Jen Bowen

Check out this story on work led by recent PhD student Hillary, looking at the role marsh run els can play in maintaining salt marsh ecosystem services.

Collaboration with Shellfishers: an APEAL Seed Project - LTER In October, over fifty attendees at the PIE LTER gathered in a local pub to acknowledge one another's' concerns for issues in the Sound.

lternet.edu/stories/coll... Cool work @pie-lter.bsky.social is doing with soft-shell clam fishers. Love fried clams when visiting coastal New England? Populations are declining and LTER scientists are teaming up with fishers to figure out why. Great job @janetucker.bsky.social @uslter.bsky.social

See @bowenlab.bsky.social Bowen lab undergrad intern Luke Bagdonas demonstrating our #saltmarsh organ set-up in North Inlet-Winyah Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve in April 2023. (Part 1 of 2)

Two years ago, we planted our greenhouse-reared Spartina alterniflora plants into these marsh organs. A marsh organ is a set of PVC pipes at different elevations (they look a little like a pipe organ!). Here are Luke and Stephanie out there planting, at North Inlet and @pie-lter.bsky.social.

If your God identifies as god, human, holy spirit and mysteriously also bread, do you really get to complain about other people’s gender identity 🤔

Brilliant!

8/8. So, if you’re feeling down about these attacks, I understand—I feel that way too. But just remember that they’re not attacking because your work doesn’t matter; they’re attacking *precisely* because it does. So, get some rest, connect with your people, and keep doing it.

Welcome to Meditations in an Emergency We are very clearly in a lot of emergencies right now. They demand action. But action demands thought and thoughtfulness: who are we, what are our values, our goals, our allies, our possibilities, and...

@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social nails it - this is so spot on: "Who while being beneficiaries of unearned privilege imagine themselves as naturally superior even while demonstrating their clownish mediocrity again and again." meditations-in-an-emergency.ghost.io/welcome-to-m....

Rabbit Feared Extinct Spotted For The First Time In 130 Years, And It's Feisty “I was happy to have found a species that was practically extinct to science," expedition leader Alberto Almazán-Catalán told IFLScience.

taking small victories where I find them. www.iflscience.com/rabbit-feare...

Imagine being so small you shut down the nation’s research enterprise (among other things) because it is benefiting from diverse perspectives that don’t singularly focus on making you and your billionaire class even richer. It hurts my brain.

A bird's-eye view of a former Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp showing a wide dirt pathway flanked by parallel rows of barbed-wire fences. Groups of visitors walk along the path, surrounded by the remnants of brick structures and barracks, now reduced to foundations. Green grass contrasts with the somber history of the site, as the path leads toward a guard tower in the distance.

Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers.

This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.

Auschwitz took time.

Twitter post screenshot of the San Miguel Sheriff account. 5 years ago they posted about a boulder on the road but referred to it as "Large boulder the size of a small boulder".

Happy 5th "Large boulder the size of a small boulder" anniversary! #Geology ⚒️

I love this.

For no reason in particular, I am reading this interesting little book called “On Tyranny” (thanks to @randallhughes.bsky.social) First lesson: Do Not Obey In Advance.

Amazing job!! Students like Johanna give the hope for the future!

@kyleagarces.bsky.social

Don’t forget to get your vaccines up to date!

A cartoon reflecting women in red robes, hanging their heads under white caps, standing in line to enter a voting booth. On the other side of the voting booth women are exiting wearing heels and dresses and pant suits, having cast their handmaid’s tale garb aside, leaving them on the ground outside the voting booth

By the great Mike Luckovich

a meme: Dodgers player Mookie Betts is labeled “VOTERS” and two Yankees fans grabbing at him to interfere with play are labeled “THE SUPREME COURT”

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I am hiring! Want to join a collaborative project with hydrologists, ecologists, biogeochemists, and microbiologists? Come join us here in Boston. Looking for a tech and postdoc - links here for tech position: tinyurl.com/mpm82399 and here for postdoc: tinyurl.com/4vrra3mf
please share widely! 🧪🦠

If you want to see the actual future of microbiology, make sure to attend Black In Micro week this year! Blackinmicrobiology.org

Out online now: @bowenlab.bsky.social and colleagues (great cast of women and role models in the world of microbial biogeochemistry! ) review nitrogen cycling processes in salt #marshes and responses to #environmental change. #jcampubs 🧪

www.cell.com/trends/micro...

JOB!!! UMass Boston School for the Environment Now hiring Environmental Justice asst prof. Tenure track. Good department at Bostons only public research University. employmentopportunities.umb.edu/boston/en-us...

Thank you!!!!

Hoping y'all can help me learn the Blue Sky ropes and also to amplify this postdoc opportunity! Come work with a great team on the meta'omics of methane production in tidal freshwater marshes at the PIE LTER! Based at MBL, but lots of fun with our group too.  tinyurl.com/ycvrkpky

#HiSciSky