Root-secreted bitter triterpene modulates the rhizosphere microbiota to improve plant fitness -in Nature Plants from Yi Shang with Anne Osbourn nature.com/articles/s4147…

Just another day in the 'office' - fantastic field campaign to seaweed paradise (Normandy) with Willem Stock and Emma Gouwy sampling #Laminaria ochroleuca for the Restoreseas project. The early mornings were compensated for by beautiful sunrises and perfect conditions!

#OnThisDay in 1858, a seminal journal article comprised of papers by Alfred Russel Wallace FRS and Charles Darwin FRS on the theory of evolution by natural selection was published by the The Linnean Society of London, the first public announcement of the theory. bit.ly/3k8fq4u

Just finished "How the world really works". Impressive, daunting, but nevertheless probably the best idea to look at the facts and figures first before making claims and statements that will affect what we do and will not do for the next couple of generations. A must read!

Macroevolutionary dynamics of gene family gain and loss along multicellular eukaryotic lineages biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_evobio

A temperature sensory and response mechanism in #diatoms. Our new paper just out in Plant Physiology led by Friedrich H. Kleiner Glen Wheeler and Colin Brownlee at MBA - Marine Biological Association UEA School of Environmental Sciences Katherine Helliwell Dr. Trupti Gaikwad Amanda Hopes #algae academic.oup.com/plphys/advance…

Autumn is almost upon us and that can only mean one thing - all hands on dulse! Dulse is a favourite amongst chefs and thanks to the rich umami, it makes for a delicious, mouth-watering flavour enhancer to almost any meal 😋

Multicellularity arose several times in the algal lineage that is sister to land plants, nice work by Jan de Vries and colleagues from MadLand shows. Ancestral stage reconstruction suggests that while the ancestor of ... 1/2

Here's another one from Coleman et al.: how to cut #seaweed nursery costs! bit.ly/3f3bUJJ

Ahhhh what?! Amazing! Patrick Martone where’s the Calliarthron crab?

🌱NEW #SEAWEED #AQUACULTURE ARTICLE🌱 Our new #openaccess article led by Kristoffer Stedt shows that post-harvest #cultivation with #seafood process waters improves protein levels of #Ulva while retaining important #food sensory attributes Göteborgs universitet / University of Gothenburg frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

Can't wait to apply our experience BLUEGent in growing sugar kelp in extremely exposed conditions - build within #H2020United over the last two years - and finally move into the offshore wind farm the coming growth season!

A new post-doctoral position at the University of Gothenburg, on cold water coral ecology is now open! Deadline is the 20th of October. web103.reachmee.com/ext/I005/1035/… Uni of Gothenburg

Did anyone say seaweed? Great to put our latest applied #seaweed research into the spotlight!

🚢 #Chagos2022 mission is coming to an end with amazing results! 🙏 Big THANK YOU to everyone who supported and contributed to this expedition. Stay tuned as we'll bring you more about our experience and discoveries. #REVOcean #OneHealthyOcean #OceanScience #OceanDecade

Another stunning submersible dive, this time exploring the beautiful rariphotic and mesophotic reefs of the Indian Ocean 🐠 🪸 Thank you to REV Ocean University of Plymouth Bertarelli Foundation DeepSeaCRU Garfield Weston Foundation ⛴ 🌏 Marine Science 🐠 🐟 for this amazing experience!

🙎 Meet some of #REVOcean crew behind the #Chagos2022 mission! The team led by Alex David Rogers has been exploring the pristine waters of the #Chagos Archipelago to advance #DeepSea research as part of the #OceanDecade activities. #OneHealthyOcean #OceanScience

Nearly home after 3 weeks #REVOcean expedition to #Chagos. Brilliant times. Picking seaweeds at a 126 m. 💗 🙏 For the whole team and the crew of RV Odyssey.

Phylotranscriptomics unveil a Paleoproterozoic-Mesoproterozoic origin and deep relationships of the Viridiplantae doi.org/10.1038/s41467…

Happy to share that our publication "Non-indigenous #seaweeds in the Northeast Atlantic Ocean, the Mediterranean Sea and Macaronesia: a critical synthesis of diversity, spatial and temporal patterns" is now available online! tandfonline.com/eprint/GFRS26G…