I’m so honoured to have been chosen as the recipient of this award! Policy impact work is never easy but is incredibly important, so it’s amazing to be recognized for it

Headshot of Dr Andrea Sartorius and a congratulatory message for winning the Rising Star Award: Policy impact

3. We are thrilled to see Andrea Sartorius emerge as the winner of the Rising Star Award in Policy Impact.

Her work continues to push boundaries in environmental research, with her PhD uncovering risks from trace metal pollutants in food and water beyond mining site.🥳

2025 Institute Award announcement banner for the Rising Star Award - Policy Impact category. The banner has the headshots of Andrea Sartorius and Catherine Price who are the finalists for this category

We are thrilled to announce that
@andreasartorius.bsky.social, Research Fellow at the School of Veterinary Medicine and @catherineprice.bsky.social, Research Fellow at the School of Geography are the two exceptional finalists for the Rising Star Award – Policy Impact! 1/2

A compilation of photos of various crime scene dioramas that Frances Glessner Lee created.

It's #InternationalWomensDay! The forensic scientist Frances Glessner Lee created real crime scene dioramas to train homicide investigators in the 1940s/50s. She was troubled that patrolmen and detectives rarely knew how to secure a scene, or identify key evidence in a forensic investigation.

Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Microplastics They’re in our blood and our brains. They’re in newborns and the elderly, urban and rural, rich and poor. What are they doing to our bodies?

Good summary on microplastics and our health risks
nymag.com/intelligence...

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Marie Curie, Physicist and chemist.

Today is International Day of Women & Girls in Science.

Marie Curie, the first woman to win a Nobel Prize. Her contributions have left an indelible mark on the world of science & health & continue to inspire generations of scientists & innovators. 🔬 #WomenInScience #WomenInSTEM

An advertisement for the polio vaccine which reads: "they all got vaccine except dad...don't take a chance...take your polio shots!" It depicts a photo of a family gathered around a father who is in an iron lung.

With science falling under increasing attack, this medical historian is here to remind people of the power of #vaccines. THREAD🧵

Hard-hitting polio advert from 1958. In the first half of the 20th century, polio was the leading cause of death in children and young adults. 1/7

As we start the new year, I would like to remind everyone that it is now almost 120 years since the US decided consumer protection - by which I mean regulation - mattered. Given the upcoming presidential inauguration, let's talk about how that happened - and why it's so important. (A thread)

This fall I was at a meeting of Midwest environmental regulators. They were deeply concerned about rising lead contamination of products sold in the U.S. See also cinnamon: www.consumerreports.org/health/food-...