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🧪🧪🔥 Well that’s cool! Is this from “our” Noelle Bowlin @scrippsocean.bsky.social ?!

Meenakshi Wadhwa, courtesy of ASU News

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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Yes, very familiar. However, every time I was ‘scolded’ for refusing to do something clearly outside my job description, it was always by a senior woman. When I share my frustration about being asked, the men usually show support, any data on that or is it just me?

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...

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. 🧵⬇️

Attendees observe and discuss a deep ARGO float, an oceanographic instrument, on display at an exhibition booth labeled “Explorers of the Deep – Pioneers of Discovery.” A man in a red shirt explains the device to amina schartup’s daughter-sonia, while others nearby film or engage with the exhibit. A wall behind them displays portraits of featured explorers, including amina :)

A group of people gathers around a speaker holding colorful 3D printed maps at an indoor event with blue walls and informational posters. One man stands on a bench to take a photo of the group with his phone. The setting is a science/outreach exhibition, with an engaged audience and busy background activity.

Please come chat with “The Expert” —aka me —today @ #UNOC3 green zone the deep blue pavilion @ noon! We are having fun over here 😅

Extramural papers of the month

🧪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...

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Restoring Gold Standard Science By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including section 7301 of title 5, United

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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…

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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! ⬇️

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

Everyone needs to understand that dismantling NSF will have devastating long term consequences in our competitiveness and innovation in science, technology and beyond. 1/

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Okay, the only time gendered bathrooms made sense to me was the trench-style ones i used in China…but even then, there’s no hiding. Everyone’s lined up, and you can see for yourself… everything…

America’s obsession with gendered bathrooms is baffling. In most places I’ve lived, you’re just grateful for a clean public restroom, rarely gendered. I went through 17 years of school (across 3 countries) without ever using a gendered bathroom…

This is so unhinged. What kind of sick person calls security on someone just using a restroom?

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.

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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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...

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...

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...

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...

#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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