User:Cyanochic

This user is in the last year of their PhD in real life and may not respond swiftly to queries.

Wikiprojects This user participates in WikiProject Algae. This user participates in WikiProject Protista. This user is a participant in WikiProject Evolutionary Biology. This user participates in WikiProject Tree of Life. This user is a member of WikiProject Women scientists. This user is a participant in WikiProject Women in Red

Current Status: Relatively inactive, but checkin ~weekly. I hope to be more active in Summer 2025.

Working on when active

Random WikiProject Algae pages

• Commonly patrol the cleanup listings for the project
• Otherwise I pick pages at my whimsy, trying to focus on improving Stub articles
• Also working on improving Chloroplast to Good article status (see discussion on the Talk page)
• Algae is not a taxonomic term (subpage)

Updating the List of members of the National Academy of Sciences

• See my NAS_Scientists subpage for details on the project (and lots of red linked, definitely notable scientists)
• I started this project as a good "new to Wikipedia" project that I stumbled across, but as a certified achievement hunter, I'm committed now
• Also seems to be a good way to identify notable scientists that do not have pages yet

Future pages and projects

• Trichodesmium - pretty good tbh, but could use some clarification/more accurate descriptions in some places and expanding! Pretty important article!
• Rework diatom morphology section (also get to GA status if chloroplast rework goes well)
• Patrick Kociolek - BLP; phycologist and primarily a diatom taxonomist. I have pretty substantial WP:COI, so if I do write this article, it'll be quite a while down the road.
• Aquaculture of giant kelp - clean up and expand someday
• Watermelon snow and Snow algae - are these the same really? Will need to dig into and maybe expand more. Discussion in 2018 also suggested merge, but I do think there's a solid argument for separate pages.

Endosymbiosis Project

• I'd love to create a category for obligate endosymbionts^{[Note 1]} (e.g. Buchnera aphidicola )

• Endosymbiont needs some major love. I would also like to consider a change to "endosymbiosis" to match the titles of Symbiosis and Ectosymbiosis.
• Chlorococcum amblystomatis
• Gloeomargarita - genus from which chloroplasts evolved^{[Note 2]} I'm shocked this doesn't already exist (although Gloeomargarita lithophora does at least)
• chromatophore (endosymbiotic organelle) - not to be confused with chromatophore—pigmented cells in some animals—or chromatophore—the membrane associated vesicle in some bacteria. (This may just be a part of reworking the Chloroplast article, hence no red link)

Draft and WIP Articles

• none currently

Other Red Linked Scientists of Possible Notability

• Nellie Carter [Wikidata] (or Carter-Montford) - deceased; British botanist - botanical garden ref; book 1, book 2, New or Interesting Algae from Brackish Water, JSTOR search
• Ellwood Cooper [Wikidata] - deceased, American horticulturist/businessman - shocked he doesn't have a page yet. He's credited with bringing eucalyptus trees to California

Miscellaneous

• Useful Wikimedia Commons Figures
• a list of (some of) my favorite random pages

Footnotes

1. Possibly restricted to non-pathogens and possibly host-beneficial. This is a hard line to draw and one day I'll publish a full on opinion/review in a peer-reviewed journal. Just give me 5-10 business years.
2. Highly simplified language for brevity. As always, this is sort of like saying "humans evolved from monkeys" (or my preferred way of saying this incorrectly, "monkeys evolved from humans")