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Karen Masters @karenlmasters.bsky.social · 13h

Jess Wade is amazing, and it's my absolute honour to be one of the more than 2000 women in STEM whose wikipedia page she started: mymodernmet.com/jessica-wade... 🧪🔭👩‍🔬

Meet the Physicist Who Wrote Over 2,000 Wikipedia Biographies for Women in STEM

After noticing a lack of entries on Wikipedia for incredible women throughout history, this incredible woman decided to take matters into her own hands.

mymodernmet.com

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Morgan Vis @fwredalgae.bsky.social · 1h

#algae #seaweed #PhycologyFriday

Ryuta Terada @ryutaterada.bsky.social · 21h

Happy World Algae Day!
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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

#Kelp, illuminated. #Egregia #PhycologyFriday #MarineLife 🦑🌊

Golden blades and bladelets of the feather-boa kelp with the sun shining through them.

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Plymouth Marine Laboratory @pml.ac.uk · 3d

Huge blooms of #Sargassum #seaweed are swamping #WestAfrica's coasts - causing mayhem for local communities and disrupting #fishing, #tourism, and livelihoods.

A #NewStudy by PML's Dr Yanna Alexia Fidai provides the first attempt to map their patterns: pml.ac.uk/news/why-is-...

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Luna van der Loos @lunavanderloos.bsky.social · 2d

Our article about Sea lettuce #seaweed biodiversity is now published in TAXON: "Incorporating historic specimens to reassess Ulva diversity in the Netherlands and Belgium"
We found Ulva shanxiensis, a freshwater species, for the first time outside China!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

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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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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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Morgan Vis @fwredalgae.bsky.social · 7d

😍 #PhycologyFriday #seaweedsaturday

Ryuta Terada @ryutaterada.bsky.social · 7d

A green alga, Acetabularia ryukyuensis, from Kayo Beach, Okinawa, Japan.

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Morgan Vis @fwredalgae.bsky.social · 8d

#PhycologyFriday

Elizabeth Beston @elizabethbeston.bsky.social · 9d

A couple of Trieres chinensis diatoms looking gorgeous together!
#marineplankton 🦑

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Geology Johnson @geologyjohnson.bsky.social · 9d

The first named #stromatolite from the Triassic of Germany. #Geology #paleontology

Photograph of a generic white guy with a beard and dressed in black. He is stood in front of a light brown cliff of layered rock. There is a bulbous layered stromatolite fossil microbial growth next to his head. The guy is doing double thumbs up. He is very excited.

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Matt Bracken @brackenlab.bsky.social · 9d

#PhycologyFriday #MarineLife 🦑🌊

Lisa S Gardiner @lisasgardiner.bsky.social · 9d

Curious about what can be done with the disastrous quantity of #Sargassum in the Atlantic and Caribbean? Read all about it in my latest for @nautil.us, a look at a @schmidtsciences.bsky.social project searching for ways to turn the problematic seaweed into useful products. nautil.us/new-life-for...

New Life for Rotting Seaweed

New Life for Rotting Seaweed: Problematic piles of Sargassum could serve as useful raw material for a variety of products.

nautil.us

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Matt Bracken @brackenlab.bsky.social · 8d

Shero! #PhycologyFriday 🌊🦑

Ada Lovelace Day @adalovelaceday.bsky.social · 8d

Isabella Aiona Abbott was the first Native Hawaiian woman to receive a PhD in science and a leading expert on Pacific marine algae. She discovered over 200 seaweed species and her work is still influential today. adalovelaceday.subst...

Prof Isabella Aiona Abbott, Phycologist and ethnobotanist

Isabella Aiona Abbott was the first Native Hawaiian woman to receive a PhD in science and a leading expert on Pacific marine algae.

adalovelaceday.substack.com

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Morgan Vis @fwredalgae.bsky.social · 8d

Well done! I am trying to do the same. I make sure I lift ‘tiny weights’ twice a week. Nothing is more important! Stay healthy!

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Titus Seilheimer @drfishsg.bsky.social · 9d

Changes in phosphorus concentration and flux from 2011 to 2023 In major U.S. tributaries to the Laurentian Great Lakes

#GreatLakes 🧪

"Spring accounted for the largest share of annual P flux in most tributaries"

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Changes in phosphorus concentration and flux from 2011 to 2023 In major U.S. tributaries to the Laurentian Great Lakes

Reducing phosphorus (P) flux to the Great Lakes is critical for improving water quality and controlling eutrophication. We used 13 water years (2011–2…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Matt Bracken @brackenlab.bsky.social · 9d

#PhycologyFriday #SciArt 🌊🦑🐡

Jada Fitch Illustration @jadafitch.bsky.social · 12d

Winged kelp, one of many dozen seaweed illustrations I painted last winter for Tasha Greenwood’s Edible & Medicinal Seaweeds: A Guide to Healing & Nutritive Ocean Plants, published by @storeypub Out January 20th and available to preorder now: www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/tasha... #seaweed #kelp

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Morgan Vis @fwredalgae.bsky.social · 8d

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Jada Fitch Illustration @jadafitch.bsky.social · 9d

Rockweed (Ascophyllum nodosum)

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#rockweed #knottedwrack #wrack #seaweed #ascophyllumnodosum #botanicalart #botanicalillustration #watercolor #natureillustration #maineartist

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Morgan Vis @fwredalgae.bsky.social · 8d

We see you!

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Matt Bracken @brackenlab.bsky.social · 16d

This week’s United Nations meeting featured the launch of the UN Global #Seaweed Initative! #PhycologyFriday #MarineLife 🌊🦑

NLA International Ltd - Blue Economy solutions @nlai.bsky.social · 16d

https://blueeconomyinsights.com/2025/09/19/launch-of-the-united-nations-global-seaweed-initiative-ungsi/

blueeconomyinsights.com

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Matt Bracken @brackenlab.bsky.social · 16d

The Queen of Limu! 👑 #PhycologyFriday #MarineLife 🌊🦑

Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 16d

Day 26 #SciArtSeptember prompt forage. My #linocut of #botanist Isabella Aiona Abbott (1919-2010), 🧪🐡👩🏻‍🔬 #histsci renown algae expert, celebrated seaweed cook, devoted teacher & mentor, expert on Hawaiian ethnobotany, the first Indigenous Hawaiian woman to earn a doctorate in science & the first woman

My linocut portrait of Isabella Aiona Abbott in indigo on cream coloured paper. She’s facing forward at a table in a shirt and sweater vest with a sheet with algae samples on the table. In my print, she is surrounded by algae of the Pacific, all of which appeared in Abbott's research publications, including several species she discovered, or based on images of specimen she personally collected or whose traditional use as food she documented. The algae are in pinks, khaki green and rust.

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Morgan Vis @fwredalgae.bsky.social · 8d

I miss #PhycologyFriday! Lovely plate that a former student gave to me. As well as a bead #Batrachospermum that my son made for my b-day.

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Trine Bekkby @trinebekkby.bsky.social · 9d

The important beach deposit habitat, with Phycoids accumulating at the beach, crating a great feeding are for seabirds. #PhycologyFriday

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Matt Bracken @brackenlab.bsky.social · 23d

Seaweed socks! #PhycologyFriday

merman hellville @seafoamghost.bsky.social · 23d

saw these seaweed socks when i was buying my fancy pyjamas from sea salt cornwall, and HAD to get them. and then the whale pair bc i always wear odd socks

photo showing my socks as i sit cross legged - left is black with whales, and right is dark blue with a beautiful seaweed pattern in blues and reds

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Clay Steell @claysteell.bsky.social · 23d

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

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Matt Bracken @brackenlab.bsky.social · 23d

Salish Seashore. #PhycologyFriday #MarineLife 🦑🌊

A rocky shoreline as the morning mist rises. Rockweed covers the rock in the foreground, and the reef in the background is green with sea lettuce.

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