Amina T. Schartup
@aminaschartup.bsky.social
Assoc. Prof. @Scripps Institution of Oceanography| UC San Diego
Scripps Center for Oceans and Human Health (SCOHH)
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https://www.aminaschartup.com
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7fIl-lB6-o
IG: schartup_lab
Scripps Center for Oceans and Human Health (SCOHH)
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https://www.aminaschartup.com
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7fIl-lB6-o
IG: schartup_lab
It pulls more relevant papers now, but often invents interpretations not in them. When pressed for quotes, it admits making things up. Feels more dangerous than the old nonsense …because it sounds right when it’s not 😨
OpenAI’s GPT-5 hallucinates less than previous models do, but cutting hallucination completely might prove impossible
go.nature.com/4gkzr4A
go.nature.com/4gkzr4A
Can researchers stop AI making up citations?
OpenAI’s GPT-5 hallucinates less than previous models do, but cutting hallucination completely might prove impossible.
go.nature.com
September 8, 2025 at 5:14 PM
It pulls more relevant papers now, but often invents interpretations not in them. When pressed for quotes, it admits making things up. Feels more dangerous than the old nonsense …because it sounds right when it’s not 😨
🧪🧪🔥 Well that’s cool! Is this from “our” Noelle Bowlin @scrippsocean.bsky.social ?!
Did you know that we know less about the sea than we do about space? With this comic, we explore some of what scientists do know about Earth's ocean.
COMIC: Exploring the ocean's wonderous, mysterious depths
Did you know that we know less about the sea than we do about space? With this comic, we explore some of what scientists do know about Earth's ocean.
n.pr
July 21, 2025 at 3:31 PM
🧪🧪🔥 Well that’s cool! Is this from “our” Noelle Bowlin @scrippsocean.bsky.social ?!
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We are thrilled to announce that Meenakshi Wadhwa will serve as the Vice Chancellor for Marine Sciences, Director of Scripps Institution of Oceanography, and Dean of the School of Marine, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at @ucsandiego.bsky.social!
July 17, 2025 at 9:15 PM
We are thrilled to announce that Meenakshi Wadhwa will serve as the Vice Chancellor for Marine Sciences, Director of Scripps Institution of Oceanography, and Dean of the School of Marine, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at @ucsandiego.bsky.social!
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Two exceptional Scripps Oceanography scientists are finalists in @sandiegomag.bsky.social's Celebrating Women awards! @zambianseagull.bsky.social is nominated for the STEM-Pioneer award and @aminaschartup.bsky.social is nominated for the STEM-Rising Star award!
Vote here: cw.sdmag.com/stem
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July 17, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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Two exceptional Scripps Oceanography scientists are finalists in @sandiegomag.bsky.social's Celebrating Women awards! @zambianseagull.bsky.social is nominated for the STEM-Pioneer award and @aminaschartup.bsky.social is nominated for the STEM-Rising Star award!
Vote here: cw.sdmag.com/stem
Vote here: cw.sdmag.com/stem
July 16, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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This week, diplomats, scientists & ocean advocates are at the #UNOceanConference in Nice, France. Top issue: Doing a better job of observing the ocean. Scripps Oceanography Director @msleinen.bsky.social is among the signatories of "No Data, No Action," a call by @pogo-ocean.bsky.social. 🧵⬇️
No Data, No Action: Investing in Ocean Observations to Achieve SDG14and a Sustainable Future | Partnership for Observation of the Global Ocean
A Statement from POGO: On 7 June 2025, members of POGO, a global consortium of nearly 60 oceanographic research institutions, will convene in Nice, to discuss the urgent need for sustainably-funded, g...
pogo-ocean.org
June 10, 2025 at 7:53 PM
This week, diplomats, scientists & ocean advocates are at the #UNOceanConference in Nice, France. Top issue: Doing a better job of observing the ocean. Scripps Oceanography Director @msleinen.bsky.social is among the signatories of "No Data, No Action," a call by @pogo-ocean.bsky.social. 🧵⬇️
🧪our paper in @cp-cellhostmicrobe.bsky.social selected as NIEHS papers of the month! 🔥🔥 pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40315838/ @pipethero.bsky.social @scrippsocean.bsky.social
Extramural papers of the month
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June 4, 2025 at 2:26 PM
🧪our paper in @cp-cellhostmicrobe.bsky.social selected as NIEHS papers of the month! 🔥🔥 pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40315838/ @pipethero.bsky.social @scrippsocean.bsky.social
Attempting to replicate a paper using their Methods section be like www.instagram.com/kay_sloany?i...
June 3, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Attempting to replicate a paper using their Methods section be like www.instagram.com/kay_sloany?i...
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🌏 Join us at the #HollywoodClimateSummit! Catch up with Scripps Oceanography marine biologists, geochemists, atmospheric physicists, and researchers for answers to your climate questions.
📅 June 3
🕐 1-2 p.m.
📍Grand Lobby, Samuel Goldwyn Theater
🔗 bit.ly/43QCooC
📅 June 3
🕐 1-2 p.m.
📍Grand Lobby, Samuel Goldwyn Theater
🔗 bit.ly/43QCooC
May 30, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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Waking up in CA and opening your email these days… 4 Harvard emails before 8am, including one from Dept. Environmental Health. You know things are serious…
May 23, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Waking up in CA and opening your email these days… 4 Harvard emails before 8am, including one from Dept. Environmental Health. You know things are serious…
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🌍 Looking for experts in Marine Science, Earth Science, Climate Change, Hazards, Marine Life, Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Oceanography, Coral Reef Ecology, Atmospheric Science, Geophysics, Bioscience and more? Give these leading Scripps Oceanography scientists a follow! ⬇️
May 13, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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🌍 Looking for experts in Marine Science, Earth Science, Climate Change, Hazards, Marine Life, Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Oceanography, Coral Reef Ecology, Atmospheric Science, Geophysics, Bioscience and more? Give these leading Scripps Oceanography scientists a follow! ⬇️
May 13, 2025 at 4:54 PM
🌍 Looking for experts in Marine Science, Earth Science, Climate Change, Hazards, Marine Life, Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Oceanography, Coral Reef Ecology, Atmospheric Science, Geophysics, Bioscience and more? Give these leading Scripps Oceanography scientists a follow! ⬇️
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Everyone needs to understand that dismantling NSF will have devastating long term consequences in our competitiveness and innovation in science, technology and beyond. 1/
Exclusive: NSF faces radical shake-up as officials abolish its 37 divisions
Changes seen as a response to presidential directives on what research to fund
www.science.org
May 9, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Everyone needs to understand that dismantling NSF will have devastating long term consequences in our competitiveness and innovation in science, technology and beyond. 1/
Love a 🧪 time series!
One of the cool things about sustained scientific programs is time series, where we can see how things wax and wane over time. We've been collecting data on Mars long enough to do that for one of its most interesting climatic features - planetary dust storms. 🧪
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
May 7, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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Must-read @thebulletin.org article by Eric Morgan & Ralph Keeling: The Keeling curve, which has continuously tracked atmospheric CO2 levels for *67* years, has always been vulnerable to funding ebbs and flows—but under Trump II, is facing its most dire threat yet
thebulletin.org/2025/05/how-...
thebulletin.org/2025/05/how-...
How the dismantling of NOAA threatens the Keeling Curve
How the Trump administration's dismantling of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration threatens the Keeling Curve, an iconic measure used in climate change research. As explained by the so...
thebulletin.org
May 6, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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Most Americans frequently use federal science information. But few are concerned that cuts to federal science spending could affect their access to such information, a new poll finds.
Most Americans use federal science information on a weekly basis, a new poll finds
Most Americans frequently use federal science information. But few are concerned that cuts to federal science spending could affect their access to such information, a new poll finds.
www.npr.org
May 6, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Most Americans frequently use federal science information. But few are concerned that cuts to federal science spending could affect their access to such information, a new poll finds.
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UCLA and UCSD scientists inserted DNA-encoding methylmercury detoxification enzymes into the genome of an abundant human gut bacterium. The engineered bacterium detoxified methylmercury in the gut of mice and reduced the amount that reached other tissues. newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/red...
May 5, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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Thrilled to share this collaborative work by Kristie Yu, Francis Chandra, Amina Schartup and teams @Scripps_Ocean and @UCLA showing that an engineered gut bacterium can be used to reduce the neurotoxic effects of dietary methylmercury www.cell.com/cell-host-mi...
An engineered gut bacterium protects against dietary methylmercury exposure in pregnant mice
Yu and Chandra et al. engineered a commensal gut microbe, Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron,
to detoxify methylmercury (MeHg). The engineered bacterium reduces MeHg in the intestinal
lumen, limits its accu...
www.cell.com
May 5, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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Reposted by Amina T. Schartup
Thrilled to share this collaborative work by Kristie Yu, Francis Chandra, Amina Schartup and teams @Scripps_Ocean and @UCLA showing that an engineered gut bacterium can be used to reduce the neurotoxic effects of dietary methylmercury www.cell.com/cell-host-mi...
An engineered gut bacterium protects against dietary methylmercury exposure in pregnant mice
Yu and Chandra et al. engineered a commensal gut microbe, Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron,
to detoxify methylmercury (MeHg). The engineered bacterium reduces MeHg in the intestinal
lumen, limits its accu...
www.cell.com
May 2, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Thrilled to share this collaborative work by Kristie Yu, Francis Chandra, Amina Schartup and teams @Scripps_Ocean and @UCLA showing that an engineered gut bacterium can be used to reduce the neurotoxic effects of dietary methylmercury www.cell.com/cell-host-mi...
Reposted by Amina T. Schartup
UCLA and UCSD scientists inserted DNA-encoding methylmercury detoxification enzymes into the genome of an abundant human gut bacterium. The engineered bacterium detoxified methylmercury in the gut of mice and reduced the amount that reached other tissues. newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/red...
May 1, 2025 at 10:28 PM
UCLA and UCSD scientists inserted DNA-encoding methylmercury detoxification enzymes into the genome of an abundant human gut bacterium. The engineered bacterium detoxified methylmercury in the gut of mice and reduced the amount that reached other tissues. newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/red...
Reposted by Amina T. Schartup
#Scialog: Microbiome, Neurobiology and Disease collaborators Elaine Hsiao, UCLA, and Amina Schartup, UCSD, have a new paper in Cell Host & Microbe on an engineered human gut bacterium that shows promise in reducing mercury absorption from seafood. @pipethero.bsky.social @aminaschartup.bsky.social
Engineered Bacterium Could Shield People from Mercury Toxicity
Researchers from UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography and UCLA announced the creation of an engineered bacterium that has the ability to convert the toxic form of mercury present in seaf...
scripps.ucsd.edu
May 5, 2025 at 3:58 PM
#Scialog: Microbiome, Neurobiology and Disease collaborators Elaine Hsiao, UCLA, and Amina Schartup, UCSD, have a new paper in Cell Host & Microbe on an engineered human gut bacterium that shows promise in reducing mercury absorption from seafood. @pipethero.bsky.social @aminaschartup.bsky.social
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🐟 Scripps Oceanography and UCLA researchers have engineered a bacterium with the ability to convert the toxic form of mercury present in seafood — methylmercury — into less toxic forms that are more easily removed from the human body. Learn more. ⬇️
Engineered Bacterium Could Shield People from Mercury Toxicity
Researchers from UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography and UCLA announced the creation of an engineered bacterium that has the ability to convert the toxic form of mercury present in seaf...
scripps.ucsd.edu
May 2, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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