Amelie

Buena Vista Social Club

It looks like it has 9 legs? Seems problematic!

Sea palms - *Postelsia palmaeformis* - growing on a Northern California rocky reef. These stubby, amazing kelps grow in some of the most wave-exposed intertidal habitats, capitalizing on disturbances in the mussel beds to grow. They really do look like little palm trees, with long, shaggy blades growing from the tops of their hollow stipes. Somewhat astonishingly - though it makes sense once you consider their hollow stipes - their closest relative is the huge, canopy-forming bull kelp, *Nereocystis luetkeana*.

Amazing work showcasing the value of long-term monitoring data: Gerraty et al. document declines in the sea-palm #kelp #Postelsia associated w/ the 2014-16 northeast Pacific heatwave & failure to recover due to expansion of mussel beds during the seastar-wasting epidemic. 🤯🌊🦑 doi.org/10.1002/eap....

High-resolution Planet Dove data identify local drivers of kelp canopy persistence - Communications Earth & Environment High-resolution kelp canopy maps from a convolutional neural network showed that kelp persistence after a marine heatwave was linked to pre-heatwave persistence, cooler sea surface temperatures, shall...

“We … created annual 3 m resolution maps from 2017 to 2024 across California.… [K]elp persistence … following a marine heatwave was … associated w/ persistence before the heatwave, cooler sea surface temperatures, shallow habitats, & reduced fragmentation.” #kelp 🌊🦑 www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Mark Ruffalo seems to be on the right track?

6 bad doodles with text under each one. horseshoe crab is literally the animal horseshoe crab. shoehorse crab is a crab riding a shoe, cowboy style. crabshoe horse is a horse wearing literal crabs as shoes. shoecrab horse is a horse telling a crab to go away. crabhorse shoe is a pair of shoes, left one crab shaped, right one horse shaped. horsecrab shoe is literally the same pair of shoes, flipped.

#InvertebrateShitposting as per @joabaldwin.com's request

Some other gems from our kids school...

Music teacher: Ms. Key🎹🎼
French teacher: Mrs. Baguette 🥖

What else have we got people?

I wish this existed when I was teaching students about peer review. Kudos to you and your colleagues.

Well done @biolumijeffence.bsky.social and colleague. This is an approachable and thorough resource that is worth a read by anyone engaged with reviewing academic work. 👏

Pepe is the best! Good choice 👌

One mother for two species via obligate cross-species cloning in ants - Nature In a case of obligate cross-species cloning, female ants of Messor ibericus need to clone males of Messor structor to obtain sperm for producing the worker caste, resulting in males from the same mother having distinct genomes and morphologies.

It's never occurred to me that it IS an assumption. This is the most astonishing start to a paper I've read in years:

"Living organisms are assumed to produce same-species offspring. Here, we report a shift from this norm in Messor ibericus, an ant that lays individuals from two distinct species."

What the WTO’s deal to curb fisheries subsidies means and what it could achieve For decades, government subsidies have helped industrial fishing fleets to expand, often with little regard for sustainability.

"We’re now closer to that goal. Putting an end to billions in fishing subsidies would restore fish stocks, support coastal communities & improve ocean health for all. The job is not yet done." @drrashidsumaila.bsky.social & @drdanielskerritt.bsky.social theconversation.com/what-the-wto...

Oh no! My phone now compulsively corrects my name to "Christmas" in all my emails.

A New Citizen Science Project Tracks Gull Diets - American Birding Association A new citizen science project called Gulls Eating Stuff invites public submissions of gulls eating anything to help researchers study urbanization’s effects on gull diets and behavior.

Have you ever seen a gull eat something weird?

A new citizen science project, Gulls Eating Stuff, is tracking what gulls gobble, and anyone can participate! Submit your photos, explore the observations of other gullers, and help document the changing diets of gulls for science.

AI, peer review and the human activity of science When researchers cede their scientific judgement to machines, we lose something important.

A few months ago, Nature published how-to guide for using ChatGPT to write your peer reviews in 30 minutes.

This is, of course, a horrible idea. Here’s my response with @jbakcoleman.bsky.social .

I'm sure you made their day. We did exactly that 4 years ago, and it's the best. Kids weigh 55 & 70 lbs now, and it still works great to get around.

My coffee is telling me that I need to go camping 🔥⛺️.

I'm 3 for 6 on this stack! I keep a few around to prop up my monitor, so those don't count.

Beautiful 😍. I've spent a few unforgettable nights at Deer Park over the years, but never with lights like that!

Can kelp forests help tackle climate change? Highly productive kelp forests are being touted as a natural climate solution, but do we know enough to count them as such?

Can kelp forests help tackle climate change? 🌿

A study led by University of Victoria researchers suggests that Canadian kelp forests may export up to 400,000 metric tons of carbon to the deep ocean each year.
theconversation.com/can-kelp-for...

@uvicscience.bsky.social @ca.theconversation.com

New national blueprint for kelp forests as blue carbon - UVic News Kelp forests may offer an untapped option for natural climate solutions, a new study led by University of Victoria shows. Kelp forests may offer an untapped option for natural climate solutions, a new...

🌿 You’ve probably heard forests help fight climate change by storing carbon—but what about underwater forests?

Learn how the underwater kelp forests that line Canada’s coastlines may offer an untapped option for natural climate solutions: news.uvic.ca/media-releas...

@uvicscience.bsky.social

1/ Just in time for #WorldOceanDay:

Check out our new study in #npjOceanSustainability taking critical first look at whether Canada's kelp forests can be a source of natural climate solutions.

We offers a blueprint for other countries looking to do the same.

🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Found in the Fire Swamp, no doubt.

Part of figure 1 for the paper. There is a map of the field sites and an overview of the lab experiment. Field measurements were temperature and salinity. Lab was only salinity

My ✨new paper✨ looking at how low salinity and high temperatures alter the bacterial community of sugar #kelp was just published!

Lab and field results agree: the overall changes are small, but core taxa decrease under abiotic stress

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

#PhycologyFriday 🦑

Postdoc call in Mechanistic Biodiversity Modelling (up to 6 ya) at my lab @unibonn.bsky.social. We focus on modelling terrestrial plant communities, island biogeography, range dynamics, eco-evolutionary feedbacks, diversity gradients, tropical forests, vascular epiphytes. Pls rt! shorturl.at/CL1ny

"Cheers, Chris(tmas)"

Rather than signing with the conventional, "Chris", AI-enabled MS Outlook has recently decided that my emails will be betters signed as "Christmas". Super helpful when writing work emails.

More shots fired in the #causalInference #ecology literature! 🌍

For me: Hansel and Gretel, not cool.

For our kids: anything with a Tomten.