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Matt Bracken
@brackenlab.bsky.social
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Marine biodiversity - https://faculty.sites.uci.edu/biodiversity/ - he/him/his
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Matt Bracken @brackenlab.bsky.social · Mar 4
It is amazing to have this field site only a few minutes from my home & campus! #MarineLife #Seaweed 🌊
The low intertidal zone at Corona Del Mar State Beach. Kelps - including *Eisenia* & *Macrocystis* - are in the foreground, with red algal turfs & surfgrass behind them. In the background is the ocean, an arched offshore rock, and blue sky.
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CeeJay Johnson-Yellow Hawk @adriftalchemist.bsky.social · 1h
someone in a kipnuk facebook group screen recorded all the pleas for help in the community due to the disaster flooding

hopefully the alaska national guard will make it out there soon
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Dr Lindsey Fitzharris @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social · 6h
Dental Phantom, c.1898. Or, what it feels like to live in 2025.

The dental phantom was first created by the Glaswegian dentist Eduard Oswald Fergus a few years earlier as a tool for students to practice their craft before working on human subjects.
A metal head with a mouth wide open as if it is screaming. Inside are a full set of dentures.
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 7h
This is such a clever idea on taking kids to museums/galleries
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
Nadia from London has an idea that sounds such fun you'll be booking a day out asap. "I've always loved museums," she says, "but they can be overwhelming for children. For decades now, I've done something called 'playing postcards' We do the museum backwards, visiting the gift shop first. Each child gets to choose three postcards. Then they take it in turns to find that particular artwork in the museum and give us a little information about the piece from the details on the postcard, or from any gallery plaque. At the end of this treasure-hunt-style activity, we vote for our favourite in the cafe."
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Matt Bracken @brackenlab.bsky.social · 11h
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Tracy "Calicougar" Reynolds @calicougar.bsky.social · 17h
Day out at the California Seaweed Festival.
I flateable humpback whale Orrrr mural at the aquarium Covet Pretty ocean soaps
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Tara Calishain @researchbuzz.bsky.social · 17h
#plants #botany #seaweed #oceanography

'The Smith Seaweed Ecology Lab at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography is showcasing the scientific diversity and natural beauty of seaweeds through the new Ellen Browning Scripps Herbarium Collection. '

today.ucsd.edu/story/ellen-...
Ellen Browning Scripps Herbarium Collection Highlights the Intersection Between Art and Science
The Smith Seaweed Ecology Lab at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography is showcasing the scientific diversity and natural beauty of seaweeds through the new Ellen Browning Scripps Herbari...
today.ucsd.edu
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Seven Days @sevendaysvt.bsky.social · 1d
A central Vermont parking spot has become a kelp forest art installation that all are welcome to visit. Go behind the scenes of this “Stuck in Vermont” video. www.sevendaysvt.com/arts-culture...
Deb Fleischman’s Ribbon Installation in a Montpelier Driveway
A central Vermont parking spot has become a kelp forest art installation that all are welcome to visit. Go behind the scenes of this “Stuck in Vermont” video.
www.sevendaysvt.com
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Matt Bracken @brackenlab.bsky.social · 18h
Why not both? 🦀🔥
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Alex Nelson @alxnelson.bsky.social · 7d
Roseate spoonbills will splash their wings through the water as part of their beauty routine. Here's one doing so mid-splash, facing straight ahead towards the camera. I really love this shot. #birds
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Elizabeth Beston @elizabethbeston.bsky.social · 1d
Tintinnina! These little ciliates have beautiful ‘cups’ called loricae.
#marineplankton 🦑
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Jelena Godrijan 🫧❾🌊🦋 @godi.bsky.social · 2d
🌍💙 Happy International Coccolithophore Day! 💙🌍
Today, Oct 10, we celebrate tiny ocean builders that capture CO₂, shape marine ecosystems & keep our climate in balance.
When Cocco talks, climate walks.
#CoccolithophoreDay #OceanClimate #InvisibleHeroes #OceanGuardians #ClimateWarriors #protistsonsky
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Matt Lemay @littorina.bsky.social · 1d
For #PhycologyFriday we've got a new paper out summarizing 13 years of intensive seaweed surveys on the Central Coast of BC:

cdnsciencepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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Morgan Vis @fwredalgae.bsky.social · 1d
Anyone out there for #PhycologyFriday? Using this photo from my stash- #freshwater #algae Thorea. An absolutely beautiful 😍 press. Have a wonderful weekend everyone.
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Matt Bracken @brackenlab.bsky.social · 1d
#PhycologyFriday #MarineLife 🌊🦑
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Ryuta Terada @ryutaterada.bsky.social · 1d
Please take a look at our new article on the reassessment of the taxonomic status of Dictyoteae algae from Japan. Congratulations to Dr. Christophe Vieira on this excellent work!

Christophe Vieira et al. 2025.
Journal of Phycology
DOI: 10.1111/jpy.70084
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Trine Bekkby @trinebekkby.bsky.social · 2d
The «little mermaid» Maia in an Arctic Ascophyllum bed. Soon the winter darkness will shut down our work in the north, at least us «summer time biologists» #PhycologyFriday
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Matt Bracken @brackenlab.bsky.social · 2d
#Kelp, illuminated. #Egregia #PhycologyFriday #MarineLife 🦑🌊
Golden blades and bladelets of the feather-boa kelp with the sun shining through them.
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Adi Khen @adlysia.bsky.social · 2d
The iconic giant kelp (Macrocystis pyrifera) for #PhycologyFriday!
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Matt Bracken @brackenlab.bsky.social · 2d
#PhycologyFriday #MarineLife 🦑🌊
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Caleb Weston @calebweston.bsky.social · 2d
Seaweed at Golden Hour

Last light of the day on this crop of washed-up seaweed made it really glow. Literally 10 minutes later, that glorious sheen was gone. I was so grateful to be there for that fleeting moment, wandering back from my beach explorations. Easily one of my favorites this year.
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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 2d
MIT says no to the Trump admin higher-ed compact clearly and emphatically. Other universities would be well served to read, remix, and respond similarly.

"In that free marketplace of ideas, the people of MIT gladly compete with the very best, without preferences."

orgchart.mit.edu/letters/rega...
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IUCN SSC Shark Specialist Group @iucnshark.bsky.social · 2d
The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species has just been updated and now includes assessments of 1,266 species of sharks, rays, and chimaeras.
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 2d
I have to fan-girl for a minute here. My friend @rosvall-lab.bsky.social built an app to gather data on bird behavior during the 2024 solar eclipse. 10,000+ citizen scientists contributed (including my kids), and the resulting paper was published in Science today!

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Total solar eclipse triggers dawn behavior in birds: Insights from acoustic recordings and community science
On 8 April 2024, a total solar eclipse disrupted light-dark cycles for North American birds during the lead-up to spring reproduction. Compiling more than 10,000 community observations and artificial ...
www.science.org
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Matt Bracken @brackenlab.bsky.social · 2d
A little bite of sea lettuce 🌊🥬 #Ulva #Seaweed #MarineLife
I am holding a thin, green seaweed blade between my thumb and forefinger.
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The Standard @thelondonstandard.bsky.social · 3d
Hydrating, detoxing and collagen-boosting — Eilidh Dorgan on why we should all be soaking in seaweed
Seaweed bathing: the new wellness trend about to take over your feed
www.standard.co.uk
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Matt Bracken @brackenlab.bsky.social · 3d
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The sun sets over the Pacific, sending a shimmering light-stream across the ocean and damp sand.
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James A. Letts @lettsscience.bsky.social · 4d
Exciting new preprint from the Maldonado Lab @ucdavis.bsky.social
Structure of photosystem I from Giant Kelp!! First brown algae structure of a photosystem and the first structure of any protein from giant kelp a major primary producer, ecosystem defining species.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Structure of Photosystem I-FCP from giant kelp uncovers drivers of antenna evolution across the red lineage
Brown algae and other red-algae-derived organisms such as diatoms are major contributors to global CO2 fixation via photosynthesis. To understand the photosynthetic function of brown algae, we obtaine...
www.biorxiv.org
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