Jordan Thakar
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Jordan Thakar
@jordanthakar.bsky.social
M.Sc. Candidate at McGill University | Geomicrobiology | Studying microbial oil degradation in arctic sea water⛄🦠
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“These are no longer future scenarios. They’re our present conditions.”
The Arctic winter is no longer reliably frozen ❄️
While Arctic amplification has been predicted for decades, it’s another thing to stand in it — watching ecosystems shift and field methods fail under your feet 🌧️
These are no longer future scenarios.
They’re our present conditions.
July 24, 2025 at 6:30 AM
Reposted by Jordan Thakar
Our new consensus statement on reducing and reporting contamination in microbiome studies is the cover image of this month's Nature Microbiology: www.nature.com/articles/s41... In the cover photo, you can see our postdoc Sophie Holland in fully PPE sampling the atmosphere of terrestrial Antarctica.
July 3, 2025 at 3:22 PM
This serves as a reminder that Inuit sovereignty is the priority, and despite the value of this site for western science, there is a large swath of priorities and values to communities living there. Damage and profiteering from these landscapes will have justified consequences.
Very happy to see the attention given to this work 👇⚒️🧪 that was also presented to #AGU24. Access to the Nuvvuagittuq Greenstone Belt is now restricted due to thoughtless damage (not by these scientists) described below www.science.org/content/arti...
June 27, 2025 at 10:21 PM