what is a seaweed? miserable pile of chloroplasts

He/They | late 20s | pnw im a grad student in phycology and sometimes i make memes about it. this is a sideblog so I can't follow back from here! ask box & submissions open. I'm happy to try to ID seaweeds for you, but no promises

[rudebisco]

new pinned post welcome to my seaweed blog! i mostly post about algae, with some occasional posting about general marine bio, terrestrial botany, and academia-related topics

housekeeping:

Transphobes, racists, zionists and other bigots of any kind aren't welcome and will be blocked on sight

Feel free to repost my memes/joke posts offsite (tho I'd appreciate a credit/link), but please don't repost my photos or art without permission. I'd also prefer you didn't repost on tumblr without asking me, since, you know, it's already on here and you could just reblog it

I am a white, mostly-able-bodied settler working & living on the unceded and stolen lands of several different coastal Indigenous peoples. I try to keep this in mind, but I will make mistakes. I welcome constructive feedback!

If you know me irl and you find this blog no you don't <3

main tags:

#rudebisco op - all original posts

#meme - memes, jokes, and shitposts

#my pics - original photo and video posts

#rambling - whatever random bullshit im currently thinking about

other tags:

#phycology - most seaweed/marine botany stuff

#special land algae - land plants/terrestrial botany stuff

#ask - all asks

Non-algae related posts are tagged as #not algae, and reblogs are tagged as #reblog. I can try to tag specific content by request, but I can't promise I won't forget!

[historicalbookimages]

🥗 British sea-weeds London: L. Reeve, 1867. Original source Image description: Illustration from 1867 titled “British sea-weeds,” showing detailed, colored depictions of two types of green algae with broad, ruffled, and serrated fronds attached to small, root-like holdfasts. Each algae has a thick, dark central midrib supporting the textured leaf-like blades. The artwork includes two smaller, detailed insets of cellular structure, emphasizing scientific observation. The style is botanical and naturalistic, typical of 19th-century marine algae studies.

[joeymola]

Some beautiful #pacificgrove #kelp during today’s snorkeling adventure. #macrocystis (at Lovers Point Beach Cove)

[rudebisco]

omg another phycology sstudent here on tumblr ...... hello 👋 hiiiii

omg hiiiii!! it's us against tha world... (psychology fans who can't spell)

[northernpintail]

Heron in the seaweed

[jetix]

2019-06-27

[russell-tomlin]

Oregon Surf

[nemfrog]

Plate XVI. Microscopic algae. Desmids of the United States. Francis Wolle. 1884.

Internet Archive

[skruffie]

Donate to Land back - Preserving Tsurai Village Heritage, organized by Richard Garcia

On behalf of the Tsurai Ancestral Society, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organiz… Richard Garcia needs your support for Land back - Preserving Tsura

Hi everyone! This fundraiser is being used to help a friend of mine and Tsurai is a historically and culturally significant village in traditional Yurok territory, and it would really mean a lot if you can spread the word. If you have money to spare that's great, but getting the word out for this cause is going to be a huge help too. The coastal villages are something very dear to my heart.

[drafthearse]

Mermaid's wine glass (Acetabularia acetabulum)

[highways-are-liminal-spaces]

Tide pooling on Vancouver Island

[theplanthropologist]

Collected seaweeds I found washed up that I attempted to press without much success.

[marine-gifs]

A lobster wades through seaweeds. Filmed in Sweden. From Wild Skagerrak (2016).

[nemfrog]

Plate LXXXVII. Callymenia cribrosa. Icones of Japanese algae v.2. 1912.

Internet Archive

[sexcromancy]

some lowdown on the storms in hawai‘i: there have been two (possibly going on three) straight weeks of historic storms in the hawaiian islands. these are enormous rain dumping weather systems, also bringing wind and high surf. these storms are so bad because they are coming up from the south (called a kona low), rather than east to west as most of our weather moves. some areas have gotten as much as two feet of rain in a matter of hours. because of the unusual direction of the storm, infrastructure and the environment are ill-prepared, and break easier. the worst affected areas right now are the north shore of o‘ahu, and the east and southern shores of hawai‘i island. it is a crazy and still-developing situation as damage is being assessed from this past weekend, and its still raining.

here are some articles on the damage: the wahiawa dam on o‘ahu is one of the biggest stories right now; it is owned by the dole company (owners of former plantation land across the islands) and the company has neglected repair for several years. this is a survey of damage from waienae and hale‘iwa on o‘ahu. this is an accounting of some damage in kona on hawai‘i island. this is a less detailed article about school closures. sadly, there is very little investigative reporting on hawai‘i island and it is hard to find reliable sources. anecdotally, I know many homes are still without power for almost two weeks.

finally, here is a list of places to donate money for recovery efforts. the most important things right now are food and shelter needs for people displaced from their homes. i also have aggregated links to gofundmes etc, but please ask me for those individually; i dont feel comfortable sharing them on the big wide internet. the concern is appreciated; it can be difficult to convey the scale and variety of damage because hawai‘i nei is not very well understood.

[terrible-eel]

The entire state of Hawaii has endured 40 inches of rain with no end in sight. There are multiple flood zones. 233 people have had to be rescued. A levee will most likely break and raise the water level to be 40ft high in some places.

If you want to help, please donate to the housing for homeless project Hui Mahi’ai Aina

And to the no kill animal shelter that needs to evacuate animals Oahu SPCA Veterinary Clinic and Animal Shelter

[yupuffin]

Some of my favorite shots of tidepool critters from my trip to the beach yesterday! We had a pretty great low tide at ~-2.3 so I got to see a bunch of stuff I don't normally see. : )

Featuring: - Ochre star (Pisaster ochraceus) - Sea lemon (Peltodoris nobilis) - Tidepool sculpin (Oligocottus maculosus) - Eelgrass (Zostera marina) - Various kelp species (Alas I am not a kelp expert... if anyone is, feel free to identify them🤣)

Taken on June 28, 2025 at Constellation Park Marine Reserve in Seattle, WA, USA

Bonus:

CRAB! (and fried egg jellyfish, my beloved)