Published Articles: Explore Ashley’s Insights and Expertise

My work is published by a number of sites and journals, including Modern Diplomacy, The National Interest, Index on Censorship, CovertAction Magazine, SF Bay View, Business Insider, Monthly Review, Transcend Media. In 2021, a statement I made was featured as “Quote of the Day” in the New York Times.

I am the editor of two journals:

The Journal of Decolonized Ecology and Evolution, DOI 10.17605/OSF.IO/UR79D
The Journal of Structural Power and Resistance, DOI 10.17605/OSF.IO/7PE4W

I also publish two Substacks: Big Tech Politics and The People’s History of Silicon Valley, and a Medium column.

My academic profiles are linked below:

I’m available for commissioned research and writing projects including articles, analysis, case studies, op-eds, reports, and reviews. Contact me to discuss.

Published Work

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.

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.

Gjøvik, Ashley M. “Decolonizing the Natural Sciences: A Critique of the Colonial Foundations of Western Scientific Authority”. The Journal of Decolonized Ecology & Evolution 1, no. 1 (July 23, 2025). https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.16202629.

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. Also available as an VLIZ acknowledged publication at IMIS at Record No. 436637.

Gjøvik, Ashley M. “Genomic Evidence of Human/cnidarian Neural Integration: Systematic Conservation of Jellyfish Neural Networks Across All Known Homo Lineages”. The Journal of Decolonized Ecology & Evolution 1, no. 2 (July 27, 2025). https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.16471873.

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.

Gjøvik, Ashley M. “Thermal, UV, and Impact Constraints on Pre-cambrian Terrestrial Evolution: The Impossibility of Complex Multicellular Life on Land Prior to 600 MYA”. The Journal of Decolonized Ecology and Evolution 1, no. 1 (June 25, 2025). https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15739885.

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

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

Gjøvik, Ashley M. “Deep Time Geology in Santa Clara County: Evidence for Two Billion Years of Active Continental Margin Processes”. The Journal of Decolonized Ecology and Evolution 1, no. 1 (July 15, 2025). https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15892989.

Gjøvik, Ashley M.. “Identification of a New England Bolide Impact Site: A Geologic Reckoning with the Ground-Zero for the Younger Dryas Impact Event”. The Journal of Decolonized Ecology and Evolution 1, no. 1 (March 21, 2026). https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19146482

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Gjovik, Ashley. “Living Organisms Morphologically Consistent with Gunflint Chert Microfossils (ca. 1.9 Ga) Recovered in South End, Boston, Massachusetts”. The Journal of Decolonized Ecology & Evolution 1, no. 1 (March 18, 2026). https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19086003. (PDF)

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

The Journal of Structural Power & Resistance. Vol. 1, Issue 1: Silentium Fractum, (Summer 2025). https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15524514

The Operational Logic of Normative Violence: Whistleblowing and Corporate Retaliation [PDF].
The Dark Theater: Retaliation Litigation as Institutional Obstruction and Legalized Harassment [PDF].
Offensive Counter-Control: Tactical Frameworks for Asymmetric Legal Resistance Against Corporate Power [PDF].
Panic in the Boardroom: Mask-Off Moments, Corporate Fear, Retaliation, and the Pattern of Escalatory Delegitimization [PDF].
The Bureaucratic Shield: How U.S. Legal Institutions Enable Retaliation, Obscure Criminality, and Undermine Whistleblower Protection [PDF].
Beyond Zealous Advocacy: Strategic Misrepresentation in Litigation [PDF].

Index on Censorship, Living in the Shadows, Ashley Gjovik, July 2023

CovertAction Magazine, “Whistleblowers Are the Conscience of Society, Yet Suffer Gravely For Trying to Hold the Rich and Powerful Accountable For Their Sins,” Ashley Gjovik, April 2023

Republished by LLRX: “Whistleblowers Are the Conscience of Society, Yet Suffer Gravely For Trying to Hold the Rich and Powerful Accountable For Their Sins,” Ashley Gjovik, May 2023
Republished by Gigazine (Japanese): “内部告発者のほぼ全員が嫌がらせを受けており70%はすぐに解雇されるか辞職を余儀なくされる、最悪の場合は殺害されることも,” [Translation], May 2023

CovertAction Magazine, “Nestlé’s Blatant Misconduct Shows Us the Darkness of Capitalism,“ Ashley Gjovik, February 2023

Republished in Monthly Review: “Nestlé’s blatant misconduct shows us the darkness of capitalism,” Ashley Gjovik, MR Online, February 2023
Republished in Transcend Media: “Nestlé’s Blatant Misconduct Shows Us the Darkness of Capitalism,” Ashley Gjovik, February 2023

Big Tech Politics, “How I Learned Ex-Apple Execs Run a Secretive Home Security Tech Company,” Ashley Gjovik, October 2022

Big Tech Politics, “Field Notes on Regulatory Capture – Part II,“ Ashley Gjovik, September 2022

The People’s History of Silicon Valley, “Native Californian Freedom Fighters,” Ashley Gjovik, May 2022

The National Interest, “Antitrust Action Supports Human Rights, Not Just Competition,” Ashley Gjovik & Benjamin Ismail, July 2022

Big Tech Politics, “A Blatant and Aggressive Disregard for the Law,” Ashley Gjovik, June 2022

Big Tech Politics, “Field Notes on Regulatory Capture – Part I,“ Ashley Gjovik, May 2022

The People’s History of Silicon Valley, “The Silicon Valley Pro-Confederacy Movement,” Ashley Gjovik, May 2022

The People’s History of Silicon Valley, “The Silicon Valley Concentration Camps,” Ashley Gjovik, May 2022

Big Tech Politics, “Big Tech are Private Regulators of Digital Expression,” Ashley Gjovik, April 2022

GreatFire & AppleCensorship, “Taken Down” A Look into Apple’s Transparency Reports,” Forward, Ashley Gjovik, April 2022

Business Insider, “I was fired from Apple after making several labor complaints against the company. Speaking out feels like going up against a powerful government,“ Ashley Gjovik, Sep 16, 2021

Modern Diplomacy, “Elon Musk’s ‘City-State’ on Mars: An International Problem,” Ashley Gjovik, 2021 [Substack]

Comment by Santa Clara University

Modern Diplomacy, “Chagos: An Achievement in Self-Determination with a Treacherous Path to Decolonization,” Ashley Gjovik, 2021

Comment by Santa Clara University

Citizen Yang, “Groundwater Rise: An International Problem that California Must Solve,” Ashley Gjovik, 2021

San Francisco Bay View, “I Thought I Was Dying: My Apartment Was Built on Toxic Waste,” Ashley Gjovik, 2021

Portland State University, “Acceptable Use Policy,” Ashley Gjovik, 2014

Mashable, Lead Contributor: “A Digital Bill of Rights,” 2013

In Progress Work

“Best Practices for Truth & Reconciliation Commissions,” Transitional Justice, University of Oxford (2021, In Progress).

“Climate Change Localism: Creating a Platform for International Non-State Political Agreements,” International Law, Santa Clara University School of Law (2021, In Progress).

“Selective Justice & the Politics of Victimization: A Critique of Rwanda’s Gacaca Process,” Transitional Justice, University of Oxford (2021).

“The Hawai’i Affair: American Imperialism and the Engineering of Territorial Expansion: The legal and political status of the Hawaiian Islands at the turn of the 19th century,” Santa Clara University School of Law (2020, In Progress)

“Human Rights & Santa Clara County, California Jails During the COVID-19 Pandemic,” Public Health Law, Santa Clara University School of Law (2020).

“Math & Poetry: Rhythm, Meter, & Rhyme,” Excursions in Mathematics, Portland State University (2010).

“Victor Frankenstein’s Creature: A Search for Home,” British Romanticism, Portland State University (2009).

“West Africa’s War: Liberia’s Collapsing Government & The Refugee Crisis in Guinea,” Political Issues & Foreign Affairs, (2004).

Reviews of my Work

“Ashley’s poems have a mythic quality that can take the mundane world and make it intriguing and titillating. Her work has a sardonic element that provides both levity and honesty. She keenly references pop culture, academia, and consumer products while having tongue planted firmly in cheek. She is willing to go to challenging places not to make a statement, but to open up discussion. She courageously delves into matters of sexuality, capitalism, religion, and alienation, while avoiding heavy-handedness. A reader of her work is rewarded with poignant commentary on modern life, with all its nuances and vibrancy.”
– Advanced Poetry Writing, Portland State University

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