Tiff Stephens

Ah ya, it does remind me of rummy, too. We played a lot at Gold Creek this holiday.

It’s a dilemma! My family plays with a different vintage set during the holidays and it’s always such a treat.

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.

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.

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.

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

Oh heyyy. I can’t believe that you found this! 😅 I really just wanted them print some pics of Keta dog, my fave kelp helper.

*off 🫣

I’ve also seen people that change their tone in effort to not “be condescending” come of as patronizing. I think the simple truth is that it is difficult to correct someone, neutrally, if their ego doesn’t like to be corrected. The same correction hits different people differently.

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

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

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)

Yooo, Canadian seaweed folks in the warming Salish Sea.

Is it a silly idea to contact the WaPo or NY Times or something similar? News and advertisement. This is kind of interesting from a social and science perspective.

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: https://tinyurl.com/yn8797sm

They regularly work with farmers, both attempting to learn how to cultivate bull kelp in a farmed setting.

"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: https://tinyurl.com/46zr4b99

That’s a new term for me but wow did I understand it instantly.

Reskeet with a banger of your dog.

I think a Ganoderma. If you make it to Prince of Wales Island, I’ll take ya out on a boat! 😉

Alternative to mined and/or synthetic fertilizers.

A substance added to plants/crops to increase their health/nutrition/resilience that isn’t only a nutrient fertilizer. In addition to micro- and macronutrients, brown seaweeds have phytohormones that can benefit plant growth. Not sure about microbial benefits, yet.

I’m moving towards supporting a kelp company growing to produce a biostimulant at scale. If you would like to investigate that pathway sometime in the future, lemmeno! We are hoping to install the farm this winter/spring.

You might soon. 🛸😂

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

Fair.

Maybe he normally relies on these, but that doesn’t work so well at a pool party. Exposed!

Pickling salmon and halibut because:

a. It’s delicious
b. My Swedish roots are calling

Thank you for the bounty, Southeast Alaska.

He signed the letter as “X”; is he turning into a supervillain?

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.

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: https://www.sealaskaheritage.org/node/1827

Linnaeus, is that you?