Stars
21 days ago
Sketchbook page.
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Sara Emery
1 day ago
those cheeeeeks ๐ ๐ฉโ๐ฌ
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California buttercup. ๐งโ๏ธ๐ผ
#Bloomscrolling
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NOAA Fisheries
1 day ago
Move over Fat Bear Week, itโs time for a chunky seal contest! ๐ฆญ Who deserves the Chunkiest Seal crown? ๐ Vote for your favorite super-sized seal and let us know.
#SealAndSeaLionWeek
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Meh "Alli X." Pluribus Unum
1 day ago
Some of the mirabestest news just dropped.
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#MarineLife
#SciArt
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ESA Journals
1 day ago
A one-two punch for PNW kelpโfind the
#OpenAccess
study in our journal "Ecological Applications" ๐
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New crustacean family & superfamily just dropped: โA newly identified family (Mirabestiidae) and superfamily (Mirabestioidea), representing entirely new branches on the evolutionary tree.โ ๐ฆ
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Any
#Pyropia
fans in OR?
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2 days ago
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Vivian Faith Prescott
2 days ago
The Exxon Valdez oil spill was a major environmental disaster that occurred in Alaska's Prince William Sound on March 24, 1989. Read my poems about this disaster.
#AlaskaSky
#Alaska
#ExxonValdez
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Vivian Faith Prescott: "Slick" A chapbook
Vivian Faith Prescott's free online chapbook.
https://www.issues.righthandpointing.net/vivianfaithprescott
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Dr. K. Lotterhos
2 days ago
Seasonal job available in Burlington, VT in invasive pest ecologcal genomics! The successful candidate will work with myself and
@jcbnunez.bsky.social
on seasonal adaptation in Drosophila susukii.
#popGen
#evolution
#genomics
๐งช๐งฌ๐ฅ๏ธ Apply by April 7:
northeastern.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/careers/job/...
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Research Assistant
About the Opportunity JOB SUMMARY The Lotterhos Lab at Northeastern University, in collaboration with the Nunez lab and the Institute for Agroecology at the University of Vermont (UVM), invites applic...
https://northeastern.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/careers/job/Nahant-MA/Research-Assistant_R139117
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Pablo Garcia-Diaz
8 days ago
Trait-based approaches to restoration ecology: Synthesizing insights from diverse systems ๐๐๐งช
esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Traitโbased approaches to restoration ecology: Synthesizing insights from diverse systems
Under accelerating global change, trait-based approaches are emerging as essential tools in the ecological restoration toolbox. Where restoration has traditionally focused on the recovery of focal sp...
https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/eap.70193
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FrontRangeWildflowers
2 days ago
Anemone nuttalliana, our Nuttall's Pasqueflower, blooming today along the Shadow Canyon South Trail
#nativeplants
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Sarah Hรถrst
2 days ago
My dentist was a Naval dentist for many years. Ystday while looking at my xrays she points at something Her: thatโs an air bubble Me: ๐ฎ Her: nothing to worry about Me: ๐ Her: unless you are a Naval diver Me: *doing physics in my head* ๐ฎ Her: ๐ค Me: IMPLODING TEETH?!? Her: imploding teeth Me: ๐คฏ
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Daniel Swain
2 days ago
Another day, another sequence of monthly record-breaking March heat across portions of 8 Western U.S. states. Note: some of these monthly "records" might not technically be such anymore following even more extreme record-shattering heat in the same locations...just last week. ๐ซ
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Amazing work showcasing the value of long-term monitoring data: Gerraty et al. document declines in the sea-palm
#kelp
#Postelsia
associated w/ the 2014-16 northeast Pacific heatwave & failure to recover due to expansion of mussel beds during the seastar-wasting epidemic. ๐คฏ๐๐ฆ
doi.org/10.1002/eap....
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Dr Craig R McClain
2 days ago
Deep-sea hermit crabs from the Parapaguridae family live 1,000+ meters deep! Unlike typical hermits, they often use soft โhomesโ made by anemones or zoanthids instead of shells.
#marinelife
Image from
@schmidtocean.bsky.social
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David Reamer
2 days ago
2006 Kayak online travel agency commercial for Alaska, with the brutal suggestion to visit before it is ruined by oil companies. The Exxon Valdez oilspill happened 37 years ago today.
#alaskahistory
#alaska
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@makeradicalcare
2 days ago
Eternally grateful for these Essential Resources from Dr. Chanda!
medium.com/@chanda/inte...
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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli
10 months ago
It's hard to put into words the anxiety folks are feeling. As an appreciation for everyone pushing through it, and many of us doing as much as we can, some more than anyone should have to, here's a bluesky exclusive of killdeer chicks seeking safe harbor under their parent.
#birds
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Brooke
2 days ago
I think it's vitally important that everyone know that when baby bear cubs are orphaned and taken to our local wildlife center, they get fed and rehabbed by people masking their scent and wearing costumes like this so they don't get habituated to humans
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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli
3 days ago
BREAKING: DUCKLINGS FOUND, BECOMING TOO LORGE TO HIDE UNDER MAMA! Will quote post with some more videos and stills. Incredible 1.5 hour long session at sunset! ๐ชถ ๐ฃ
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Daniel Bolnick
2 days ago
Of the many fascinating features of Hampi (India): musical stone pillars. These thin pillars, carved from solid blocks around a larger central pillar, resonate when struck by hand, even with a finger. They are tuned to different frequencies, so the whole temple can be 'played' as an instrument
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3 days ago
early
#algae
at 2.1 billion years old this rockcontains the oldest known
#fossilday
of a eukaryetic organism the dark looping lines are films of
#carbon
because algae often leave behind a
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Damon Britton
about 1 year ago
Have a look at our new paper in Limnology and Oceanography where we found that the abundant kelp in Australia is unlikely to be affected by moderate levels of ocean alkalinity enhancement.
@bachlennart.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1002/lno....
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Moderate ocean alkalinity enhancement likely to have minimal effects on a habitatโforming kelp across multiple life stages
Ocean alkalinity enhancement (OAE) is a widely considered marine CO2 removal method. Ocean alkalinity enhancement works by converting seawater CO2 into HCO3โ$$ {\mathrm{HCO}}_3^{-} $$ and CO32โ$$ {\m...
https://doi.org/10.1002/lno.70029
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Jarrett Byrnes
2 days ago
AWESOME NEW
#KELP
PROJECT ON
@zooniverse.bsky.social
- Go check out
#KelpQuest
Now!
www.zooniverse.org/projects/zhr...
#algae
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Kelp Quest (Seattle Aquarium) | Zooniverse - People-powered research
Explore the kelp forests of coastal Washington and directly impact the conservation and restoration of these critical habitats!
https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/zhrandell/kelp-quest-seattle-aquarium
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Chris Gug
19 days ago
Anemones are so much more than just a home for Nemo! *Also, Iโll save you two hours of watching a boring drama - the 2025 movie called โAnemoneโ with Daniel Day Lewis and Sean Bean has absolutely nothing to do with marine anemones! What a waste of time!๐
#anemone
#clownfish
#cnidaria
#scubadiving
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Chris Gug
about 1 month ago
A collection of โTasteful Nudiโsโ (part 4 of 4) Nudibranchs are a type of sea slug - most of the 3000+ species share a few key traits - they riotously colored, slow, small, and have only one defense - chemical. All shot in my first month of Bali in Sept2025 - lots more where this came from!
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Chris Gug
about 1 month ago
A collection of โTasteful Nudiโsโ (part 3 of 4) Nudibranchs are a type of sea slug - most of the 3000+ species share a few key traits - they riotously colored, slow, small, and have only one defense - chemical. All shot in my first month of Bali in Sept2025 - lots more where this came from!
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Chris Gug
about 1 month ago
A collection of โTasteful Nudiโsโ (part 1 of 4) Nudibranchs are a type of sea slug - most of the 3000+ species share a few key traits - they riotously colored, slow, small, and have only one defense - chemical. All shot in my first month of Bali in Sept2025 - lots more where this came from!
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Oikos
2 days ago
๐โ๏ธPayment-based open access is biasing scientific participation from the Global South in ecology
vist.ly/4vy75
#GlobalBias
#OpenScience
#ResearchEquity
#ScientificInclusion
#SocioPoliticalDisparities
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James Douglass
2 days ago
Very cool! Reminds me of Graham et al. 2007 's approach to modeling where deepwater tropical kelp refugia might exist.
doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
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Deep-water kelp refugia as potential hotspots of tropical marine diversity and productivity | PNAS
Classic marine ecological paradigms view kelp forests as inherently temperate-boreal phenomena replaced by coral reefs in tropical waters. These pa...
https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0704778104
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Jacob Tennessen
3 days ago
Really excellent paper on the genetics of caterpillar butt ornaments
journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
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Rebecca R Helm
3 days ago
Semi-regular reminder: Baby open-ocean octopuses sometimes ride on jellyfish like little hats. ๐ธ Songda Cai
bit.ly/2ZmNZZH
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Predicting the distributions of high-latitude
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forests! Neat work by Castro de la Guardia et al. in
@aslo.org
L&O Methods:
en.highnorthnews.com/politics/new...
Nice press write-up here:
en.highnorthnews.com/politics/new...
#Seaweed
#MarineLife
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@jpgattuso.bsky.social
@filbeek.bsky.social
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New Research Develops Method to Predict Where Kelp Forests Grow
A new study has created the first large-scale method to predict where kelp forests could be growing along Arctic coasts.
https://en.highnorthnews.com/politics/new-research-develops-method-to-predict-where-kelp-forests-grow/1107518
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Chris Mah
3 days ago
*laugh* oh yes. And here's Den Den mushi, the transponder snail from
#ONE-PIECE
live action !
#molluscmonday
#invertsincomics
. The link takes you to the sound it makes when you ring it!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIoz...
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Florida Museum of Natural History
3 days ago
Museum Resource ๐
#MolluskMonday
Who doesn't love a dichotomous key? The aquatic snail fauna of the southeastern United States has long been recognized for its richness and diversity. Check out our ๐ Freshwater Snails of Florida ID Guide:
www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/iz/resources...
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Reasons to be Cheerful
3 days ago
By mimicking the features of a natural waterline, the โliving seawallโ will create welcoming habitat for seaweed, mollusks and more.
https://reasonstobecheerful.world/san-francisco-living-seawall/
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San Francisco's Revamped Seawall Will Teem With Life
By mimicking the features of a natural waterline, the โliving seawallโ will create welcoming habitat for seaweed, mollusks and more.
https://reasonstobecheerful.world/san-francisco-living-seawall/
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Robert Boessenecker, Dr. of Whaleontology โข๏ธ
3 days ago
#molluskmonday
A rare fossil Abalone (Haliotis sp.) - ornamented, but small (<10 cm). This one is from
#socal
and is from the upper Miocene (7-10 myo); it pre-dates the ca. 5 mya parallel evolution of giant body size in abalones - an event that likely indicates when kelp forests became widespread.
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Ocean Hoptimism
3 days ago
Sea stars: collapse, clues, and comeback. Mar 24 | 5pm PT Dr. Drew Harvell (Cornell Univ.; Adjunct, Stanford Oceans) shares new findings linking wasting disease to Vibrioโand what it means for sunflower star recovery, kelp forests, and resilient Salish Sea biodiversity. Register:
bit.ly/4sWCu7U
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Colin Carlson
3 days ago
โผ๏ธ New preprint: By solving a paradox in graph theory, we show that specialist symbionts constrain ecosystem structure, drive biodiversity, and face high extinction risk. With
@jbyoder.org
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@ctrlalttim.com
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Specialists drive biodiversity scaling in symbiotic relationships
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Sanya
3 days ago
seaweed kingdom in the hollow of the rocks high tides pass it by
#DailyHaikuPrompt
#haiku
#nature
#photography
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Mossy *Mopalia* for
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#MarineLife
#MolluscMonday
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