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Ocean Biomolecular Observing Network (OBON) @obon-ocean.bsky.social · Sep 9

Join us at the @imarest.bsky.social webinar on:
"Unlocking Ocean Secrets: Marine Mammal Monitoring Through eDNA"

22 Sept 2025 - 4pm UK time

Matt Lemay, from the OBON project "HI-BON" (led by @hakai.org) will be one of the speakers.

More info and sign up at: www.imarest.org/events/event...

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Matt Lemay @littorina.bsky.social · Aug 8

Come for the charismatic megafauna, stay for the algae, lichen, and hydroids

Matt Lemay @littorina.bsky.social · Aug 8

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

YouTube video by Hakai Institute

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Matt Lemay @littorina.bsky.social · Aug 8

Higher CO2 levels increased shedding rates, indicating greater organism stress and biological effects on oysters.

Additionally, increased CO2 accelerates DNA and RNA decay, suggesting that ocean acidification may impact the reliability of eDNA-based biodiversity monitoring.

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Matt Lemay @littorina.bsky.social · Aug 8

Check it out: We have a new paper out that experimentally tests the impact of Ocean Acidification on eDNA shedding and decay.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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Matt Lemay @littorina.bsky.social · Aug 7

New Paper:

We linked DNA in sediment cores with historical accounts from Indigenous community members to reconstruct ecosystem changes that occurred following a landslide event in the 1940s.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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Matt Lemay @littorina.bsky.social · Aug 4

Amazing work by some very talented colleagues at the Hakai Institute. Such a cool paper!

www.science.org/content/arti...

Mysterious killer of sea stars finally identified

Discovery of a bacterium could reveal more about massive die-off, perhaps aid recovery

www.science.org

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Matt Lemay @littorina.bsky.social · Aug 4

Amazing work by some very talented colleagues at the Hakai Institute. Such a cool paper!

www.science.org/content/arti...

Mysterious killer of sea stars finally identified

Discovery of a bacterium could reveal more about massive die-off, perhaps aid recovery

www.science.org

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Matt Lemay @littorina.bsky.social · May 2

The Hakai Institute is hosting a group of international scholars from the Nippon Foundation-POGO Centre of Excellence.

Some of them got really excited about seaweed, and I wanted to share some of their amazing photos for #PhycologyFriday

More about the program: www.ofi.ca/programs/cen...

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Matt Lemay @littorina.bsky.social · Apr 30

The Hakai Institute is hosting a group of international scholars from the Nippon Foundation-POGO Centre of Excellence.

Today we ran a mini-bioblitz and I wanted so share some of the amazing specimen photos they took!

#invertfest #invertefest

More about the program: www.ofi.ca/programs/cen...

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Matt Lemay @littorina.bsky.social · Apr 18

It’s a giant water planet with a 33-day-year!

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Matt Lemay @littorina.bsky.social · Apr 18

Lots of probably valid critiques of this study, but the fact we can measure anything on a planet 100 light years away (or even know it’s there) is amazing.

Matt Lemay @littorina.bsky.social · Apr 17

Nerds with telescopes are cooler than billionaires with rockets

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Webb telescope detects a possible signature of life on a distant world

A molecule detected on a planet 124 light-years away is produced on Earth by decaying phytoplankton and other microbes. There is no other known source.

wapo.st

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Matt Lemay @littorina.bsky.social · Feb 20

Reposting this cool Hakai Institute blog post about cryptic species of blood stars:

hakai.org/for-blood-st...

For Blood Stars, Looks Can Be Deceiving | Hakai Institute

With genetics, scientists find sea star species hiding in plain sight.

hakai.org

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Matt Lemay @littorina.bsky.social · Jan 30

This is from Northbeach on Calvert island.

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Matt Lemay @littorina.bsky.social · Jan 3

#PhycologyFriday !!

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Matt Lemay @littorina.bsky.social · Dec 6

Here's a Rhodolith from the central coast of BC for #PhycologyFriday !

Photo credit goes to the Hakai Institute, but that is my thumb.

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Matt Lemay @littorina.bsky.social · Dec 4

yes, there is a pea crab

#Crustmas

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Matt Lemay @littorina.bsky.social · Dec 4

Hot off the press...Here's a really fun blog post about some of the coolest critters we observed during our Quadra Island Bioblitz in the spring of 2024.

hakai.org/species-of-t...

“Species of the Day” Keeps Biologists at Play | Hakai Institute

The Hakai Institute is a scientific research institution that advances long-term research at remote locations on the coastal margin of British Columbia, Canada.

hakai.org

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Hakai Institute @hakai.org · Nov 20

A new study on hazelnut biogeography in the Pacific Northwest led by @SFU researcher Chelsey Geralda Armstrong and Hakai Institute researchers, reveals the profound role of Indigenous peoples in shaping hazelnut range and distribution over thousands of years🔗https://tinyurl.com/4wfcd6f5

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Matt Lemay @littorina.bsky.social · Nov 22

I just learned about #Nudivember

Here is a great collage that our media team put together....all photos are from a bioblitz that we did on the central coast of British Columbia in 2017

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Matt Lemay @littorina.bsky.social · Nov 22

Happy #phycologyfriday !

Here's a filamentous red algae I photographed under a scope a few years ago.

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Matt Lemay @littorina.bsky.social · Nov 20

Science News wrote a really nice summary of our recent paper on beaked hazelnut population genetics

www.science.org/content/arti...

Indigenous tribes engineered British Columbia’s modern hazelnut forests more than 7000 years ago

Genetic analysis of hazelnut trees could help First Nations secure land rights in Canadian courts

www.science.org

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Matt Lemay @littorina.bsky.social · Nov 20

Check out this great article about our work combining community-science and eDNA to monitor the spread of European green crabs in BC

hakai.org/primed-to-de...

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Matt Lemay @littorina.bsky.social · Nov 20

I'm excited to share our new paper on hazelnut population genetics:

Genetic differentiation and precolonial Indigenous cultivation of hazelnut (Corylus cornuta, Betulaceae) in Western North America

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

This was a collaborative research project with many great co-authors

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