Great kelp-ey happy hour today Phyc. Soc. America! Sooo many folks showed up!

First PhD paper for Maxine Canvin - 🎉🎉🎉 really important field based evidence of how much carbon is captured and released through operational kelp farm 🌊 ☀️ 🌱 📈

Excited to present my first talk on snow algae Phyc. Soc. America at 3:18 pm in the Climate Change II session! 🏔️❄️

a nice survey of chemoautotrophy in extreme environments (here, cold) + an elegant biochemical modeling approach for rubisco led by Kaitlin Harrison Young Algae

Beautiful hike yesterday at Baker Lake, so many red huckleberries!

new U.S. National Science Foundation DCL to broaden participation of LGBTQIA+ individuals in STEM!! 🎉🎉 so happy to be part of the team that made this happen ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🤍🖤nsf.gov/pubs/2024/nsf2…

The ecoevo job list for 2024-2025 is out. This is for those who are looking for a faculty position or postdoc in ecology, evolutionary biology, etc docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…

hi as part of our new project on coral regeneraiton and wound healing we'll behiring a technician to help us with our work in Moorea. If you or anyone else you know are available to start this fall i'd love to chat. please share.

Please share: We're hiring a postdoctoral fellow! Stanford Center for Ocean Solutions is looking for an early career scholar interested in fisheries management, climate change, and sustainability science with a passion for co-designing research to inform policy. Learn more: stanford.io/3YDTkga

Thanks to Patrick Martone & Bridgette Clarkston for hosting me yesterday in Vancouver! Fun trip full of lovely algae chats 😊

Excited to announce our new paper on designing allosterically regulated protein assemblies from scratch, now published in nature! This collaborative effort included key contributions from Florian Praetorius, Abbas Idris, Annika Philomin, cweidle and others! nature.com/articles/s4158…

Worth reading: Bacteria appear to modulate #diatom aging physiology. Pohnert lab #Coscinodiscus nature.com/articles/s4156…

The health of #seagrass may serve as a pulse-check for resilience 🌊🌱🩺 Conserving resilient meadows is key to future-proofing these essential habitats🌎 Read more here! 👀 doi.org/10.1093/icb/ic…

Found the most incredible dead tree covered with Chicken of the woods (Laetiporus sulphureus) yesterday! 🍄‍🟫🌲

Just moved back to Seattle! 📦 Being a postdoc is a difficult & transient career stage. Since starting my 1st postdoc in 2021, I’ve moved 8 times over 4 field seasons (Seattle ➡️ Friday Harbor & back x 2, Seattle ➡️ Bellingham & back x 2)…!

Is sinking seaweed an mCDR solution? "It’s important to study whether it’s a viable strategy to reduce greenhouse gas levels in the atmosphere. 'If this is a bad idea, I want to show it’s a bad idea right now and get on to other things.'" science.org/content/articl…

Check out this cool fluorescent bacterial culture, originally isolated from pitcher plants! One of many in our lab’s current community coexistence experiment. #bittlestonlab #pitcherplants #microbes