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Dr. Susanne Brander

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Ecotox & EnvStress lab PI, AssocProf @OSU_coastal, co-lead @pnwmicroplastic, AE @STOTEN_journal, Sr. Scientist ASI, #teamsilverside, mom, liberal

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Dr. Susanne Brander @smbrander.bsky.social · Aug 15

Thoughts as we leave INC 5.2, without consensus 😞

@scientistscoa.bsky.social
@pnwmicroplastics.bsky.social
@oregonstate.edu

#plasticstreaty #UNEP

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Dr. Susanne Brander @smbrander.bsky.social · 5d

Joining the mud rebellion. #mudtherapy #nokings

Dr. Susanne Brander @smbrander.bsky.social · 7d

Can we please have #nokings again this weekend? I don’t know where to put all of the rage and need to shout at clouds again with other sane people.

Dr. Susanne Brander @smbrander.bsky.social · 14d

I’m returning from a work trip during the protest on Saturday so I made a portable sign 🪧

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Tessa Hill @tessahill.bsky.social · 29d

In case you need something … less dark… on your timeline:

This week I started my seminar focused on the legacy of Rachel Carson.

I’m thinking I’ll post here what we are reading/watching/doing, and if you are interested, you could follow along. Like a bit of a Carson book group. 📕 🐦

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Dr. Susanne Brander @smbrander.bsky.social · 16d

Sums up this moment. #portlandfrog #nokings

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Stockholm University @stockholm-uni.bsky.social · 17d

Widespread mortality of warm-water coral reefs is underway as the world reaches its first climate tipping point. The Global Tipping Points Report 2025 underlines that the only way to avert catastrophe is to act urgently. Research from @sthlmresilience.bsky.social
www.su.se/english/news...

Widespread mortality of coral reefs - Stockholm University

Widespread mortality of coral reefs Widespread mortality of warm-water coral reefs is now underway as the world reaches its first climate tipping point. The Global Tipping Points Report 2025, released...

www.su.se

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Dr. Susanne Brander @smbrander.bsky.social · 20d

The Halloween hit we all needed 🎃

#themonsterslash
#fundingcuts

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Dr. Susanne Brander @smbrander.bsky.social · 22d

Awh ☺️… I may be biased but this sounds like an amazing class ;)

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Neil Tangri @tangri0.bsky.social · 23d

Short sweet letter by @smbrander.bsky.social and others (including myself) on why the US, with our astronomical health care costs, should be at the forefront of a global #plasticstreaty. But we're not. substack.com/inbox/post/1...

Public and environmental health in the US would benefit greatly from global rules on plastic chemicals

There are more microplastics in the ocean than stars in the Milky Way; however, as we all know by this point, the latest round of global plastic treaty negotiations ended in a stalemate.

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Dr. Susanne Brander @smbrander.bsky.social · 23d

Please be aware of what might happen next. #insurrectionact

Trump’s Plan
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Trump's Plan

To invoke the Insurrection Act

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Dr. Susanne Brander @smbrander.bsky.social · 27d

Beautiful day out and about in “Joburg”

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 27d

If the government remains shut down, a program that feeds more than six million low-income mothers and their children is likely to run out of funding within the next two weeks, advocates and government officials say.

Nutrition Program for Mothers and Infants May Run Out of Money Within Weeks

Nearly 41 percent of U.S.-born infants participate in the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children, which may not have enough funding for an extended government shutdown.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 27d

look at the map here -- more than 2000 protests planned already...

www.nokings.org

No Kings

As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power ...

www.nokings.org

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ACLU @aclu.org · 27d

BREAKING: A federal appeals court upheld a ruling that blocks President Trump's executive order on birthright citizenship.

The president can't rewrite the 14th Amendment with the stroke of a pen.

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Dr. Susanne Brander @smbrander.bsky.social · 27d

This woman can write a lyric or five 👀

“Every eldest daughter was the first lamb to the slaughter, so we all dressed up as wolves and we looked fire”

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Eldest Daughter by Taylor Swift on Apple Music

Song · 2025 · Duration 4:06

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 28d

Jane Goodall’s legacy: three ways she changed science

The primatologist challenged what it meant to be a scientist.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 28d

If the regime can change your out of office reply, I assume that means they can read your emails as well?

This is disgusting. Furloughed department of education employees had their out of office reply changed to one that blames the Democrats for the shut down.

Written in the first person too!!

Education Department employees surprised to find their email automatically changed to blame Democrats for shutdown

Five furloughed employees told NBC News they had put up nonpartisan out-of-office messages, only to see they were changed — without their permission — to partisan ones.

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Geoffrey P Johnston😎🇨🇦🇺🇦 @geoffypjohnston.bsky.social · 28d

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“I am saddened to share that we have had our first death from measles in the province. A child, born prematurely after the mother contracted measles during pregnancy, died shortly after birth,” Alberta Health Minister Adriana LaGrange, in a statement, said

Alberta baby dies from measles

An Albertan has died from complications due to measles, government data released Thursday says.

www.ctvnews.ca

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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 28d

At Climate Week NYC, the message was clear: progress is underway. While none of us can do this alone, the number of people who are committed to tackling climate together is growing every day.

Read on Mailchimp: shorturl.at/yXmnn
Read on LinkedIn: shorturl.at/bssRq

Climate action can't wait

NYC Climate Week: The world leans in, the U.S. checks out, and how to SHIFT into action

www.talkingclimate.ca

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Dr. Susanne Brander @smbrander.bsky.social · 28d

Fan girl since I was very young, thanks to @pbs.org

RIP Jane and thank you for showing women what is possible.

Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 29d

“It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.”
― Jane Goodall

💙 RIP to a real one. My childhood hero

Jane Goodall with monarch butterfly scarf

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Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · 28d

EXCLUSIVE: In her first interview all year, Susan Monarez, CDC director for only 29 days, tells me why Trump/RFK fired her and where this is all headed.

The CDC director is an “inherently political position, but that doesn’t mean that it has to be politically compromised”, she tells @nature.com.

Exclusive: ex-CDC director talks about why she was fired

“I would never do that, as a scientist,” Susan Monarez says of being asked to approve changes to vaccine recommendations without knowing the details.

www.nature.com

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CNN @cnn.com · 28d

A CNN review has found two dozen incidents of people posing as ICE officers in 2025 – more incidents than during the prior four presidential terms combined.

ICE impersonator incidents rise during Trump’s second term | CNN

A CNN review has found two dozen incidents of people posing as ICE officers in 2025 – more incidents than during the prior four presidential terms combined.

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Dr. Scott Coffin @ecoboffin.bsky.social · Sep 17

The Moore Institute for Plastic Pollution Research
is seeking a visionary and compassionate leader to serve as Executive Director of their laboratory. Truly an incredible opportunity to work with some of the world's leading researchers on #microplastics!
Apply by October 31st! <- lnkd.in/g2u_pJxs

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Dr. Susanne Brander @smbrander.bsky.social · 29d

Fun at the #SETAC World Congress dinner this week. First time ever in Africa, won’t be my last. @setac.bsky.social
@pnwmicroplastics.bsky.social

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · Sep 21

News Analysis: For President Trump, a wide-ranging crackdown on mainstream media institutions and political opponents is not about hate speech, but about speech that he hates — namely, speech that is critical of him and his administration. nyti.ms/3VsCyO4

Donald Trump, wearing a red tie, speaks with both hands extended. A headline reads: "In Assault on Free Speech, Trump Targets Speech He Hates" Photo by Doug Mills/The New York Times

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