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There's too much of this "you have to accept that some people have bigoted, beliefs, and you have to give those bigoted beliefs the same respect as the people being harmed by those bigoted beliefs" And not enough of this "We should have more justice in society"

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So this happened yesterday. The film @ourhugetinyproblem will be coming out sometime in mid 2026. #microplastics #plasticchemicals @pnwmicroplastics.bsky.social

submitted 23 hours ago • 1 comment

Reminiscing about better times this week 😔

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Connecting the dots

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Not much makes me smile right now but this does. 💪

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"You can get another job, but you can not get another soul" - anonymous NIH scientist on why they signed a letter of dissent against Administration policies

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

We live under an escalating police state working to take food, medical care, & civil rights away from poor communities. Talking abt "violence" without beginning there is stupid & shows a basic misunderstanding of the word itself.

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

She was right. #USDemocracy

submitted 5 days ago • 26 comments

Those concerned about violence might want to start with violence against immigrants, by ICE here, by illegal deportations to gulags and third countries, the violence against so many federal departments, against the law, the climate, the public lands, waters, civil rights, reproductive rights...

submitted 5 days ago • 73 comments

Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.

submitted 5 days ago • 894 comments

The most striking thing about the LA protests is how many people just dropped everything to show up and yell at federal agents. There are people in suits, and carrying dogs, and wearing flip flops or bike helmets. These are not people who planned to do this today. But there they are.

submitted 6 days ago • 107 comments

OPC hosts two California Sea Grant Fellows every year! Maybe 2026 is YOUR year!

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Big misalignment between #MAHA (Make America Healthy Again) statements and slashed funding of research, which can damage this important field for a long time (pollution research) 🔽

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

My favorite Elon v. Trump meme of the week. #trumpelonfeud

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Was one of several scientists interviewed on All Things Considered yesterday evening about the misalignment between continued funding cuts to research on chemicals and the MAHA agenda. www.npr.org/2025/06/03/n... @pnwmicroplastics.bsky.social @oregonstate.edu @npr.org

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

Data, tech, ocean, climate, geography, GIS, etc friends. Huge opportunity. Distribute widely to colleagues. @deepseadawn.bsky.social @mgould.bsky.social @katharinehayhoe.com @michaelemann.bsky.social @smbrander.bsky.social @leahstokes.bsky.social @andrewmaynard.net www.linkedin.com/posts/dalhou...

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Great job defending your Masters today Kate! @oregonstate.edu #environmentalandmoleculartoxicology

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must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away

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As Himalayan wild life is endangered by improper waste disposal practices, activist groups like Waste Warriors are working to solve this crisis. Read more in Maile McFarland's new 𝘈𝘳𝘤𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘢 article! #envhum #envhist #openaccess

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The failure of the National Academy of Sciences USA to make a clear and unequivocal statement about the disastrous Trump administration science policies — it lets all of us down and dooms them to eventual irrelevance.

submitted 9 days ago • 16 comments

Today I've been helping some folks in our group submit their first scientific abstracts to a conference, and am being reminded that this is one of the best parts of my job.

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Was one of several scientists interviewed on All Things Considered yesterday evening about the misalignment between continued funding cuts to research on chemicals and the MAHA agenda. www.npr.org/2025/06/03/n... @pnwmicroplastics.bsky.social @oregonstate.edu @npr.org

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New study shows soil #microplastic levels in 1979 were ca. 3000 items/kg. After 44 years, levels in pig manure or pig manure plus nitrogen-phosphorus-potassium fertilizer reached 7183±568 items/kg and 5557±329 items/kg, respectively,➡️ a 180% increase. #plastic www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Most people who drink coffee appreciate the quick jolt of energy it provides. But in a new study, scientists have found that coffee may offer the much longer-term benefit of healthy aging.

submitted 11 days ago • 20 comments

Just updated my lab home page and embedded a video about our group. I'm betting I'll find a minute to do that again maybe in 2028? branderlab.net

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This should be on a bumper sticker. #surviving2025

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theres a kind older gentleman who sits next to me at the cafe a few times a week, always gets a pastry and a cup of black coffee, asks "how are the funnies treating you today, mickey?" he just sat down and said "one of those ugly t*sla tanks is outside...should we get some garbage to throw at it?"

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“Staff of FEMA were left baffled on Monday after the head of the U.S. disaster agency said during a briefing that he had not been aware the country has a hurricane season” www.reuters.com/world/us/fem...

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Disinformation kills

submitted 12 days ago • 8 comments

Looking forward to Kate's defense on Thursday! DM for the zoom link. #pesticidetoxicity #toxicology @oregonstate.edu

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If you were to approach David Connell — an encounter likely to take place at a Prince George local farmers market — and ask him to name one thing that would make the world a better place, his answer would be simple. “It would be to change the food system, to make the food system more localized.”

submitted 12 days ago • 5 comments

Just released. My Nature piece: "Never before has the USA seen such an anti-intellectual, anti-science assault... History tells us that there are times when the dangers of inaction become sufficiently threatening to individuals or the planet that scientists... rdcu.be/eo3Hb

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Abstracts are due June 4th!

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#PlasticCredits, are being promoted as an innovative way of addressing plastic pollution. A new study with AWI participation now shows that such compensation programs make the plastic problem worse - not better. Photo: @melaniebergma18.bsky.social

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Celebrated the start of #pride month by visiting Grace cathedral in San Francisco 🌈 ❤️ #loveislove

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My hotel for a work trip I’m on has a Bob Ross channel. This is exactly what I need mid-2025, four stars 🌟

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The 2025 class president of M.I.T. was barred from a graduation ceremony on Friday after delivering a pro-Palestinian speech during a commencement event the day before.

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Margaret Brennan totally exposes FDA Commissioner Makary for making it up as he goes and making conflicting recommendations in order to cast doubt on covid vaccines. He's so terrible during this interview that Brennan is left shaking her head as she wraps it up.

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I find that as I get older my taste in sunglasses gets a bit more ridiculous. Why not?

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buff.ly/nrC9eRi 🪜 🎓 📜 🍎 ♀️ 👩🏾‍🔬 👩🏼‍🔬 👩🏾‍🎓 #PhDSky #Blackademia #AcademicChatter #AcademicSky #MeToo #HigherEd #PhDChat #TimesUpHigherEd

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What is happening??

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Help! I’m doing background research on the history of science funding in the US. Does anyone have specific info on how early biologists in the late 1800s and early 1900s US funded their research? I have the general picture but looking for citeable sources & details about individuals.

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Checking in on RFK Jr's MAHA commission: "A report on children’s health released by the Make America Healthy Again Commission referred to scientific papers that did not exist." - NYT 5/29/25 Can't make this stuff up. Oh wait ...

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Career day at elementary school, proud that she chose to dress as an engineer and brought in a robot she made from a kit at home. Also the PPE too ❤️ #girlsinSTEM

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