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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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Ben Williamson
5 days ago
Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵 Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
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#SciArt
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Adi Khen
5 days ago
Dictyota coriacea (“Y-branched algae”) is our seaweed of the week!
#PhycologyFriday
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Jeff Hollett
6 days ago
Mother in the nest with her chicks. Cladonia
#lichen
with a little nearby Juniper Haircap Moss. Northwest Territories, Canada.
#fungi
#fungifriends
#moss
#bryophyte
#botany
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Terry McGlynn
6 days ago
Y'all, I just got out of the NSF-BIO webinar where they explained changes to peer review. It's not good. 🧪
scienceforeveryone.science/changes-to-n...
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Changes to NSF peer review
They're not good. At all.
https://scienceforeveryone.science/changes-to-nsf-peer-review/
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SoCal Leslie
7 days ago
I hear that the bird of the day is groups. Surf scoters, a few thousand, floating into Imperial Beach, CA in early November 2023. A day I’ll never forget.
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I’m trying to send holiday cards, but Sephy has other ideas 🐈⬛🎄
#Catmas
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Julie Blommaert
6 days ago
This looks incredible and I ABSOLUTELY will be going to see it
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Alexandra Witze
7 days ago
Here's our reporting on the proposed dismantling of the jewel of US atmospheric science, @ncar-ucar.bsky.social. The plan is to break NCAR apart and disburse some parts to other locations (like the research aircraft fleet) and eliminate others.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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#AGU25
#climate
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Trump team plans to break up ‘global mothership’ of climate science
Much of the National Center for Atmospheric Research’s non-climate portfolio will be dispersed, the White House says.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-04134-w
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Dan Garisto
6 days ago
Hearing for Thakur v. Trump (over terminated grants for University of California researchers) starting now:
www.courtlistener.com/docket/70459...
Zoom link:
cand.uscourts.gov/judges/rfl/l...
I'll try to follow along live.
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https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/70459259/thakur-v-trump/?order_by=desc
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Journal of Ecology
6 days ago
Published!📖 Population loss of a key foundation species at its trailing range edge will have significant impacts on temperate rocky shore communities on both wave-exposed and sheltered shores🌊 Read more:https://buff.ly/mZttcjw
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Olivia V. Ambrogio (she/her)
7 days ago
Another shrimply silly nature drawing for
#ArtAdventCalendar
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Pike Spector (he/him)
7 days ago
Oarorboros 🤌🤌🤌
#marinelife🦑🧪
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Carl T. Bergstrom
8 days ago
Looking for a faculty job at one of the world's great research stations? We're looking for a marine invertebrate biologist at UW's Friday Harbor Labs.
apply.interfolio.com/178804
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Long Term Ecological Research Network (United States)
7 days ago
Like living in an extraordinarily beautiful place? Excited about world class aquatic research, education, and outreach? Flathead Lake Biological Station is seeking a new Director:
apply.interfolio.com/178916
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Charlie Koven
7 days ago
NCAR’s Mesa Lab is literally a science castle dedicated to understanding our planet in an open and collaborative way, and leading the world in that effort. We cannot let this happen.
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Katharine Hayhoe
8 days ago
NCAR is quite literally our global mothership. Everyone who works in climate and weather has passed through its doors and benefited from its incredible resources. Dismantling NCAR is like taking a sledgehammer to the keystone holding up our scientific understanding of the planet. Unbelievable.
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Trump moves to dismantle major US climate research center in Colorado
The Trump administration is breaking up the National Center for Atmospheric Research, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/12/16/trump-dismantle-national-center-atmospheric-research-climate/87798771007/
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Holly Bik
7 days ago
Announcing our next
#NSFfunded
workshop on "Telling Stories Through Data", co-lead by myself +
@vgwschutte.bsky.social
! It’s half bioinformatics data viz & half
#SciComm
- this year’s focus is host-associated microbiome datasets. Apply here to join us (form closes 1/10)
bit.ly/TSTD2026
#symbiosky
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈
11 months ago
We’re getting lots of new Bluesky friends! Please share your favorite science and conservation starter packs as a reply here and I’ll share them. Let’s get our science and conservation friends lots of followers! 🧪🌎🦑
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Jeff Hollett
8 days ago
Cladonia
#lichen
. Northwest Territories, Canada.
#fungi
#fungifriends
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Seema Sheth
8 days ago
Fun collab w an awesome group of ecologists, led by Jenn Williams and Tom Miller! Linking Climate and Demography to Predict PopulationDynamics and Persistence Under Global Change
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Linking Climate and Demography to Predict Population Dynamics and Persistence Under Global Change
Predicting how climate change will affect the population dynamics and ultimately persistence of plant and animal populations is a grand challenge in biodiversity science and global change biology. Co...
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ele.70283
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Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
8 days ago
Meet the R/V Neil Armstrong—A ship designed for discovery, innovation, and ocean exploration! Owned by the Office of Naval Research, we operate ARMSTRONG on behalf of the nation’s scientific community. Exploring the Atlantic since 2016, ARMSTRONG supports ocean research through
@unols.bsky.social
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This is a really neat paper highlighting how urban juncos have different beak shapes from their wild counterparts and that urban birds’ beaks reverted to the “wild” shape during COVID lockdowns on the UCLA campus. 🪶
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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PNAS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2520996122
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Blake Ushijima, Ph.D.
9 days ago
The Dept of Biology & Marine Biology at UNCW is offering 4 positions!!! A Distinguished Professor of Marine Science, an Assistant Professor of Invertebrate Biology, and two Lecturers of Biology. Plus, the UNCW Center for Marine Science is seeking a second Distinguished Professor of Marine Science!
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Stef "inclusion is a human right" Christensen
9 days ago
Well, scientists, I have good news and I have bad news for you. The good news is now you only get one reviewer. The bad news is that it's always Reviewer 3.
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Alondra Nelson
9 days ago
🧵 NSF is reducing external review requirements and eliminating routine expert panels, citing staff shortages that this administration implemented. This change expands program officer authority. But the solution to flawed accountability isn't less public accountability.
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Sam Price
9 days ago
🧪🐠 I am hiring a postdoc! Work will be on patterns of biodiversity across phylogenetic scales using teleost fishes as a model. Apply by end of Jan 2026 for full consideration
apply.interfolio.com/179070
I encourage folks to reach out with any questions. Please Share!
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Meade Krosby
9 days ago
Hard to overstate how concerning this is. There are over 46,000 people, a school, and a hospital in the flash flood warning area. Washington communities have been bracing for levee failures as another round of atmospheric rivers arrives to full rivers and saturated soils.
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Sean McCann
11 days ago
Kelp at Ogden Point
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10 days ago
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Working on an intro / break for “Katy Daley.” 🪕
#BanjoFeed
youtube.com/shorts/9_0wc...
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Working on a new intro / break for “Katy Daley.” 🪕 #banjo
YouTube video by Matthew Bracken
https://youtube.com/shorts/9_0wcNVRTeY?si=vFjWUlwTyfNOsw0h
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#MarineLife
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Egregiously egregious *Egregia*.
#PhycologyFriday
#MarineLife
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Wow! Way to help the
#kelp
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#PhycologyFriday
#MarineLife
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Chris Mah
13 days ago
"Fatigue" by artist John Brosio
#crustmas
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Elakha Alliance
13 days ago
🩶 Wonderful news this week: A new bundle of joy, or shall we say a new calf, has been spotted traveling with K-Pod in Puget Sound!
#pnw
#orcas
#Washington
#killerwhale
#orca
#pugetsound
www.king5.com/article/news...
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New orca calf spotted with K pod
The new orca calf is the first calf to be born into the K pod since 2022, according to the Orca Conservancy.
https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/new-orca-calf-spotted-k-pod/281-a474d5d9-9666-4cbf-abed-e9d2a04f0f6c
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Robert Boessenecker, Dr. of Whaleontology ™️
13 days ago
#tidepooling
My first ever Stearn's aeolid nudibranch (Austraeolis stearnsi), photographed an hour before my cousin's wedding rehearsal dinner in Laguna Beach (socal) last month. 🦀🦑
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Gov. Bob Ferguson
13 days ago
Skagit County has issued a GO NOW evacuation order for all residents in the 100-year flood plain. Find out if your home is affected:
www.skagitcounty.net/Maps/iMap/?m...
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#Invertebrate
#SciArt
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Dr Andrew Mahon
about 1 year ago
On a roll, so I'll keep going. The Antarctic isopod Ceratoserolis trilobitoides. Amazing animals, some quite large (~5cm or so!) found all around the Antarctic continental shelf. C. Held took this amazing photo for our team on a cruise (LMG 13-12).🦑🧪🌎🐧🇦🇶
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Jenna Inglese | Flora and Fauna Log
15 days ago
Melibe aka hooded nudibranchs amongst bull kelp blades
#nudibranch
#melibe
#kelp
#bullkelp
#pnwscuba
#pnwwildlife
#washingtonwildlife
#uwmacro
#uwmacrophotography
#kelpforest
#olympicpeninsula
#olympustg6
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Alicia
15 days ago
The Striped Sun Star (Solaster stimpsoni) is another PNW native that typically has 10 arms and feeds on sea cucumbers and sea pens. It is commonly eaten by its cousin the Morning Sea Star (Solaster dawsoni). How rude!
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Dr. Jennifer Wade
15 days ago
Hi US science folks, NSF has released some policy changes to the document I know you’ve memorized: the PAPPG. Take a look, send me your questions, I’ll add them to our own and try to get some answers.
www.nsf.gov/policies/doc...
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Policy Notice: Implementation of Policy Changes to Proposal and Award Policies and Procedures Guide (PAPPG) 24-1, Supplement 1
This notice implements several revisions to NSF's Proposal and Award Policies and Procedures Guide (PAPPG) 24-1.
https://www.nsf.gov/policies/document/pappg24-1-supplement-1
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spencer roberts 🦈
15 days ago
Monsanto scientists ghostwrote this paper claiming the company’s proprietary glyphosate & roundup herbicides had no risk to human health. 25 years & 1300 citations later, it has finally been retracted — 8 years after the collusion was exposed.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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California King Tides Project
15 days ago
Union Pacific rail line through Elkhorn Slough, between Watsonville and Salinas. Totally submerged during
#KingTides
on Dec. 5, 2025.
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Maven's Notebook
15 days ago
In 2020, more than 70,000 tons of rock was placed onto the ocean floor in carefully engineered mounds to restore the rocky reef habitat that fish, kelp, and countless marine creatures need to survive. Today, that effort is paying off in unexpected ways
#cawater
mavensnotebook.com/2025/12/09/n...
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NOAA FISHERIES: A restored reef brings fish habitat back to Southern California
New monitoring shows the Palos Verdes Reef restoration project has increased fish biomass by over 150 percent just 4 years after construction From NOAA Fisheries: If you’ve stood on the bluffs of the ...
https://mavensnotebook.com/2025/12/09/noaa-fisheries-a-restored-reef-brings-fish-habitat-back-to-southern-california/
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Adi Khen
15 days ago
Seaweed pressing as an art and a science: our newly reestablished herbarium collection at Scripps and the history behind it
#Phycology
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An art and a science: Scripps Oceanography showcases 5,000 seaweed pressings
UC San Diego’s Smith Seaweed Ecology Lab is digitizing its collection of more than 5,000 pressings and making it accessible to the public
https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2025/11/27/an-art-and-a-science-scripps-oceanography-showcases-5000-seaweed-pressings/
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We’ve had some stunning sunsets recently 😍🌅🌊
#TidesOutTuesday
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Silvia Secchi
16 days ago
you will be visited by three spirits
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