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- OSF journal site, https://osf.io/ur79d, DOI 10.17605/OSF.IO/UR79D
- Volume 1, Issue 1, Resurgentes Ab Inferis (2025), https://osf.io/69whf, DOI 10.17605/OSF.IO/69WHF
Articles:
- Gjøvik, A. M. (2025). The Lost Hydrothermal Crystals of Santa Clara County: A Structural and Archival Study of Six Rare Minerals from a Single Geologic Province. The Journal of Decolonized Ecology and Evolution, 1(1). https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15626525 (PDF)
- Gjøvik, Ashley M. “High-confidence Genetic Alignment Between Sphaerobolus (the "cannonball" Fungi) & Turritopsis (the "immortal Jellyfish")”. The Journal of Decolonized Ecology and Evolution 1, no. 1 (June 11, 2025). https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15639701. (PDF).
- Gjøvik, A. M. (2025). "The Pseudocolus Stinkhorn and the Survival of Ediacaran Architecture: A Genomic & Structural Reassessment of a Misclassified Proto-Animal." The Journal of Decolonized Ecology and Evolution, 1(1). https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15675088 (PDF - English). (PDF - Japanese). (PDF - Chinese).
- Gjøvik, A. M. (2025). "Coral Mushrooms and Mushroom Corals are the Same Organisms: Genetic Confirmation of Close Relationship between Fungiidae Coral and 'Coral' Basidiomycota Fungi." The Journal of Decolonized Ecology and Evolution, 1(1). https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15707211 (PDF).
- Gjøvik, Ashley, M. “Compiled Chemistry: Structural Inheritance and the Deep Origins of Biological Function”. The Journal of Decolonized Ecology and Evolution 1, no. 1 (June 23, 2025). https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15717955. (PDF).
- Gjøvik, Ashley M. “Oopsacas Minuta, an Amoebozoan Animal: Genetic Evidence Supports a Case of Multicellular Evolution from Amoebozoan Ancestry”. The Journal of Decolonized Ecology and Evolution 1, no. 1 (July 6, 2025). https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15815730. (PDF - English) (PDF - French).
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The Journal of Decolonized Ecology and Evolution
The Journal of of Decolonized Ecology & Evolution explores the intersection of deep-time biology, tectonic uplift, microbial persistence, and evolutionary theory. Founded to investigate how ancient biospheres resurface in the modern world, the journal publishes interdisciplinary work across molecular phylogenetics, geobiology, public health, and systems ecology. We seek to understand what happens when buried life is disturbed, reactivated, or reintroduced — and what that means for the future of evolution on a geologically restless planet.
This journal is a cross-disciplinary platform for research at the intersection of deep-time biology, geological history, microbial persistence, and evolutionary theory. It was founded to investigate a possibility science has largely ignored: that ancient biospheres — preserved in subducted or uplifted crust — may not only survive but continue to shape the surface world in ways we do not yet fully understand.
It brings together work from molecular biology, geobiology, paleomicrobiology, environmental law, systems ecology, the humanities, and beyond; to explore questions that resist categorization. What forms of life are still buried beneath our cities? What happens when microbes adapted to hydrothermal vents are re-exposed to oxygen, moisture, or human contact? How might tectonic processes like uplift or subduction contribute to evolutionary convergence, cross-domain gene flow, or the emergence of new disease ecologies?
I created this journal because these are the kinds of questions that don’t have a home in conventional science — too interdisciplinary, too biologically speculative, too geologically and politically inconvenient. But they are essential questions. And answering them demands a platform willing to bridge data and danger, theory and tectonics.
Whether the subject is an ancient fungal lineage with protist-like genomic signatures, a city built atop vent-formed seafloor, or an ancient deep-sea amoeba rediscovered in a trench behind a strip mall, this journal seeks to document, investigate, and honor the tangled, resurrected ancestry of life — and the systems that keep trying to bury it again.
The Journal of of Decolonized Ecology & Evolution explores the intersection of deep-time biology, tectonic uplift, microbial persistence, and evolutionary theory. Founded to investigate how ancient biospheres resurface in the modern world, the journal publishes interdisciplinary work across molecular phylogenetics, geobiology, public health, and systems ecology. We seek to understand what happens when buried life is disturbed, reactivated, or reintroduced — and what that means for the future of evolution on a geologically restless planet.
This journal is a cross-disciplinary platform for research at the intersection of deep-time biology, geological history, microbial persistence, and evolutionary theory. It was founded to investigate a possibility science has largely ignored: that ancient biospheres — preserved in subducted or uplifted crust — may not only survive but continue to shape the surface world in ways we do not yet fully understand.
It brings together work from molecular biology, geobiology, paleomicrobiology, environmental law, systems ecology, the humanities, and beyond; to explore questions that resist categorization. What forms of life are still buried beneath our cities? What happens when microbes adapted to hydrothermal vents are re-exposed to oxygen, moisture, or human contact? How might tectonic processes like uplift or subduction contribute to evolutionary convergence, cross-domain gene flow, or the emergence of new disease ecologies?
I created this journal because these are the kinds of questions that don’t have a home in conventional science — too interdisciplinary, too biologically speculative, too geologically and politically inconvenient. But they are essential questions. And answering them demands a platform willing to bridge data and danger, theory and tectonics.
Whether the subject is an ancient fungal lineage with protist-like genomic signatures, a city built atop vent-formed seafloor, or an ancient deep-sea amoeba rediscovered in a trench behind a strip mall, this journal seeks to document, investigate, and honor the tangled, resurrected ancestry of life — and the systems that keep trying to bury it again.
References and Resources:
- OSF journal site, https://osf.io/ur79d, DOI 10.17605/OSF.IO/UR79D
- Volume 1, Issue 1, Resurgentes Ab Inferis (2025), https://osf.io/69whf, DOI 10.17605/OSF.IO/69WHF
- Additional Articles:
- Gjøvik, A. (2025). Extensive Human/Siphonophore Genetic Sequence Overlap: A Brief Communication. The Journal of Decolonized Ecology and Evolution, 1(1). https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15596204 (PDF)
- Gjovik, A. M. (2025). The Multiple Multicellular Prototype Framework: Silica-Based Biomineralization and Early Eukaryotic Diversification. The Journal of Decolonized Ecology and Evolution, 1(1). https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15622349 (PDF)
- Gjøvik, A. M. (2025). Article: A Recursive Strategy for Deep Homology Discovery in Genetic Sequence Alignment. The Journal of Decolonized Ecology and Evolution, 1(1). https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15628144 (PDF)
- Gjøvik, Ashley, M. “Molecular Characterization of Trichophyton Schoenleinii Reveals Systematic Affinities with Ancient Eukaryotic Lineages”. The Journal of Decolonized Ecology and Evolution 1, no. 1 (June 22, 2025). https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15717921. (PDF - English) (PDF - Chinese).
- Gjøvik, Ashley M. “Thermal, UV, and Impact Constraints on Pre-cambrian Terrestrial Evolution: The Impossibility of Complex Multicellular Life on Land Before 600 MYA”. The Journal of Decolonized Ecology and Evolution 1, no. 1 (June 25, 2025). https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15739885. (PDF).
- Gjøvik, Ashley, M. “Quantum-active Genomic Architecture: Personal Genome Analysis Reveals Coordinated Quantum-genomic Networks”. The Journal of Decolonized Ecology and Evolution 1, no. 2 (June 26, 2025). https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15750523. (PDF).
- Gjøvik, Ashley, M. “First Principles for Quantum Mechanics: Open Sourcing the Universe's Operating System”. The Journal of Decolonized Ecology and Evolution 1, no. 2 (June 27, 2025). https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15751689. (PDF).
From the Editor
This journal was born the moment I saw a "fungal" DNA sequence return a perfect match to an deep sea amoeba.
Not a weak match. Not an error. A confident, high-identity, statistically undeniable match — between a terrestrial "mushroom" and a marine, soft-bodied, non-fungal organism.
Since then, I’ve been following the threads: across domain boundaries, geological fault lines, corporate coverups, and evolutionary riddles. The questions I’ve uncovered are both obvious and unspeakable: What happens when the crust brings ancient life back to the surface? What if some of it never really left? What if the next evolutionary event isn't a mutation, but an unsealing?
This journal exists because traditional science has no category for these ideas. It is a publication for those asking dangerous questions — the kind that live at the fault lines of biology, geology, and time.
It’s for the fungal phylogenies that were not supposed to exist, the uplifted vent ecosystems beneath strip malls, the diseases no one can name, and the animals we were certain could never be here with us.
You’re holding the first issue of The Journal of Decolonized Ecology & Evolution. I don’t expect you to believe everything in these page – in fact I hope you do not, and instead you do your own research – and publish it. If your research presents similar ideas and you cannot find a space to have those ideas published, you know where to find me and this journal.
— Ashley Gjovik, JD, PMP, Editor-in-Chief
About the Founder & Editor
Ashley Gjovik, JD, PMP is an independent investigator, evolutionary theorist, and founder of The Journal of Decolonized Ecology & Evolution. Her work explores how ancient microbial life — long buried in deep ocean crust — may resurface through geological uplift, urban development, and human disturbance. With research spanning molecular phylogenetics, tectonic geology, urban history, and public health risk, she is pioneering a new model for understanding the biological consequences of Earth’s shifting crust and the civilizations that build atop it.
Ashley’s work is deeply rooted in Santa Clara County, California — one of the most geologically active and historically overlooked regions in the world. Through her ongoing series The People’s History of Silicon Valley, she documents the region’s brutal colonial past, Indigenous resistance, covert militarization, and environmental collapse. Her investigations into the area’s hidden contamination zones, suppressed histories, and biological risks have become part of a broader, place-based reckoning with Silicon Valley’s past and future.
Ashley has held senior roles in the tech and academic sectors — including at Apple, Nike, and Northeastern University — where she led global programs involving systems risk, environmental data, and organizational design.
She holds a Juris Doctor from Santa Clara University, where she specialized in human rights, environmental, and public health law. Her earlier scientific training includes evolutionary ecology, biogeography, complexity theory, and bioinformatics — and she draws from all of these fields to explore how ancient biospheres interact with modern infrastructure and institutions.
Ashley’s earliest scientific work was tactile and direct: as a science educator at the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry, she cared for exotic animals, organized fossil records, and taught evolutionary biology to thousands of visitors. She later served as an assistant veterinary technician at a clinic specializing in exotic animals — assisting in surgeries, field diagnostics, and animal advocacy — and volunteered on medical welfare teams supporting unhoused community members and their pets.
These experiences shaped her understanding of life as something that persists, adapts, and reappears in unexpected places. These early, tactile experiences gave her a lasting appreciation for biology not just as a theory, but as something lived — delicate, ancient, and constantly surprising.
As a whistleblower, Ashley also became known for exposing toxic environmental conditions at Apple, including secretive operations in a manufacturing plant and over a Superfund site. Her case drew international attention to corporate suppression, government failure, and systemic disregard for biosafety. That experience continues to inform her work on accountability, deep risk, and the invisible inheritance of industrial activity.
Her recent research investigates microbial lineages that span fungi, protists, and marine invertebrates, and proposes new models for understanding microbial persistence, resurrection, and cross-domain genomic convergence.
As editor, Ashley brings scientific rigor, a deep moral clarity, infectious curiosity, and a lived sense of biological entanglement to the journal. Her aim is to hold space for the stories science doesn’t usually tell — stories about what we’ve buried, what we’ve built over it, and what happens when it comes back to the surface.
This journal was born the moment I saw a "fungal" DNA sequence return a perfect match to an deep sea amoeba.
Not a weak match. Not an error. A confident, high-identity, statistically undeniable match — between a terrestrial "mushroom" and a marine, soft-bodied, non-fungal organism.
Since then, I’ve been following the threads: across domain boundaries, geological fault lines, corporate coverups, and evolutionary riddles. The questions I’ve uncovered are both obvious and unspeakable: What happens when the crust brings ancient life back to the surface? What if some of it never really left? What if the next evolutionary event isn't a mutation, but an unsealing?
This journal exists because traditional science has no category for these ideas. It is a publication for those asking dangerous questions — the kind that live at the fault lines of biology, geology, and time.
It’s for the fungal phylogenies that were not supposed to exist, the uplifted vent ecosystems beneath strip malls, the diseases no one can name, and the animals we were certain could never be here with us.
You’re holding the first issue of The Journal of Decolonized Ecology & Evolution. I don’t expect you to believe everything in these page – in fact I hope you do not, and instead you do your own research – and publish it. If your research presents similar ideas and you cannot find a space to have those ideas published, you know where to find me and this journal.
— Ashley Gjovik, JD, PMP, Editor-in-Chief
About the Founder & Editor
Ashley Gjovik, JD, PMP is an independent investigator, evolutionary theorist, and founder of The Journal of Decolonized Ecology & Evolution. Her work explores how ancient microbial life — long buried in deep ocean crust — may resurface through geological uplift, urban development, and human disturbance. With research spanning molecular phylogenetics, tectonic geology, urban history, and public health risk, she is pioneering a new model for understanding the biological consequences of Earth’s shifting crust and the civilizations that build atop it.
Ashley’s work is deeply rooted in Santa Clara County, California — one of the most geologically active and historically overlooked regions in the world. Through her ongoing series The People’s History of Silicon Valley, she documents the region’s brutal colonial past, Indigenous resistance, covert militarization, and environmental collapse. Her investigations into the area’s hidden contamination zones, suppressed histories, and biological risks have become part of a broader, place-based reckoning with Silicon Valley’s past and future.
Ashley has held senior roles in the tech and academic sectors — including at Apple, Nike, and Northeastern University — where she led global programs involving systems risk, environmental data, and organizational design.
She holds a Juris Doctor from Santa Clara University, where she specialized in human rights, environmental, and public health law. Her earlier scientific training includes evolutionary ecology, biogeography, complexity theory, and bioinformatics — and she draws from all of these fields to explore how ancient biospheres interact with modern infrastructure and institutions.
Ashley’s earliest scientific work was tactile and direct: as a science educator at the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry, she cared for exotic animals, organized fossil records, and taught evolutionary biology to thousands of visitors. She later served as an assistant veterinary technician at a clinic specializing in exotic animals — assisting in surgeries, field diagnostics, and animal advocacy — and volunteered on medical welfare teams supporting unhoused community members and their pets.
These experiences shaped her understanding of life as something that persists, adapts, and reappears in unexpected places. These early, tactile experiences gave her a lasting appreciation for biology not just as a theory, but as something lived — delicate, ancient, and constantly surprising.
As a whistleblower, Ashley also became known for exposing toxic environmental conditions at Apple, including secretive operations in a manufacturing plant and over a Superfund site. Her case drew international attention to corporate suppression, government failure, and systemic disregard for biosafety. That experience continues to inform her work on accountability, deep risk, and the invisible inheritance of industrial activity.
Her recent research investigates microbial lineages that span fungi, protists, and marine invertebrates, and proposes new models for understanding microbial persistence, resurrection, and cross-domain genomic convergence.
As editor, Ashley brings scientific rigor, a deep moral clarity, infectious curiosity, and a lived sense of biological entanglement to the journal. Her aim is to hold space for the stories science doesn’t usually tell — stories about what we’ve buried, what we’ve built over it, and what happens when it comes back to the surface.