I just carried out an anti-biofilm assay with 4 samples of marine macroalgae, including Sargassum sp, Halimeda opuntia, Chaetomorpha linum, and Bryopsis plumosa. It is a good experiment.

Deficiency is a concern for sure, and certain seaweeds are a reliable and healthy natural source of iodine!

Sea Ventures transforms post-harvest fish scraps into protein for animal feeds, formulating complete feeds for various sectors, including aquaculture, poultry, and pets, as founder Faith Mwende explains. Read more here - thefishsite.com/articles/trans… #aquaculture #aquafeed

For me it’s all about the details. Here is a close up of my Irish Moss watercolour illustration #phycologyfriday #seaweed #botanicalillustrator

Sasha Archibald explores the love and longing contained in the pressed and illustrated pages of 19th-century seaweed albums, including “the most ambitious album of all” by Charles F. Durant: publicdomainreview.org/essay/love-and… #seaweed

Seaweed is wonderful 😊 #dulse #Belfast #Holywood #healthysoup #seaweed vegenergise.com/seaweed-baths-…

Seaweed biobanking global workshop youtu.be/WGgSXdLWXsg?si… via YouTube

Happy #phycologyfriday ! Macrocystis gametophyte culture 😍 just a couple of lil friends!

SEADLING, which is based in Malaysian Borneo, sees fermenting seaweed for pet food ingredients as the first step towards unlocking greater value from tropical macroalgae. Read more here - thefishsite.com/articles/how-s… #seaweed #sustainableaquaculture #petfood

Beautiful! Each of these has a plethora of useful bioactive compounds too…naturally!

Belated #phycologyfriday from recent trip to Japan for the Asia pacific phycology forum #appf2024. Managed to visit a colleague in Hokkaido and check out this amazing algae Sparlingia pertusa

SEAWEED DUMONTIA CONTORTA 📷The Atlantic seaweed Dumontia contorta is a red macroalgae growing in intertidal areas from late spring to early summer. Later in the season, its colour turns red to brown, losing its properties. Once gathered, we wash it from impurities and let it

A case of the right place and right time to have an opportunity to look through these extraordinary illustrations from the Nereis Britanica book by botanist John Stackhouse #seaweed #seaweedillustration #algae

Proprietary tech and proprietary strains of seaweed provide a model that's scalable anywhere in the world, says Seadling founder Simon Davis. The post How biotech startup Seadling is turning seaweed into a high-impact cro... AgFunder #agrifoodtech i.mtr.cool/nctcywhaek

Yes indeed! A whole world unto itself!!

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Happy 61st birthday to the great Tracy Chapman. Here is a 24-year-old Tracy Chapman forced to fill in at the last minute and leaving Wembley Stadium in silence with only a guitar and her voice (1988) What a legendary moment.

Yes! If this is what the “lost Liberal decade” looks like….I can’t wait for the next one!! No wonder Canada ranks so high on the ‘best place to live’ charts. ❤️

So many of the pink sea fans we find washed up have marine debris snagged on them. A soft coral, pink sea fans are nationally protected. This one has rope and bungee cord tangled up in it. As they only grow 1cm a year, this one is probably some 30 years old.