1 of 2 days fieldwork (the ☀️ day!) in Brittany for the #befscale fucoid disturbance-resilience biogeographic study - aka Ruby’s PhD! More and more #sabellaria 🍯 🪱 + 100’s of by-the-wind sailors brought by hurricane Melissa @rubygeorge.bsky.social @jngriffy.bsky.social @pippajmoore.bsky.social

ITRS 2025 was amazing! Great to hear about all the latest research on temperate reefs and meet some incredible researchers 🐌🌱🌊 Leaving Brest feeling really motivated and inspired! #ITRS

Sally Henderson making a strong case for the potential of #Limpets to play a role in Self-cleaning slipways. Nature based Solution #NbS. International Temperate Reefs Symposium #ITRS @jngriffy.bsky.social

Don’t forget to submit your algae photos to the Hilda Canter-Lund Photography competition before the 9th of May 📸 The competition is free to enter with a prize of £250! Enter here: brphycsoc.org/hilda-canter... Post featuring previous winner of the 2024 macro category - Audrey Sarin “Cathedral”

Recently, I was invited by the @solwayfp.bsky.social to write an article for their Tidelines Magazine. This was an honour and my first time in print, huge thanks to Clair and the team for this opportunity. If you are interested in learning more about my PhD, please read below! 🌊

Busy month of fieldwork so far investigating the resilience of intertidal forests 🌊☀️ Working with some incredible teams in Orkney, Portugal, and now Galicia 🌱 @jngriffy.bsky.social @mdolbeth.bsky.social @falaropo.bsky.social @heriotwattuni.bsky.social

Looking forward to our @ciimar.bsky.social seminar next week. @rubygeorge.bsky.social and I will be flying the flag for rocky shores as a valuable model system.

Submissions are now open for the 2025 Hilda Canter-Lund photography award 📸 The award is open to everyone ! Submit your phycological photos by the 9th May for the chance to win £250 🌱 Image featuring one of the 2024 winners, Welcome to funky town by Michaela Hittorf brphycsoc.org/hilda-canter...

Hello Bluesky ! We are the British Phycological Society (BPS) 🌱🔬 A charity devoted to the study of algae, founded in 1952. Follow us for updates on research, events, and all things phycology brphycsoc.org

Re-upping this PhD opportunity in marine ecology, applying a trait-based approach to seaweed carbon dynamics. Includes exciting opportunities for international fieldwork and open to applicants worldwide tinyurl.com/bdhs3aac

New pre-print on heterogeneity- stability relationship led by @jsola.bsky.social: Using a long-term #RockyShore experiment we show substrate heterogeneity promotes stability via biodiversity and asynchrony, but simultaneously inhibits stabilising dominants. www.authorea.com/users/795647...

Counteracting cascades challenge the heterogeneity -- stability relationship

Spatial environmental heterogeneity is widely assumed to enhance ecological stability by promoting refugia, biodiversity, and asynchrony. Yet, we lack field experiments testing this fundamental relati...

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*PhD opportunity*: I’ll shortly be advertising a project linking seaweed traits to blue carbon in the context of climate change. Please contact me via email (j.n.griffin at swansea. ac. uk) if potentially interested. More details to follow.

🙌 thrilled to announce that registration for #ITRS2025 is now open! 👉https://itrs-home.org/register.html 🦀🪸🐚🦦🪨🌱🍯🪱🦪🌊 Please signup to our newsletter and share this post 🙏🏼 @nessocon.bsky.social @dansmale1.bsky.social @rubygeorge.bsky.social @amcquatters-gollop.bsky.social @trinebekkby.bsky.social

That’s T2 of the #befscale Fucoid disturbance recovery survey for team Brittany done ✅ 1 hobo logger lost, 1 drowned but 4 recovered 😮‍💨 even after all the winter storms 🙌 back in 3 months for growth measurements 🌱🐚🦀🌊 @jngriffy.bsky.social @rubygeorge.bsky.social @dansmale1.bsky.social

Great to get onto the shore to check out the field experiments just a few km from our campus, with @rubygeorge.bsky.social and new PhD student Abrar Shakil.

Our group of intrepid marine ecologists at Swansea University investigates the causes and consequences of biodiversity in coastal systems.