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Amina T. Schartup

@aminaschartup.bsky.social
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Assoc. Prof. @Scripps Institution of Oceanography| UC San Diego Scripps Center for Oceans and Human Health (SCOHH) 🇺🇸🇲🇱🇦🇿 www.aminaschartup.com www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7fIl-lB6-o IG: schartup_lab

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Amina T. Schartup @aminaschartup.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
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 😨
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Amina T. Schartup @aminaschartup.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
🧪🧪🔥 Well that’s cool! Is this from “our” Noelle Bowlin @scrippsocean.bsky.social ?!
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Scripps Institution of Oceanography @scrippsocean.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
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!
Meenakshi Wadhwa, courtesy of ASU News
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Amina T. Schartup @aminaschartup.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Don’t like. VOTE! 🧪🔥🤪
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Amina T. Schartup @aminaschartup.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
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Scripps Institution of Oceanography @scrippsocean.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
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. 🧵⬇️
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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...
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Amina T. Schartup @aminaschartup.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Please come chat with “The Expert” —aka me —today @ #UNOC3 green zone the deep blue pavilion @ noon! We are having fun over here 😅
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.
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Amina T. Schartup @aminaschartup.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
🧪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
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Extramural papers of the month
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Amina T. Schartup @aminaschartup.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Attempting to replicate a paper using their Methods section be like www.instagram.com/kay_sloany?i...
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Amina T. Schartup @aminaschartup.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
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Amina T. Schartup @aminaschartup.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
nytimes.com
Trump Has Cut Science Funding to Its Lowest Level in Decades (Gift Article)
The lag in funding extends far beyond D.E.I. initiatives, affecting almost every area of science: chemistry, computing, engineering, materials and more.
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Amina T. Schartup @aminaschartup.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
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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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Amina T. Schartup @aminaschartup.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
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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Amina T. Schartup @aminaschartup.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
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Scripps Institution of Oceanography @scrippsocean.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
🌍 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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Jeremy Bassis @bassisjeremy.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
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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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
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Amina T. Schartup @aminaschartup.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Love a 🧪 time series!
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Amina T. Schartup @aminaschartup.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
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NPR @npr.org · 06/05/2025
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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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.
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Amina T. Schartup @aminaschartup.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
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Elaine Hsiao @pipethero.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
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...
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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...
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Holly Ober @sciwri.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
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...
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Research Corporation for Science Advancement @rescorp.org · 05/05/2025
#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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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...
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Amina T. Schartup @aminaschartup.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
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Waggoner Lab @labwaggoner.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
An engineered gut bacterium protects against dietary methylmercury exposure in pregnant mice @cp-cellhostmicrobe.bsky.social @aminaschartup.bsky.social @pipethero.bsky.social www.cell.com/cell-host-mi...
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Scripps Institution of Oceanography @scrippsocean.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
“Scripps maintains critical ocean and atmospheric observations that are vital for enhancing public safety and economic security. These programs have been maintained with strong bipartisan support & we urge continued investment in @noaa.gov.” - Scripps director Margaret Leinen for @sfchronicle.com. ⬇️
sfchronicle.com
Surprise atmospheric rivers, toxic seafood: How NOAA cuts could impact California
California research institutions could lose access to millions of dollars, which could impact atmospheric river forecasts and Coast Guard rescues.
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Scripps Institution of Oceanography @scrippsocean.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
🌊 From monitoring ocean health and seafood safety to providing critical forecasts and weather alerts, federal funding supports vital research that protects the public. Dive into #NOAAfunded research led by Scripps Oceanography. ⬇️ #BehindEveryBreakthrough @noaa.gov @ucsandiego.bsky.social
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At UC San Diego, NOAA Collaboration Provides Backbone for Global Environmental Intelligence
Learn more about how NOAA support is critical for providing environmental intelligence necessary to keep the public safe, fisheries healthy, and Americans at large better prepared for extreme weather ...
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Amina T. Schartup @aminaschartup.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
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Exclusive: NSF director to resign amid grant terminations, job cuts, and controversy
“I have done all I can,” says Sethuraman Panchanathan, a Trump appointee who has led agency since 2020
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Amina T. Schartup @aminaschartup.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
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Scripps Institution of Oceanography @scrippsocean.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
🌏 📈 Our planet is changing. But Scripps Oceanography scientists like @aminaschartup.bsky.social and @jkendallbar.bsky.social are leading the charge to create a more resilient future for our planet and its inhabitants. Learn more about their innovative research. ⬇️
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6 Ways UC San Diego Research is Future-Proofing the Planet
Our planet is under growing pressure—whether it’s the safety of the food we eat, the quality of the air we breathe or the stability of the systems we rely on—and UC San Diego researchers are stepping ...
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Amina T. Schartup @aminaschartup.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
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Amina T. Schartup @aminaschartup.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Not to be that #Earth #scientist, but we study volatile dimethylated compounds in actual life-filled ecosystems and still won’t confidently call them purely biotic. What gives? #astrochemistry #astrobiology
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Paul Bierman @paul-bierman.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Many people can't safely eat fish from Lake Champlain because of mercury from Mid western power plants burning coal. Screw the climate. Poison people. Making America hot and sick again. ❄️🧪💙📚 #scicomm #climate #science  🌎 🔬 ⚒️ #ClimateHealth #ClimateAction insideclimatenews.org/news/1604202...
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More Than 60 Power Plants Exempted From Federal Mercury Limits - Inside Climate News
More stringent rules were scheduled to be enforced in 2027. Selected plants will now have two more years to comply.
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Scripps Institution of Oceanography @scrippsocean.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
🔬 At @ucsandiego.bsky.social, scientists like Brad Moore–Distinguished Professor at Scripps Oceanography and @ucsdpharmacy.bsky.social–are leading the charge to source and develop compounds from nature that are being used to develop the next generation of medicines. 🧵⬇️
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Amina T. Schartup @aminaschartup.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Our Scripps Pier #mercury time series paper, led by #PhD student Hannah Adams, is finally out! We also reflect on the need for #sustained, #long-term #funding for #science in the blog post below. @scrippsocean.bsky.social
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It Takes Patience to Measure Change
What four years of weekly mercury sampling taught us about slow shifts in coastal ecosystems and the importance of sustained research funding
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Meg Tirrell @megtirrell.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Amid the Trump admin's dismantling of the US scientific ecosystem, Nobel Prize-winner @ardemp.bskyverified.social writes on @cnn.com: "I’ve already been approached with an offer to relocate my lab to China, complete with a promise of 20 years of stable research funding." www.cnn.com/2025/04/09/h...
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Nobel laureate: I owe America my success. Today, its scientific future is in danger | CNN
Dr. Ardem Patapoutian says he watches “with deep sadness as the United States’ remarkable scientific enterprise, which took generations of hard work and national investment to build, faces a concerted...
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Scripps Institution of Oceanography @scrippsocean.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
If you're interested 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 scientists a follow! ⬇️
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Scripps Institution of Oceanography @scrippsocean.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
🔬 Science makes our world better, safer, healthier and stronger. Scripps Oceanography scientists joined fellow members of @nationalacademies.org to call attention to the importance of funding science that supports not just the U.S., but our planet. @nytimes.com has more.
nytimes.com
Trump Administration Has Begun a War on Science, Researchers Say (Gift Article)
Nearly 2,000 scientists urged that Congress restore funding to federal agencies decimated by recent cuts.
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Ben Peterson @bigmicrobeben.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
New manuscript in Environmental Science & Technology: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/... We combined enriched stable-isotope incubation assays for mercury methylation and demethylation with DNA and RNA sequencing with to investigate key constraints on methylmercury accumulation in freshwater. Highlights:
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Sulfate Reduction Drives Elevated Methylmercury Formation in the Water Column of a Eutrophic Freshwater Lake
Mercury (Hg) contamination of aquatic food webs is controlled in part by the formation and accumulation of toxic and bioaccumulative methylmercury (MeHg). MeHg production is mediated by metabolically ...
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Scripps Institution of Oceanography @scrippsocean.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
⚠️ What to know about the major harmful algal bloom impacting Southern California waters, courtesy of the Southern California Coastal Ocean Observing System (SCCOOS). Learn more here: bit.ly/4iKQ8q7
A map of a harmful algal bloom impacting California waters
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Amina T. Schartup @aminaschartup.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Shout out to my 3rd-year #PhD student Roland for submitting his first manuscript! 🎉He looks into the impact of salinity-driven stratification on the mercury (Hg) cycle in estuaries: www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-6...
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Salinity-Driven Stratification Enhances Riverine Mercury Export to the Coastal Ocean
Rivers transport 300 to 5,000 Mg of mercury (Hg) annually to coastal oceans through estuaries, contributing 20–45% of total Hg input, with 100 to 1,500 Mg reaching the open ocean. However, the i...
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Amina T. Schartup @aminaschartup.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Also known as: part per thousand, part per million, part per billion
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Amina T. Schartup @aminaschartup.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Science aims for objectivity, but the way we ask questions, test knowledge, and teach concepts is deeply cultural. This year, I got a reminder of this in class… 😅 For fun, I asked how many water molecules had passed through Doja Cat (probability & the water cycle! last yr it was L. DiCaprio)...
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Scripps Institution of Oceanography @scrippsocean.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
your outie is fascinated with the natural world your outie is passionate about understanding and protecting the planet your outie has an appreciation for geosciences, marine biology and atmospheric science your outie supports research that is finding solutions to environmental challenges
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 13/03/2025
The thing about scientific research is that it’s one of the few national investments that’s a clear public good even if you entirely discount the actual ostensible point of it.
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Le Monde @lemonde.fr · 12/03/2025
En réponse à Donald Trump, le Mexique modifie sa Constitution pour sanctionner toute ingérence étrangère
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En réponse à Donald Trump, le Mexique modifie sa Constitution pour sanctionner toute ingérence étrangère
Le Mexique n’acceptera aucune « invasion » américaine sous prétexte de lutte contre le trafic de drogue, a prévenu sa présidente, Claudia Sheinbaum, après que le républicain a décidé de placer six cartels mexicains sur une liste d’organisations « terroristes ».
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Elinne Becket, PhD @bielleogy.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Friendly reminder: if you are waiting on something from a US-based scientist/reviewer/editor, please realize that we're barely making it through each day putting out non-stop fires and trying not to collapse into tears. We're trying our best, but things will take longer right now. Give grace.
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