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Kaitlyn Tonra

@what-a-pisaster.bsky.social
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Phycologist, marine ecologist, scientific diver, postdoc, big fan of kelp farms! 🌊 Lubchenco-Menge Lab @ Oregon State Univ.

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Kaitlyn Tonra @what-a-pisaster.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
It's star season!
View of tidepools, hills, and a partly cloudy sky shortly after sunriseVery tiny baby sea star (Pisaster) on a blue glovePurple and orange Pisaster side-by-side in a barnacle/mussel bed with transect tape and tidepools in the backgroundSeveral Pisaster on a rocky bench, surrounded by mussels, barnacles, and anemones.
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Sarah Finn @romanceofbooks.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
An album of over 200 pressed seaweeds collected by an anonymous Victorian collector. A transcribed poem is pasted as title page, it begins: "Oh call us not weeds, we are flowers of the sea." I saw this at UW-Madison Special Collections 🌊📚 CA 19285 #seaweed #herbarium #naturalhistory
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Matt Bracken @brackenlab.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
A baby giant. 🌊💙 #PhycologyFriday
A young *Macrocystis* is nestled in the red algal turf in the low intertidal zone. This brown seaweed, known as giant kelp, can grow to be more than 45 meters long. Here, golden gas-filled bulbs emerge from a central stipe, each one tipped with a leaf-like brown blade.
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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Reject norms, embrace chaos, liberate science from the structures that wish to control it. Citation Anarchy.
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Cameron Thrash @jcamthrash.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Warming Seawater Temperature and Nutrient Depletion Alters Microbial Community Composition on a Foundational Canopy Kelp Species enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #jcampubs
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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...
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coastalreview.org @coastalreview.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Historian David Cecelski's discovery of photos taken in 1944 of fishermen harvesting seaweed by Beaufort led to a “bit of a deep dive” into the history of agar, seaweed ecology, the wartime crisis that led to seaweed harvesting and the Beaufort agar factory. coastalreview.org/2025/03/when...
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When fishermen harvested seaweed: Beaufort's agar industry | Coastal Review
The curiosity that sparked when historian David Cecelski came across photos taken in 1944 of fishermen harvesting seaweed near Beaufort inspired a “bit of a deep dive" into topics he never imagined st...
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Matt Bracken @brackenlab.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Dead man’s fingers & live man’s fingers. This seaweed is rad because it is “coenocytic;” the entire individual is one, single, multinucleate cell. #Codium #Seaweed #MarineLife 🦑🌊
A tangle of the thick, branching, green coenocytic green seaweed *Codium fragile* - commonly referred to as “dead man’s fingers” - is resting in my hand.
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joe vallino ∫🦠dxdt ≻∫🔥dxdt @mepjoe.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Good turnout for the Stand Up for Science March in Woods Hole, MA. While a small town on Cape Code, Woods Hole hosts 6 premier science institutions that include @mblscience.bsky.social, @whoi.edu, @noaa.gov fisheries, @woodwellclimate.bsky.social, USGS, and @sea1971.bsky.social #standupforscience
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Brian Timmer @scuba-timmer.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
My early submission for #phycologyfriday, a reproductive Mazzaella splendens found in the intertidal this afternoon. Spring has hardly sprung and the seaweed is already getting busy!
A reproductive Mazzaella splendens
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Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
“It’s extremely alarming that grants that have been vetted by the scientific community and deemed important and impactful to understand the world are now being cancelled because of political ideology,” says @lkfazio.bsky.social. “This is direct censorship of scientific research.”
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Exclusive: NIH to terminate hundreds of active research grants
Studies that touch on LGBT+ health, gender identity and DEI in the biomedical workforce could be terminated, according to documents obtained by Nature.
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Kaitlyn Tonra @what-a-pisaster.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Yes things are bad but kelp farms are SO amazing! This is SeaQuester kelp farm in Juneau, Alaska! They're growing super tasty kelp! Supporting local and sustainable food systems! Doing research! Saving the oceans! Learn more about them (and support their work!) at seaquesterfarms.com!
Jonny and Liv prepping to deploy an anchorChecking on baby bull kelp growth! View of the kelp farm and mountains in the backgroundDoing my best as a novice deckhand
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Once again I am suggesting that you break some rules for practice. Get comfortable with breaking rules. When the rules are hurting other people, the right thing to do is break them. We need people who follow their moral code over the rules of their society, university, employer, and government.
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Kaitlyn Tonra @what-a-pisaster.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Mendenhall Glacier in Juneau! Famous for being smaller than it used to be :(
Me, standing on ice and pointing at the glacier!Set of (relatively famous? at least in PowerPoint presentations that mention climate change) photos of Mendenhall Glacier from 1958, 1985, 2003, and 2010. It has gotten much smaller since 1958 :(
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Kaitlyn Tonra @what-a-pisaster.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
(Relatively) blue skies in Sitka! Alaska Mariculture Conference is off to a good start ⛅️
View of snowy mountains from downtown Sitka, AK.
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Kelporama @kelporama.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Varied thrushes
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Cassandra Donatelli @cmdonatelli.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Only 5 days left to submit an application to this summer's #REU - BLINKS program! We're excited to have so many awesome projects lined up 🎉 🦊🦀🪸🐠🌕🌱♻️🌏🌊🤖🐚☁️ Please pass this along and check out our website for project descriptions and application info: fhl.uw.edu/research/sum... @fishguy.bsky.social
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ESA Journals @esajournals.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Ecology's February cover is here — with a refreshing shot by Olivia J. Graham from a study examining herbivores' roles in seagrass disease dynamics Find the issue here: esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/19399170...
Cover of the February 2025 issue of Ecology
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Tom Mumford @kaptnkelp.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Come join us for an exciting deep dive into the world of seaweeds. Priority applications are due February 14, applications submitted after this date will be considered on a rolling basis. #kelp #seaweed #biodiversity #botany
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Kaitlyn Tonra @what-a-pisaster.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
The good news is: kelp gametophytes‼️
Female kelp gametophyte with small sporophytes growing from itMale and female kelp gametophytes!
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Nick Graham @nickajgraham.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Still hope for coral reefs. Using 28-years of data in Seychelles, we find reefs recovering 4-5 years faster from the 2016 bleaching event, than they did after 1998. Also, a reef that had regime-shifted to macroalgae for over 15 years, is recovering to coral. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Increased resilience and a regime shift reversal through repeat mass coral bleaching
Assessing coral reefs across the inner Seychelles islands, using a 28-year dataset, we document faster coral recovery from the 2016 than the 1998 marine heatwave events. Further, a reef that had regi....
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Guy Ballard @guyballard.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Some days you’re the #owl Monday’s you’re the #rat
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Dan Smale @dansmale1.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
is #phycologyfriday a thing on here yet? Maybe it is, maybe it isn't. Either way here is a pic of the golden kelp Laminaria ochroleuca, taken at 12 m depth on a reef near Plymouth Sound, UK. This species is warm-adapted and proliferating in some sites following recent ocean warming 🌱☀️🌊
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
NOAA advances efforts to identify Aquaculture Opportunity Areas
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NOAA advances efforts to identify Aquaculture Opportunity Areas
Today, NOAA Fisheries released two draft programmatic environmental impact statements (PEIS) to support the identification of proposed Aquaculture Opportunity Areas (AOAs) in Southern California and…
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Kaitlyn Tonra @what-a-pisaster.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Time to repost all of my favorite underwater photos! Starting with some bull kelp from Friday Harbor, WA <3
A close-up bull kelp bulb in a kelp forestSeveral bull kelp tangled together with blades waving in the water
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Kaitlyn Tonra @what-a-pisaster.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Finally made it to Bsky! Here are some photos of what I’ve been up to lately—growing baby kelps!
Juvenile kelp sporophytes on seedstring Sunset over the intertidal zone in Maine Kelp gametophytes under a microscope Skinny kelp sporophytes
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Kaitlyn Tonra @what-a-pisaster.bsky.social · 24/02/2023
Learning about phenology and degree-day models has really taken the excitement out of groundhog-based spring timing predictions
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Kaitlyn Tonra @what-a-pisaster.bsky.social · 07/07/2022
It feels like such a scandal to find typos in a published paper
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Kaitlyn Tonra @what-a-pisaster.bsky.social · 10/03/2022
It took 12 hours to upload because the file was so big but if you want to see one of my dive sites with lots of fish here's a video! youtu.be/Ko6pT57QXGM
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Kaitlyn Tonra @what-a-pisaster.bsky.social · 28/08/2019
It’s so much fun to take photos and say I’ll analyze them later but it’s less fun when it’s later and I actually have to analyze them
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Kaitlyn Tonra @what-a-pisaster.bsky.social · 08/08/2019
Some days it's all sea fans and rainbows and other days it's all sunburns and fire coral
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