Jen Bowen
@bowenlab.bsky.social
Marshes, mud, and microbes! Microbial ecologist interested in the intersection of microbial genomics and biogeochemistry.
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!
November 14, 2025 at 2:07 AM
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!
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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.
October 18, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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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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
#NSF #REU #PES @mblscience.bsky.social @northeasternu.bsky.social
September 25, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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
#NSF #REU #PES @mblscience.bsky.social @northeasternu.bsky.social
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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
September 25, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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
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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
September 25, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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
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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
September 25, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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
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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
trailsandsails.org
September 25, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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
trailsandsails.org
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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
We knew from the start we can’t get everything right. Moderation is a hard problem, and it’s impossible to please everyone. So we built a protocol where you always have the right to leave. If you don’t trust us, or don’t like our decisions, you deserve the right to choose an alternative.
September 13, 2025 at 5:35 AM
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
This also drifted into my feed and Gracie, too, sends her best black (ish) dog vibes for healing to all.
August 20, 2025 at 1:23 AM
This also drifted into my feed and Gracie, too, sends her best black (ish) dog vibes for healing to all.
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.
June 17, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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.
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
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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April 30, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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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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)
April 23, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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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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.
April 22, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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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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 🤔
April 17, 2025 at 5:24 AM
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!
I have tariffed
the penguins
that are on
Heard Island
and which
you were probably
assuming
did not export goods
forgive me
they were taking advantage of us
so cunning
and so cold
the penguins
that are on
Heard Island
and which
you were probably
assuming
did not export goods
forgive me
they were taking advantage of us
so cunning
and so cold
April 3, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Brilliant!
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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.
February 8, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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.
@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....
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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February 3, 2025 at 12:48 AM
@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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taking small victories where I find them. www.iflscience.com/rabbit-feare...
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.
www.iflscience.com
January 30, 2025 at 2:12 AM
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.
January 29, 2025 at 2:59 AM
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 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.
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.
January 27, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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.
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.
I love this.
This reminds me a lot of Veryln Klinkenborg’s “Several Short Sentences About Writing” which several academics who have written gorgeous trade books I admire recommended to me when I started attempting to do the same…
December 3, 2024 at 1:51 PM
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.
November 16, 2024 at 7:51 PM
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!
Congratulations to Johanna L’Heureux who successfully defended her dissertation yesterday! Johanna’s work in the Bowen Lab on salt marsh social-ecological and microbial systems will help us better protect and manage these critical ecosystems. Congratulations, Dr. L’Heureux! @bowenlab.bsky.social
November 15, 2024 at 10:50 PM
Amazing job!! Students like Johanna give the hope for the future!
New paper out in Global Change Biology, led by PhD student Meike Heuck, examining if current life history strategy frameworks used for AM fungi are at all useful in agro settings under climate change.
doi.org/10.1111/gcb....
doi.org/10.1111/gcb....
Evaluating the Usefulness of the C‐S‐R Framework for Understanding AM Fungal Responses to Climate Change in Agroecosystems
Arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi play a key role in terrestrial ecosystems. However, critical gaps in understanding AM fungal ecology still limit predictions of their responses to global change in a...
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November 15, 2024 at 1:02 PM