hayleeisabellah.bsky.social
Microplastic Researcher and Animal Care Technician 👩🔬🐟
Researching the impacts of #microplastic pollution on aquatic species and supporting research in #biology #toxicology #ecology and #psychology (she/they)
80 posts
204 followers
183 following
Prolific Poster
Conversation Starter
comment in response to
post
Nature always finds a way
comment in response to
post
So far we are using glass pebbles to act as substrate within the tank which gives Zebrafish foraging opportunities. We also have stickers on bottoms of tanks that are different colores and gravel types.
comment in response to
post
There is a difference between 1) having emotions about the state of the world and 2) trying to convince people that it’s too late to act on climate (a false premise that assumes climate change is pass/fail when it’s a matter of degrees).
Impeding climate action is complying in advance.
comment in response to
post
Eau10b, it turns out, is the first intersex southern right whale identified by science. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
comment in response to
post
One excellent study comes from Illinois.
A bonus of this study is one of the locations (NW Illinois) was actually a field site of my master's thesis research.
I wasn't involved in the linked paper, provided below. (Scroll to bottom of website)
news.illinois.edu/microplastic...
comment in response to
post
This made my day! Congrats 🥳
comment in response to
post
So happy to see Ringed seals !!
comment in response to
post
If only science could have predicted this.
Oh wait…
comment in response to
post
Currently studying microplastic pollution and I do not appreciate this anti-science rhetoric
comment in response to
post
I am working on zebrafish enrichment as well. It’s exciting to see the field of fish welfare grow 🐠❤️
comment in response to
post
Yet, #Musk and #SpaceX get a free pass while everyday people pay fines for far less. Billionaires wreck the planet, and we clean up the mess. It’s time to stop subsidizing their destruction
comment in response to
post
1. Air pollution penalties (~$364K) for NOx emissions harming the ozone layer
2. Wetlands destruction (~$5.44M) after previous explosions torched protected ecosystems
3. Space debris cleanup (~$50K) after wreckage washed up on shores
4. Flight disruption (~$1.16M) affecting > 200 commercial planes
comment in response to
post
Very clever!
comment in response to
post
Just because you erase it doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist. The scientists speaking out against the recent firings are the ones upholding what’s left of democracy in the US