Matt Bracken
@brackenlab.bsky.social
Marine biodiversity - https://faculty.sites.uci.edu/biodiversity/ - he/him/his
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Matt Bracken
@brackenlab.bsky.social
· Mar 4
It is amazing to have this field site only a few minutes from my home & campus! #MarineLife #Seaweed 🌊
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Some of y'all know I have a hobby in nature photography but this is the crown Jewel I took in 2018
December 26, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Some of y'all know I have a hobby in nature photography but this is the crown Jewel I took in 2018
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Wanted to be sure you appreciated this art is crap because I don’t practice nor am trained at such illustrations but I did not use gAI.
December 26, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Wanted to be sure you appreciated this art is crap because I don’t practice nor am trained at such illustrations but I did not use gAI.
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A slow motion Christmas sea angel 👼🪽taken by Jamie with some of our dive-collected specimens from the Gulf of California #zooplankton #oceanography 🌊
December 26, 2025 at 8:15 PM
A slow motion Christmas sea angel 👼🪽taken by Jamie with some of our dive-collected specimens from the Gulf of California #zooplankton #oceanography 🌊
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Happy holidays Bsky! - from the MICOlab and our Pyrodinium ❤️🌊 #microbialsky #microsky #phytosky animation by recent MICOlab graduate @lydiaruggles.bsky.social
December 25, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Happy holidays Bsky! - from the MICOlab and our Pyrodinium ❤️🌊 #microbialsky #microsky #phytosky animation by recent MICOlab graduate @lydiaruggles.bsky.social
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Marble to quarter size hail in Sacramento.
December 25, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Marble to quarter size hail in Sacramento.
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Scutiphora pedicellata, the metallic shield bug, is as good a candidate for an official Christmas bug as I’ve seen. Wilson’s Promontory, Australia.
December 25, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Scutiphora pedicellata, the metallic shield bug, is as good a candidate for an official Christmas bug as I’ve seen. Wilson’s Promontory, Australia.
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So reindeer (Rangifer tarandus) can't fly, but they are VERY MAGICAL.
For example, their EYES CHANGE COLOR during the year & they're one of the few large mammals that can see UV. Golden brown in summer, deep blue in winter.
Let's talk about the unique visual adaptations of Rudolph and company.
For example, their EYES CHANGE COLOR during the year & they're one of the few large mammals that can see UV. Golden brown in summer, deep blue in winter.
Let's talk about the unique visual adaptations of Rudolph and company.
December 20, 2025 at 11:36 PM
So reindeer (Rangifer tarandus) can't fly, but they are VERY MAGICAL.
For example, their EYES CHANGE COLOR during the year & they're one of the few large mammals that can see UV. Golden brown in summer, deep blue in winter.
Let's talk about the unique visual adaptations of Rudolph and company.
For example, their EYES CHANGE COLOR during the year & they're one of the few large mammals that can see UV. Golden brown in summer, deep blue in winter.
Let's talk about the unique visual adaptations of Rudolph and company.
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0.00003 foot tall xmas tree from a Drosophila flight steering muscle 🎄
image by @anne-sustar.bsky.social
image by @anne-sustar.bsky.social
December 24, 2025 at 11:34 PM
0.00003 foot tall xmas tree from a Drosophila flight steering muscle 🎄
image by @anne-sustar.bsky.social
image by @anne-sustar.bsky.social
In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there…
December 25, 2025 at 7:30 AM
In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there…
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December 24, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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Flash Flood Warnings now in effect for most of SoCal Transverse Ranges as powerful storm slowly into the region. Rainfall has been torrential already in Santa Barbara/Ventura counties, but mostly light in LA. That will change soon, and flood risk will sharply rise. #CAwx
December 24, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Flash Flood Warnings now in effect for most of SoCal Transverse Ranges as powerful storm slowly into the region. Rainfall has been torrential already in Santa Barbara/Ventura counties, but mostly light in LA. That will change soon, and flood risk will sharply rise. #CAwx
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Pack your bags, charge your batteries, #InverteFest begins at midnight your time.
If you're going out to spot critters, join our community science project here: www.inaturalist.org/projects/inv...
If you're going out to spot critters, join our community science project here: www.inaturalist.org/projects/inv...
December 24, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Pack your bags, charge your batteries, #InverteFest begins at midnight your time.
If you're going out to spot critters, join our community science project here: www.inaturalist.org/projects/inv...
If you're going out to spot critters, join our community science project here: www.inaturalist.org/projects/inv...
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Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵
Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
December 19, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵
Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
#MarineLife #SciArt 🦑🌊🐡🦀
Today's advent collage is of a sturdy orange crab amongst the kelp. Facing away from us he stares at a shoal of orange and yellow fish who swim before a midnight blue coral stabbed sea.
December 20, 2025 at 2:34 AM
#MarineLife #SciArt 🦑🌊🐡🦀
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Dictyota coriacea (“Y-branched algae”) is our seaweed of the week! #PhycologyFriday
December 19, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Dictyota coriacea (“Y-branched algae”) is our seaweed of the week! #PhycologyFriday
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Mother in the nest with her chicks.
Cladonia #lichen with a little nearby Juniper Haircap Moss. Northwest Territories, Canada. #fungi #fungifriends #moss #bryophyte #botany
Cladonia #lichen with a little nearby Juniper Haircap Moss. Northwest Territories, Canada. #fungi #fungifriends #moss #bryophyte #botany
December 18, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Mother in the nest with her chicks.
Cladonia #lichen with a little nearby Juniper Haircap Moss. Northwest Territories, Canada. #fungi #fungifriends #moss #bryophyte #botany
Cladonia #lichen with a little nearby Juniper Haircap Moss. Northwest Territories, Canada. #fungi #fungifriends #moss #bryophyte #botany
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Y'all, I just got out of the NSF-BIO webinar where they explained changes to peer review. It's not good. 🧪 scienceforeveryone.science/changes-to-n...
Changes to NSF peer review
They're not good. At all.
scienceforeveryone.science
December 18, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Y'all, I just got out of the NSF-BIO webinar where they explained changes to peer review. It's not good. 🧪 scienceforeveryone.science/changes-to-n...
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I hear that the bird of the day is groups. Surf scoters, a few thousand, floating into Imperial Beach, CA in early November 2023. A day I’ll never forget.
December 17, 2025 at 9:36 PM
I hear that the bird of the day is groups. Surf scoters, a few thousand, floating into Imperial Beach, CA in early November 2023. A day I’ll never forget.
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This looks incredible and I ABSOLUTELY will be going to see it
December 18, 2025 at 6:48 PM
This looks incredible and I ABSOLUTELY will be going to see it
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Here's our reporting on the proposed dismantling of the jewel of US atmospheric science, @ncar-ucar.bsky.social.
The plan is to break NCAR apart and disburse some parts to other locations (like the research aircraft fleet) and eliminate others.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
🧪 #AGU25 #climate
The plan is to break NCAR apart and disburse some parts to other locations (like the research aircraft fleet) and eliminate others.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
🧪 #AGU25 #climate
Trump team plans to break up ‘global mothership’ of climate science
Much of the National Center for Atmospheric Research’s non-climate portfolio will be dispersed, the White House says.
www.nature.com
December 17, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Here's our reporting on the proposed dismantling of the jewel of US atmospheric science, @ncar-ucar.bsky.social.
The plan is to break NCAR apart and disburse some parts to other locations (like the research aircraft fleet) and eliminate others.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
🧪 #AGU25 #climate
The plan is to break NCAR apart and disburse some parts to other locations (like the research aircraft fleet) and eliminate others.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
🧪 #AGU25 #climate
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Hearing for Thakur v. Trump (over terminated grants for University of California researchers) starting now: www.courtlistener.com/docket/70459...
Zoom link: cand.uscourts.gov/judges/rfl/l...
I'll try to follow along live.
Zoom link: cand.uscourts.gov/judges/rfl/l...
I'll try to follow along live.
Thakur v. Trump, 3:25-cv-04737 - CourtListener.com
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December 18, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Hearing for Thakur v. Trump (over terminated grants for University of California researchers) starting now: www.courtlistener.com/docket/70459...
Zoom link: cand.uscourts.gov/judges/rfl/l...
I'll try to follow along live.
Zoom link: cand.uscourts.gov/judges/rfl/l...
I'll try to follow along live.
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Published!📖
Population loss of a key foundation species at its trailing range edge will have significant impacts on temperate rocky shore communities on both wave-exposed and sheltered shores🌊
Read more:https://buff.ly/mZttcjw
Population loss of a key foundation species at its trailing range edge will have significant impacts on temperate rocky shore communities on both wave-exposed and sheltered shores🌊
Read more:https://buff.ly/mZttcjw
December 18, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Published!📖
Population loss of a key foundation species at its trailing range edge will have significant impacts on temperate rocky shore communities on both wave-exposed and sheltered shores🌊
Read more:https://buff.ly/mZttcjw
Population loss of a key foundation species at its trailing range edge will have significant impacts on temperate rocky shore communities on both wave-exposed and sheltered shores🌊
Read more:https://buff.ly/mZttcjw
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Another shrimply silly nature drawing for #ArtAdventCalendar 🐡
December 17, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Another shrimply silly nature drawing for #ArtAdventCalendar 🐡