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Siobhan Schenk @siobhanschenk.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

My involvement was only possible due to my PhD supervisor's (Laura W. Parfrey) support by including me in this endeavor. I also want to highlight the additional work Emily G. Aguirre put in to keep us all on track and coordinate with the publisher.

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Siobhan Schenk @siobhanschenk.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

I'm excited to share that for this #phycologyfriday there is a new algae textbook: Advances in Temperate Phyconomy: Algal Harvest and Cultivation in Globally Distributed Temperate Waters link.springer.com/book/10.1007... I helped write chapter 24, which talks about biobanking algae and microbes

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The Kelp Rescue Initiative @kelprescue.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Kelp Rescue is excited to announce the publication of our 1st ever kelp restoration peer-reviewed paper! 🎉Since our start in 2021, we've been testing scientific approaches to kelp restoration, and this paper is the culmination of a huge team effort. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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psaalgae.bsky.social @psaalgae.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Exciting news! Journal of Phycology impact factor has increased to 3.4. Thanks to an amazing editorial team that makes this journal a high-quality publication. #phycologyfriday #seaweed #algae

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Varoon Supratya @varoon-supratya.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Today for #phycologyfriday: two commonly confused PNW kelps next to each other, from the same site (Whiffin Spit, BC). Left is Saccharina latissima, right Hedophyllum nigripes. #marinelife #intertidal #pnw #biology #marinebiology #science #kelp #seaweed

Two large bladed kelps lying next to one another on an eelgrass bed. The left kelp is Saccharina latissima, with a narrower and lighter colored blade and stipe, while the right kelp is Hedophyllum nigripes, with a broad dark blade

A close up of the stipes of two large kelps. Saccharina on the top has a narrow rounded stipe, Hedophyllum nigripes on the bottom has a broad flattened stipe

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Siobhan Schenk @siobhanschenk.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Halosaccion glandiforme at Whiffin Spit. This red algae fills with water, likely to prevent desiccation. 🦑 #PhycologyFriday #Intertidal #tidepools

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Siobhan Schenk @siobhanschenk.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

A more accurate sentence would be: "UBC botanists describe "pink-spot disease" in kelp nurseries." Please fix this on Twitter as well. You can contact the corresponding author and/or UBC researcher listed on the manuscript by email before posting to avoid this in the future.

Cultivation of kelp and other macroalgae is a growing industry in North America. In the well established macroalgal growing regions in Asia and Africa, macroalgal disease cause crop losses, placing a significant economic burden on growers. As kelp cultivation intensifies in North America, disease prevalence is expected to increase in tandem. Here, we describe the prevalence and bacterial community associated with a novel disease of kelp in the land based nursery stage that is characterized by bright pink spots, termed pink-spot disease. With input from the kelp-growing community through an online survey, we show that pink-spot disease has been widely observed in Canada and the United States on nursery cultivation spools of the kelps Saccharina latissima, Alaria marginata, Nereocystis luetkeana, and Macrocystis

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Endless @extraunknown.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

Fresh lawn fawn

A baby deer hunkered down and hiding in a freshly cut lawn. Long eyelashes and big ol ears

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Siobhan Schenk @siobhanschenk.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

For this #PhycologyFriday I'm happy to share my ✨new paper✨ about #kelp disease -> rdcu.be/ets28 Pink-spot disease occurs in kelp nurseries across North America and Europe according to our survey and we identified a bacteria (Algicola sp.) as the likely causative agent. 🦑 #aquaculture

A very extreme and unusual presentation of pink-spot disease on a kelp spool

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Varoon Supratya @varoon-supratya.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Lab grown stipeless bull kelp to reduce tangling in tumble culture. Removal of the stipe before the internal cavity inflates results in the cut sealing over to form a "knot" instead of the usual pneumatocyst + stipe #phycologyfriday #kelp #marinebiology #science #algae #seaweed

Three unusual looking bull kelp that lack the usual pneumatocyst and stipe

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🌻OK MR. SUNSHINE!🌻 @entobiologist.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

the new developments on inat inspired me to make a diagnostic thread for every insect order because there's only like 30something of them. going to try and avoid exceptions and extremely technical characteristics when possible. 🧵

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Siobhan Schenk @siobhanschenk.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

I love that after I give Hawthorne head scritches, the fur on his little forehead is all messed up. It looks like he just woke up from the most intense nap. *I fix it for him as the last part of the head massage ritual. #bunny #rabbit #petpics

A grey bunny laying on his stomach in a loaf position with his front paws barely visible. The fluff in between his ears has two finger shaped indents.

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Siobhan Schenk @siobhanschenk.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

My ✨new paper✨ looking at how low salinity and high temperatures alter the bacterial community of sugar #kelp was just published! Lab and field results agree: the overall changes are small, but core taxa decrease under abiotic stress onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #PhycologyFriday 🦑

Part of figure 1 for the paper. There is a map of the field sites and an overview of the lab experiment. Field measurements were temperature and salinity. Lab was only salinity

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Pike Spector (he/him) @baronvonurchin.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

Interested in learning more about innovate restoration and kelp forest ecology? Join me and Tristin as we dive deep into kelp forests and explore ways to help the kelp! #phycologyFriday #marinelife 📅 May 13 | 🕔 5–6 PM 🔗 Register: cirweb.org/calendar/kelp-forest-restoration-webinar

A virtual flyer for an online event titled, “The What, Why, and How of Kelp Forest Restoration” with Pike Spector and Tristin Anoush McHugh. The top image is of intertwined golden brown blades of giant kelp rising towards the sun lit ocean surface. The water is blue and clear. Below is the title of the talk in white letters on a green background. To the right are stacked headshots of a blonde woman above a bearded man in a red beanie

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spencer roberts 🦈 @unpopularscience.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

I will forever be haunted by this footage. Trawling has only been filmed underwater a few times in documentary history, and never with such clarity. What’s so heart-rending about these shots is watching how the animals don’t just get swept up — they swim for their lives. 🌎🦑🧪

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Siobhan Schenk @siobhanschenk.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

They are so beautiful and I know how hard you worked to make them all!!

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Adi Khen @adlysia.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Seaweeds from Victoria, BC, Canada for #PhycologyFriday

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Siobhan Schenk @siobhanschenk.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

For #PhycologyFriday this week let's celebrate #ISS25 and #tidepools. Although tidepools are a harsh environment, I love them because the still water makes it easier to see critters and algae 🦑

A tidepool with a crustose coralline crust, limpets, surfgrass, and some Prionitis

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Siobhan Schenk @siobhanschenk.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Varoon and I keep finding new species after publishing our paper and he will tell you all about it at his #ISS25 poster doi.org/10.1139/cjb-... We keep updating the publicly available data linked in the manuscript with our newest survey data, so it is available for other researchers to use

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Siobhan Schenk @siobhanschenk.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

For #PhycologyFriday I'm promoting my #ISS2025 presentations Talk) How bacteria colonize the #Kelp Saccharina latissima throughout the farming cycle P1) Low-salinity destabilizes the bacterial community of sugar kelp P2) Kelp pink-spot disease is widespread and associated with the bacteria Algicola

A cultivation line of sugar kelp 🦑
The seaweed symposium is an internal conference that combines academics and industry

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Siobhan Schenk @siobhanschenk.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Saw this little cutie while doing the monthly transect sampling yesterday! #nudibranch 🦑

A nudibranch with orange tips and blue stripes crawling on a bed of diatoms

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SK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️‍⚧️ @skwinnicki.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Eastern US let's fucking goooooo We've got hundreds of millions of precious migrants pouring overhead tonight and in the next few weeks. Get those overnight lights off, cats inside, and windows treated (to prevent collisions) to keep my bird friends alive. Get ready for spectacular birding!

Screenshot of the birdcast migration dashboard, found at birdcast.info, showing a map of the continental United States colored by migration intensity, with a large portion of the eastern US, from Texas to souther Ohio, lit up white in the highest intensity color. The prediction says that 378 million birds are predicted to be in the air tonight, the night of April 28th 2025.

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Siobhan Schenk @siobhanschenk.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

A cute slime mould (not a fungi) from a few years ago. #slimemould #fungifriends

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Siobhan Schenk @siobhanschenk.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

@varoon-supratya.bsky.social and I re-used #bunny litter to grow oyster mushrooms and it worked really well. *We did not feed the #bunnies mushrooms #fungifriends #rabbit

Grey bunny looking scared of oyster mushrooms

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Siobhan Schenk @siobhanschenk.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

For #PhycologyFriday this week I'm showcasing some Icelandic fucoids I saw back in 2016. 🦑

Brown algae on dark grey rocks. There is a bit of clear water left in the tide pool

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Siobhan Schenk @siobhanschenk.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Bluesky #birder community, do you know what #bird this feather is from? I found it today in Pacific Spirit Park (BC, Canada). #ornithology #birdwatching

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Siobhan Schenk @siobhanschenk.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Drift Lessoniopsis for #PhycologyFriday. Lessoniopsis lives in very wave exposed areas. If you look closely at the stipes, you will find holes made by burrowing amphipods 🦑🧪🌊

Dark brown kelp with light brown stipes on sand. The stipes are short and woody

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Siobhan Schenk @siobhanschenk.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

#PhycologyFriday I really like the distinct surfgrass and red algae bands, with the macro at the surface a bit further down.

Surfgrass, red algae, and brown algae on a sunny day in clear water

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Dr. Brooke Weigel @brookeweigel.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

You can always report sightings using the Living Snow Project app! But guessing this was from last spring :) wp.wwu.edu/livingsnowpr...

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Living Snow Project – community enabled science to track snow algae blooms across mountains

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Siobhan Schenk @siobhanschenk.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

We did report it!! You're right, it is from July 26th of last year. Everybody report your snow algae ^

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Siobhan Schenk @siobhanschenk.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Some snow algae for #PhycologyFriday. Snow algae has a big effect on the refractive index of snow in the mountains.

Snow that is pink, not white, with some grey rocks in the background

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Varoon Supratya @varoon-supratya.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Antithamnionella spirographidis under a microscope. Collected at Stanley Park during a long term macroalgal survey by @siobhanschenk.bsky.social and I that was recently accepted as a paper cdnsciencepub.com/doi/abs/10.1... #phycologyfriday #marinelife #intertidal #seaweed #marineecology #science

A microscopic view of a filamentous red alga called Antithamnionella spirographidis. The alga is a filament made of cylindrical cells, with a herringbone-like branching pattern and large, round and dark sporangia at the base of each branch

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Siobhan Schenk @siobhanschenk.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Some Codium setchellii on a drift Pterygophora californica holdfast for #PhycologyFriday

Close up of the holdfast. The algae are washed up on sand.

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psaalgae.bsky.social @psaalgae.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

The Phycological Society of America is on BlueSky #algae #seaweed #phycology

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Siobhan Schenk @siobhanschenk.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

I don't go to this site often enough to comment, but there were not very many on the flat that time. This location is part of the dataset published for this manuscript, which has some inverts esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... Also, Hakai is doing invert surveys, so they might know

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Siobhan Schenk @siobhanschenk.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

A purple sea urchin munching on some Hedophyllum sessile for #PhycologyFriday . This was on Calvert Island. #seaurchin #kelp 🦑

A purple sea urchin munching on some Hedophyllum sessile. The tide is out, so the urchin and kelp are out of the water.

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Jeff, Stopping by Woods @jeffontherock.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Slime mold on moss. Northwest Territories, Canada. #slmemould #moss #bryophyte #fungifriends

Photo of an orange slime mold fruiting on a sprig of light green moss. The slime mold looks a bit like a mass of orange fish eggs.

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Siobhan Schenk @siobhanschenk.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

I can't wait to see the finished product!!

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