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Dr. Brooke Weigel

@brookeweigel.bsky.social
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Assistant Professor of Oceans at Stanford, Hopkins Marine Station 🌊 (she/her) Algae, microbes, kelp conservation weigel-lab.stanford.edu

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Clay Steell @claysteell.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
For #PhycologyFriday, sharing this new publication in @psaalgae.bsky.social Journal of Phycology! doi.org/10.1111/jpy.... Headed by Dr. Lauren Dykman, @cneufeld.bsky.social & @baumlab.bsky.social, with support from Amanda+Rob Zielinski, Matt Csordas, Alex Wiebe, & many more! #kelp #salishsea
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Dr. Brooke Weigel @brookeweigel.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
It was a bit rough today 🌊 , but it’s always good to be on the water! Tagging giant kelp & measuring growth rates! 🤿
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Moi Expósito-Alonso (MOILAB) @mexpositoalonso.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Fantastic Asst Professor positions open across multiple UC Berkeley departments @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social Plant/Algae/Microb aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05522 Plant/Env aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05382 Gen/Dev/Evo aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05481 Eco aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05489
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Assistant Professor – Plant or Macroalgae-Associated Microbial Communities and Interactions - Plant and Microbial Biology
University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!
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Tadashi Fukami @fukamit.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Systems Ecology, a new journal launched today, "run by researchers, for researchers, and is free to read and free to publish, with no article processing charges" systems-ecology.org/index.php/se...
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Systems Ecology
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Dr. Brooke Weigel @brookeweigel.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Sometimes you just need a big tree hug! 1,800-year-old redwood 🌲
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Jenny Reid Art @jennyreidart.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Small kelp painting using larch, burnt sienna and bioluminescence of Salish Sea Watercolors. #golden #blueskyartshow #kelp #watercolor
Watercolor painting of bull kelp underwater
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Dr. Brooke Weigel @brookeweigel.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Had an amazing time at the Microbial Dark Matter Symposium in Laguna Beach! 🧬🦠🔬Thanks @zymoresearch.bsky.social @katrinewhiteson.bsky.social and all of the other organizers! Learned so much about the “know unknowns” and “unknown unknowns” of microbial life!
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Dr. Brooke Weigel @brookeweigel.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Such a fun open house event @stanfordhopkins.bsky.social today! We had over 2,000 visitors and showed algae to hundreds of people! 🌊
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George Matsumoto @georgeimatsumoto.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
🧪📍🌊 🦑🍎 @mbarinews.bsky.social invites applications for in-person postdoctoral fellowships in the fields of biological, chemical, and physical oceanography, marine geology, and ocean engineering. Deadline to apply is 5pm PT on December 2, 2026. www.mbari.org/about/career...
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Postdoc Fellowships • MBARI
Each year, MBARI invites applications for several in-person postdoctoral fellowships in the fields of biological, chemical, and physical oceanography, marine geology, and ocean engineering. MBARI also...
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Dr. Brooke Weigel @brookeweigel.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Come to our Hopkins Open House tomorrow & take a photo! 📸 This was my fun art project! 🎨 @stanfordhopkins.bsky.social
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Dr. Brooke Weigel @brookeweigel.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Come to our @stanfordhopkins.bsky.social Open House this Saturday, September 12! Come explore research on 🪸 coral reefs, 🦈 sharks, 🐋 whales, 🌊 kelp forests, 🦑 squid, ⭐️ echinoderms, and more! Hands-on activities for kids and adults! See below for the research talk lineup
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Dr. Brooke Weigel @brookeweigel.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
It’s good to be home at the lake where I grew up in Wisconsin! ☀️
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Dr. Brooke Weigel @brookeweigel.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
What a time to be a #NewPI in the USA… www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Exclusive: NSF set to issue lowest number of new grants in four decades
The US science-funding agency is withholding $1 billion of its budget so that the money can go to a special White House project.
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Dr. Brooke Weigel @brookeweigel.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
So proud of my undergraduate intern, Mei, for her outstanding work on giant kelp (M. pyrifera vs. integrifolia) thermal physiology! 🌊 Also, beautiful scientifc illustrations of the holdfasts! 🤩 @stanfordhopkins.bsky.social
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Dr. Brooke Weigel @brookeweigel.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Successful boat dive day surveying kelp forests & measuring kelp growth rates underwater! 🤿 🌊
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Dr. Brooke Weigel @brookeweigel.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Doomscrolling news break: cute pic of my dog wearing a hat 🐕
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Jonathan Eisen @phylogenomics.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Job Opening. Faculty Position in Plant Evolutionary Biology at University of California, Davis in the Department of Evolution and Ecology (EVE, my home department). More detail here. recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07777
POSITION DESCRIPTION

The College of Biological Sciences at the University of California, Davis invites applications and nominations for a 9-month, tenure-track position in the Department of Evolution and Ecology at the ASSISTANT PROFESSOR level. The Department of Evolution and Ecology is seeking a plant evolutionary biologist with interests in the evolution of plants at any taxonomic, geographic, organizational, or evolutionary scale. Candidates must have a Ph.D. (or equivalent) in the biological sciences, evolutionary biology, ecology, genetics, or a related field, and will be expected to complement and build upon existing faculty strengths in the Department of Evolution and Ecology and across UC Davis.

We welcome applicants working on any group of plants and using empirical, computational, experimental, and/or theoretical approaches. Possible areas of study are broad, and include macroevolutionary research on plant diversification, trait evolution in a phylogenetic context, major evolutionary innovations, comparative genomics, and evolutionary developmental biology, as well as research focusing at or below the species level including population biology, quantitative genetics, adaptive evolution, speciation, biogeography, and the evolution of life histories or species interactions.

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Dr. Brooke Weigel @brookeweigel.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Thanks to @jkendallbar.bsky.social for hosting an amazing seaweed cyanotype party! 🌊 Now I’m excited to try more fabric prints!
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Dr. Brooke Weigel @brookeweigel.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Diving for kelp forest surveys at Monastery Beach, CA! #NewProfilePic thanks to our dive safety officer, Adam Wendt! 🌊🤿
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Hopkins Marine Station - Stanford University @stanfordhopkins.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Curious about what happens at Hopkins Marine Station? 🌊🔬 Join us September 12th for a FREE Open House hosted by our graduate students! Come explore research on 🪸 coral reefs, 🦈 sharks, 🐋 whales, 🌊 kelp forests, 🦑 squid, ⭐️ echinoderms, and more! Hope to see you there! 🎉!
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Dr. Brooke Weigel @brookeweigel.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Teaching my niece and nephew about kelp 🌊 🥰
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Dr. Brooke Weigel @brookeweigel.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Fun surprise lab breakfast birthday party for my postdoc, Kindall! 🥳
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Dr. Brooke Weigel @brookeweigel.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Maple & I started training for a half marathon today. It’s been a few years since I’ve run in a race, but I’m excited to get back out there! 🏃🏻‍♀️
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@rbaltman @rbaltman.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Former chef turned bioengineer, Vayu Hill-Maini told me that fungi are nature’s biological recycling machines. In this episode, we talked about his work using fungi, CRISPR, and creativity to develop new foods and medicines. Listen below for more. engineering.stanford.edu/news/future-...
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The future of fungi
A former chef turned professor is using gene-editing techniques to make delicious foods, medicines, and other valuable products from fungi.
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Dr. Brooke Weigel @brookeweigel.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Stanford University is searching for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the field of Climate Science 🌎 ✨ Broad search, department may be any within the Doerr School of Sustainability, including Oceans! 🌊 Apply by Nov. 1. Please share! facultypositions.stanford.edu/jobs/assista...
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Assistant Professor in Climate Science - Stanford University, California, United States
Stanford University invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the field of Climate Science. The home department may be any of the seven departments in the Stanford Doerr School of...
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Dr. Brooke Weigel @brookeweigel.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Exploring UC Berkeley’s campus - love the traditional science department buildings! 🔬🍃
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Jessica Kendall-Bar @jkendallbar.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
🐋 Excited to finally share the now-published study that inspired my very first data-driven animation! 🎨 Every frame was created from real humpback whale biologging data using custom Python scripts in Maya & After Effects (no AI) created with my big bro Nick and with music by Connor Vance 🎶
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Patrick McKenzie @patrickmckenzie.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Major #Botany2026 FOMO, but the drive MA->OR starts this week. So, sharing from afar: I’m recruiting grad students for my new lab at OSU! Info: www.mckenzie-lab.org . We're going to have FUN with systematics, speciation genomics, methods, natural history, and more in North Am angiosperms. Reach out!
lab logo with a cartoon of white-flowering beebalm and the following text: "McKenzie Lab, Plant Evolution, Oregon State"
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Dr. Brooke Weigel @brookeweigel.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
The students in my lab have been diving 4/5 days this week! 🌊 Meanwhile, I’m at my desk writing a grant… but so happy that they are collecting awesome data! ☺️ @stanfordhopkins.bsky.social
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Dr. Brooke Weigel @brookeweigel.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Some cute giant kelp gametophytes for #PhycologyFriday! 🌊
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James Dinneen @jamesdinneen.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
It's not quite "gobsmackingly bananas" but monster forecasts for the record El Nino brewing the Pacific Ocean get pretty close. Here's what to make of it in my first for @nature.com: 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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This El Niño is set to be the largest on record by a ‘mind-blowing margin’
Forecasters predict that the monster climate pattern will combine with global warming to push global temperatures in 2027 to new heights.
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Dr. Brooke Weigel @brookeweigel.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
My sister understands… she got me a nudibranch print for my birthday! 🌊
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Dr. Brooke Weigel @brookeweigel.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Happy Birthday / Adoption Day to my cute baby, Maple! 🍁 🐕
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UC San Diego @ucsandiego.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
The closest thing marine taxonomists have to the Olympics is now underway in San Diego. Instead of racing for medals, researchers from @scrippsocean.bsky.social are spending two weeks cataloging the extraordinary diversity of life along the California coast. 🪸 bit.ly/3SxVHjB
Researchers survey the tide pools of La Jolla for the California Intertidal Biodiversity DNA Barcode Library Project. Pictured from left are Austin Hendy (Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County) and Shannon Brown (University of Washington/NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory). Photo: Erik Jepsen/UC San Diego
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Dr. Brooke Weigel @brookeweigel.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Super fun ultimate frisbee tournament last weekend on the beach! 🌊 Such a great frisbee community in the Monterey area!
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Dr. Brooke Weigel @brookeweigel.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
The inaugural Hopkins pickleball tournament begins today! 🏓 @stanfordhopkins.bsky.social
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Dr. Brooke Weigel @brookeweigel.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
🌊✨ Awesome job alert! 🌊✨ NOAA Sanctuaries Resource Protection Coordinator job in Monterey, CA. Applications due soon, on July 23! www.usajobs.gov/job/87690100...
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Resource Protection Coordinator
This position is located in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), National Ocean Service (NOS), Office of National Marine Sanctuaries (ONMS), with two vacancies in Monterey, CA; ...
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Matt Bracken @brackenlab.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Where intertidal rocky reefs are composed of “soft” rock - such as the sedimentary mudstones and sandstones of the Point Arena Formation in Mendocino County, California - sea urchins create circular niches by abrading the substratum. #MarineLife #SwelterShelterNSF 🌊🦑
A bunch of purple urchins (*Strongylocentrotus purpuratus*) in their concave, circular niches, along with one sea anemone (*Anthopleura sola*) taking advantage of an otherwise unoccupied niche. They are surrounded by pink, encrusting coralline algae.
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Adi Khen @adlysia.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
“Iridescent cartilage weed” (Chondria acrorhizophora) is our seaweed of the week! #PhycologyFriday
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Dr. Brooke Weigel @brookeweigel.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Super fun lab opening party for my new lab at Hopkins Marine Station! My students even made me a cyanotype window shade for my lab office!! ☺️ 🌊
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Dr. Brooke Weigel @brookeweigel.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Super beautiful Hopkins rose nudibranch, tidepooling this morning at Asilomar! 🌊
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Dr. Brooke Weigel @brookeweigel.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
The AAUS divers at Hopkins have been busy this week! 🤿 🌊 @stanfordhopkins.bsky.social
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Dr. Brooke Weigel @brookeweigel.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
✨ 📚 Need a good summer read? 📚 ✨ Check out the @stanforddoerr.bsky.social summer 2026 reading list, including a recommendation by yours truly! 🌊 sustainability.stanford.edu/news/19-book...
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19 books for reflection and perspective on sustainability
Summer reading recommendations from Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability scholars span topics from oceans to living with machines, in genres from science fiction to thrillers.
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Dr. Brooke Weigel @brookeweigel.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Super fun fieldwork day at Stillwater Cove! 🤿 🌊 The lab is growing, and everyone is so great! ☺️
Photo of my lab group at the beach, 2 people are in scuba gear, the rest are in fieldwork clothesTwo scuba divers walking into the water on a calm day
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Dr. Brooke Weigel @brookeweigel.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Absolutely stunning hike above Juneau today, and I found some pink snow algae! ❄️🏔️
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ehehenberger.bsky.social @ehehenberger.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Sweet and fatty symbionts: Photosynthetic productivity and carbon storage boosted in microalgae within a host | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... #protistsonsky
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PNAS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
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Dr. Brooke Weigel @brookeweigel.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Such a pretty hike in Juneau! 🏔️😍
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UBC Oceans @ubcoceans.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
The Trump administration is backing off a plan to end an #ocean monitoring system critical to understanding climate change. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/c...
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Trump Administration Backs Off Plan to End Ocean Monitoring
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Dr. Brooke Weigel @brookeweigel.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Having so much fun at #PSA2026 with these fab 5 Assistant Profs of Phycology! 🌊 🌟 @intertidaleco.bsky.social @raemariew.bsky.social @hannahgreich.bsky.social @margaretbrisbin.bsky.social
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