Meet the Plastics of LOMP!
Our researchers from the Lake Ontario MicroPlastics Center (LOMP) are studying many types of plastics. These fact sheets provide information about some of these plastics and why LOMP researchers are studying them.
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#URochesterResearch
So thrilled to be working with these wonderful teachers! 💖
“President Trump on Thursday announced he was erasing the scientific finding that climate change endangers human health and the environment, ending the federal government’s legal authority to control the pollution that is dangerously heating the planet.”
WTF!
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/c...
MAHA?
Definitely not.
Who will be minding the farm?
Sigh...
Be careful on those roads #ICE
Hey Pantone, after the backlash that Cloud Dancer White was not a color, might I suggest a new color for 2026 Color of the Year?
We are thankful for biomedical research. 🤗
#whatareyouthankfulfor #genetherapy #scicomm
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/w...
Students need to understand how vaccines prevent diseases such as pertussis.
Our "Pathogens, Antibodies & Vaccines" kit explores vaccines and the immune response.
➡️www.sciencetakeout.com/product/pathogens-antibo...
#SciEd #SciComm
kentuckylantern.com/2025/11/25/t...
Sad… The Trump administration keeps pushing antivax rhetoric.
"As I spent more and more of my life under the care of doctors, nurses, and researchers…I watched as Bobby cut nearly a half billion dollars for research into mRNA vaccines, technology that could be used against certain cancers."
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
“The claim ‘vaccines do not cause autism’ is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines cause autism.”
WTF 🤬
www.cdc.gov/vaccine-safe...
"The agency needs to fill directorships at 13 of its 27 institutes and centers...NIH has posted job ads for 11 of the positions with just a 2-week window to submit applications and no signs outside scientists have been sought to help find candidates."
www.science.org/content/arti...
Ahead of the 1st shutdown of US food aid to hungry Americans in 60 years, some of the 200,000 Little Free Library locations are converting into food pantries. Thanks @littlefreelibrary.bsky.social
Don’t think it couldn’t happen here.
#VaccinesWork #VaccinesSaveLives
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/h...
This is highly unusual. I have received much of my grant funding from NIEHS.
www.science.org/content/arti...
MAHA?
🤬
www.fda.gov/media/188843...
“A 2023 study in the Journal of Public Economics estimates that direct-to-consumer advertising drove about 31 percent of the rise in U.S. drug spending since 1997, when the F.D.A. relaxed ad restrictions.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/13/o...
“Europe bans substances it harbors doubts about, while the United States tends to allow substances unless there is solid evidence of harm. That may have something to do with the millions that companies spend lobbying and donating to political candidates.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/o...
“User complaints about Twitter included a noticeable increase in spam, porn, bots, and promoted posts from users who paid for a verification badge, many spreading extremist content…There were also complaints about the rise in misinformation…"
#SciComm
arstechnica.com/science/2025...
With social media site Bluesky growing in popularity among academics, a new study has revealed how it measures up against X when it comes to sharing and promoting scientific research.
MAHA?
MAHA?
