Siobhan Schenk
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Siobhan Schenk
@siobhanschenk.bsky.social
· Jun 27
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
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
Reposted by Siobhan Schenk
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/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
July 16, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
July 16, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Reposted by Siobhan Schenk
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
July 11, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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
Reposted by Siobhan Schenk
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
#marinelife #intertidal #pnw #biology #marinebiology #science #kelp #seaweed
July 11, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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
#marinelife #intertidal #pnw #biology #marinebiology #science #kelp #seaweed
Halosaccion glandiforme at Whiffin Spit. This red algae fills with water, likely to prevent desiccation.
🦑 #PhycologyFriday #Intertidal #tidepools
🦑 #PhycologyFriday #Intertidal #tidepools
July 11, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Halosaccion glandiforme at Whiffin Spit. This red algae fills with water, likely to prevent desiccation.
🦑 #PhycologyFriday #Intertidal #tidepools
🦑 #PhycologyFriday #Intertidal #tidepools
July 10, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Reposted by Siobhan Schenk
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
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
June 27, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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
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
Reposted by Siobhan Schenk
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
#phycologyfriday #kelp #marinebiology #science #algae #seaweed
June 13, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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
#phycologyfriday #kelp #marinebiology #science #algae #seaweed
Reposted by Siobhan Schenk
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. 🧵
June 11, 2025 at 4:30 AM
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. 🧵
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 🦑
Lab and field results agree: the overall changes are small, but core taxa decrease under abiotic stress
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#PhycologyFriday 🦑
May 30, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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 🦑
Lab and field results agree: the overall changes are small, but core taxa decrease under abiotic stress
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#PhycologyFriday 🦑
May 11, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Reposted by Siobhan Schenk
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
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
May 10, 2025 at 2:52 AM
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
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
Reposted by Siobhan Schenk
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.
🌎🦑🧪
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.
🌎🦑🧪
May 9, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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.
🌎🦑🧪
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.
🌎🦑🧪
They are so beautiful and I know how hard you worked to make them all!!
Honoured to have been able to make speaker gifts for the 2025 international seaweed symposium! #phycologyfriday #iss25 #pottery #ceramics #kelp
May 9, 2025 at 2:51 PM
They are so beautiful and I know how hard you worked to make them all!!
Reposted by Siobhan Schenk
Seaweeds from Victoria, BC, Canada for #PhycologyFriday
May 9, 2025 at 7:03 AM
Seaweeds from Victoria, BC, Canada for #PhycologyFriday
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 🦑
May 9, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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 🦑
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
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
A very unexpected find: Laminaria ephemera at Stanley Park in a seaweed diversity survey quadrat! I'll be presenting on this project (and others) at #ISS25 - see comments for details.
#phycologyfriday
#phycologyfriday
May 2, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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
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
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
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
May 2, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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
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
April 30, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Reposted by Siobhan Schenk
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!
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!
April 28, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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!
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!
April 26, 2025 at 11:00 PM
April 24, 2025 at 2:37 AM
@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
*We did not feed the #bunnies mushrooms
#fungifriends #rabbit
April 21, 2025 at 2:31 PM
@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
*We did not feed the #bunnies mushrooms
#fungifriends #rabbit