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/
Algae, microbes, kelp conservation
https://weigel-lab.stanford.edu/
Pinned
Another excellent dive in the kelp forest today! 🤿 🌊 @stanfordhopkins.bsky.social
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We just released #anvio v9, "eunice" 🎉
This version represents over 2,000 changes in the codebase since v8, increasing the total number of programs in the anvi'o ecosystem to 176.
Read the release notes:
github.com/merenlab/anv...
Visit our up-to-date web page:
anvio.org
This version represents over 2,000 changes in the codebase since v8, increasing the total number of programs in the anvi'o ecosystem to 176.
Read the release notes:
github.com/merenlab/anv...
Visit our up-to-date web page:
anvio.org
January 20, 2026 at 11:48 AM
We just released #anvio v9, "eunice" 🎉
This version represents over 2,000 changes in the codebase since v8, increasing the total number of programs in the anvi'o ecosystem to 176.
Read the release notes:
github.com/merenlab/anv...
Visit our up-to-date web page:
anvio.org
This version represents over 2,000 changes in the codebase since v8, increasing the total number of programs in the anvi'o ecosystem to 176.
Read the release notes:
github.com/merenlab/anv...
Visit our up-to-date web page:
anvio.org
Finding beauty (& green algae for my phycology class) under the seawater outflow pipe!
January 14, 2026 at 5:43 AM
Finding beauty (& green algae for my phycology class) under the seawater outflow pipe!
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Come join us at #UWEnvironment! @uwsafs.bsky.social and UW Friday Harbor Labs are hiring an assistant professor who specializes in marine invertebrate organismal biology. About the job and how to apply: https://bit.ly/44sItYr
December 17, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Come join us at #UWEnvironment! @uwsafs.bsky.social and UW Friday Harbor Labs are hiring an assistant professor who specializes in marine invertebrate organismal biology. About the job and how to apply: https://bit.ly/44sItYr
This was a big year, starting my new research lab! So proud of all of my students. Happy Holidays from the Weigel Lab, and the kelp! 🎅🏻❄️🎄🌊
December 21, 2025 at 8:15 PM
This was a big year, starting my new research lab! So proud of all of my students. Happy Holidays from the Weigel Lab, and the kelp! 🎅🏻❄️🎄🌊
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Dictyota coriacea (“Y-branched algae”) is our seaweed of the week! #PhycologyFriday
December 19, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Dictyota coriacea (“Y-branched algae”) is our seaweed of the week! #PhycologyFriday
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Cryptonemia obovata (which has no common name, but “red lobe weed” seems fitting) is our seaweed of the week! Red blades are notoriously difficult to identify, but supposedly this is one of the most common taxa in San Diego #PhycologyFriday
December 12, 2025 at 6:38 AM
Cryptonemia obovata (which has no common name, but “red lobe weed” seems fitting) is our seaweed of the week! Red blades are notoriously difficult to identify, but supposedly this is one of the most common taxa in San Diego #PhycologyFriday
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Please take a look at our new review article on the nationwide long-term monitoring program in Japan, “Monitoring-Site 1000,” which summarizes 15 years of surveys (2008–2022) and reveals significant changes in seaweed community structure.
Terada et al. 2026 Phycol Res
doi.org/10.1111/pre....
Terada et al. 2026 Phycol Res
doi.org/10.1111/pre....
Significant changes in seaweed community structure revealed by a nationwide long‐term monitoring survey in Japan ‘Monitoring‐Site 1000’ over the past 15 years (2008–2022)
Significant changes in seaweed communities were identified at six sites in Japan through the long-term monitoring program ‘Monitoring Sites 1000.’ This study summarizes the results of 15 years of sur...
doi.org
December 11, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Please take a look at our new review article on the nationwide long-term monitoring program in Japan, “Monitoring-Site 1000,” which summarizes 15 years of surveys (2008–2022) and reveals significant changes in seaweed community structure.
Terada et al. 2026 Phycol Res
doi.org/10.1111/pre....
Terada et al. 2026 Phycol Res
doi.org/10.1111/pre....
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Seaweed pressing as an art and a science: our newly reestablished herbarium collection at Scripps and the history behind it #Phycology
An art and a science: Scripps Oceanography showcases 5,000 seaweed pressings
UC San Diego’s Smith Seaweed Ecology Lab is digitizing its collection of more than 5,000 pressings and making it accessible to the public
www.sandiegouniontribune.com
December 9, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Seaweed pressing as an art and a science: our newly reestablished herbarium collection at Scripps and the history behind it #Phycology
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The Queen of Limu! 😍 #PhycologyFriday 🌊🦑
Isabella Aiona Abbott was the first Native Hawaiian woman to receive a PhD in science and a leading expert on Pacific marine algae. She discovered over 200 seaweed species and her work is still influential today. adalovelaceday.subst...
Prof Isabella Aiona Abbott, Phycologist and ethnobotanist
Isabella Aiona Abbott was the first Native Hawaiian woman to receive a PhD in science and a leading expert on Pacific marine algae.
adalovelaceday.substack.com
December 5, 2025 at 6:39 PM
The Queen of Limu! 😍 #PhycologyFriday 🌊🦑
Lovely sunset low tide this evening! 🌅 🌊
December 5, 2025 at 5:05 AM
Lovely sunset low tide this evening! 🌅 🌊
Had a wonderful seminar visit to UBC in Vancouver! Thanks to @drseaweed.bsky.social for being an excellent host! Nice to be back in the Pacific Northwest 🏔️🌊
December 3, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Had a wonderful seminar visit to UBC in Vancouver! Thanks to @drseaweed.bsky.social for being an excellent host! Nice to be back in the Pacific Northwest 🏔️🌊
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Just to bring this back up to folks attention! Join us! And happy to answer any questions! We will start reviewing applications Dec 15
The Brown and Stachowicz labs are looking for a postdoc for an NSF-funded project on the thermal dependence of disease in eelgrass! As a bonus you get to be based at the Bodega Marine Lab! Interested? Find out more here: brown-ecology.com/join-us/
Join Us!
brown-ecology.com
December 1, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Just to bring this back up to folks attention! Join us! And happy to answer any questions! We will start reviewing applications Dec 15
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Rhodymenia californica (“roseweed”) is our seaweed of the week! #PhycologyFriday
November 28, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Rhodymenia californica (“roseweed”) is our seaweed of the week! #PhycologyFriday
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Also @hannahgreich.bsky.social shared this great resource with me for anyone else on the hunt: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Ecology/Evolution/Marine Biology labs recruiting for Fall 2026 (Responses)
docs.google.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:13 AM
Also @hannahgreich.bsky.social shared this great resource with me for anyone else on the hunt: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
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Hey #microbialsky - anyone looking for a good PhD student this cycle? Ugrad from my lab is looking but no luck with the PIs she has contacted (no funding, no response). She worked in my lab for 1.5 years, now is a research tech at the FWC research institute. Excellent at the bench & super smart!
November 26, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Hey #microbialsky - anyone looking for a good PhD student this cycle? Ugrad from my lab is looking but no luck with the PIs she has contacted (no funding, no response). She worked in my lab for 1.5 years, now is a research tech at the FWC research institute. Excellent at the bench & super smart!
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In Sept 2025, Black Ocean Stanford Scholars (BOSS) and the Monterey Bay Aquarium hosted a 3-day gathering celebrating Black scholars in ocean studies. From networking and tide-pool exploring to identity workshops and a moving aquatic-history exhibit, the event ended with a candlelit dinner. 🌊
November 21, 2025 at 10:07 PM
In Sept 2025, Black Ocean Stanford Scholars (BOSS) and the Monterey Bay Aquarium hosted a 3-day gathering celebrating Black scholars in ocean studies. From networking and tide-pool exploring to identity workshops and a moving aquatic-history exhibit, the event ended with a candlelit dinner. 🌊
Sunset tidepooling always makes me feel happy 😍
November 21, 2025 at 3:31 AM
Sunset tidepooling always makes me feel happy 😍
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We are hiring!! Biological Sciences as UNC Charlotte has a broad search for a new assistant professor.
Apps reviewed 12/15.
Please spread the word! 💚⛏️
#PlantSci 🧪🦠🧬
jobs.charlotte.edu/postings/65141
Apps reviewed 12/15.
Please spread the word! 💚⛏️
#PlantSci 🧪🦠🧬
jobs.charlotte.edu/postings/65141
Assistant Professor
Applicants should possess a Ph.D. in the biological sciences or related fields.Candidates are expected to document expertise in their specialty by a record of postdoctoral training, peer reviewed publ...
jobs.charlotte.edu
November 17, 2025 at 2:52 PM
We are hiring!! Biological Sciences as UNC Charlotte has a broad search for a new assistant professor.
Apps reviewed 12/15.
Please spread the word! 💚⛏️
#PlantSci 🧪🦠🧬
jobs.charlotte.edu/postings/65141
Apps reviewed 12/15.
Please spread the word! 💚⛏️
#PlantSci 🧪🦠🧬
jobs.charlotte.edu/postings/65141
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In our latest, we tackle a long-standing conundrum: when and where do diatoms reproduce sexually? Using a lab-to-field strategy, we designed conserved sex markers applied to microcosms & Tara Oceans metatranscriptomes, revealing widespread sex in the global ocean. Read all about it now in NatComm:
Conserved genetic markers reveal widespread diatom sexual reproduction in the global ocean - Nature Communications
Diatoms dominate the oceans, yet sexual reproduction - key to bloom dynamics and species evolvability - is rarely observed. Using a lab-to-field approach, this study presents conserved markers applica...
www.nature.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:31 AM
In our latest, we tackle a long-standing conundrum: when and where do diatoms reproduce sexually? Using a lab-to-field strategy, we designed conserved sex markers applied to microcosms & Tara Oceans metatranscriptomes, revealing widespread sex in the global ocean. Read all about it now in NatComm:
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On behalf of the Department of Oceanography at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, we are excited to invite applications for a full-time, tenure-track faculty position in Ocean Biogeochemical Modeling at the rank of assistant professor. www.schooljobs.com/careers/hawa... position number 0082726
November 15, 2025 at 2:54 AM
On behalf of the Department of Oceanography at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, we are excited to invite applications for a full-time, tenure-track faculty position in Ocean Biogeochemical Modeling at the rank of assistant professor. www.schooljobs.com/careers/hawa... position number 0082726
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Excited to recruit a new PhD student for Fall 2026 in my lab at Cornell! Looking for someone interested in evolutionary genomics + fisheries/conservation applications. Quick timeline this year—reach out soon. More details: www.therkildsenlab.org/join-us.html
Join Us
The lab of Nina Overgaard Therkildsen in the Department of Natural Resources and the Environment at Cornell University invites applications for a PhD position starting in Fall 2026. Our group works...
www.therkildsenlab.org
November 14, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Excited to recruit a new PhD student for Fall 2026 in my lab at Cornell! Looking for someone interested in evolutionary genomics + fisheries/conservation applications. Quick timeline this year—reach out soon. More details: www.therkildsenlab.org/join-us.html
Another excellent dive in the kelp forest today! 🤿 🌊 @stanfordhopkins.bsky.social
November 13, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Another excellent dive in the kelp forest today! 🤿 🌊 @stanfordhopkins.bsky.social
Northern lights alert! Photo from my family near Madison, WI ✨ If you live in a northern state, look outside!
November 12, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Northern lights alert! Photo from my family near Madison, WI ✨ If you live in a northern state, look outside!
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The Brown and Stachowicz labs are looking for a postdoc for an NSF-funded project on the thermal dependence of disease in eelgrass! As a bonus you get to be based at the Bodega Marine Lab! Interested? Find out more here: brown-ecology.com/join-us/
Join Us!
brown-ecology.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:41 PM
The Brown and Stachowicz labs are looking for a postdoc for an NSF-funded project on the thermal dependence of disease in eelgrass! As a bonus you get to be based at the Bodega Marine Lab! Interested? Find out more here: brown-ecology.com/join-us/
So proud of my undergrad student, Zulie, for presenting her giant kelp thermal tolerance research at the WSN conference in San Diego! 🌊🌡️ @stanfordhopkins.bsky.social
November 9, 2025 at 2:13 AM
So proud of my undergrad student, Zulie, for presenting her giant kelp thermal tolerance research at the WSN conference in San Diego! 🌊🌡️ @stanfordhopkins.bsky.social