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Philadelphia seniors track air and water pollution to ‘leave a better world’ Members of the Senior Environment Corps wade into streams, peer through microscopes and teach kids how to identify aquatic critters.

The members of Philadelphia's Senior Environment Corps wade into streams, peered through microscopes and teach kids how to identify aquatic critters. (via @whyy.org)

Introduction to Machine Learning in R Join our Live Online Course to explore the key components of Machine Learning and enhance your skills in R.

Transmitting Science offers a course on "Introduction to Machine Learning in R" starting January 9, 2026. Learn to implement ML using {tidymodels}. Learn more: https://www.transmittingscience.com/courses/statistics-and-bioinformatics/introduction-to-machine-learning-in-r/ #course

Public lands and clean drinking water It’s hard to overstate the relationship between federally owned public lands and clean drinking water in the United States. For some 180 million Americans, the water in our faucets began many miles aw...

For some 180 million Americans, the water in our faucets began many miles away in a stream or river, flowing for miles through a public forest or grassland, where rain and melting snow were absorbed, stored, filtered, and cooled to nature’s perfection. www.americanrivers.org/2025/04/publ...

Turkish towel (Chondracanthus exasperatus) is our seaweed of the week! #PhycologyFriday

Red sea grapes, Botryocladia (not to be confused with green sea grapes, Caulerpa) is our seaweed of the week! #PhycologyFriday

Postdoc in Algae biochemistry

🌿 Postdoc in Algae Biochemistry – University of Copenhagen

Join the Algae Biochemistry Group to explore molecular biology, synthetic biology & metabolomics in eukaryotic microalgae.

📅 Apply by 1 Nov 2025

🔗 employment.ku.dk/faculty/?show=164971

#Postdoc #Algae #Biochemistry #SyntheticBiology

Another #rockpool #seaweed that belongs taxonomically plants, but which looks like coral, is this coralline red #alga. Like pink forms below, needs microscopy to identify to species. I find variety of these algal life-forms astonishing, and often strikingly beautiful. Port nam Murrach, near Arisaig.

Ellen Browning Scripps Herbarium Collection Highlights the Intersection Between Art and Science The Smith Seaweed Ecology Lab at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography is showcasing the scientific diversity and natural beauty of seaweeds through the new Ellen Browning Scripps Herbari...

#plants #botany #seaweed #oceanography

'The Smith Seaweed Ecology Lab at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography is showcasing the scientific diversity and natural beauty of seaweeds through the new Ellen Browning Scripps Herbarium Collection. '

today.ucsd.edu/story/ellen-...

Meet the Physicist Who Wrote Over 2,000 Wikipedia Biographies for Women in STEM After noticing a lack of entries on Wikipedia for incredible women throughout history, this incredible woman decided to take matters into her own hands.

Jess Wade is amazing, and it's my absolute honour to be one of the more than 2000 women in STEM whose wikipedia page she started: mymodernmet.com/jessica-wade... 🧪🔭👩‍🔬

#algae #seaweed #PhycologyFriday

The iconic giant kelp (Macrocystis pyrifera) for #PhycologyFriday!

Golden blades and bladelets of the feather-boa kelp with the sun shining through them.

#Kelp, illuminated. #Egregia #PhycologyFriday #MarineLife 🦑🌊

Huge blooms of #Sargassum #seaweed are swamping #WestAfrica's coasts - causing mayhem for local communities and disrupting #fishing, #tourism, and livelihoods.

A #NewStudy by PML's Dr Yanna Alexia Fidai provides the first attempt to map their patterns: pml.ac.uk/news/why-is-...

Our article about Sea lettuce #seaweed biodiversity is now published in TAXON: "Incorporating historic specimens to reassess Ulva diversity in the Netherlands and Belgium"
We found Ulva shanxiensis, a freshwater species, for the first time outside China!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Please take a look at our new article on the reassessment of the taxonomic status of Dictyoteae algae from Japan. Congratulations to Dr. Christophe Vieira on this excellent work!

Christophe Vieira et al. 2025.
Journal of Phycology
DOI: 10.1111/jpy.70084
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Anyone out there for #PhycologyFriday? Using this photo from my stash- #freshwater #algae Thorea. An absolutely beautiful 😍 press. Have a wonderful weekend everyone.

😍 #PhycologyFriday #seaweedsaturday

#PhycologyFriday

Photograph of a generic white guy with a beard and dressed in black. He is stood in front of a light brown cliff of layered rock. There is a bulbous layered stromatolite fossil microbial growth next to his head. The guy is doing double thumbs up. He is very excited.

The first named #stromatolite from the Triassic of Germany. #Geology #paleontology

#PhycologyFriday #MarineLife 🦑🌊

Shero! #PhycologyFriday 🌊🦑

Well done! I am trying to do the same. I make sure I lift ‘tiny weights’ twice a week. Nothing is more important! Stay healthy!

Changes in phosphorus concentration and flux from 2011 to 2023 In major U.S. tributaries to the Laurentian Great Lakes Reducing phosphorus (P) flux to the Great Lakes is critical for improving water quality and controlling eutrophication. We used 13 water years (2011–2…

Changes in phosphorus concentration and flux from 2011 to 2023 In major U.S. tributaries to the Laurentian Great Lakes

#GreatLakes 🧪

"Spring accounted for the largest share of annual P flux in most tributaries"

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

#PhycologyFriday #SciArt 🌊🦑🐡

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We see you!

This week’s United Nations meeting featured the launch of the UN Global #Seaweed Initative! #PhycologyFriday #MarineLife 🌊🦑

The Queen of Limu! 👑 #PhycologyFriday #MarineLife 🌊🦑

I miss #PhycologyFriday! Lovely plate that a former student gave to me. As well as a bead #Batrachospermum that my son made for my b-day.

The important beach deposit habitat, with Phycoids accumulating at the beach, crating a great feeding are for seabirds. #PhycologyFriday