Dr. Brooke Weigel

Another excellent dive in the kelp forest today! 🤿 🌊 @stanfordhopkins.bsky.social

So proud of my lab group! All 7 of us volunteered yesterday at the CA Seaweed Festival and taught so many people about seaweed diversity & the kelp life cycle! 🌊🔬

✨ SO EXCITED ✨ to be part of the California Seaweed Festival today in Monterey! Stop by if you are in town! 🌊

Long run + bull kelp sunset beach stretching = ☺️

My first research cruise to the deep sea! I got to tag along on MBARI’s R/V Rachel Carson for the day. They did a Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) dive to 1,000 m / 3,280 feet to collect deep sea jellies and seawater for my experiments. Such an exciting day on the water! 🌊

Not a bad view for my first very long run in Monterey! Also, bonus kelp mural 🌊

For #PhycologyFriday, sharing this new publication in @psaalgae.bsky.social Journal of Phycology! doi.org/10.1111/jpy.... Headed by Dr. Lauren Dykman, @cneufeld.bsky.social & @baumlab.bsky.social, with support from Amanda+Rob Zielinski, Matt Csordas, Alex Wiebe, & many more! #kelp #salishsea

It was a bit rough today 🌊 , but it’s always good to be on the water! Tagging giant kelp & measuring growth rates! 🤿

Fantastic Asst Professor positions open across multiple UC Berkeley departments @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social Plant/Algae/Microb aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05522 Plant/Env aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05382 Gen/Dev/Evo aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05481 Eco aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05489

Systems Ecology, a new journal launched today, "run by researchers, for researchers, and is free to read and free to publish, with no article processing charges" systems-ecology.org/index.php/se...

Sometimes you just need a big tree hug! 1,800-year-old redwood 🌲

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...

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! ☀️

What a time to be a #NewPI in the USA… www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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! 🎉!

Teaching my niece and nephew about kelp 🌊 🥰

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-...

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...

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

Some cute giant kelp gametophytes for #PhycologyFriday! 🌊

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...

My sister understands… she got me a nudibranch print for my birthday! 🌊

Happy Birthday / Adoption Day to my cute baby, Maple! 🍁 🐕

The closest thing marine taxonomists have to the Olympics is now underway in San Diego. Instead of racing for medals, researchers from @scrippsocean.bsky.social are spending two weeks cataloging the extraordinary diversity of life along the California coast. 🪸 https://bit.ly/3SxVHjB

Super fun ultimate frisbee tournament last weekend on the beach! 🌊 Such a great frisbee community in the Monterey area!

The inaugural Hopkins pickleball tournament begins today! 🏓 @stanfordhopkins.bsky.social

🌊✨ Awesome job alert! 🌊✨ NOAA Sanctuaries Resource Protection Coordinator job in Monterey, CA. Applications due soon, on July 23! www.usajobs.gov/job/87690100...

Where intertidal rocky reefs are composed of “soft” rock - such as the sedimentary mudstones and sandstones of the Point Arena Formation in Mendocino County, California - sea urchins create circular niches by abrading the substratum. #MarineLife #SwelterShelterNSF 🌊🦑

“Iridescent cartilage weed” (Chondria acrorhizophora) is our seaweed of the week! #PhycologyFriday

Super fun lab opening party for my new lab at Hopkins Marine Station! My students even made me a cyanotype window shade for my lab office!! ☺️ 🌊

Super beautiful Hopkins rose nudibranch, tidepooling this morning at Asilomar! 🌊

The AAUS divers at Hopkins have been busy this week! 🤿 🌊 @stanfordhopkins.bsky.social