Maple & I started training for a half marathon today. It’s been a few years since I’ve run in a race, but I’m excited to get back out there! 🏃🏻♀️
Dr. Brooke Weigel
@brookeweigel.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Oceans at Stanford, Hopkins Marine Station 🌊 (she/her) Algae, microbes, kelp conservation https://weigel-lab.stanford.edu/
Former chef turned bioengineer, Vayu Hill-Maini told me that fungi are nature’s biological recycling machines. In this episode, we talked about his work using fungi, CRISPR, and creativity to develop new foods and medicines. Listen below for more. engineering.stanford.edu/news/future-...
The future of fungi
A former chef turned professor is using gene-editing techniques to make delicious foods, medicines, and other valuable products from fungi.
engineering.stanford.edu
Stanford University is searching for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the field of Climate Science 🌎 ✨ Broad search, department may be any within the Doerr School of Sustainability, including Oceans! 🌊 Apply by Nov. 1. Please share! facultypositions.stanford.edu/jobs/assista...
Assistant Professor in Climate Science - Stanford University, California, United States
Stanford University invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the field of Climate Science. The home department may be any of the seven departments in the Stanford Doerr School of...
facultypositions.stanford.edu
Exploring UC Berkeley’s campus - love the traditional science department buildings! 🔬🍃
🐋 Excited to finally share the now-published study that inspired my very first data-driven animation! 🎨 Every frame was created from real humpback whale biologging data using custom Python scripts in Maya & After Effects (no AI) created with my big bro Nick and with music by Connor Vance 🎶
Major #Botany2026 FOMO, but the drive MA->OR starts this week. So, sharing from afar: I’m recruiting grad students for my new lab at OSU! Info: www.mckenzie-lab.org . We're going to have FUN with systematics, speciation genomics, methods, natural history, and more in North Am angiosperms. Reach out!
The students in my lab have been diving 4/5 days this week! 🌊 Meanwhile, I’m at my desk writing a grant… but so happy that they are collecting awesome data! ☺️ @stanfordhopkins.bsky.social
It's not quite "gobsmackingly bananas" but monster forecasts for the record El Nino brewing the Pacific Ocean get pretty close. Here's what to make of it in my first for @nature.com: 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
This El Niño is set to be the largest on record by a ‘mind-blowing margin’
Forecasters predict that the monster climate pattern will combine with global warming to push global temperatures in 2027 to new heights.
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My sister understands… she got me a nudibranch print for my birthday! 🌊
Happy Birthday / Adoption Day to my cute baby, Maple! 🍁 🐕
The closest thing marine taxonomists have to the Olympics is now underway in San Diego. Instead of racing for medals, researchers from @scrippsocean.bsky.social are spending two weeks cataloging the extraordinary diversity of life along the California coast. 🪸 https://bit.ly/3SxVHjB
Super fun ultimate frisbee tournament last weekend on the beach! 🌊 Such a great frisbee community in the Monterey area!
🌊✨ Awesome job alert! 🌊✨ NOAA Sanctuaries Resource Protection Coordinator job in Monterey, CA. Applications due soon, on July 23! www.usajobs.gov/job/87690100...
Resource Protection Coordinator
This position is located in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), National Ocean Service (NOS), Office of National Marine Sanctuaries (ONMS), with two vacancies in Monterey, CA; ...
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Where intertidal rocky reefs are composed of “soft” rock - such as the sedimentary mudstones and sandstones of the Point Arena Formation in Mendocino County, California - sea urchins create circular niches by abrading the substratum. #MarineLife #SwelterShelterNSF 🌊🦑
Super fun lab opening party for my new lab at Hopkins Marine Station! My students even made me a cyanotype window shade for my lab office!! ☺️ 🌊
Super beautiful Hopkins rose nudibranch, tidepooling this morning at Asilomar! 🌊
✨ 📚 Need a good summer read? 📚 ✨ Check out the @stanforddoerr.bsky.social summer 2026 reading list, including a recommendation by yours truly! 🌊 sustainability.stanford.edu/news/19-book...
19 books for reflection and perspective on sustainability
Summer reading recommendations from Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability scholars span topics from oceans to living with machines, in genres from science fiction to thrillers.
sustainability.stanford.edu
Super fun fieldwork day at Stillwater Cove! 🤿 🌊 The lab is growing, and everyone is so great! ☺️
Absolutely stunning hike above Juneau today, and I found some pink snow algae! ❄️🏔️
Sweet and fatty symbionts: Photosynthetic productivity and carbon storage boosted in microalgae within a host | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... #protistsonsky
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...
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The Trump administration is backing off a plan to end an #ocean monitoring system critical to understanding climate change. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/c...
Trump Administration Backs Off Plan to End Ocean Monitoring
nytimes.com
Having so much fun at #PSA2026 with these fab 5 Assistant Profs of Phycology! 🌊 🌟 @intertidaleco.bsky.social @raemariew.bsky.social @hannahgreich.bsky.social @margaretbrisbin.bsky.social
More Sunshine Cove tidepooling pics from Juneau: so many inverts & some Pycnopodia sunflower stars in the wild! 🌟 🌊😍
