Matt Bracken
@brackenlab.bsky.social
Marine biodiversity - https://faculty.sites.uci.edu/biodiversity/ - he/him/his
#muSEAum by 👩🏼🎨 Julius von Bismarck
Bart⚓️@bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 3w agoThe Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves.
I hope you like sea lions! New 🧵 of wildlife photos from La Jolla, featuring one of my favorite marine mammal species, Zalophus californianus. Here's a group of them packed into a row like sardines on the beach. 🐬🦑 #wildlifephotography #nature 1/
Celebrated #PhycologyFriday with my 1st PhD student sending off a perspective manuscript to co authors! We celebrated early too and started some #Pyrodinium microbiome dna extractions yesterday!
Nutrient levels in plants are declining worldwide, in rainforests and kelp forests, grasslands and agricultural fields. Soil loss is part of the equation. But we are also polluting the air with CO2—and with it empty plant calories—in a process called Nutrient Dilution. bsky.app/profile/mike...
Doug Parr@dougparr.bsky.social · 2d agoDue to **declining soil quality**, nutrients in fruit & vegetables are sharply lower Researchers at Deep Science Ventures found twice the fruit & veg need to be eaten today to get the same level of minerals like potassium, magnesium or copper than 60 yrs ago www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
"Kelp" dice – for healthy dice rolling...maybe >__>
For many years, we‘ve been working w/ an amazing artist to create an exhibit describing our research on #seaweed biodiversity. That exhibit - *Holdfast - Swept Away* - will be at Mendocino Art Center to coincide w/ North Coast Kelp Fest! #PhycologyFriday www.mendocinoartcenter.org/exhibitions/...
Active NorCal@activenorcal.bsky.social · 5d agoMore than 96% of the Mendocino Coast's bull kelp is gone. A five-day festival this week celebrates the divers and scientists working to bring it back. Read more: https://www.activenorcal.com/mendocino-lost-96-of-its-kelp-forest-this-week-a-festival-is-trying-to-help-revive-it/
Happy World Octopus Day! Today we’re celebrating octopuses - one of the ocean’s most fascinating and recognisable animals From the depths of the ocean to coastal waters, octopuses are part of the extraordinary diversity of life in our seas #WorldOctopusDay #Octopus #Marine #Biodiversity #WeAreSSC
Beneath the canopy 🌴 (yes I know this is not a palm tree)
I want a #kelp forest beanie! 🙋♂️ #MarineLife #SciArt 🌊🦑🐡
Friends of Santa Cruz State Parks@thatsmypark.bsky.social · 4d agoTake your knitting 🧶 to the next level and create beanies that celebrate Monarch Butterflies, CA Poppies, Redwood Trees, Kelp Forests and more! Just be warned: everyone in your life is going to want one of these hats. Available at the Seacliff and Natural Bridges ParkStores.
“A sea star named pop tart” 🌊⭐️ #MarineLife 🦑
Institute at Brown for Environment & Society (IBES)@brown-ibes.bsky.social · 4d agoJason Hodin’s lab at the University of Washington nurtures keystone species and reintroduces them to the Pacific Coast—a move that will strengthen kelp forests. Read the Brown Alumni Magazine story, written & photographed by Jennifer Adler ’11, who taught IBES' Science Journalism class last fall:
More than 96% of the Mendocino Coast's bull kelp is gone. A five-day festival this week celebrates the divers and scientists working to bring it back. Read more: https://www.activenorcal.com/mendocino-lost-96-of-its-kelp-forest-this-week-a-festival-is-trying-to-help-revive-it/
Please share! My lab is recruiting a postdoctoral scholar in evolutionary development. For more details feel free to email me.
Bonkers: Sea levels are running 1.2ft above the late-20th century baseline in San Diego as sea surface temperatures are about 7°F warmer than normal. These highly anomalous ocean temperatures and heights will continue through winter along the California coast amid El Niño. #CAwx
Exclusive: A new analysis refutes James Watson’s claim that he was the first to recognize the significance of the famed photograph 51. https://scim.ag/4rTKck8
How did Rosalind Franklin miss the helix in her iconic DNA image? She didn’t
New analysis refutes James Watson’s claim he was first to recognize significance of famed photograph 51
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A cheeky #fungi foray after work yielded ten waxcap species, one of them Garlic, new to me. My son’s first time of seeing red & pink waxcaps, he absolutely loved it!!! 🥰 🔁 from top left Scarlet, Ballerina, Honey, Blackening, Glutinous, Slimy, Parrot, Golden, Garlic & Snowy. #FungiFriends 🍄 📸
Christi Belcourt, Métis visual artist who creates paintings inspired by Métis and First Nations historical beadwork #UnlockingWomensart
We spent the weekend enjoying the colors of the North Cascades. The larches were stunning! #larches #northcascades
The more we learn about early life and early animals, the more convinced I get that life could also evolve on other planets. New calibration just pushed initiation of earliest animals by almost 200 million years. 🧪⚒️ Link: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aeg6289
