📣 Review on #microplastics as environmental modifiers of #LungDisease 🫁 by E. Epeslidou, @bnmelgert.bsky.social , @stefanprekovic.bsky.social & colleagues @rug.nl & University Medical Center Utrecht

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@plastimpact

Start of the #plastimpact European network in Bordeaux! Miren introducing our shared wish to combat plastic pollution!

Getting rid of toxic chemicals from plastics
On the annual 100,000+ lives saved, trillion+ dollars benefit and ~10+ million IQ points lost to maternal exposure
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First post on Bluesky, let’s share some websites offering many free illustrations for scientific figures 🖼️ 🧪 🌍 :

scidraw.io

bioart.niaid.nih.gov

www.phylopic.org

More well known but very nice though: www.freepik.com

The event was called One Planetary Health and was organized by the Plastic Soup Foundation

The very elegant Koningszaal, still empty before the event

The list of companies involved in the event

Today I had the honor of speaking about human health effects of #microplastics in one of the oldest zoos in the world: Artis in Amsterdam. Many companies present to learn how they can help solve the world’s plastic problem. Including many young people, inspiring to see the next generation caring!

Dear colleagues based outside the Netherlands - please read this thread by Prof Van Oostendorp and consider signing your name to this petition to express solidarity with Dutch higher education which is facing unprecedented budget cuts by our right-wing government.👇

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #1,435,941!

Designer Science – Why big brand journals harm research The transition towards an open access scholarly communication system has transformed the technology and underlying function of journals. Damian Pattinson and George Currie argue one consequence of …

Must read for anybody in research!

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I also participated in a panel discussion with some of those inspiring people, Patrick Grant, Carmen Danner, Luke Haverhals, and led by the wonderful Maria Westerbos. Many thanks to Nina Marenzi for inviting me!!

Today I visited a very inspiring event: the Future Fabrics Expo in London 😍 So many people trying to get rid of plastics in clothes and looking for more sustainable options! Touched many new fantastic materials I would love to wear.

Cartoon comparing Jedi career with Academia.

#academicchatter #academia #skystorians #ichbinhannah

These Women Came to Antarctica for Science. Then the Predators Emerged Jane Willenbring was the first to blow the whistle on sexual harassment and assault in Antarctica. Years later, women are still coming forward with tales of horror as a government investigation unfold...

The lump in my throat never went away once I started reading. These women are fucking heroic.

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Opinion: It's time to clean the germs out of our indoor air Properly cleaning our indoor air will be the largest improvement in human hygiene since the advent of water treatment

"With investments in indoor air quality we can control every airborne disease. Imagine telling parents with school-aged children who are constantly sick that just changing the building code will make their kids far healthier."
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But what we do know is that this compound or compounds upregulate expression of Hoxa5 in differentiating epithelial cells inhibiting their normal differentiation to airways 🧪 Really makes you think twice about recycling plastics and introducing more unknown chemicals in plastics............

We showed it was not the nylon fibers themselves that halted airway epithelial differentiation, but an unknown chemicals(s) leaching from nylon. Still an open question what the heck it is! 🧪

FINALLY!!! After a long, looooong peer review process our paper showing that nylon microplastics derail airway development/repair has been accepted for publication by AJRCCM 🧪 www.atsjournals.org/doi/10.1164/...

We blurred the gender of soccer players and had people rate their performances − with surprising r... A common criticism of women’s sports is that female players aren’t as entertaining or skilled as their male counterparts. Two researchers decided to put this notion to the test.

Really nice work with the video effects to show 1) how people react (differently) to men's versus women's soccer, 2) biases between the two, and 3) how good women's soccer really is

🧪another class room full of Indonesian pharmacy students wanting to learn more about microplastics and lung health. This time at Universitas Indonesia, many interactive and inquisitive students😍

Inhalable textile microplastic fibers impair airway epithelial growth bioRxiv - the preprint server for biology, operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a research and educational institution

Some self promotion☺️Not a paper yet, under review, but available on bioRxiv: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Exactly! Indoor air contains many microplastic particles and fibers (mostly from our clothes/textiles, polyester for instance) and what happens to macrophages and epithelial cells when they are confronted with this indigestible material?

Having a great time discussing with students and researchers of Pharmacy at the Bandung Institute of Technology about #microplastics and #lunghealth🧪together we may be able to reduce global plastic pollution!

#HiSciSky I am a respiratory immunologist, particularly into #lunghealth #microplastics #macrophages and hoping to reconnect to the wonderful science community once present on the bird site 🧪