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Toxicologist here! This will improve the health of zero Americans. Current synthetic food dyes are not causing health problems, and are often times used because they are actually safer than natural food dyes. Reminder that guns are the #1 cause of death of children but we are going to ban food dyes.

submitted 11 days ago • 208 comments

Hey @theguardian.com, I wrote a bestselling book defending pigeons, so reach out at [email protected] if you'd like to hear a spirited and science-based defense of those perfect birds 🕊️ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Visualizing changes in April temperatures across the #Arctic region during the last four decades... Data provided by doi.org/10.24381/cds...

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New study detects #microplastics in 35% of 🐟 cod muscle samples, i.e.❗filets❗from western Norwegian waters with a mean particle count of 1.55 ± 2.75 nMP/100 g, mostly polypropylene (33%) & polyethylene (30%) and mostly (86%) fragments sized 32-100 µm (u-FTIR). www.oaepublish.com/articles/wec...

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

Day 1 of picking up waste and plastic in my neighbourhood. Found lots of cigarette butts and macro- and micro- fragments of various colours

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S&P 500 dropping like summer sea ice in the Arctic Ocean…

submitted 26 days ago • 10 comments

"The Attorney General shall prioritize the identification of any such State laws purporting to address “climate change”... [and] expeditiously take all appropriate action to stop the enforcement of State laws" So much for federalism... www.whitehouse.gov/p...

submitted 25 days ago • 9 comments

Here's a little nugget of #climate news to help take your mind off all that scary Trump tariff stuff. I'll be discussing this later today on the Last Word on @todayfm.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...

submitted 31 days ago • 5 comments

A #NewStudy suggests that existing research may have considerably underestimated the scale of #microplastic #pollution: pml.ac.uk/news/existin... Lead author @hmcilwraith.bsky.social - PhD researcher here at PML and the @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social

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Defence Ministry: Shoreline defence force Gentoo’s prepare mortars. Our Navy Seals conduct clandestine training, and teach tactical camouflage and concealment to juveniles. We stand ready. Flippers Up.

submitted 31 days ago • 304 comments

Canada's managed forests emitted about as much CO2 in 2023 as Russia's national economy did from fossil fuel combustion that same year.

submitted 37 days ago • 1 comment

Whenever I make a mistake at work now, I just blame it on the spoonful of plastic in my brain.

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New study from UCLA finds that chewing gum releases hundreds to thousands of microplastics into your saliva, regardless of whether it's synthetic or natural. Over a year, this could mean ingesting around 30,000 microplastics. #microplastics #plasticpollution

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Save the environment, eat plastic

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Books

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I know this isn't nearly everything, but I'm trying to keep my seminar class updated on what's happening. Is there anything else I should add/correct?

submitted 45 days ago • 8 comments

Two days after Lee Zeldin announced he was gutting the EPA.

submitted 47 days ago • 2006 comments

#NewStudy: cross-country collaboration in tackling marine #PlasticPollution brings huge economic & environmental returns: up to $36B, with a 64% reduction in emitted plastic for countries bordering the North Atlantic. But the distribution of these benefits may not be equal: pml.ac.uk/news/coopera...

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A new study revealed the presence of microplastics – tiny fragments of degraded plastic – in human brain tissue. While previous research has identified microplastics in the liver, kidneys, and placenta, this suggests that the brain may be especially vulnerable to these tiny synthetic particles.

submitted 52 days ago • 186 comments

It’s weird watching your scientific field be dismantled in such small detail that it’s hard to explain to the public why the things that are happening matter

submitted 53 days ago • 13 comments

Today EPA chief Lee Zeldin announced that the agency is rolling back 31 regulations. He's taking aim at mercury, soot, and toxic pollution restrictions, and federal protection of wetlands. The EPA will also rewrite rules limiting pollution from fossil-fuel plants and cars, and more.

submitted 53 days ago • 474 comments

Offer a mealworm an apple, some grains or even a paper towel, and it’ll munch away. But plastic for dinner? Turns out, they can digest Styrofoam too! Nature’s little recyclers might just help scientists tackle plastic waste 🧪🪱

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On March 11, 2025, COVID-19 was declared a pandemic. It’s hard to believe how much it’s affected the world. I’m taking a moment to remember the lives lost and the countless others affected. To this date, COVID-19 has taken over 7.1 million lives.

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So you know how the climate crisis is messing up crop yields? And how microplastics are now everywhere? NEW RESEARCH: : microplastics are sabotaging photosynthesis in food crops like wheat in ways that could throw 400 million people into starvation in next 20 yrs.🧪 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

submitted 54 days ago • 58 comments

microplastic particles can be small enough to cross the blood-brain barrier, and concentrations in the brain are higher than in the liver or kidneys, and rapidly worsening.

submitted 55 days ago • 107 comments

University endowments are supposed to guarantee robust independence. But it seems all they really do is give wealth-obsessed people immense power within the University, increasing the number of channels through which academic freedom can be curtailed. The richer they are the faster they cave.

submitted 56 days ago • 6 comments

Celebrate International Women’s Day by following our two Starter Packs with kickass Scientists from the #zebrafish community! 👩‍🔬 🧪 Volume 1: go.bsky.app/4BegEjv Volume 2: go.bsky.app/VoebYrt

submitted 57 days ago • 0 comments

At the DC #standupforscience today. The question was “Why are you here?” She came up with this on her own! (I helped her with the spelling) So proud of her! #standupforscience2025 @standupforscience.bsky.social

submitted 57 days ago • 47 comments

Really cool research on zebrafish enrichment!!

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Happy fifteenth anniversary to Gorillaz's third studio album Plastic Beach! A record with themes of environmentalism and pollution and great guest features, this album continues to be relevant in this day and age scarily pretty well. What were your favorite tracks on the album?

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What if SpaceX paid for its pollution like the rest of us? the recent Starship explosion scattered debris, polluted the atmosphere, & disrupted flights. If fined under existing environmental laws it would cost SpaceX about $7M dollars for this incident. Let’s break it down… #SpaceX #ElonMusk

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Did you know the last common ancestor of #zebrafish & humans was ~450 million years ago? A whole genome duplication event (3R) occurred early in the teleost fish phylogeny. Despite this event, zebrafish & humans have about the same number of chromosomes (25 & 23, respectively). #ZebrafishFunFacts 🧪

submitted 57 days ago • 3 comments

It was for transgenic mice, used for research because you can get a certain human gene in them. There are no transgender mice.

submitted 60 days ago • 116 comments

Big win for sustainability in the lab this week 🥳🧪 We’ve officially diverted over 50 kg of PPE from the landfill!! #SustainableScience

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