Michelle Jungbluth, PhD
@drshellyj.bsky.social
Oceanographer, plankton ecologist, marine molecular ecologist, environmental scientist, fish biologist, lifelong naturalist
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“Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to change. It’s not”- The Lorax
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“Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to change. It’s not”- The Lorax
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The truth is, the government has been shutting down since January. Mass illegal firings, withholding funds, censorship, corruption. Making this fight about medicaid subsidies is fine. But no democrat should be voting to fund a dictatorship.
Call your dems and tell them to hold the line
5calls.org
Call your dems and tell them to hold the line
5calls.org
October 4, 2025 at 4:32 PM
The truth is, the government has been shutting down since January. Mass illegal firings, withholding funds, censorship, corruption. Making this fight about medicaid subsidies is fine. But no democrat should be voting to fund a dictatorship.
Call your dems and tell them to hold the line
5calls.org
Call your dems and tell them to hold the line
5calls.org
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💡 Think carefuly about the analytical choices made when relating #eDNA #concentrations to species #abundance and #density!
⚠️ We show that a variety of (suboptimal) methods are used to investigate these relationships, and that these problematic statitiscs lead to flawed outcomes
👇 #OA article below
⚠️ We show that a variety of (suboptimal) methods are used to investigate these relationships, and that these problematic statitiscs lead to flawed outcomes
👇 #OA article below
August 22, 2025 at 3:19 PM
💡 Think carefuly about the analytical choices made when relating #eDNA #concentrations to species #abundance and #density!
⚠️ We show that a variety of (suboptimal) methods are used to investigate these relationships, and that these problematic statitiscs lead to flawed outcomes
👇 #OA article below
⚠️ We show that a variety of (suboptimal) methods are used to investigate these relationships, and that these problematic statitiscs lead to flawed outcomes
👇 #OA article below
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🚨New paper out in PNAS🚨
Soil eDNA reflects regionally dominant species rather than local composition of tropical tree communities 🧬🌿🌳🌺🧬
We asked about the spatial scale of biodiversity captured by samples of DNA from tropical soils #Luquillo #eDNA. A short 🧵....
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Soil eDNA reflects regionally dominant species rather than local composition of tropical tree communities 🧬🌿🌳🌺🧬
We asked about the spatial scale of biodiversity captured by samples of DNA from tropical soils #Luquillo #eDNA. A short 🧵....
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
PNAS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
www.pnas.org
August 20, 2025 at 2:39 PM
🚨New paper out in PNAS🚨
Soil eDNA reflects regionally dominant species rather than local composition of tropical tree communities 🧬🌿🌳🌺🧬
We asked about the spatial scale of biodiversity captured by samples of DNA from tropical soils #Luquillo #eDNA. A short 🧵....
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Soil eDNA reflects regionally dominant species rather than local composition of tropical tree communities 🧬🌿🌳🌺🧬
We asked about the spatial scale of biodiversity captured by samples of DNA from tropical soils #Luquillo #eDNA. A short 🧵....
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Reposted by Michelle Jungbluth, PhD
This is very important to the #eDNA community:
The Darwin Core Maintenance Group is inviting comments to the proposed extensions to Darwin Core format, which make the format much more malleable/easier to work with eDNA data
gbif.github.io/dwc-dp/
The Darwin Core Maintenance Group is inviting comments to the proposed extensions to Darwin Core format, which make the format much more malleable/easier to work with eDNA data
gbif.github.io/dwc-dp/
Darwin Core Review
Proposed Conceptual Model, Data Package guide, and term changes
gbif.github.io
September 18, 2025 at 9:45 AM
This is very important to the #eDNA community:
The Darwin Core Maintenance Group is inviting comments to the proposed extensions to Darwin Core format, which make the format much more malleable/easier to work with eDNA data
gbif.github.io/dwc-dp/
The Darwin Core Maintenance Group is inviting comments to the proposed extensions to Darwin Core format, which make the format much more malleable/easier to work with eDNA data
gbif.github.io/dwc-dp/
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Trump links autism and Tylenol: is there any truth to it?
Helpful 🧪 explainer by @helenpearson.bsky.social & @heidiledford.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Helpful 🧪 explainer by @helenpearson.bsky.social & @heidiledford.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Trump links autism and Tylenol: is there any truth to it?
The US president calls the widely used painkiller, also known as paracetamol, ‘a very big factor’ in autism, but scientists say that strong evidence is lacking.
www.nature.com
September 22, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Trump links autism and Tylenol: is there any truth to it?
Helpful 🧪 explainer by @helenpearson.bsky.social & @heidiledford.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Helpful 🧪 explainer by @helenpearson.bsky.social & @heidiledford.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Reposted by Michelle Jungbluth, PhD
Reposted by Michelle Jungbluth, PhD
“Many scholars from historically overexploited countries (often referred to as the global south) expected that exposing the problem would trigger change. Four years on, I see it clearly: the scientific system was never designed for equity,” writes Dolors Armenteras in Nature. #Academicsky 🧪
Equity in science is a beautiful lie — and I’m done pretending
Science isn’t really moving towards equity; institutions are just perfecting the appearance of equity. We need to build an alternative system.
go.nature.com
September 21, 2025 at 10:37 PM
“Many scholars from historically overexploited countries (often referred to as the global south) expected that exposing the problem would trigger change. Four years on, I see it clearly: the scientific system was never designed for equity,” writes Dolors Armenteras in Nature. #Academicsky 🧪
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RFK Jr.’s new report that claims it will make childen healthy again ignores the number one cause of death for childen in the United States: gun violence.
Fellow Defend Public Health member @brucemirken.mas.to.ap.brid.gy talked to the LA Times about this.
We didn’t ignore it in our IHAT report.
Fellow Defend Public Health member @brucemirken.mas.to.ap.brid.gy talked to the LA Times about this.
We didn’t ignore it in our IHAT report.
Kennedy commission child health report ignores gun violence, the leading cause of child death
HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said violence could be fault of antidepressants, social media and video games, but not guns.
www.latimes.com
September 10, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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The Trump administration announced plans to roll back protections that had reserved millions of acres of public land for conservation and recreation.
September 10, 2025 at 6:29 PM
The Trump administration announced plans to roll back protections that had reserved millions of acres of public land for conservation and recreation.
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International Seabed Authority to investigate The Metals Company
oceanographicmagazine.com/news/interna...
oceanographicmagazine.com/news/interna...
International Seabed Authority to investigate The Metals Company - Oceanographic
The landmark decision has been earmarked as a critical step in protecting the deep sea - recognised as the common heritage of humankind.
oceanographicmagazine.com
August 8, 2025 at 5:16 PM
International Seabed Authority to investigate The Metals Company
oceanographicmagazine.com/news/interna...
oceanographicmagazine.com/news/interna...
Got my kiddos out with our #observerfilm frame this weekend while at our local playground 💜🛝🌲🍃🦖 my daughter chose what to frame 🥰
June 13, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Got my kiddos out with our #observerfilm frame this weekend while at our local playground 💜🛝🌲🍃🦖 my daughter chose what to frame 🥰
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This is what is happening to the US scientific enterprise.
Lyft driver picked me up from UNC, turned out he was a medicinal chemistry post-doc in a building near mine, until his grant got cut last month.
Worked on novel antivirals.
Worked on novel antivirals.
June 5, 2025 at 4:51 AM
This is what is happening to the US scientific enterprise.
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A win! A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration’s attempt to eliminate Job Corps a Department of Labor program that provides job training to young people entering the workforce.
June 5, 2025 at 12:42 AM
A win! A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration’s attempt to eliminate Job Corps a Department of Labor program that provides job training to young people entering the workforce.
Reposted by Michelle Jungbluth, PhD
May 8, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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“Kennedy has made it clear that certain deaths are acceptable or even preferable to a world where every child is vaccinated” - @laurenleffer.bsky.social for @theverge.com 🧪
Under RFK Jr., ‘Make America Healthy Again’ means junk science like ‘survival of the fittest.’
Read more from @laurenleffer.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/health/66136...
Read more from @laurenleffer.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/health/66136...
May 6, 2025 at 6:56 PM
“Kennedy has made it clear that certain deaths are acceptable or even preferable to a world where every child is vaccinated” - @laurenleffer.bsky.social for @theverge.com 🧪
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A Western diet slows gut microbiome recovery after antibiotics, making hosts more vulnerable to infections. A fiber-rich diet, but not fecal transplants, can enable fast and full recovery. www.nature.com/articles/s41... #GutHealth 🧪
May 6, 2025 at 7:30 PM
A Western diet slows gut microbiome recovery after antibiotics, making hosts more vulnerable to infections. A fiber-rich diet, but not fecal transplants, can enable fast and full recovery. www.nature.com/articles/s41... #GutHealth 🧪
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Dangerous Idiot Trump Wants More Deep-Sea Mining That Helps Corporations and Threatens Ecosystems and Wildlife www.thepetitionsite.com/277/623/464/...
Sign Petition: Trump Wants More Deep-Sea Mining That Helps Corporations and Threatens Ecosystems and Wildlife
We must save ocean ecosystems from destruction and the greedy attacks of profit-hungry corporations!
www.thepetitionsite.com
May 5, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Dangerous Idiot Trump Wants More Deep-Sea Mining That Helps Corporations and Threatens Ecosystems and Wildlife www.thepetitionsite.com/277/623/464/...
Reposted by Michelle Jungbluth, PhD
Remember this when #DeepSeaMining companies boast about how they are ready to mine:
"The study looked at a 400-square-metre impact site but the ISA has granted 17 exploration contracts to would-be miners covering a total area of 1.28 million square kilometres"
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05...
"The study looked at a 400-square-metre impact site but the ISA has granted 17 exploration contracts to would-be miners covering a total area of 1.28 million square kilometres"
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05...
'Inherently destructive': Trump's deep-sea mining order sparks backlash
Scientists and legal experts warn against commercial deep-sea mining as US President Donald Trump signs an executive order opening up both US and international waters.
www.abc.net.au
May 5, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Remember this when #DeepSeaMining companies boast about how they are ready to mine:
"The study looked at a 400-square-metre impact site but the ISA has granted 17 exploration contracts to would-be miners covering a total area of 1.28 million square kilometres"
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05...
"The study looked at a 400-square-metre impact site but the ISA has granted 17 exploration contracts to would-be miners covering a total area of 1.28 million square kilometres"
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05...
Reposted by Michelle Jungbluth, PhD
NO. NO HE IS NOT. #DeepSeaMining #DefendTheDeep
May 1, 2025 at 5:20 PM
NO. NO HE IS NOT. #DeepSeaMining #DefendTheDeep
Happening now: SFSU EOS Center seminar by Dr. Bob Bowers on #microbial #genomics at #JGI
Zoom link: shorturl.at/5lGot
Zoom link: shorturl.at/5lGot
April 30, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Happening now: SFSU EOS Center seminar by Dr. Bob Bowers on #microbial #genomics at #JGI
Zoom link: shorturl.at/5lGot
Zoom link: shorturl.at/5lGot
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Reposted by Michelle Jungbluth, PhD
"While most sea slugs use a raspy tongue to feed on prey attached to the seafloor, the mystery mollusc uses a cavernous hood to trap crustaceans like a Venus fly trap plant."
(from last year, but still v cool)
🦑 www.mbari.org/news/mbari-r...
(from last year, but still v cool)
🦑 www.mbari.org/news/mbari-r...
MBARI researchers discover remarkable new species of swimming sea slug • MBARI
A new nudibranch species is the first known to inhabit the ocean’s midnight zone and has unique adaptations for life in this environment.
www.mbari.org
April 23, 2025 at 12:24 PM
"While most sea slugs use a raspy tongue to feed on prey attached to the seafloor, the mystery mollusc uses a cavernous hood to trap crustaceans like a Venus fly trap plant."
(from last year, but still v cool)
🦑 www.mbari.org/news/mbari-r...
(from last year, but still v cool)
🦑 www.mbari.org/news/mbari-r...
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⚠️ Course deadline extension ⚠️
The last day to apply for the AI@MBL course this summer is now April 30!
📲 Read more and apply: bit.ly/43vIT0u
#ScienceStartsHere
The last day to apply for the AI@MBL course this summer is now April 30!
📲 Read more and apply: bit.ly/43vIT0u
#ScienceStartsHere
April 16, 2025 at 10:26 PM
⚠️ Course deadline extension ⚠️
The last day to apply for the AI@MBL course this summer is now April 30!
📲 Read more and apply: bit.ly/43vIT0u
#ScienceStartsHere
The last day to apply for the AI@MBL course this summer is now April 30!
📲 Read more and apply: bit.ly/43vIT0u
#ScienceStartsHere
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You can submit public comments on the proposed change to the Endangered Species Act. Please read the attached for how to do that. 🌎🦑🌿
www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
Rescinding the Definition of “Harm” Under the Endangered Species Act
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) and the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) (collectively referred to as the Services or we) are proposing to rescind the regulatory definition of "harm" ...
www.federalregister.gov
April 17, 2025 at 12:20 PM
You can submit public comments on the proposed change to the Endangered Species Act. Please read the attached for how to do that. 🌎🦑🌿
www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
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“So this is my radical proposal for universities: Act like universities, not like businesses. Spend your endowments. Accept more, not fewer students. Open up your campuses and expand your reach not by buying real estate but by bringing education to communities. Create a base. Become a movement.” 🧪
Opinion | This Is How Universities Can Escape Trump’s Trap, If They Dare (Gift Article)
It’s been tried in other countries facing authoritarian crackdowns. It works.
www.nytimes.com
April 14, 2025 at 11:56 AM
“So this is my radical proposal for universities: Act like universities, not like businesses. Spend your endowments. Accept more, not fewer students. Open up your campuses and expand your reach not by buying real estate but by bringing education to communities. Create a base. Become a movement.” 🧪