Matt Bracken
@brackenlab.bsky.social
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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 🌊
November 28, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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Show your science pride this season with our newly released phylogenetic holiday cards! These 5x7 cards can be purchased individually or in sets of 5.
🧬 🎄 🧬
#phylogenetics #science #evolution #biology #biologist
🧬 🎄 🧬
#phylogenetics #science #evolution #biology #biologist
November 28, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Show your science pride this season with our newly released phylogenetic holiday cards! These 5x7 cards can be purchased individually or in sets of 5.
🧬 🎄 🧬
#phylogenetics #science #evolution #biology #biologist
🧬 🎄 🧬
#phylogenetics #science #evolution #biology #biologist
Reposted by Matt Bracken
Some latest seaweed pressings from San Diego for #PhycologyFriday
February 8, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Some latest seaweed pressings from San Diego for #PhycologyFriday
Reposted by Matt Bracken
Feather boa kelp (Egregia menziesii) is our seaweed of the week! #PhycologyFriday
August 8, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Feather boa kelp (Egregia menziesii) is our seaweed of the week! #PhycologyFriday
Reposted by Matt Bracken
Sargassum muticum (Japanese wireweed) is our seaweed of the week! While non-native, it’s sometimes considered naturalized in Southern California #PhycologyFriday
November 21, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Sargassum muticum (Japanese wireweed) is our seaweed of the week! While non-native, it’s sometimes considered naturalized in Southern California #PhycologyFriday
#Kelps are large brown algae or seaweeds that make up the order Laminariales. There are about 30 genera.[3] Despite its appearance and use of photosynthesis in chloroplasts, kelp is not a plant
![#Kelps are large brown algae or seaweeds that make up the order Laminariales. There are about 30 genera.[3] Despite its appearance and use of photosynthesis in chloroplasts, kelp is not a plant](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:kwb4no4g6e3dkyysuzjoenh4/bafkreibu57xmigibl3olz5cj7i6off4x7yuz3epphntf5f4tmklzrotbdu@jpeg)
November 28, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Kelp forests — our sequoias of the sea — are struggling, but recovery is possible. 🌊 New doc Sequoias of the Sea spotlights threats and the communities racing to restore these underwater giants. Hope grows where action begins. 💙 #OceanHoptimism #RestoreTheBlue #KelpRecovery #SaveOurSeas
‘Sequoias of the Sea’ Documentary Highlights The Dangers Kelp Forests Face
November 28, 2025 at 6:33 PM
November 28, 2025 at 6:31 PM
PAINT THAT CLEANS THE AIR Iceland’s coastal research labs scientists have developed a remarkable kelp-based wall paint that does more than add color — it cleans the air.
www.scientificamerican.com/article/self...
www.scientificamerican.com/article/self...
November 28, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Fottea 25/2 #ArticleOfTheWeek
🧬 The phylogenetic position of the genus Chrysococcus was identified!
🦠 Chrysococcus was placed in the oder Chrysosaccales, a lineage of incredible diversity - from naked amoebae to loricate flagellates.
⬇️ Read now
fottea.czechphycology.cz/artkey/fot-2...
🧬 The phylogenetic position of the genus Chrysococcus was identified!
🦠 Chrysococcus was placed in the oder Chrysosaccales, a lineage of incredible diversity - from naked amoebae to loricate flagellates.
⬇️ Read now
fottea.czechphycology.cz/artkey/fot-2...
November 28, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Alganeers! #PhycologyFriday
👋 Meet the dream team behind YAS2026 - part 2! 🌿
We’re a colorful mix of scientists, organizers, algae lovers, and spreadsheet enthusiasts 🧬☕ — all working hard to make the next Young Algaeneers Symposium unforgettable 💚
#YAS2026 #EABA #AlgaeEurope
We’re a colorful mix of scientists, organizers, algae lovers, and spreadsheet enthusiasts 🧬☕ — all working hard to make the next Young Algaeneers Symposium unforgettable 💚
#YAS2026 #EABA #AlgaeEurope
November 28, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Alganeers! #PhycologyFriday
Scripps Oceanography showcases 5,000 seaweed pressings – San Diego Union-Tribune
https://www.newsbeep.com/us-ca/72312/
Of all the things symbolic of life on the coast, seaweed is among the top. But the Smith…
https://www.newsbeep.com/us-ca/72312/
Of all the things symbolic of life on the coast, seaweed is among the top. But the Smith…
Scripps Oceanography showcases 5,000 seaweed pressings – San Diego Union-Tribune - California News Beep
Of all the things symbolic of life on the coast, seaweed is among the top.
www.newsbeep.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:02 PM
🌊Fun Fact: Kelp blades contain gas-filled structures called pneumatocysts that act like tiny balloons, keeping them upright in the water column.
📸 Maria Tomorug
library.kogia.org/works/cmevf2...
#OceanRegeneration #Biodiversity #YourDevocean #SustainableSeas
📸 Maria Tomorug
library.kogia.org/works/cmevf2...
#OceanRegeneration #Biodiversity #YourDevocean #SustainableSeas
November 28, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Sea Level sculpture at Coronado Boathouse. – Cool San Diego Sights!
https://www.newsbeep.com/us-ca/73214/
Is that a kelp forest growing in Glorietta Bay Park, in front of City of Coronado Club Room…
https://www.newsbeep.com/us-ca/73214/
Is that a kelp forest growing in Glorietta Bay Park, in front of City of Coronado Club Room…
Sea Level sculpture at Coronado Boathouse. – Cool San Diego Sights! - California News Beep
Is that a kelp forest growing in Glorietta Bay Park, in front of City of Coronado Club Room and Boathouse? No! It’s an Urban Tree!
www.newsbeep.com
November 28, 2025 at 5:56 PM
#PlantSciJobs #PlantSciJob
W1 Junior Professorship
Plastid homeostasis - algal molecular biology with a focus on organelles.
@rptu.bsky.social
Details on the website of our Phycology Section
www.dbg-phykologie.de/forschung/st...
W1 Junior Professorship
Plastid homeostasis - algal molecular biology with a focus on organelles.
@rptu.bsky.social
Details on the website of our Phycology Section
www.dbg-phykologie.de/forschung/st...
Stellenangebote und Ausschreibungen
Stellenangebote und Ausschreibungen: Algenkunde, Phykologie, Algologie
www.dbg-phykologie.de
November 28, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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I'll also be looking to recruit an MS student to study the functional morphology and biomechanics of adhesion, friction, and/or locomotion in sea urchins, geckos, or anoles! Please share! @sicb-dcb-dvm.bsky.social @sicb.bsky.social
November 2, 2025 at 2:28 AM
I'll also be looking to recruit an MS student to study the functional morphology and biomechanics of adhesion, friction, and/or locomotion in sea urchins, geckos, or anoles! Please share! @sicb-dcb-dvm.bsky.social @sicb.bsky.social
Liquid sunset 🌅 🌊
November 28, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Liquid sunset 🌅 🌊
Reposted by Matt Bracken
This Thanksgiving, we’re grateful for the Endangered Species Act and the Marine Mammal Protection Act. These landmark laws gave southern sea otters a fighting chance — and their continued recovery is proof that strong environmental laws work.
Have a safe and wildlife-friendly Thanksgiving.
Have a safe and wildlife-friendly Thanksgiving.
November 27, 2025 at 7:20 PM
This Thanksgiving, we’re grateful for the Endangered Species Act and the Marine Mammal Protection Act. These landmark laws gave southern sea otters a fighting chance — and their continued recovery is proof that strong environmental laws work.
Have a safe and wildlife-friendly Thanksgiving.
Have a safe and wildlife-friendly Thanksgiving.
The ocellated turkey (*Meleagris ocellata*, the congener of the wild turkey *M. gallopavo*) is an astonishingly beautiful bird - seen here in the Zona arqueológica de Coba, Quintana Roo, Mexico. 🇲🇽🦃🪶
November 27, 2025 at 6:43 PM
The ocellated turkey (*Meleagris ocellata*, the congener of the wild turkey *M. gallopavo*) is an astonishingly beautiful bird - seen here in the Zona arqueológica de Coba, Quintana Roo, Mexico. 🇲🇽🦃🪶
November 26, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Reposted by Matt Bracken
Happenings on my desk from one year ago.
Irish Moss (Chondrus crispus) for “Edible & Medicinal Seaweeds: A Guide to Healing & Nutritive Ocean Plants” by Tasha Greenwood. Out January 20th. Original watercolors for the book are available in my Etsy Shop. jadafitch.etsy.com
#seaweed #watercolor
Irish Moss (Chondrus crispus) for “Edible & Medicinal Seaweeds: A Guide to Healing & Nutritive Ocean Plants” by Tasha Greenwood. Out January 20th. Original watercolors for the book are available in my Etsy Shop. jadafitch.etsy.com
#seaweed #watercolor
November 26, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Happenings on my desk from one year ago.
Irish Moss (Chondrus crispus) for “Edible & Medicinal Seaweeds: A Guide to Healing & Nutritive Ocean Plants” by Tasha Greenwood. Out January 20th. Original watercolors for the book are available in my Etsy Shop. jadafitch.etsy.com
#seaweed #watercolor
Irish Moss (Chondrus crispus) for “Edible & Medicinal Seaweeds: A Guide to Healing & Nutritive Ocean Plants” by Tasha Greenwood. Out January 20th. Original watercolors for the book are available in my Etsy Shop. jadafitch.etsy.com
#seaweed #watercolor
#MarineLife 🌊🦑
‘Sequoias of the Sea’ Documentary Highlights The Dangers Kelp Forests Face
‘Sequoias of the Sea’ Documentary Highlights The Dangers Kelp Forests Face
A new documentary that highlights the importance of kelp forests is making the film festival rounds.
dlvr.it
November 26, 2025 at 6:10 PM
#MarineLife 🌊🦑