Cue the pomp & circumstance... I finished lecturing for cell bio today!!
Also had a #proudPI moment this #PhycologyFriday. We* did practice NEAS talks during lab meeting & everyone truly leveled up their game. Stoked to see it all come together next week!
*ok not me but I'll do mine next week...
Registration for the American Malacological Society meeting in Syracuse, NY this summer is live! hope to see you there! ams.wildapricot.org/AMS-2026-Reg...
Partial lab photo
Had fun celebrating @sunyesf.bsky.social’s class of 2026 at the spring banquet last night! Excited for this squad to rock conference szn later this month! #newPI
Let us know if you figure this out 🤯
Ohhhh this is just in time for my immunity lecture upgrade in cell bio. Attempted one last year and it needed more NF-KB. 91 budding cell biologists will be hearing about this next week 🤓
Two professors covering a taxidermied leopard with a blanket to look less suspicious? The tail still stuck out. We were very tired at this point in the semester.
Wheeling taxidermied leopard down a ramp. Only a few students gave us weird looks
Ok we gave up on keeping the leopard covered in a blanket?
Dr Phyco, CEO, visiting Dr Goff’s office. She had a fun surprise the next morning!
Two years ago today, “Phyco,” the taxidermied leopard in my office, first visited @jlgoff.bsky.social’s office while she was giving a seminar at SU.
Iconic collab with @micromaresca.bsky.social & the Bsky-less Aaron during our first semester of teaching at ESF. 🐆
Today (& most phone calls) in #newPI x #eldercare
“Do you have tenure?”
“When will you get tenure?”
& my fav “How’s that going?”
Aka ~1/2 of Dad’s core question rotation. I’m glad he still remembers what I do but also fuck Alzheimer’s.
Pretty sure @harveyplankton.bsky.social’s wild haul a couple years back was from fb marketplace
Amazing, congrats!!!! Keep the world posted with how we can be of help RE newPI chaos!
You know what all teams in the men's Final Four (and both women's teams in so far) have in common?
HERBARIA.
UConn is threatening to cut the staff of our nat history collections (plus many other awful budget cuts). If only we cared as much about biodiversity as we do about buzzer beaters!
very exciting! defs adding this into my upcoming cell bio lecture on temp stress 🥶
Today’s the last day to register for the 64th Northeast Algal Symposium (NEAS) in Salem, MA!
#NEAS2026 will feature:
🧹 lots of student presentations!
🧪 a panel on evolving ecosystems!
🐈⬛ a banquet (presidentially) hosted by yours truly
🔮 the best conference auction
🔗 northeastalgae.org
Looks like iced coffee
Ever considered getting her a Chili’s sticker?
We recently named ours Beatrice after the field engineer who resolved our syringe issues from afar so I celebrated by getting ours a Baskin Robbin’s sticker (aka our flow’s namesake’s initials).
Haven’t put a pyro sticker on her yet…
Logo for the 2026 Northeast Algal Symposium meeting containing mostly macroalgae. The witch hats pay homage to Salem MA being the “witch city”🏙️
Were you so busy celebrating #PhycologyFriday that you maybe forgot to register for the upcoming Northeast Algal Symposium (NEAS)?!
Lucky you! The registration & abstract submission deadline has been extended to March 18! #NEAS2026 🧪
northeastalgae.org/future_ac.php
I’m familiar with that paranoia. I’m sure you were great! Bummed to have missed you in Syracuse!
Looking forward to seeing folks next month at the Northeast Algal Society meeting! Don't forget to register! #neas #seaweed #phycologyfriday
northeastalgae.org/future_ac.php
The best!! It has cool Fe chemotaxonomy!!
lol Paramecium Wars has a catchy ring to it!
Most of our matchups are among Marinobacter, Roseibium, or Alteromonas 🧫
This is also the first rule of my PhD student’s marine bacteria fight club 🤓
The bluesky-less Todd LaJeunesse is someone you could reach out to.
Rebecca Rundell teaches invert zoo at ESF and I’m happy to connect yall, she might have textbook recs
Woohooo! Still editing abstracts with my squad!
Congratulations to my wonderful, bluesky-less PhD student Genevieve Dallmeyer-Drennen on publishing her first lead author paper from her MS on coral diversity in Molecular Ecology! 🪸🧪
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Strong start to the week! Long overdue catch up with @harveyplankton.bsky.social and then met with one of my lab’s wundergrads who told me she set up her excel sheet’s color coding to match the tape labels on her culture experiments. 🤓
I (sadly) haven’t played outside much this winter so I was glad to enjoy the heat wave & take my new sponge hunting gloves for a spin! 🧽
No gemmules found but it was cool to see green lakes not looking green.
Two more #PhycologyFridays to register for the 64th Northeast Algal Symposium (#NEAS) in Salem, MA! 🧪🌊🧙♀️🧹🐈⬛
🔗 www.e-neas.org/future_ac.php
Student sharing a PowerPoint
Student sharing a graphical abstract
Celebrated #PhycologyFriday in lab meeting with project updates & graphical abstracts. Proud #newPI here! 🌊 🧪
I will consider this if you text me back :)))))
The fam’s been sending pictures of Matunuck all day. It is wild!
Come see my talk on coral phospholipids! ME33A-09 in M1. The session is the Impacts of the 4th Global Bleaching Event (2018 to present) on Coral Reef Ecosystems.