So old that I am beyond master’s class.

Protip: The Marshall Project’s Lets Get Down to Business is a great opening song for a 5K

PS I sent the paper on to @beyondplastics.bsky.social who has now distributed it widely, including to groups doing beach clean-ups. Encouraging you to follow them if you don’t already! BP is working at the intersection of science and policy change.

Such good and important work!

Pretty confident it will never hold ashes again

Yep. Microplastics create whole new dystopic ecosystems. It’s like the Whos of Whoville only with evil aliens.

And then you have all the towels to hang and dry…

“Nurdles and clamydia!” is a possibly one of the greatest openings for a Thanksgiving table conversation.

Just sayin’…

And here’s a good plain English summary of findings from Plymouth Marine Lab. (All praise to the science writers who create lively narratives from the findings of technical papers and so bring science to the people.)

pml.ac.uk/news/micropl...

This is the first study to investigate how plastics accelerate antibiotic resistance in a natural setting (not a lab). Also “these findings highlight the importance of considering the combined impacts of co-contaminants in wastewater settings, especially following spills into surface water.”

Indeed! I’ll post on ScienceSky. Thanks for tagging me

Well played!

Agree. Also dryers are the great randomizers of socks.

Happy Thanksgiving, friend. Waving at you from the Hudson River Valley! I’ll bet evaporation is even less of a struggle in New Mexico.

Yeah you need a cold winter, a heating system, and a need to humidify your indoor air.

What Mark Jacobson has is science. And you are the founder of a carbon capture company.

Nobody cares what the stated or unstated “intention” of carbon capture is. Quite simply, the data shows that 86 percent of CCS in the United States is used for enhanced oil recovery operations. It’s not an argument to agree with. It’s just a fact.

Truly

Exactly

Indeed. I do this every day. And ecofeminist theory feels incoherent unhelpful to me. I’m not working as a queer feminist scientist on the environmental crisis out of some inherently nurturing temperament. And neither was Rachel Carson.