Ran along the Potomac today, 10/10.

IN THE PRESS: "Do We Know Enough About Microplastics to Act?"

Several scientists, including @smbrander.bsky.social weighed in!

Check out the Dispatch article below!

#microplastics #humanhealth #policy #plasticpollution #plasticpolicy

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On lampposts around town #resist #meltice

EPA calls for more focus on microplastics in water The Trump administration has announced a new research program to help us better understand microplastics. Let’s break down what it means.

The Trump administration has announced a new research program to help us better understand microplastics. Let’s break down what it means.

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MICRO 2026 – Abstract Submission Open!
Cádiz, Spain: 12–16 October 2026
6th edition: Plastic Pollution from Macro to Nano

📝 Abstract Deadline: 20 May 2026
🔗 Submit here: lnkd.in/dpS_7uj2

CRC1357 is planning a broad participation! See you in Cádiz! 🇪🇸
lnkd.in/dHA5MrHa
#MICRO2026 #Microplastics

Exclusive: As FBI director, Kash Patel has focused on trying to bring a criminal case against Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-California).

The lengths that Patel’s circle is going to pursue a political foe of President Trump have raised alarms within the bureau. https://wapo.st/3NY2fpE

It’s almost like public education is in a manufactured budget crisis designed to create a scarcity mindset so they can justify closing programs and firing people.

haters are one of Chicago’s most vital exports. they don’t grow them like that anywhere else. if you have been hated by someone from Chicago you never forget it. Leo talks like a guy who has to call up his confessor twice a day to yell about some new Truth Social post that’s making him see knives

No kings, but more frogs please 🐸

Jane Fonda: Becca Goode, the wife of Renee Goode, has asked me to read a statement, which I am honored to do.

Today is the 128th anniversary of the Supreme Court’s decision on birthright citizenship in U.S. v. Wong Ark Kim.

Cherry blossoms after No Kings today.

HAPPENING NOW: Thousands of people in DC are marching to Fort McNair where Stephen Miller, Pete Hegseth, Pam Bondi, and other leaders of this regime are living to make it clear we want to #EndTheDCoccupation and #FireStephenMiller. #NoKings #NoKingsDC

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Walz: Our weather may be a little cool, but our people are warm and we're fierce. Don't ever mistake our kindness for weakness. We demand justice for Renee Good and Alex Pretti. We demand justice for every single person who was hurt or traumatized. We will never forget what they did

Amanda's virtual #NoKings rally starts at 4:30pm PT, with some great guest speakers. It has over a thousand people signed up but the call limit is one thousand, so overflow folks can watch it on her YouTube channel: youtube.com/@covidlongha....

Just gonna leave this here.

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It’s been a long week, everyone needs this cute baby being bottle fed 🦫

I sure freakin’ hope so 😂

Indeed. 🎢

Mostly sharing as a PSA, bc no one talks about it 🤪

The fun thing no one tells you about perimenopause is that for somewhere between 2-8 yrs you may get your period *more instead of less often. It’s like Mother Nature decides to hit fast forward.

Cool.

Funny thing about American mass media is how woke content is broadly popular, routinely pays for itself, and sometimes goes blockbuster, whereas right-wing content is a narrow niche that rarely reaches breakeven, never goes blockbuster, and usually requires immense subsidies for it to exist at all.

Canadian woman held with daughter by ICE warns all immigrants to ‘lie low’ — Guardian US Tania Warner says she has documents showing she is in the US legally, but immigration agents were not swayed

This is insane 😠

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NIH grant terminations affected women scientists more than men, study finds A new paper shows that women, particularly those early in their careers, have been disproportionately affected by NIH grant terminations.

When I retired only around 25% of Full Professors in STEM were women. I was proud be one of them, and to support the success of fellow women in STEM through mentoring.

This was not an organic process. It took hard work and persistence.

And now The Regime is setting us back decades.

When you’re a toxicologist shopping for houses, the realtor will send you the latest listings, and also may ask you questions about his son’s exposure to microplastics 😂

Impressionist sea slugs create their patterns by arranging colorful photonic crystals Nudibranchs are often referred to as the butterflies of the sea. Nudibranchs live worldwide, primarily in warm, shallow marine regions, and stand out for their flamboyant colors and diverse shapes. A ...

"Biologists had previously assumed that the colors were produced by pigments."

How little we understand about the #biodiversity we are fast trashing: we need to #unlearn 20th-century hubris
phys.org/news/2026-03...

Stay away, stay away
From the fascist USA

Moving to DC for new job this weekend, and being reminded of one of the last times we were here.

Women’s march 2017 ❤️