Sometimes you just need a big tree hug! 1,800-year-old redwood 🌲
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/
Small kelp painting using larch, burnt sienna and bioluminescence of Salish Sea Watercolors. #golden #blueskyartshow #kelp #watercolor
Had an amazing time at the Microbial Dark Matter Symposium in Laguna Beach! 🧬🦠🔬Thanks @zymoresearch.bsky.social @katrinewhiteson.bsky.social and all of the other organizers! Learned so much about the “know unknowns” and “unknown unknowns” of microbial life!
Such a fun open house event @stanfordhopkins.bsky.social today! We had over 2,000 visitors and showed algae to hundreds of people! 🌊
🧪📍🌊 🦑🍎 @mbarinews.bsky.social invites applications for in-person postdoctoral fellowships in the fields of biological, chemical, and physical oceanography, marine geology, and ocean engineering. Deadline to apply is 5pm PT on December 2, 2026. www.mbari.org/about/career...
Postdoc Fellowships • MBARI
Each year, MBARI invites applications for several in-person postdoctoral fellowships in the fields of biological, chemical, and physical oceanography, marine geology, and ocean engineering. MBARI also...
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Come to our Hopkins Open House tomorrow & take a photo! 📸 This was my fun art project! 🎨 @stanfordhopkins.bsky.social
Come to our @stanfordhopkins.bsky.social Open House this Saturday, September 12! Come explore research on 🪸 coral reefs, 🦈 sharks, 🐋 whales, 🌊 kelp forests, 🦑 squid, ⭐️ echinoderms, and more! Hands-on activities for kids and adults! See below for the research talk lineup
It’s good to be home at the lake where I grew up in Wisconsin! ☀️
So proud of my undergraduate intern, Mei, for her outstanding work on giant kelp (M. pyrifera vs. integrifolia) thermal physiology! 🌊 Also, beautiful scientifc illustrations of the holdfasts! 🤩 @stanfordhopkins.bsky.social
Successful boat dive day surveying kelp forests & measuring kelp growth rates underwater! 🤿 🌊
Doomscrolling news break: cute pic of my dog wearing a hat 🐕
Job Opening. Faculty Position in Plant Evolutionary Biology at University of California, Davis in the Department of Evolution and Ecology (EVE, my home department). More detail here. recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07777
Thanks to @jkendallbar.bsky.social for hosting an amazing seaweed cyanotype party! 🌊 Now I’m excited to try more fabric prints!
Diving for kelp forest surveys at Monastery Beach, CA! #NewProfilePic thanks to our dive safety officer, Adam Wendt! 🌊🤿
Curious about what happens at Hopkins Marine Station? 🌊🔬 Join us September 12th for a FREE Open House hosted by our graduate students! Come explore research on 🪸 coral reefs, 🦈 sharks, 🐋 whales, 🌊 kelp forests, 🦑 squid, ⭐️ echinoderms, and more! Hope to see you there! 🎉!
Fun surprise lab breakfast birthday party for my postdoc, Kindall! 🥳
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! 🏃🏻♀️
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.
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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...
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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! 🍁 🐕