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The Kelp Rescue Initiative @kelprescue.bsky.social · Jul 16

Kelp Rescue is excited to announce the publication of our 1st ever kelp restoration peer-reviewed paper! 🎉Since our start in 2021, we've been testing scientific approaches to kelp restoration, and this paper is the culmination of a huge team effort.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Siobhan Schenk @siobhanschenk.bsky.social · Jul 16

I love #nudibranchs

Found this one in a #tidepool at Sooke

🦑 #intertidal

A transparent/white nudibranch is cruising on some pink coralline algae

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psaalgae.bsky.social @psaalgae.bsky.social · Jul 11

Exciting news! Journal of Phycology impact factor has increased to 3.4. Thanks to an amazing editorial team that makes this journal a high-quality publication. #phycologyfriday #seaweed #algae

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Varoon Supratya @varoon-supratya.bsky.social · Jul 11

Today for #phycologyfriday: two commonly confused PNW kelps next to each other, from the same site (Whiffin Spit, BC). Left is Saccharina latissima, right Hedophyllum nigripes.
#marinelife #intertidal #pnw #biology #marinebiology #science #kelp #seaweed

Two large bladed kelps lying next to one another on an eelgrass bed. The left kelp is Saccharina latissima, with a narrower and lighter colored blade and stipe, while the right kelp is Hedophyllum nigripes, with a broad dark blade

A close up of the stipes of two large kelps. Saccharina on the top has a narrow rounded stipe, Hedophyllum nigripes on the bottom has a broad flattened stipe

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Siobhan Schenk @siobhanschenk.bsky.social · Jul 11

Halosaccion glandiforme at Whiffin Spit. This red algae fills with water, likely to prevent desiccation.

🦑 #PhycologyFriday #Intertidal #tidepools

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Siobhan Schenk @siobhanschenk.bsky.social · Jul 10

Pretty barnacles and sponges

🦑 #intertidal

A colony of pink sponges on the bottom of a rock. The top of the rock is colonized by barnacles

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Siobhan Schenk @siobhanschenk.bsky.social · Jul 3

A more accurate sentence would be: "UBC botanists describe "pink-spot disease" in kelp nurseries."

Please fix this on Twitter as well.

You can contact the corresponding author and/or UBC researcher listed on the manuscript by email before posting to avoid this in the future.

Cultivation of kelp and other macroalgae is a growing industry in North America. In the well established macroalgal growing regions in Asia and Africa, macroalgal disease cause crop losses, placing a significant economic burden on growers. As kelp cultivation intensifies in North America, disease prevalence is expected to increase in tandem. Here, we describe the prevalence and bacterial community associated with a novel disease of kelp in the land based nursery stage that is characterized by bright pink spots, termed pink-spot disease. With input from the kelp-growing community through an online survey, we show that pink-spot disease has been widely observed in Canada and the United States on nursery cultivation spools of the kelps Saccharina latissima, Alaria marginata, Nereocystis luetkeana, and Macrocystis

Siobhan Schenk @siobhanschenk.bsky.social · Jul 3

That's not what my paper says

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Endless @extraunknown.bsky.social · Jun 28

Fresh lawn fawn

A baby deer hunkered down and hiding in a freshly cut lawn. Long eyelashes and big ol ears

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Siobhan Schenk @siobhanschenk.bsky.social · Jun 27

For this #PhycologyFriday I'm happy to share my ✨new paper✨ about #kelp disease -> rdcu.be/ets28

Pink-spot disease occurs in kelp nurseries across North America and Europe according to our survey and we identified a bacteria (Algicola sp.) as the likely causative agent.

🦑 #aquaculture

A very extreme and unusual presentation of pink-spot disease on a kelp spool

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Varoon Supratya @varoon-supratya.bsky.social · Jun 13

Lab grown stipeless bull kelp to reduce tangling in tumble culture. Removal of the stipe before the internal cavity inflates results in the cut sealing over to form a "knot" instead of the usual pneumatocyst + stipe
#phycologyfriday #kelp #marinebiology #science #algae #seaweed

Three unusual looking bull kelp that lack the usual pneumatocyst and stipe

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🌻OK MR. SUNSHINE!🌻 @entobiologist.bsky.social · Jun 11

the new developments on inat inspired me to make a diagnostic thread for every insect order because there's only like 30something of them. going to try and avoid exceptions and extremely technical characteristics when possible. 🧵

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Siobhan Schenk @siobhanschenk.bsky.social · Jun 6

I love that after I give Hawthorne head scritches, the fur on his little forehead is all messed up.
It looks like he just woke up from the most intense nap.
*I fix it for him as the last part of the head massage ritual.

#bunny #rabbit #petpics

A grey bunny laying on his stomach in a loaf position with his front paws barely visible. The fluff in between his ears has two finger shaped indents.

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Siobhan Schenk @siobhanschenk.bsky.social · May 30

My ✨new paper✨ looking at how low salinity and high temperatures alter the bacterial community of sugar #kelp was just published!

Lab and field results agree: the overall changes are small, but core taxa decrease under abiotic stress

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

#PhycologyFriday 🦑

Part of figure 1 for the paper. There is a map of the field sites and an overview of the lab experiment. Field measurements were temperature and salinity. Lab was only salinity

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Siobhan Schenk @siobhanschenk.bsky.social · May 11

Just a little orange #nudibranch cruising on a #surfgrass leaf.
🦑 #tidepools

Surfgrass and coralline algae in a tidepool with the orange nudibranch visible under the surfgrass

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Pike Spector (he/him) @baronvonurchin.bsky.social · May 10

Interested in learning more about innovate restoration and kelp forest ecology?

Join me and Tristin as we dive deep into kelp forests and explore ways to help the kelp!

#phycologyFriday #marinelife

📅 May 13 | 🕔 5–6 PM
🔗 Register: cirweb.org/calendar/kelp-forest-restoration-webinar

A virtual flyer for an online event titled, “The What, Why, and How of Kelp Forest Restoration” with Pike Spector and Tristin Anoush McHugh. The top image is of intertwined golden brown blades of giant kelp rising towards the sun lit ocean surface. The water is blue and clear. Below is the title of the talk in white letters on a green background. To the right are stacked headshots of a blonde woman above a bearded man in a red beanie

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spencer roberts 🦈 @unpopularscience.bsky.social · May 9

I will forever be haunted by this footage.

Trawling has only been filmed underwater a few times in documentary history, and never with such clarity.

What’s so heart-rending about these shots is watching how the animals don’t just get swept up — they swim for their lives.
🌎🦑🧪

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Siobhan Schenk @siobhanschenk.bsky.social · May 9

They are so beautiful and I know how hard you worked to make them all!!

Varoon Supratya @varoon-supratya.bsky.social · May 9

Honoured to have been able to make speaker gifts for the 2025 international seaweed symposium! #phycologyfriday #iss25 #pottery #ceramics #kelp

A three tiered display of brown mugs featuring handles that look like bull kelp stipes and blades that wrap around the mug body

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Adi Khen @adlysia.bsky.social · May 9

Seaweeds from Victoria, BC, Canada for #PhycologyFriday

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Siobhan Schenk @siobhanschenk.bsky.social · May 9

For #PhycologyFriday this week let's celebrate #ISS25 and #tidepools. Although tidepools are a harsh environment, I love them because the still water makes it easier to see critters and algae 🦑

A tidepool with a crustose coralline crust, limpets, surfgrass, and some Prionitis

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Siobhan Schenk @siobhanschenk.bsky.social · May 2

Varoon and I keep finding new species after publishing our paper and he will tell you all about it at his #ISS25 poster doi.org/10.1139/cjb-...

We keep updating the publicly available data linked in the manuscript with our newest survey data, so it is available for other researchers to use

Varoon Supratya @varoon-supratya.bsky.social · May 2

A very unexpected find: Laminaria ephemera at Stanley Park in a seaweed diversity survey quadrat! I'll be presenting on this project (and others) at #ISS25 - see comments for details.
#phycologyfriday

Two hands holding an individual Laminaria ephemera kelp up for a photo. The kelp is small but a dark spore patch is already visible near the blade base. The holdfast is attached to a pebble which is being held. In the background, the lionsgate bridge is visible.

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Siobhan Schenk @siobhanschenk.bsky.social · May 2

The seaweed symposium tag is #ISS25

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Siobhan Schenk @siobhanschenk.bsky.social · May 2

For #PhycologyFriday I'm promoting my #ISS2025 presentations
Talk) How bacteria colonize the #Kelp Saccharina latissima throughout the farming cycle
P1) Low-salinity destabilizes the bacterial community of sugar kelp
P2) Kelp pink-spot disease is widespread and associated with the bacteria Algicola

A cultivation line of sugar kelp 🦑
The seaweed symposium is an internal conference that combines academics and industry

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Siobhan Schenk @siobhanschenk.bsky.social · Apr 30

Saw this little cutie while doing the monthly transect sampling yesterday!

#nudibranch 🦑

A nudibranch with orange tips and blue stripes crawling on a bed of diatoms

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SK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️‍⚧️ @skwinnicki.bsky.social · Apr 28

Eastern US let's fucking goooooo

We've got hundreds of millions of precious migrants pouring overhead tonight and in the next few weeks.

Get those overnight lights off, cats inside, and windows treated (to prevent collisions) to keep my bird friends alive. Get ready for spectacular birding!

Screenshot of the birdcast migration dashboard, found at birdcast.info, showing a map of the continental United States colored by migration intensity, with a large portion of the eastern US, from Texas to souther Ohio, lit up white in the highest intensity color. The prediction says that 378 million birds are predicted to be in the air tonight, the night of April 28th 2025.

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