Joana MacLean
@jttmaclean.bsky.social
MicroBiologist 🙆🏽♀️🦠🔬working on plastic-pollution in soil @RilligLab Berlin. Interested in our future live in the plastisphere - of human and microbes
Good words
„Science describes accurately from outside; poetry describes accurately from inside. Both celebrate what they describe. We need the languages of both to save us from stockpiling endless “information” that fails to inform our ignorance or our irresponsibility.“
Ursula K. Le Guin
„Science describes accurately from outside; poetry describes accurately from inside. Both celebrate what they describe. We need the languages of both to save us from stockpiling endless “information” that fails to inform our ignorance or our irresponsibility.“
Ursula K. Le Guin
September 23, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Good words
„Science describes accurately from outside; poetry describes accurately from inside. Both celebrate what they describe. We need the languages of both to save us from stockpiling endless “information” that fails to inform our ignorance or our irresponsibility.“
Ursula K. Le Guin
„Science describes accurately from outside; poetry describes accurately from inside. Both celebrate what they describe. We need the languages of both to save us from stockpiling endless “information” that fails to inform our ignorance or our irresponsibility.“
Ursula K. Le Guin
Last Saturday, I hosted the reading group "Come into My Niche: On Microbes and Intimacy" 💚 @HKWBerlin. We unraveled concepts of #microbial niche separation, co-evolution of #microbiomes, violence of anti-microbial & colonial language and looked for a more (microbe)inclusive concept of the human self
September 23, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Last Saturday, I hosted the reading group "Come into My Niche: On Microbes and Intimacy" 💚 @HKWBerlin. We unraveled concepts of #microbial niche separation, co-evolution of #microbiomes, violence of anti-microbial & colonial language and looked for a more (microbe)inclusive concept of the human self
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🟢 We are looking for journalists reporting on #climate #disinformation
📝 Apply if you have research ideas on the threat of climate denialism, the relation between big tech & climate obstruction or similar 👇 eu.boell.org/en/climate-d...
⏳ Deadline: 9 Sept 2025, 23:59 CEST
@zorasiebert.bsky.social
📝 Apply if you have research ideas on the threat of climate denialism, the relation between big tech & climate obstruction or similar 👇 eu.boell.org/en/climate-d...
⏳ Deadline: 9 Sept 2025, 23:59 CEST
@zorasiebert.bsky.social
Climate disinformation media fellowship 2025 | Heinrich Böll Stiftung | Brussels office - European Union
For the third time, Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung European Union | Global Dialogue, in partnership with the Heinrich Böll Foundation, Washington, DC, is looking for a select number of journalists reporting o...
eu.boell.org
July 29, 2025 at 6:04 PM
🟢 We are looking for journalists reporting on #climate #disinformation
📝 Apply if you have research ideas on the threat of climate denialism, the relation between big tech & climate obstruction or similar 👇 eu.boell.org/en/climate-d...
⏳ Deadline: 9 Sept 2025, 23:59 CEST
@zorasiebert.bsky.social
📝 Apply if you have research ideas on the threat of climate denialism, the relation between big tech & climate obstruction or similar 👇 eu.boell.org/en/climate-d...
⏳ Deadline: 9 Sept 2025, 23:59 CEST
@zorasiebert.bsky.social
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Over the past few years, our PlastChem team has worked tirelessly to map the chemical complexity of #plastics. Today, we publish the findings in @nature.com. We hope this evidence propels the development of safer plastics to protect human health and environment. 1/4
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Mapping the chemical complexity of plastics - Nature
An inventory of 16,325 known plastic chemicals, including >4,200 hazardous compounds, supports the development of safer plastics.
www.nature.com
July 9, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Over the past few years, our PlastChem team has worked tirelessly to map the chemical complexity of #plastics. Today, we publish the findings in @nature.com. We hope this evidence propels the development of safer plastics to protect human health and environment. 1/4
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Next weekend we will explore the microscopic water worlds of Panke river in the north of Berlin (Wedding). Join us on 21/22 June for the workshop and our microbial water parade on Sunday 22. June. With @artlaboratoryb.bsky.social and @berlinualliance.bsky.social
Join us on 21/22 June for the festival "BODIES OF WATER.
Learning from the River Panke through Art, Science, and Storytelling" featuring the DIY Hack the Panke collective and scientist from the Berlin universities. a cooperative project with BUA artlaboratory-berlin.org/events/bodie...
Learning from the River Panke through Art, Science, and Storytelling" featuring the DIY Hack the Panke collective and scientist from the Berlin universities. a cooperative project with BUA artlaboratory-berlin.org/events/bodie...
BODIES OF WATER. - Art Laboratory Berlin
The festival explores themes around urban waterways, in context of the ongoing series ON WATER | PARCOURS by the Berlin University Alliance (BUA). With the art science collective "DIY Hack the Panke" ...
artlaboratory-berlin.org
June 15, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Next weekend we will explore the microscopic water worlds of Panke river in the north of Berlin (Wedding). Join us on 21/22 June for the workshop and our microbial water parade on Sunday 22. June. With @artlaboratoryb.bsky.social and @berlinualliance.bsky.social
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Klima-Appell von Wissenschaftler_innen in Deutschland an die Politik - jetzt noch bis Donnerstag, 13.03.2025, 10 Uhr mitzeichnen! www.bayceer.uni-bayreuth.de/s4f/de/top/o...
March 10, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Klima-Appell von Wissenschaftler_innen in Deutschland an die Politik - jetzt noch bis Donnerstag, 13.03.2025, 10 Uhr mitzeichnen! www.bayceer.uni-bayreuth.de/s4f/de/top/o...
Reposted by Joana MacLean
Synthesis of 14C-Labeled #Polyethylene #Terephthalate and Generation of 14C- #Nanoparticles for Fate and Disposition Studies
analyticalsciencejournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
analyticalsciencejournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Synthesis of 14C‐Labeled Polyethylene Terephthalate and Generation of 14C‐Nanoparticles for Fate and Disposition Studies
14C-labeled polyethylene terephthalate (PET) was synthesized via the polycondensation of terephthaloyl chloride and 14C-labeled ethylene glycol. The synthesized [14C]-PET was used to produce [14C]-PE...
analyticalsciencejournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
March 9, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Synthesis of 14C-Labeled #Polyethylene #Terephthalate and Generation of 14C- #Nanoparticles for Fate and Disposition Studies
analyticalsciencejournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
analyticalsciencejournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
What do plants have to do with politics? Where does art meet climate change? 🌱🐛
A very intriguing interdisciplinary and international Master program “MA Environment and Society” by LMU Munich and @carsoncenter.bsky.social is currently open for applications until Mar 10,2025.
A very intriguing interdisciplinary and international Master program “MA Environment and Society” by LMU Munich and @carsoncenter.bsky.social is currently open for applications until Mar 10,2025.
About the Master of Arts Environment & Society - MA in Environment and Society - LMU Munich
www.environmentmaster.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de
February 18, 2025 at 9:57 AM
What do plants have to do with politics? Where does art meet climate change? 🌱🐛
A very intriguing interdisciplinary and international Master program “MA Environment and Society” by LMU Munich and @carsoncenter.bsky.social is currently open for applications until Mar 10,2025.
A very intriguing interdisciplinary and international Master program “MA Environment and Society” by LMU Munich and @carsoncenter.bsky.social is currently open for applications until Mar 10,2025.
Reposted by Joana MacLean
Paper just out:
Guo et al.
Soil depth and fertilizer shape fungal community composition in a long-term fertilizer agricultural field
Work funded by BMBF - BonaRes
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Guo et al.
Soil depth and fertilizer shape fungal community composition in a long-term fertilizer agricultural field
Work funded by BMBF - BonaRes
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Soil depth and fertilizer shape fungal community composition in a long-term fertilizer agricultural field
Soil fungal communities are vital in agro-ecosystems, driving organic matter decomposition and nutrient cycling, yet their distribution across soil de…
www.sciencedirect.com
February 12, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Paper just out:
Guo et al.
Soil depth and fertilizer shape fungal community composition in a long-term fertilizer agricultural field
Work funded by BMBF - BonaRes
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Guo et al.
Soil depth and fertilizer shape fungal community composition in a long-term fertilizer agricultural field
Work funded by BMBF - BonaRes
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Reposted by Joana MacLean
Plastics are vital in farming, but what's the cost? Our blog reveals the growing problem of #plasticpollution in agricultural soils, impacting key organisms like bees & springtails. Learn more: https://buff.ly/4hyzKb8
#agriculture #microplastics #soilhealth
#agriculture #microplastics #soilhealth
Plastic use in agriculture | Minagris
MINAGRIS, over the next 5 years, will explore the impacts of plastic debris on agricultural soil health. This blog explains what plastics are, the extent to which they are used in agriculture across…
buff.ly
February 7, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Plastics are vital in farming, but what's the cost? Our blog reveals the growing problem of #plasticpollution in agricultural soils, impacting key organisms like bees & springtails. Learn more: https://buff.ly/4hyzKb8
#agriculture #microplastics #soilhealth
#agriculture #microplastics #soilhealth
Reposted by Joana MacLean
Parallel zum WELT-Wirtschaftsgipfel sind mittlerweile Proteste angekündigt. Gut so. Hier gibt es die Infos dazu: /10
www.demokrateam.org/aktionen/rec...
www.demokrateam.org/aktionen/rec...
Demo gegen Rechts in Berlin, Berlin » Rechte Elite beim exklusiven WELT-Wirtschaftsgipfel? Wir kommen alle!
Wir als breites Aktionsbündnis rufen euch auf, mit uns auf die Straße zu gehen!
www.demokrateam.org
January 23, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Parallel zum WELT-Wirtschaftsgipfel sind mittlerweile Proteste angekündigt. Gut so. Hier gibt es die Infos dazu: /10
www.demokrateam.org/aktionen/rec...
www.demokrateam.org/aktionen/rec...
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Really thankful to all of the scientists who made themselves available to talk to me about the unprecedented situation at NIH.
I've never had so many people reach out to me for a story like this.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
I've never had so many people reach out to me for a story like this.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
What the Hell Is Going on at NIH?
Scientists sound the alarm about Trump’s unprecedented “Big Brother” research crackdown.
www.motherjones.com
January 25, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Really thankful to all of the scientists who made themselves available to talk to me about the unprecedented situation at NIH.
I've never had so many people reach out to me for a story like this.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
I've never had so many people reach out to me for a story like this.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Reposted by Joana MacLean
The Hague. For all of them.
A standing ovation when Trump says, “Drill, baby, drill”—while he attacks climate policy and promises to revoke tax credits for EV cars. Lemmings off the cliff.
January 20, 2025 at 6:50 PM
The Hague. For all of them.
Reposted by Joana MacLean
Science has provided increasing evidence of the sources, distribution & effects of #microplastics
🌎 Global action, reducing and rethinking the way we produce and use plastic are critical
#PlasticsTreaty #INC5
Read more in our multidisciplinary summary in Science
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
🌎 Global action, reducing and rethinking the way we produce and use plastic are critical
#PlasticsTreaty #INC5
Read more in our multidisciplinary summary in Science
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Twenty years of microplastic pollution research—what have we learned?
Twenty years after the first publication that used the term microplastic, we review current understanding, refine definitions, and consider future prospects. Microplastics arise from multiple sources,...
www.science.org
November 20, 2024 at 7:58 PM
Science has provided increasing evidence of the sources, distribution & effects of #microplastics
🌎 Global action, reducing and rethinking the way we produce and use plastic are critical
#PlasticsTreaty #INC5
Read more in our multidisciplinary summary in Science
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
🌎 Global action, reducing and rethinking the way we produce and use plastic are critical
#PlasticsTreaty #INC5
Read more in our multidisciplinary summary in Science
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Better than Christmas 🎄 I’m officially #PhDone with 5 years of research on the #soil #plastisphere. Thank you to all my friends and family, to helpful colleagues and everyone who supported me during this journey at @gfz.bsky.social
December 18, 2024 at 2:27 PM
Better than Christmas 🎄 I’m officially #PhDone with 5 years of research on the #soil #plastisphere. Thank you to all my friends and family, to helpful colleagues and everyone who supported me during this journey at @gfz.bsky.social
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Excellent piece. Worth your time. 👇🏽
When people believe their government is captured by corporate greed, they tend to do some crazy things.
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
Justin Ling: This is the real reason the internet fell in love with accused murderer Luigi Mangione
The online lionization of the accused vigilante is a sign of a deeply troubling societal breakdown, just not the one all the pundits are telling you about.
www.thestar.com
December 14, 2024 at 7:52 PM
Excellent piece. Worth your time. 👇🏽
Paper out in @BioMedCentral
1/ 🌱 We did a first #metatranscriptome study on #biofilm succession in the #soil #plastisphere and tracked #polyethylene (PE) plastics in soil over 53 days. Insights into biofilm dynamics, #plasticdegradation, and nitrogen fixation ahead! 🧵
1/ 🌱 We did a first #metatranscriptome study on #biofilm succession in the #soil #plastisphere and tracked #polyethylene (PE) plastics in soil over 53 days. Insights into biofilm dynamics, #plasticdegradation, and nitrogen fixation ahead! 🧵
December 11, 2024 at 10:14 AM
Paper out in @BioMedCentral
1/ 🌱 We did a first #metatranscriptome study on #biofilm succession in the #soil #plastisphere and tracked #polyethylene (PE) plastics in soil over 53 days. Insights into biofilm dynamics, #plasticdegradation, and nitrogen fixation ahead! 🧵
1/ 🌱 We did a first #metatranscriptome study on #biofilm succession in the #soil #plastisphere and tracked #polyethylene (PE) plastics in soil over 53 days. Insights into biofilm dynamics, #plasticdegradation, and nitrogen fixation ahead! 🧵
Reposted by Joana MacLean
🛑 New study finds:
#microplastic in 89% of the 36 blood samples (mean 4 MPs/mL)
-mostly polystyrene & polypropylene
-significantly higher levels in participants with a greater use of #plastic food containers
-significant alterations in coagulation markers
t.co/sqyoG9yUSh
#microplastic in 89% of the 36 blood samples (mean 4 MPs/mL)
-mostly polystyrene & polypropylene
-significantly higher levels in participants with a greater use of #plastic food containers
-significant alterations in coagulation markers
t.co/sqyoG9yUSh
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-81931-9
t.co
December 9, 2024 at 11:27 AM
🛑 New study finds:
#microplastic in 89% of the 36 blood samples (mean 4 MPs/mL)
-mostly polystyrene & polypropylene
-significantly higher levels in participants with a greater use of #plastic food containers
-significant alterations in coagulation markers
t.co/sqyoG9yUSh
#microplastic in 89% of the 36 blood samples (mean 4 MPs/mL)
-mostly polystyrene & polypropylene
-significantly higher levels in participants with a greater use of #plastic food containers
-significant alterations in coagulation markers
t.co/sqyoG9yUSh
Reposted by Joana MacLean
~32,000 yrs ago a ground squirrel in Siberia stashed some fruit in a burrow, which was later buried & frozen. In the 2000s scientists unearthed the fruit & cultivated its tissue
It grew into this: a Pleistocene ancestor of the narrow-leafed campion (Silene stenophylla)
📷/Study tinyurl.com/3esvztuv
It grew into this: a Pleistocene ancestor of the narrow-leafed campion (Silene stenophylla)
📷/Study tinyurl.com/3esvztuv
December 5, 2024 at 9:29 PM
~32,000 yrs ago a ground squirrel in Siberia stashed some fruit in a burrow, which was later buried & frozen. In the 2000s scientists unearthed the fruit & cultivated its tissue
It grew into this: a Pleistocene ancestor of the narrow-leafed campion (Silene stenophylla)
📷/Study tinyurl.com/3esvztuv
It grew into this: a Pleistocene ancestor of the narrow-leafed campion (Silene stenophylla)
📷/Study tinyurl.com/3esvztuv
Are you into plastic research? Here you go 👇🏾👇🏾
go.bsky.app/9EWeoqx
go.bsky.app/9EWeoqx
December 6, 2024 at 8:20 PM
Are you into plastic research? Here you go 👇🏾👇🏾
go.bsky.app/9EWeoqx
go.bsky.app/9EWeoqx
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It’s out!! We subjected soils from 30 different locations across Europe to extreme events and found that soil fungal and bacterial communities showed consistent responses that could be predicted from their origin! With @knightjar.bsky.social and many collaborators!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Soil microbiomes show consistent and predictable responses to extreme events - Nature
Soils from 30 grasslands across Europe were subjected to 4 contrasting extreme climatic events under drought, flood, freezing and heat conditions, with the results suggesting that soil microbiomes fro...
www.nature.com
November 27, 2024 at 7:47 PM
It’s out!! We subjected soils from 30 different locations across Europe to extreme events and found that soil fungal and bacterial communities showed consistent responses that could be predicted from their origin! With @knightjar.bsky.social and many collaborators!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Finally out 🎉 Our #metatranscriptomics study on biofilm succession on #HDPE and functional genes in the #soil #plastisphere
rdcu.be/d041E
rdcu.be/d041E
Metatranscriptomics of microbial biofilm succession on HDPE foil: uncovering plastic-degrading potential in soil communities
rdcu.be
November 28, 2024 at 2:53 PM
Finally out 🎉 Our #metatranscriptomics study on biofilm succession on #HDPE and functional genes in the #soil #plastisphere
rdcu.be/d041E
rdcu.be/d041E
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Cool webinar on 22 Nov at 16:00 CET.
Calling all #FEMSMicrobiolEcol enthusiasts! Join our webinar on Microbial Impacts of #ClimateChange with Max Häggblom & expert speakers Cornelia U Welte, Susanne Liebner, and Joel E Kostka on 22 Nov!
Free registration here:
us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Calling all #FEMSMicrobiolEcol enthusiasts! Join our webinar on Microbial Impacts of #ClimateChange with Max Häggblom & expert speakers Cornelia U Welte, Susanne Liebner, and Joel E Kostka on 22 Nov!
Free registration here:
us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
November 18, 2024 at 8:17 AM
Cool webinar on 22 Nov at 16:00 CET.
Calling all #FEMSMicrobiolEcol enthusiasts! Join our webinar on Microbial Impacts of #ClimateChange with Max Häggblom & expert speakers Cornelia U Welte, Susanne Liebner, and Joel E Kostka on 22 Nov!
Free registration here:
us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Calling all #FEMSMicrobiolEcol enthusiasts! Join our webinar on Microbial Impacts of #ClimateChange with Max Häggblom & expert speakers Cornelia U Welte, Susanne Liebner, and Joel E Kostka on 22 Nov!
Free registration here:
us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...