🌏🧪🦑 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

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 farallones.org/job-openings...

Name a song with girl in the title but replace girl with squirrel: Rebel squirrel (You are the queen of my world!)

I loved my time as a postdoc at Bodega Marine Lab & UC Davis - this is an opportunity not to be missed! #MarineLife 🌊🦑🧪

Sunburst! ☀️🌊🌸 #MarineLife 🦑

oh lovely! Unidentified sea anemone with tentacles in 6 clusters! South Africa www.inaturalist.org/observations...

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 🦀✨️⁡

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/...

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! 🧪🐟🦎

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...

Of course it is… JFC. www.latimes.com/california/s...

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 🦑🌊

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.

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/...

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 🦑🌊

Nope. Mega dams kill salmon. Will we ever learn?

Absolutely! Bull #kelp (*Nereocystis luetkeana*) makes delicious pickles. #MarineLife 🦑 www.barnaclefoods.com/products/kel...

Tribute to Mother’s Day continues… 🪶🌵

An epic webcam capture of the sun skirting the horizon at Utqiaġvik, Alaska, this morning. @alaskawx.bsky.social

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...

Female Pale-billed Woodpecker this afternoon at @casabentbill.bsky.social #costarica #birds #woodpeckers #nature

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 🦑🌊

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.

Ink 10/14/2019 Speedball 107nib 6" X 8" [15.2 X 20.3 cm] #sciart #gawoski #trilobite #fossil

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. 🐢🦑💚

✨💐 Happy Mother’s Day 💐✨

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

“You can’t see me!” - Elo, maybe. 🐈

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.

Bountiful kelp harvest gives UNE students a taste of the blue economy

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...

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... 🧵

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... #birds #owls

👶🏼🦀 #MarineLife 🦑🌊

Striped shore crab in colored pencil #sciart #art #artist #illustration #drawing

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

When the girl arrives, the house seethes with snails. When she leaves, it will be haunted by forgotten history.

This is a really neat & effective use of #seaweed:

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.

#Seaweed - based plastics are emerging as a viable, sustainable alternative to traditional, petroleum-based products. 🦑

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 🌊🦑

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 🧬🧪 🌎

Dictyopteris undulata, or “netted wing weed,” is our seaweed of the week! #PhycologyFriday

Sustainable housing built of #seaweed bricks 🌊 🌱🧱 #PhycologyFriday

#PhycologyFriday #MarineLife 🌊🦑

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!

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.

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/...