Coming up tonight at 19:19 BST/20:19 CEST: the September #Equinox! This image from Meteosat-12, taken this morning, shows Earth near the equinox - when the terminator appears as a straight line dividing the planet into equal halves of light and dark. @wmo-global.bsky.social @eumetsat.int

Dogwinkles 🐕🐚. #MolluscMonday #MolluskMonday #MarineLife #Invertebrate 🌊🦑

Tonight's sunset walk

Bullwhip kelp

Can't argue with that. Two Friends Chocolates, Boxborough, Massachusetts 🦖🦕⚒️ (really outstanding handmade chocolate truffles)

Salish Seastar. #Dermasterias #SeastarSaturday #MarineLife #Invertebrate 🦑🌊

I found this birding book along the side of the road on the Tamiami trail in the Everglades on 8/25/25. It is so well loved with sightings going back decades. If you're a birder (I am not) please spread the word and hep me find the owner so they can be reunited

Autumn colours on the rocky shore 🧡🤎💛🍁🍂 #fucoids #seaweed #algae #feamainn

I refer to clams as a cross between a cow and a vacuum cleaner. And like a cow, some species of clams fart out a fair bit of methane! Their farts may account for ~10% of methane released in some environments. So to answer a question I'm sure many of you have, yes, clams fart. (261)

🚨🚨 If I could just summarize 1 sentence from the new National Academy of Sciences study on climate, boldface, flashing red, it would be: "the evidence for current and future harm to human health and welfare created by human-caused GHGs is beyond scientific dispute." BEYOND SCIENTIFIC DISPUTE 🚨🚨

UPDATE: The 2025-2026 list of faculty and postdoc positions in ecology and evolutionary biology is out! Be sure to check out this active and helpful community run resources! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

For #PhycologyFriday, here’s a funky Bull Kelp bulb sent to me by a friend in Ucluelet. Anyone know what causes this to happen? Never seen one like this before #kelp

Otter alert! 🦦 🚨 @montereybayaquarium.org is hosting “Sea Otter Awareness Week” starting on Sunday - text SOAW to 54159 to be otterly amazed by facts, quizzes, & cuteness.

"The measure of our success will be the condition on which we leave the world for the next generation." -- Robert Redford vimeo.com/146947405?fl...

We are analyzing seawater samples from the long term #GAKOA surface monitoring site. Here we observe seawater CO₂ to detect #OceanAcidification. Thank you to the Seward high school National Ocean Science Bowl #NOSB team members for collecting samples! 🧪🌊🦑 #FieldworkFriday #RVNanuq #AlaskaSky

Very satisfying kelp canopy undulations from my trip up to botanical beach #phycologyfriday

One big bladder - on an old looking (but broken, so age was undetermined) Ascophyllum nodosum #PhycologyFriday

Salish Seashore. #PhycologyFriday #MarineLife 🦑🌊

But why is a story about a new species of river otter - an absolutely adorable critter in its own right - illustrated with a photo of a sea otter?

Forbidden corn dogs

We present: The Art of #InverteFest - August 2025 Edition A digital art book showcasing the work of 100 artists from around the world, in celebration of overlooked invertebrate fauna. Thank you to the artists who contributed to our book! Download here drive.google.com/file/d/19wfG... #Art #SciArt

Seaweed socks! #PhycologyFriday

#PhycologyFriday #MarineLife 🌊🦑

👻🦀 #MarineLife 🦑🌊

We have a lab slack channel called Bad Plots. I added this beauty today (boxplots always give me problems), but at least my lab is extremely supportive.

🌊 Plastics aren’t just polluting the ocean, they might be messing with the marine carbon cycle too. A new study argues plastics could disrupt how the ocean captures and stores CO₂. A hidden climate risk? 👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

For Day 16 #sciArtSeptember prompt rift: my portrait of #geologist & oceanographic #cartographer Marie Tharp (1920-2006), whose pioneering, thorough & complete ocean floor maps with Bruce Heezen, made using realms of echo sounder data, revealed the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.⁠ 🐡⚒️🧪👩🏼‍🔬 #histsci ⁠ After studying

The trolls of Orkney and Shetland include sea-trows, maritime monsters whose bodies are cloaked in seaweed 🌊🧌 🎨 by Theodor Kittelsen #FolkloreThursday #folklore #trolls #trollthursday #trollseason #orkney #shetland #trows

Mapping Alaska’s Wild Kelp Beds with Farmers alaska-native-news.com/mapping-alas...

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there is already a way to extend life and youth indefinitely 1. Be a stored-grain dermestid beetle larva (say, Trogoderma) 2. Every time food gets scarce, moult backwards into a previous instar 3. Proceed to grow as usual 4. Repeat step 2

Goodnight, everyone

Cubaris Isopods

Beautiful! #SciArt #MarineLife 🌊🦑

Baseline reading not available, data too variable 16-Sep-2025 keelingcurve.ucsd.edu

The #birds feed just passed 14k likes - post a celebratory bird! 🪶

Travertine swirls, Jalama Beach

Seaside, seashore, seaweed.

Kelp wrack, weathering on a sandy shore. #TextureTuesday #MarineLife 🦑🌊

Seasonal shedding of kelp fronds delivers organic material to beaches, fueling amphipods, isopods and marine worms that support shorebirds, juvenile fish and even raccoons, a study finds. Read more: https://getnews.me/kelp-forests-sustain-local-beach-food-webs-new-study-finds/ #kelp #beachfoodweb

Great new work by some great people (shoutout to @falaropo.bsky.social, @mdolbeth.bsky.social et al.) quantifying the potential blue carbon storage & sequestration rates of subtidal #kelp forests in Northern Portugal: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekLforLines Lines of kelp seaweed on Morro Rock Beach. #EastCoastKin #ClassicMono #Kelp #Seaweed

Sourdough starterfall. 🍞

My Tide Book poems are in the world today! Happy Book Publication Day to me. 📕 sheilanagigblog.com/shop-sheila-... #SheilaNaGigEditions #poetsofbluesky #poetry #Alaska #Alaskanpoets

Great idea! 💧 Scientists have made edible seaweed pods to kill plastic waste At the 2019 London Marathon, runners ditched plastic bottles and grabbed edible water pods made from seaweed. Over 30,000 pods were distributed, cutting down an estimated 200,000 single-use bottles in one event.

For the Sunday crowd - favorite science oriented board game? Bonus if it’s ecology, evolution, or marine science (or organisms)? 🧪🌊🌎🦑

#Caturday 🐈‍⬛

ベニザケ #みんなで婚姻色が出る魚を描こうの会

#Arctic #algae aren't immobile or entombed. They're not just surviving either—they're gliding into record books phys.org/news/2025-09... Ice gliding #diatoms establish record-low temperature limits for motility in a eukaryotic cell www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... #protists #microbes #extremophiles