Who needs anemone? #MarineLife #Invertebrate 🌊🦑💚💜

oil prices are about to make polyester a noble fiber

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.

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.

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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those cheeeeeks 😍 👩‍🔬

California buttercup. 🧈☕️🌼 #Bloomscrolling

Move over Fat Bear Week, it’s time for a chunky seal contest! 🦭 Who deserves the Chunkiest Seal crown? 👑 Vote for your favorite super-sized seal and let us know. #SealAndSeaLionWeek

Some of the mirabestest news just dropped.

#MarineLife #SciArt 🌊🦑🐡

A one-two punch for PNW kelp—find the #OpenAccess study in our journal "Ecological Applications" 👇

New crustacean family & superfamily just dropped: “A newly identified family (Mirabestiidae) and superfamily (Mirabestioidea), representing entirely new branches on the evolutionary tree.” 🦀

Any #Pyropia fans in OR?

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

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 🧪🧬🖥️ Apply by April 7: northeastern.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/careers/job/...

Trait-based approaches to restoration ecology: Synthesizing insights from diverse systems 🌎🌐🧪 esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Anemone nuttalliana, our Nuttall's Pasqueflower, blooming today along the Shadow Canyon South Trail #nativeplants 🌿

My dentist was a Naval dentist for many years. Ystday while looking at my xrays she points at something Her: that’s an air bubble Me: 😮 Her: nothing to worry about Me: 😀 Her: unless you are a Naval diver Me: *doing physics in my head* 😮 Her: 🤓 Me: IMPLODING TEETH?!? Her: imploding teeth Me: 🤯

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. 🫠

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. 🤯🌊🦑 doi.org/10.1002/eap....

Deep-sea hermit crabs from the Parapaguridae family live 1,000+ meters deep! Unlike typical hermits, they often use soft “homes” made by anemones or zoanthids instead of shells. #marinelife Image from @schmidtocean.bsky.social

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

Eternally grateful for these Essential Resources from Dr. Chanda! medium.com/@chanda/inte...

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 🐣

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

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! 🪶 🐣

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

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

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....

AWESOME NEW #KELP PROJECT ON @zooniverse.bsky.social - Go check out #KelpQuest Now! www.zooniverse.org/projects/zhr... #algae 🌊🧪🌍

Anemones are so much more than just a home for Nemo! *Also, I’ll save you two hours of watching a boring drama - the 2025 movie called “Anemone” with Daniel Day Lewis and Sean Bean has absolutely nothing to do with marine anemones! What a waste of time!🙄 #anemone #clownfish #cnidaria #scubadiving

A collection of “Tasteful Nudi’s” (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!

A collection of “Tasteful Nudi’s” (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!

A collection of “Tasteful Nudi’s” (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!

📃✍️Payment-based open access is biasing scientific participation from the Global South in ecology vist.ly/4vy75 #GlobalBias #OpenScience #ResearchEquity #ScientificInclusion #SocioPoliticalDisparities

Liftoff! 🪶

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...

🐌🐌🐌 #Invertebrate #SciArt 🐡

Really excellent paper on the genetics of caterpillar butt ornaments journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

Semi-regular reminder: Baby open-ocean octopuses sometimes ride on jellyfish like little hats. 📸 Songda Cai bit.ly/2ZmNZZH 🧪🪼🐙🦑🌿

Predicting the distributions of high-latitude #kelp 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 🦑🌊 @jpgattuso.bsky.social @filbeek.bsky.social

*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...

Museum Resource 🐚 #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 👇 Freshwater Snails of Florida ID Guide: www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/iz/resources...

By mimicking the features of a natural waterline, the “living seawall” will create welcoming habitat for seaweed, mollusks and more. https://reasonstobecheerful.world/san-francisco-living-seawall/

#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.

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 Vibrio—and what it means for sunflower star recovery, kelp forests, and resilient Salish Sea biodiversity. Register: bit.ly/4sWCu7U

‼️ 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 and @ctrlalttim.com: 🎉 Specialists drive biodiversity scaling in symbiotic relationships

seaweed kingdom in the hollow of the rocks high tides pass it by #DailyHaikuPrompt #haiku #nature #photography

Mossy *Mopalia* for #MolluskMonday! #MarineLife #MolluscMonday 🌊🦑