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Tiff Stephens @drkelp.bsky.social · 10/01/2024

I finally got a mahjong set (vintage)! Very excited…and it’s so pretty to look at. 🤩 Hopefully I can find some folks in my small town to play.

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Tiff Stephens @drkelp.bsky.social · 28/10/2023

Can anyone recommend a workshop or short course that would get undergrads or early MSc students up to speed with data management and basic statistics for biological sciences? Preferably not based in R (if even possible 😅), but sure, we can consider R. Global or remote options are great.

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Tiff Stephens @drkelp.bsky.social · 23/09/2023

I’m traveling to the world’s oldest desert to join a kelpy team — looking forward to working with Macrocystis for farming and research ambitions. 😍 Just in time, too…Southeast Alaska is strongly rolling into autumn.

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Bridgette Clarkston @bridgette.bsky.social · 22/08/2023

Hey @drkelp.bsky.social look who I found featured in Kazoo kids’ magazine. Nice one! 🎉

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Tiff Stephens @drkelp.bsky.social · 04/08/2023

Keta Bobeta and me out for an evening cruise. She’s watching the salmon jump and I’m watching the sun set.

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Tiff Stephens @drkelp.bsky.social · 03/08/2023

My husband just spotted a Mola mola on western Prince of Wales Island (southern Southeast Alaska). They’re not unheard of in these parts, coming in with warmer water masses. El Niño ✅ (Screenshot of video = poor photo)

Dorsal fin of a Mola mola (sunfish) protruding out of the seawater.

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Tiff Stephens @drkelp.bsky.social · 02/08/2023

Yooo, Canadian seaweed folks in the warming Salish Sea.

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Tiff Stephens @drkelp.bsky.social · 31/07/2023

Barnacle Foods, a value-added food company that uses seaweeds, is doing great work to document wild kelp beds that they visit for sustainable, wild harvest: tinyurl.com/yn8797sm They regularly work with farmers, both attempting to learn how to cultivate bull kelp in a farmed setting.

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Tiff Stephens @drkelp.bsky.social · 31/07/2023

"Alaska's newest gold rush: seaweed" I'll amend the article by saying that, although the kelps are golden in color, Alaskan businesses are still learning how to build a marketplace that supports sustainable farming operations and commerce. WaPo article, here: tinyurl.com/46zr4b99

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Tiff Stephens @drkelp.bsky.social · 29/07/2023

Reskeet with a banger of your dog.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 28/07/2023

Unless the aliens can help us decarbonize, I don’t care. 👽

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Tiff Stephens @drkelp.bsky.social · 27/07/2023

Pickling salmon and halibut because: a. It’s delicious b. My Swedish roots are calling Thank you for the bounty, Southeast Alaska.

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Tiff Stephens @drkelp.bsky.social · 27/07/2023

It’s a superb time of year to harvest bull kelp for many foods. Pickles and a verde enchilada sauce (not pictured) are my favorite, so far.

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Tiff Stephens @drkelp.bsky.social · 26/07/2023

I was honored to be included in this very important conversation about black seaweed (Pyropia abbottiae), hosted by the Sealaska Heritage Institute. Indigenous communities in the Pacific Northwest are concerned for a critical resource: www.sealaskaheritage.org/node/1827

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Kevin Connor @kevintconnor.bsky.social · 25/07/2023

Story on kelp forest decline and restoration work from The Nature Conservancy CA: “in the past 10 years, 96% of kelp forests in the region have disappeared… From San Francisco to Oregon, nearly all that remains of one of the most productive ecosystems on Earth is an underwater wasteland" 🧪

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The Vanishing Kelp Forest

Unchecked populations of purple sea urchins are devouring California's iconic kelp forests, but pioneering scientists are working to put the ecosystem back in balance.

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Sarah Whorley, Ph.D. 🦬⚔️ @dralgaegirl.bsky.social · 25/07/2023

🧪 So I am stepping down from my AE role at the Journal of Ecology (BES) and they'd like me to recommend someone. So if you are interested in being an AE and you are aquatic/algae/plant-ish, then let me know and I'll pass your name along!

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Kristen DeAngelis 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🍉 @kristenobacter.bsky.social · 25/07/2023

Who’s got the climate news around here?

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Tiff Stephens @drkelp.bsky.social · 25/07/2023

Dr. Catriona Hurd on Forensic Carbon Accounting: a framework for assessing the role of seaweeds in the uptake of atmospheric CO2. A big take home was that we need to better track the air-sea equilibrium after C fixation - that process could take 2-24 months! Listen here: tinyurl.com/2s4ha97h

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Tiff Stephens @drkelp.bsky.social · 25/07/2023

I am happy to break into bluesky! Looking forward to helping build a new science community. *still giggling in kelp*

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