Matt Bracken

Matt Bracken

@brackenlab.bsky.social

Marine biodiversity - https://faculty.sites.uci.edu/biodiversity/ - he/him/his

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Black Intellect Media
@blackintellect.bsky.social

California has created its 1st new marine protected areas in over a decade, adding around 15,000 acres, protecting kelp forests, & giving Native Chumash tribes a stewardship role in 2 of the sites. oceanographicmagazine.com/news/chumash...

oceanographicmagazine.comChumash-led protections helps California expand ocean network - OceanographicCalifornia designates first new marine protected areas in a decade, giving Chumash tribes stewardship role, edging closer to its 30x30 goal.

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Don Moynihan
@donmoyn.bsky.social

A 2025 Nobel Prize winner in chemistry, Omar Yaghi is the son of Palestinian refugees who grew up in Jordan. He just left the US to move to China after raising concerns about rising anti-immigrant sentiment, like the kind shown here. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/china-than...

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com

RFK: "There's five hundred million Arabs in the world. And yet they don't produce science. They don't win the Nobel Prize. They don't win the Fields Prize. They don't win the Wolf Prize. They don't produce literature."

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derek guy
@dieworkwear.bsky.social

When I say I love Cheesecake Factory, I mean this cat who was found malnourished and wandering through a Bay Area mall parking lot. Cheesecake Factory has since been rescued and nursed back to health. He's now healthy, vaxxed, & sweet, but still needs a loving home www.petfinder.com/cat/cheeseca...

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Ocean Hoptimism
@oceanhoptimism.org

Kelp forest loss leaves red urchins hungry, with little marketable uni—and harvesters without income. California’s red urchin fishery will share in NOAA’s disaster relief funding. Supporting livelihoods matters, and restoring the kelp forests that sustain them remains essential.

noaa.govCommerce Department allocates $15.8M in fishery disaster funding to Fla., Calif., and Makah TribeToday, NOAA announced the allocation of $15.8 million in fishery resource disaster funding, appropriated by Congress in the American Relief Act, 2025. The funding will address multiple fishery resourc...

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Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
@whoi.edu

We get it. Figuring out a Halloween costume is hard. 👻🧟‍♀️🧞‍♂️ That's why we've created this handy personality guide to help you figure out your inner (ocean) demons. The costume itself should come naturally! Share your results in the comments!

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Christina Belanger, Ph.D
@belaforams.bsky.social

“Integrating such interdisciplinary evidence not only sheds light on the forgotten history of S. gaederopus but also highlights the potential of combining cultural heritage and scientific research to inform contemporary conservation strategies.” journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

journals.plos.orgHidden in historical sources: Rediscovering the thorny oyster (Spondylus gaederopus Linnaeus, 1758) in art, archives, and cultural knowledgeThe thorny oyster (Spondylus gaederopus), a Mediterranean bivalve prised during prehistoric times for its distinctive spiny purple shell, has since been overlooked in cultural and scientific records. ...
Earth.com@earthdotcom.bsky.social

Scientists discovered a forgotten Mediterranean Sea creature hidden in centuries-old Italian paintings, revealing its surprising ecological history.

earth.comForgotten sea creature is found hiding in centuries-old paintings

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Jarrett Byrnes
@jebyrnes.bsky.social

Amazing week with OUTSTANDING colleagues thinking about kelp forests in the northwest Atlantic - how are the similar & how are they different from Long Island sound to the Arctic, what have we learned from watching them change, & what does the future hold. Thanks to @ciee-icee.bsky.social!

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Brian G Weber Photography
@briangweber.com

Today I saw one of the weirdest and coolest sea slugs I've ever seen and it was in New Hampshire. This is Elysia chlorotica, a slug that eats algae and steals its chloroplasts to use for photosynthesis. Yes, this slug is solar powered! #seaslugs #underwaterphotography #macro #om1 #NewEngland 🦑 📷

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Green Bean
@iamgreenbean.bsky.social

California’s oceans have become shockingly warm. The unusual heat is drawing tropical fish coastward, killing kelp forests, pushing tides to record high heights and providing extra fuel for storms. #climatecrisis www.sfchronicle.com/california/a...

sfchronicle.comCalifornia’s oceans have become shockingly warm. And strange things are happeningOcean temperatures up and down the California coast have become disturbingly high, with wide-ranging impacts.
Matt Bracken
@brackenlab.bsky.social

#PhycologyFriday 🦑🌊

Wendel van der Sluis@wendelvandersluis.bsky.social

🌊 Restoring marine habitats is no easy task. Transplanted seaweeds face challenges from environmental conditions and grazing animals. Understanding what goes wrong is key to improving conservation strategies. A new study in Botanica Marina explores seaweed restoration in the eastern Mediterranean.

Matt Bracken
@brackenlab.bsky.social

#PhycologyFriday 🌊🦑

Kristy V@cdnviolets.bsky.social

My "Kelp Joy" painting was inspired by my friend Claire's underwater ocean photos. Find joy in the moment. Be the jellyfish. Find some kelp in the sunshine then float.

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Daniel Swain
@weatherwest.bsky.social

NWS San Diego has issued new Coastal Flood Warning for near-record/record-breaking tides and possible widespread coastal inundation in SoCal Sun-Thu. And there's no king tides or major storms in the mix yet...just elevated sea levels from extreme El Nino plus long-term warming.

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HulloThere
@jethroreading32.bsky.social

Three years ago, my dad said that all fish are the same shape. Out of spite, I decided to draw all 478 families of bony fish listed in Nelson 2016. There's still some stuff I need to edit and some fish I want to redraw but, after 985 days, I finished my big dumb fish project last night.

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The Washington Post
@washingtonpost.com

The heat waves that baked Europe this summer were likely the continent’s deadliest on record, researchers say. They estimate about 50,000 more people died in European cities between June and August than would have if temperatures had not been abnormally hot.

washingtonpost.comEurope’s intense summer heat may have led to 50K deaths, report saysClimate change is responsible for about two-thirds of the additional deaths related to heat, researchers estimate.

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Rémy Beugnon
@remybeugnon.bsky.social

🌍 Our new review is out in *Global Change Biology*! How does climate change translate into the microclimates organisms actually experience? Huge thanks to the lead authors @linegreis.bsky.social, @evagril.bsky.social & Ilya Maclean for pushing this much-needed paper forward. doi.org/10.1111/gcb....

doi.orgClimate Change Experienced by Life on Earth—Drivers and Mechanisms of Future Trends in MicroclimatesMicroclimate changes do not necessarily track macroclimate trends. However, changes in meteorological conditions (e.g., cloud cover) and vegetation dynamics (e.g., shrub encroachment) associated with...

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Alaska Public Media
@alaskapublic.org

In rural Alaska, finding basic health and wellness supplies can be a challenge. But in Unalaska, a new 24-hour vending machine is a way for anyone to get those resources for free.

akpub.ioUnalaska's free wellness vending machine is part of an effort to fill rural health gapsIn rural Alaska, finding basic health and wellness supplies can be a challenge. But in Unalaska, a new 24-hour vending machine is a way for anyone to get those resources for free.

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Scripps Institution of Oceanography
@scrippsocean.bsky.social

🟡 Massive 500-pound buoys stationed along U.S. coastlines provide crucial wave and ocean condition data that helps scientists & communities prepare for coastal risks. Learn more about the Coastal Data Information Program. ⤵️ https://bit.ly/4zHig5k

cbs8.comTracking waves to help protect our coastThe yellow buoys you see off our coast are doing some important work, tracking waves and ocean conditions that help us better understand coastal risks.

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Jonathan Eisen
@phylogenomics.bsky.social

Anyone have recommendations for a decent, not too expensive, digital microscope for amateur home use to look at things like diatoms, tardigrades, fungi, etc?

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psaalgae.bsky.social
@psaalgae.bsky.social

🌿 Save the Date! 🌊 We're excited to announce that PSA's 2027 Annual Meeting will take place July 17–22, 2027, at John Carroll University! More details will be announced soon. 📅 We can't wait to see you all in Cleveland! #PSA2027 #Phycology #Algae #Seaweed

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ
@olivia.science

"The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate any thing. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform. It [cannot] anticipat[e] any analytical relations or truths. Its province is to assist us in making available what we are already acquainted with." — Ada Lovelace, 1843

Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ@olivia.science

full book archive.org/details/adae...

archive.orgAda, the enchantress of numbers : prophet of the computer age, a pathway to the 21st century : Toole, Betty A. (Betty Alexandra) : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet ArchiveLetters to and from the Countess of Lovelace, 1824-1852

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Nina Willburger
@drnwillburger.bsky.social

Somewhere in a Roman brickyard, around 1800 years ago, a fresh tile was drying peacefully ahead of firing - until a dog trotted straight across it. Centuries later, the tile has made it into a museum: not because of an emperor, but thanks to one dog who accidentally walked his way into history. 📷️me