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Dr.Dusan Materic (Matt)
@dusanmateric.bsky.social
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Environmental analytical scientist. Love road trips & fieldwork. Mountains, sea and lakes. Micro- and nanoplastics. PTR-MS, DOM, VOCs, SVOCs Lived long and prospered in 🇧🇦🇬🇧🇮🇹🇳🇱🇩🇪
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Well people are excited. And, it does offer something we didn't have. I hope it will be a low cost way to make old movies remastered to high resolution :)
AI can be used for science, espetially when you need a break from super dense multitasking work that actually never ends.
Btw, we have both sides in us, right?
#StarWars
Let’s address some structural issues in plastic research:

A) A large share of #microplastics & #nanoplastics papers are reviews, not primary data (doi.org/10.1016/j.en...)

B) Some highly cited, widely publicised studies have critical flaws (e.g., missing proper blanks): doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
Redirecting
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Let me show you the way to our micro and #nanoplastics sampling system.
Sonnblick Observatory, 3106 m altitude.
#microplastics
We do 7 days for now. We can do better too, but it is a huge amount of labwork.
Active sampling for this project.
At 3106 m altitude! Nanoplastics measurement within the project NanoEU is now in its more polluted period - summer.
#nanoplastics
#microplastics
I like the comments and the link with the UN meeting about the Plastic Treaty. Interesting that you expected such big hidden nanoplastic pollution!
Thank you, Melanie. It was hard work and a long process, but it was worth it.
Our paper is out in Nature: “Nanoplastic concentrations across the North Atlantic”. An estimated 27 million tons of NPs are there, even at depths over 4500m. Huge thanks to my brilliant MSc student Sophie and the sampling support from NIOZ! @ufz.de @ufz-cite.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
Conference in Pragur started today. It will be busy days with a lot of interesting talks. #Prague #microplastics
We sampled, analysed, and are now writing a paper about #nanoplastics in Loch Ness and surrounding rivers. Stay tuned, it is becoming a nice story.
Btw, Scotland is lovely - go visit :). 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
A beutiful day in the #Alps. Try with the speaker on 🔊.
This is where we continuously monitor #microplastics and #nanoplastics
Trying to celebrate for a couple of seconds. I always thought that if I worked hard and hit an h-index of 17–19, some nice things would happen in my career. I guess now we’ll find out.
It was a successful session at EGU25, “Atmospheric Microplastics and Nanoplastics”.
Many nice presentations and posters. It was nice to see new trends in the field in action.
#egu
#microplastics
#nanoplastics
Day and night in Vienna. EGU conference. To bad I am not spending a lot of time in this room - so many awesome talks and posters to see.
#nanoplastics
#microplastics
My view, now. All the days clowdy and now when I pack to go, is lovely. 😂
Unpredictable Alps🏔️
Continuing world-leading #nanoplastics monitoring project at Sonnblick Observatory, Austria - NanoEU+. All weather work ☀️❄️🏔️
We aim for high-resolution data and multi-year background levels of ultra-fine #microplastics and #nanoplastics.
Successfully finished a full year of #microplastics and #nanoplastics sampling at Sonnblick Observatory, Austria (3106 m a.s.l). Many thanks to Dr. Elke Ludewig (GeoSphere Austria), InteracTA funding for the NanoEU project, and the station technicians who supported the sampling.