Yesterday marked my last day as a Sentinels of Change postdoc with @hakai.org and @ubcbotany.bsky.social on Quadra Island. Looking forward to the next chapter!

Happy to announce our ❗recent OA publication❗ in Ecography, selected as Editor’s Choice! We revisited 34 kelp forest sites to assess climate-driven shifts in kelp structure and distribution. Overall, warm-temperate kelps are increasing, while some cold-temperate species are in decline. vist.ly/55kj2

Ecography@ecography.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Temporal shifts in kelp forest structure and distribution largely reflect recent ocean warming trends vist.ly/55kj2 #KelpForests #OceanWarming #SpeciesDistribution

Glad to have spent some time with fellow postdocs and #SentinelsOfChange folks at the #CSEE in Toronto, presenting some results of my kelp microbiome work and making new connections 🌊🌱🦠 #CSEE2026

Such a remarkable human :)

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 4mo ago

‘The greatest ambassador for life on Earth’: Tributes paid to David Attenborough on his 100th birthday

📢 NEW OA PAPER 📢 Read here, in the latest paper from my PhD, about the impacts of small-scale temperate kelp farming on sedimentary carbon stocks. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #bluecarbon #eDNA #kelpfarming

Check it out: Our Communications Team made an amazing video about the Quadra Island Bioblitz that we ran last year. It’s a really nice overview of how and why we do bioblitzes... youtu.be/1Jq7LHuBDN4?...

Hakai Institute's Quadra Island Bioblitz

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Dr Maxine Canvin! 🎉🎓🍻 You are an incredible scientist! Massive congrats! 💪🏽 Thanks for being such a lovely, true friend and an awesome colleague and field-buddy! 🩵 #PhDone

Maxine Canvin@marinemaxine.bsky.social · last yr.

1278(ish) days 🗓️ countless hours in the field and lab 🤿 👩‍🔬 3 international conferences 🌍 2 first-author publications 🖋️ (and more to come 😉) and 267 pages later 📑 I'm PhDone! 🥳

Correction to this post. The deadline for submissions is actually Nov 30th 2025! Still plenty of time to prepare your submissions. @dansmale1.bsky.social @marclim-uk.bsky.social @pippajmoore.bsky.social @thembauk.bsky.social @jebyrnes.bsky.social @aec13.bsky.social @noramare.bsky.social

Annals of Botany@annbot.bsky.social · last yr.

🌿🌊Annals of Botany invites submissions to a new Special Issue on "Macroalgae and ecosystem services", edited by AoB editors Mick Hanley and Kira Krumhansl and guest editor Louise Firth. (1/3) @louisefirth.bsky.social

I had a great time at #ITRS2025 in Brest last week and am already looking forward to the next one 🇫🇷😊🇳🇿 Glad to have meets lots of old friends and colleagues and made some new connections! 🌊 #InternationalTemperateReef

Excited to be in Brest for my second #ITRS2025 🇫🇷 Looking forward to a great week of coastal ecology and connecting with fellow science mates 🌊🌱🐟🦀🪱🦪😊

Rodney Forster@rodneyforster.bsky.social · last yr.

Opening speeches of #ITRS2025 with @aec13.bsky.social doing sterling work simultaneously translating the words of the Vice President of Brest.

It's been hard for early career biologists looking for postdocs, so I created a Google Sheet where we can all compile fellowships/job boards/postdoc opportunities in one place. PLEASE SHARE WIDELY! If you're a PI looking for postdocs, you can add to the 4th tab! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Postdoc Opportunity Megathread

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If we choose not to act, Or fail to adapt, Then suffer we will. #ShowYourStripes

Great week in Victoria at the International Seaweed Symposium #ISS25. Presenting my work, meeting old friends and new collaborators, making new connections and talking about seaweed! 😊🌊🌱🇨🇦

Heat exposure on Western Australian coral reefs is literally off the charts. 24 Degree Heating Weeks now at Ningaloo - the highest ever recorded. 6-8 DHW is lethal for most branching corals. >20 is catastrophic. coralreefwatch.noaa.gov/product/vs/m...

Check out our ✨new✨ OA paper in Reviews in Aquaculture on whether the European seaweed farming industry can mitigate climate change through carbon capture ➡️➡️ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... explore our key findings in the graphical abstract ⬇️ #bluecarbon #seaweedaquaculture

New paper hot of the press for #phycologyfriday !!!! 🌱🌊🌞We conducted a warming experiment in the field to test stress responses of the intertidal habitat forming seaweed Fucus serratus: nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Although NOAA's page on atmospheric CO2 levels has vanished, you can still get this vital information from Ralph Keeling's team at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego keelingcurve.ucsd.edu Please follow bsky.app/profile/keel... for updates and share Don't let science be hidden

Lucky to live on the other side of the border - this is just nuts. So much work of pationate scientists going downhill, funding cuts and layoffs in so many departments and agencies all around the country... We need science!

Dave Levitan@davelevitan.bsky.social · 2y ago

I have covered NOAA and it’s work for like 15 years and this is brutal. If you’re there and want to chat or share anything, signal is davelevitan.26

Check out my new pre-print about a novel #kelp disease! This research includes a kelp-grower survey (still live). 57% of respondents have seen pink-spot disease on their spools. One bacteria is associated with pink spots, a target for future research. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #MarineLife

⏰ ⏰⏰Abstract submission to itrs-home.org/submit-abstr... ends Friday! Thank you to all who have submitted so far. 260 abstracts and counting 🙌 🌊🪨🌱🦪🦞🐟🐚🦀🙌 @nessocon.bsky.social @katynicastro.bsky.social @louisefirth.bsky.social @dansmale1.bsky.social @ifremer.bsky.social @sbroscoff.bsky.social

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Hello🦋 Hoping for a nice platform to exchange science again. I'm a #kelp ecologist, finished my PhD last year on climate change impacts on kelp forests (🇬🇧 @thembauk.bsky.social, @dansmale1.bsky.social) & work now on microbes (🇨🇦 @ubcbotany.bsky.social, @hakaiinstitute.bsky.social).Happy kelpy times🌊🌱