Joana MacLean

I will be leaving this place …🏃🏽‍♀️ Hope to still connect with all of you #soil #microplastic #plastisphere researchers and all bravely optimistic people. Let’s be brave together in 2025 💪🏾 Find me here jttmaclean on 🦋

Better than Christmas 🎄 I’m officially #PhDone with 5 years of research on the soil plastisphere. Thank you to all my friends and family, to helpful colleagues and everyone who supported me during this journey at @GeoBioGFZ

Exactly this is what childhood felt like 👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾 Shoutout to all my grownup friends who still carry a toddlers heart 😛

There are always more solutions than problems ...

Read full study here: rdcu.be/d27rq MacLean, J., Bartholomäus, A., Blukis, R. et al. (2024) doi.org/10.1186/s40793… #PlasticPollution #MicrobialEcology #Plastisphere

5/ 💡 Key takeaway: Plastic degradation is just one part of a broader suite of plastisphere-specific processes. More studies into multitude of plastisphere processes are needed!

Paper out in @BioMedCentral 1/ 🌱 We did a first #metatranscriptome study on #biofilm succession in the #soil #plastisphere and tracked #polyethylene (PE) plastics in soil over 53 days. Insights into biofilm dynamics, #plasticdegradation, and nitrogen fixation ahead! 🧵

Another example of how (male) ignorance can actually cost lives: In 1847 scientist Ignaz Semmelweis learned from midwives that antiseptic practices before assisting birth will drop the mother’s mortality from 18% to 2%. The conversation went like this 😅👇🏾 instagram.com/reel/C0qL9g2gR…

Die beste Erklärung zum #Bauernprotest, die ich bisher gesehen habe, kommt von @CaroRackete 👇twitter.com/CaroRackete/st…

@CarsonCenter @jonas_stuck @haztravrcc Congratulations Jonas 👏🏽

Congratulations to @jonas_stuck on successfully defending his PhD thesis, "A Hazardous Connection: The Waste Trade betweeen East and West Germany, 1973–1990"! The DFG Emmy-Noether project "Hazardous Travels" is now concluded. @haztravrcc #envhum #envhist

I was ok with #GenerationY but born in the „late 1900‘s“? I think this changed my self-perception forever 😂 To all of you #phds, what’s the oldest reference that you use in your manuscripts? 👇🏾

@martiwag Apologies, should be 17000 not 170000

1/6 ‚Been there, done that‘ Since 2010, scientists have published over 170000 papers ! on MP with an increasing diversification of studied systems: From oceans to rivers to soil to organisms. That’s great! We got the data, now let’s sit down and look at it. @martiwag

6 🔥 things about #microplastic research that I have learned from experts and the MP community during @MicroplasticsW in Ascona last week 👇🏾🧵

6/6 Connect to make an impact and write a manifesto🤓 In order to take #metaperspectives and build larger MP theory, it needs workshops to reflect on our findings. We all know, these moments are rarely happening at our desks. Thank you 🙏🏽 @MicroplasticsW for providing the space

5/6 #Metastudies, Metastudies and Metastudies I personally think this is the biggest shift in MP research right now - not to say we shouldn’t continue with experiments. We need data, but let’s also build more data repositories like @ToMExApp