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Jen Bowen

@bowenlab.bsky.social
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Marshes, mud, and microbes! Microbial ecologist interested in the intersection of microbial genomics and biogeochemistry.

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Matthew Costa @mangrovematt.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
One species, but a range of nutrient acquisition traits: read the new paper lead by Kristen Rabbitt, "Nitrogen uptake varies regionally in the salt marsh plant Spartina alterniflora" in @estuariescoasts.bsky.social, @randallhughes.bsky.social @bowenlab.bsky.social: link.springer.com/article/10.1....
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Nitrogen Uptake Varies Regionally in the Salt Marsh Plant Spartina alterniflora - Estuaries and Coasts
Excess anthropogenic nitrogen is a key stressor in coastal and marine ecosystems, where it can alter primary production, create eutrophic and anoxic conditions, and affect biodiversity, structure, and...
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Allison Shapp, PhD @schwadevivre.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
DO NOT go to this website. It is a Musk-funded surveillance machine that will steal your personal information. Spread the word! DO check your voter registration by going to vote.gov (maybe even do it now, even if you're sure you're registered.) More info here: popular.info/p/the-hidden...
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Ryan Rosenblatt @ryanrosenblatt.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
THEY SENT FOUR HUMAN BEINGS 252,756 MILES AWAY, WENT FULLY AROUND THE MOON AND BROUGHT THEM BACK TO LAND IN THE PRECISE LOCATION THEY WANTED EVERYONE WHO WORKED ON THIS IS THE COOLEST PERSON ON EARTH
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Steve McKerrall @photosteve.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Inside you there are two Elephant Seals 🐘 🦭 #mammals #seals
A male elephant seal laying in short grass with a beach in the background. Its head is lifted and mouth is wide open as it lets out an aggressive call. A portrait of a male elephant seal sitting up relaxed. It’s long snout is draped down its face, looking like a muppet
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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 27/02/2026
You deserve this SO MUCH 🐣 🪶
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Dr. Katy Croff Bell @katycroffbell.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
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George Church ] From: Sent: Mon 5/25/2015 7:04:59 PM Subject: Re: Jeffrey Epstein excellent!!! I will get back to you!!...On May 25, 2015, at 3:03 PM, george church wrote: Yes. I'm free Tue 2-Jun from 5 PM onward. (possibly earlier too)....--george From: Date: Monday, May 25, 2015 at 3:00 PM To: george church Cc: Shanna Nikole Subject: Jeffrey Epstein Hello George Jeffrey is considering a
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Jen Bowen @bowenlab.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Congratulations to @myadarsan.bsky.social (and the other winners!) for winning the best grad student talk award at CERF! So well deserved! Thanks for another amazing meeting @cerfscience.bsky.social can’t wait until 2027!
Picture of a screen announcing the winners of a graduate student award for best oral presentation at this years coastal estuarine research federation meeting.
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Carolyn Bertozzi @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social · 18/10/2025
A university that signs the “compact” is one that acknowledges its own inability to compete and succeed based talent and merit. It would signal insecurity and mediocrity to current and future students and faculty. Say no. Recruit the best people, protect their freedom and support their hard work.
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Plum Island Ecosystems LTER @pie-lter.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Thanks to @uslter.bsky.social #APEAL project for kick-starting this work by enabling engagement and collaboration with the local shellfishing community, whose concerns guided these new projects. 5/5 #NSF #REU #PES @mblscience.bsky.social @northeasternu.bsky.social
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Plum Island Ecosystems LTER @pie-lter.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Whether predation or poor larval settlement has caused the decline in iconic softshell clams is being studied using recruitment boxes that protect larval and baby clams from predators. Local aquaculture is increasing oyster harvests. Efforts like these can help restore and support the fishery. 4/5
David Kimbro presents a poster done by REU student Lindsey Davies showing results from recruitment box that were harvested mid-season.    Bar graphs on the poster show that yes, the boxes had clams!  On a table is an example of one of the boxes, and an aquarium holds some predatory crabs.
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Plum Island Ecosystems LTER @pie-lter.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
But if contaminants are in the water, shellfish may ingest those as well, with negative effects on the shellfish and harvestability. @bowenlab.bsky.social and @myadarsan.bsky.social are using new approaches to better identify sources and types of contaminants which may help mediate inputs. 3/5
Mya and Jen stand at their table, with a graphical poster behind them describing current microbial methods and examples of coliform bacteria colonies growing on culture plates displayed on the table.  The two methods are to be used side by side.
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Plum Island Ecosystems LTER @pie-lter.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Filter-feeding shellfish like oysters and clams remove algae from estuarine water (thereby also remove nitrogen), promoting water clarity and quality, easily visible and measurable in demo tanks of shellfish with algae compared to tanks with no algae, even approaching the clarity of tap water. 2/5
Two large and two small aquaria set up on a table  under a shade tent.  One large aquarium holds softshell clams and the other holds oysters.  Microalgae had been added to both.   The small aquaria hold clear water or water clouded with microalgae for comparison.Hannah Orton measures the change in turbidity in the aquaria using a water quality sonde.
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Plum Island Ecosystems LTER @pie-lter.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Fun Trails and Sails event this week showcasing new work centered on how estuary and shellfish health are intertwined and the need for people to foster both. We always get engaged attendees from the local community and make great new connections! 1/5 trailsandsails.org
A group of six people stand around a display table under a shade tent to talk about using current methods in microbiology to identity sources and types of microbial contamination that may be present in estuarine waters, especially after a rainstorm.A group of six people, standing under a shade tent, watch a demonstration of oysters and softshell clams filter the water held in separate aquaria, and compare them to an aquarium with clear water, and one with water clouded by microalgae but containing no shellfish.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 13/09/2025
I have always maintained that a big part of the justification for the protocol focus was shedding themselves of the responsibility of moderation and heaping it onto others instead
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Jen Bowen @bowenlab.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
This also drifted into my feed and Gracie, too, sends her best black (ish) dog vibes for healing to all.
another black pit mix who looks a lot like the other dogs in this thread.
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Jen Bowen @bowenlab.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
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.
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Jen Bowen @bowenlab.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
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
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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.
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Matthew Costa @mangrovematt.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
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)
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Matthew Costa @mangrovematt.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
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.
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Sassy Little Hobbit @sassypolitico.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
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 🤔
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Jen Bowen @bowenlab.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Brilliant!
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Neil Lewis, Jr. @neillewisjr.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
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.
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Jen Bowen @bowenlab.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
@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....
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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...
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Nancy Knowlton @nancyknowlton.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
taking small victories where I find them. www.iflscience.com/rabbit-feare...
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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.
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Jen Bowen @bowenlab.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
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.
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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
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.
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.
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Henning @geohenning.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Happy 5th "Large boulder the size of a small boulder" anniversary! #Geology ⚒️
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".
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Jen Bowen @bowenlab.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
I love this.
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Jen Bowen @bowenlab.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
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.
Cover of book “On Tyranny: twenty lessons from the 20th century. By Timothy Snider. 
Title page of first lesson. It reads: do not obey in advance. Most of the power of authoritarianism is freely given. In times like these, individuals think ahead about what a more repressive government will want, and then offer themselves without being asked. A citizen who seats in this way is teaching power what it can do.
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Jen Bowen @bowenlab.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Amazing job!! Students like Johanna give the hope for the future!
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Jen Bowen @bowenlab.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
@kyleagarces.bsky.social
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Jen Bowen @bowenlab.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Don’t forget to get your vaccines up to date!
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Kendyl Hanks @kendylhanks.bsky.social · 02/11/2024
By the great Mike Luckovich
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
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Seth D. Michaels @sethdmichaels.bsky.social · 30/10/2024
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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Jen Bowen @bowenlab.bsky.social · 09/01/2024
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! 🧪🦠
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DEI Virologist @kyt-thatsme.bsky.social · 13/10/2023
If you want to see the actual future of microbiology, make sure to attend Black In Micro week this year! Blackinmicrobiology.org
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Black Microbiologists Association
Moving Microbiology Forward
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Michael Tlusty @tlustym.bsky.social · 12/10/2023
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...
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Salt marsh nitrogen cycling: where land meets sea
Salt marshes sit at the terrestrial–aquatic interface of oceans around the world. Unique features of salt marshes that differentiate them from their upland or offshore counterparts include high rate...
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Michael Tlusty @tlustym.bsky.social · 05/10/2023
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...
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Careers at UMass Boston | Details - Assistant Professor- School for the Environment
Contact information for the units of Human Resources at UMass Boston: customer service, training, benefits, compensation, labor and employee relations, and payroll.
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Jen Bowen @bowenlab.bsky.social · 04/10/2023
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
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