Caitlin Taylor-Robinson

❗️Job Alert: Deep-Sea Benthic Biologist (Assistant Professor) at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, USA 🌊 Apply by Dec 1, 2025: apol-recruit.ucsd.edu/JPF04175

📷 Auckland Museum Collections (CC) #MarineBiology

Officially started my main data collection, and what a place to start it off 😍🌊🌱 @sosbangor.bsky.social

Yesterday’s drone surveys with the amazing technicians at @sosbangor.bsky.social were a success! A different point of view of the Traeth Melynog meadow 🌊🌱

Great field day yesterday helping Natural Resources Wales map Zostera noltei beds at Traeth Melynog on their yearly survey 🌊🌱

Thread of Starter Packs to network for PhD and postdoc positions in Biology (or adjacent fields)! 🧵

First up: Starter Pack for students looking for PhD positions! go.bsky.app/EFj87fi

A close up of hands using pinning forceps to transfer an Emperor moth specimen to the main drawer which can be seen in the background.

Very excited to say that we are seeking an Assistant Curator to join our entomology team! 😁🪲

For full details on this 2 year fixed-term post, head to our website:
➡️ careers.nms.ac.uk/job/727783

#Entomology #InsectCollection #EntoJobs #MuseumJobs

Linocut portrait of Isabella Aiona Abbott in indigo on cream coloured paper. She’s facing forward at a table in a shirt and sweater vest with a sheet with algae samples on the table. In my print, she is surrounded by algae of the Pacific, all of which appeared in Abbott's research publications, including several species she discovered, or based on images of specimen she personally collected or whose traditional use as food she documented. The algae are in pinks, khaki green and rust.

Happy birthday to #botanist Isabella Aiona Abbott (1919-2010), 🧪🐡👩🏻‍🔬 #histsci renown algae expert, celebrated seaweed cook, devoted teacher & mentor, expert on Hawaiian ethnobotany, 1st Indigenous Hawaiian woman to earn a PhD in science & 1st woman or person of colour to become a full professor on 🧵

Made in Manchester and Leigh: Kathleen Drew-Baker (1901-57), a star botanist at the University of Manchester, made breakthroughs in cultivation of seaweed that saved Japan’s multi-billion pound sushi industry, for which she is commemorated there as ‘Mother of the Sea’. 1/6

Beautiful day, beautiful meadow 🌊🌱

Cannot wait to use this knowledge in my rockpooling, I’ve definitely found a new appreciation for Red algae

Day 4 ending on #phycologyfriday with more sample ID, and lectures on green algae cladophorales, coralline algae and maerl!

Day 3 included great talks on brown algae and red algae by Dr Juliet Brodie, and a trip to the marina to collect a variety of other samples! And ending with a lovely group BBQ!

Day 2 involved sorting through our field samples, a trip out into the sound to look at Kelp forests with an ROV, and lectures on non-natives! (And a little nosey at some mangroves!)

Day 1 was an introduction to seaweeds, pressing seaweeds and a trip to Renney rocks to collect some samples!

Homebound after an amazing few days in Plymouth on the Seaweed ID course ran by @bps-algae.bsky.social and @plymouthuniccc.bsky.social. Ending #phycologyfriday on a very high note!

This is a new image from #JWST.

The bright points with spikes are stars in the Milky Way.

Everything else is a galaxy.

Everything. Else. Is. A. Galaxy.

Functional traits are moderate predictors of above‐ and below‐ground biomass in multispecies seagrass habitats Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.

🚨 NEW paper alert!
#Seagrass #functional #traits act as predictors of #biomass, albeit moderately. Study conducted across 1500 km coastline.
Main #biodiversity mechanism driving seagrass #biomass stock is through dominance.

@tvarminne.bsky.social @uwaoceans.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1111/1365...

Signs of a good weekend include lizards, anemone, nudibranchs and sunshine 🦎🌊

Warming Seawater Temperature and Nutrient Depletion Alters Microbial Community Composition on a Foundational Canopy Kelp Species Microbiome composition on the canopy kelp Nereocystis luetkeana in the northeast Pacific Ocean is affected by warming temperatures and nitrogen limitation. Following experimental manipulation of temp...

✨ New paper alert! ✨ We found that the #kelp #microbiome is disrupted in a warming ocean! 🌊🌡️ #Temperature had a larger effect than #nitrogen. Thanks to lead author Nichos Molnar, Robin Fales @intertidaleco.bsky.social & Cathy Pfister! enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Closeups of historical seaweed pressings from the University Herbarium in Berkeley for #PhycologyFriday

Also found a tiny blue rayed limpet, my first time finding one in North Wales 🥰

Beautiful day for fieldwork with the 1st year undergraduates looking for dog whelks @sosbangor.bsky.social

Monthly macroalgal surveys reveal a diverse and dynamic community in an urban intertidal zone Baseline data are critical to measuring how communities shift in response to climate change and anthropogenic activity. However, baseline macroalgal biodiversity data are lacking for many areas of Bri...

The full manuscript is available now! cdnsciencepub.com/doi/10.1139/...

PhD student in Natural Resources and Sustainable Development, focus on marine biodiversity - Uppsala University PhD student in Natural Resources and Sustainable Development, focus on marine biodiversity, Department of Earth Sciences, Uppsala University

🌊Open PhD student position in Natural Resources and Sustainable Development with a focus on marine biodiversity

Deadline 4 April 2025🫧🐟🌱

www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...

Seagrass Zostera marina in Baltic Sea showing blue carbon, photo credit Pekka Tuuri

The GEOMAR seagrass team is hiring. Time to make coastal restoration long-term sustainable. A fully funded 4-yr PhD position on eelgrass seascape genomics in the Baltic Sea, further details see here www.geomar.de/en/karriere/... @geomarkiel.bsky.social DM me for inquiries

🚨 New research 🚨 (and the first paper from my PhD)

How do we define good vs. degraded marine ecosystems? Our study evaluated four methods for setting ecological thresholds—and not all are equally reliable. 🌊🧵 (1/4)

New paper hot of the press for #phycologyfriday !!!! 🌱🌊🌞We conducted a warming experiment in the field to test stress responses of the intertidal habitat forming seaweed Fucus serratus: nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Risks of habitat loss from seaweed cultivation within seagrass | PNAS Risks of habitat loss from seaweed cultivation within seagrass

#Seaweed farming has many potential benefits, but scaling these farms cannot be at the expense of other habitats (e.g. #seagrass) that support people! In our short letter, me, @eklof.bsky.social, @zosterar.bsky.social & others discuss why caution is needed.

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Painted Wentletrap snail (Epitonium tinctum) with a highly scalloped, long white shell, and a cute little face.

Threaded Bittium (Neostylidium eschrichtii) snail with a yellowish shell and a cute mostly long white face with darker stripes.

A Velutinid snail (Family Velutinidae) with its mottled white mantle covering its thin inner shell, and a cute face mostly translucent face with yellow spots on it.

A tiny Pear Marginella (Granulina margaritula) snail, with its colorful black and orange and blue and yellow mantle partway up its yellowish-pink shell, a long translucent foot with a yellow stripe sticking out the back, and a cute little translucent-ish white-ish face with some yellow.

Okay but hear me out: intertidal snails have the cutest faces. #tidepools #snails