Isako Di Tomassi

Thrilled to share what I’ve been working on lately: launching @bluefutureskelp.bsky.social! Ever since returning to phycology 5 years ago & researching #kelp restoration, I've been hooked, & I’m grateful to be continuing it in this new capacity. Follow along for updates & more kelpy content 🌊

For #PhycologyFriday, check out this Giant Kelp gametophyte culture growing here at Blue Futures Kelp! Grown from spores collected in T’Sou’ke territory here on Vancouver Island, and propagating for conservation, education, and potential future research and restoration.

#kelp #restoration #vanisle

#PhycologyFriday

For #PhycologyFriday, some views from the annual Pacific herring spawn dive surveys I’m working this year, exemplifying the importance of seaweeds as fish habitat! Seen in Toquaht and Huu-ay-aht territories, west Vancouver Island

#PhycoFashion #PhycologyFriday 💚🏮🌊

#Philly #WomensDay

“I feel like I’m grieving my mother” Damaris Bello’s mother attended a green card interview—and was deported less than 24 hours later.

Since its creation in 2012, DACA has allowed hundreds of thousands of young undocumented immigrants to live and work in the United States without being subject to deportation.

DACA recipients have generally been spared from immigration enforcement—until now.

‘Shattered’: US scientists speak out about how Trump policies disrupted their careers Researchers lay bare the human toll of lay-offs, funding cuts and attacks on science one year after the president’s return to the White House.

According to AAU's Emily Miller, reductions in PhD cohort sizes due to funding cuts and other disruptions to science "will have direct negative implications for our nation's scientific standing."

Thank you! You guys rock. I love the starter pack, great to see lots of familiar names!

Hey new preprint from the lab and @justingambill.bsky.social’s first-first author paper ‘Untargeted Metabolomics of Plant Samples using HPLC-DAD and Gaussian Mixture Models’ www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Untargeted Metabolomics of Plant Samples using HPLC-DAD and Gaussian Mixture Models Premise: Plants produce millions of different chemical compounds, contributing greatly to their physiology and evolutionary trajectories. Most untargeted metabolomic methods are inaccessible, either d...

My first first author publication is now out on BioRXiv! Super excited to share a new outlook in using the entire UV-VIS spectrum when analyzing plant samples on an HPLC-DAD! Super big thanks to my lab and all those who have helped me get here! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Could we please add @plantdiseaseguy.bsky.social ? He just joined Bsky!

Welcome to Bsky, @plantdiseaseguy.bsky.social!

And congrats on the new role at @cornelluniversity.bsky.social = )

#PlantPathology #Fungi #VegPathology #Phytophthora #PlantPath #PlantScience

Tomato leaves with late blight caused by Phytophthora infestans

Hello friends of science! I’m migrating over here from X. There, I had 3,000 followers enjoying plant pathology content! Please help me rebuild. I’ll post plant disease photos, management info, science & nature content. Kicking off with some tomato late blight caused by Phytophthora infestans.

Sainsbury Laboratory Symposium 2026 logo - Shaping Life-Mechanisms of Morphogenesis. Timelapse of a developing Arabidopsis leaf imaged at 9-12 days old under a confocal microscope, with cells segmented and coloured using MorphographX software. Images by Sarah Attrill.

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#SLS26 Sainsbury Laboratory Symposium | 22-24 Sept 2026 | Cambridge, UK
Theme - Shaping Life: Mechanisms of Morphogenesis!

If you are into Plant Development - join us!

In-person + livestream
Limited fee waivers
www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/sls

#Ithaca residents and those in surrounding areas, please come help us get #FlockOut, come meet today 4:30p at City Hall!

#AntiFlock #StopSurveillance #GetTheFlockOut #FlockOff

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center Fred Hutch is dedicated to the elimination of cancer and related diseases as causes of human suffering and death.

My awesome colleague, @yarimura.bsky.social, is recruiting a postdoc to start at the end of 2026 or early 2027! His lab uses cryo-EM to uncover structural basis of key chromatin events using native complexes isolated from human cells or Xenopus egg extracts!

careers-fhcrc.icims.com/jobs/30706/p...

Stance on Science is a nonpartisan initiative meant to inform the voting community about political candidates’ positions regarding science policy-relevant issues, and also shows how science policies can affect our communities!

Join us for #StanceOnScience where we ask politicians where they stand on #SciencePolicy issues ahead of the midterm elections!

#SciPol #MidtermElections #SciComm

The application period for our 2026 SciComm Excellence Awards is now open.

These awards honor science communicators, journalists, and researchers who communicated issues or advances in science, engineering, and medicine in 2025.

Learn more and apply by April 3: https://ow.ly/HpTP50YoiIy

If Trump declares an "emergency" and rigs the midterms so the GOP wins, there will likely be kinetic civil war.

Americans are armed to the teeth, and there is only so much they can take before the anger reaches a critical mass.

📌 The draft order, which Trump has reviewed, would mandate the use of voter ID and hand-counted ballots, and ban mail-in ballots ahead of the upcoming midterm elections.

BUT

📌 Article I of the Constitution assigns power to regulate elections to state legislatures and Congress, not the executive.

DANGER ⚠️ DANGER

Pro-Trump lawyers are circulating a draft executive order.

The bogus claim: China interfered in 2020 and justifies a national emergency declaration that would give Trump sweeping power over U.S. elections.
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The SAVE Act is built to trip women up. About 69 million married women have names that do not match their birth certificates, and this bill turns that paperwork into a weapon against their voice.

Screw the patriarchy. #SaveActTaxesYourVote
Call Your Senators
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Most important call

White House stalls release of approved US science budgets The US Congress rejected sweeping cuts to science agencies. But the NIH, the NSF and NASA have had their spending slowed.

Can confirm that although #NASA's SDO mission was given a small budget boost by #Congress in the Jan Minibus, we've been told to expect btw a 12.5% and 18% cut. Haven't been able to track down where cuts are coming from (OMB?). This is actively going against Congress.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

🍀 Competition 🍀

💸 Design the logo for next year's International Advances in Plant Virology IAPV 2027
📆 6 - 8th April
📍Cambridge, UK

📧 Send your logo design to jordan@aab.org.uk by 1st May 2026 for your chance to win free registration!

At ever stage of my career, undergrad to Professor, I (unknowingly) had to work with harassers and misogynists that were known to others to be awful. The harm caused to young female scientists continues without consequence or accountability. Turns out it’s not a “leaky pipe” it’s a damn fire hose.

We Fact Checked Trump’s State of the Union So You Don’t Have To Last night, Donald Trump delivered his State of the Union address, which was nothing short of one long fabrication.

We Fact Checked Trump’s State of the Union So You Don’t Have To:

CHRIST this was a bitch to alt text (my phone camera is allergic to this font) but it was worth it so we could enjoy this scorching hot Catholic tea together

they just flat out said the SCOTUS Catholics are going to hell. which we knew, but maybe they’ll hear it from the bishops!

DHS abducts Columbia student from college housing Agents lied about looking for a missing child to enter the building, officials said.

Federal immigration agents detained a Columbia University student on Thursday morning after reportedly gaining access to university housing by falsely claiming they were looking for a missing person, according to Claire Shipman, Columbia’s acting president.