Dr. Susanne Brander

It is so humid in Oregon today, my hair is full on New Jersey summer.

How incredibly f*cked up.

Home Depot and Lowe's Share Data From Hundreds of AI Cameras With Cops Home improvement stores are finding ways to share data from their Flock license plate reader cameras with law enforcement, according to public records.

Home Depot and Lowe's Share Data From Hundreds of AI Cameras With Cops www.404media.co/home-depot-a...

Want a quick update n what’s happening with the #PlasticsTreaty negotiation … we have you covered !

Harsh workplace climate is pushing women out of academia In the largest-ever review of faculty retention in the U.S., CU Boulder researchers reveal how harassment, a sense of not belonging and other factors contribute

Just going to leave this here and say that the U.S. academic climate in 2025 is not making things better for people who aren’t white men.

www.colorado.edu/today/2023/1...

This map shows the COVID-19 epidemic trends across U.S. states based on data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Majority of U.S. states are experiencing growing COVID-19 trends, particularly in: The South (e.g. Texas, Florida, Georgia) The Midwest (e.g. Illinois, Ohio, Michigan) The Northeast (e.g. New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey) The West Coast (e.g. California, Washington) "Likely Growing" states (orange) are scattered throughout the Midwest and parts of the West. A few states like Maine, Utah, Arizona, and New Mexico are marked as "Not Changing". Montana and Wyoming are shaded gray, indicating no recent trend data is estimated for these states.

USA: Map Shows States Where COVID Is Rising.

"COVID-19 cases are reported to be rising in 27 states and "likely growing" in 12 states more"

"Notably, real-time transmission estimates (Rt) show values above 1 in most states, indicating active spread."

Source: archive.md/4lKZR

Life goal printed on my new (100% cotton of course) t-shirt.

On parenting daughters in the US in 2025.

#epsteinfiles #trump #xennialparenting

Biggest accomplishment of the week so far, I made a bday cake with two layers, no dairy. Happy 🎂 @jwilsonwhite.bsky.social

Congress Pushes Back on Trump’s NOAA Cuts But Stormy Seas Loom Congress is rejecting the harshest proposed cuts to NOAA—but big decisions still loom. With the September 30 deadline fast approaching, funding battles and policy shifts could reshape the agency’s fut...

Congress Rejects Trump Administration’s Cuts to #NOAA

Both House and Senate reject the Trump Administration’s push to eliminate NOAA’s Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research (OAR) along with several longstanding and popular programs 🌊

www.espadvisor.com/post/congres...

Lovely day in the woods.

As a scientist and a mom who’s lost the ability to tolerate any additional B.S., and doesn’t get out much, this is my new attempt at making it through the rest of 2025 #Dancetherapy #kitchenclurb

I wonder if leaders will ever admit that smearing all protests to stop the genocide actually contributed to the genocide. Will there ever be that level of self reflection and honesty or are we just going to get fake surprise like this after mass death.

Shifting foundations of the Antarctic food web - AAPP “We may be witnessing a fundamental reorganisation of life around Antarctica": study tracks change in polar phytoplankton

🌊 “We may be witnessing a fundamental reorganisation of life around Antarctica. Tiny algae at the base of the Antarctic food web are changing in ways that could ... alter how the ocean helps regulate our climate.” — Dr Alex Hayward

▶️ aappartnership.org.au/shifting-fou...

People dying from lack of aid every day in Gaza: WFP official The hunger crisis in Gaza has reached new and astonishing levels of desperation, with a third of the population not eating for multiple days in a row, a senior official with the UN World Food Programm...

Aid organizations report that thousands of children in Gaza are at risk of starvation while trucks full of food sit waiting across the border.

The full flow of humanitarian assistance must be restored immediately. news.un.org/en/story/202...

Grab Him By The Epstein Files! Bless these people!

Bless these people!

Thank you!

Opinion | The ‘Boy Crisis’ Is Overblown

I accepted the “boys are in crisis” narrative for a long time — that underperforming boys is a new problem and that modern school isn’t made for them. But it turns out that girls have been outperforming boys SINCE 1914!!! www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/o...

Really proud to be a part of this project with Dr. Shanna Swan and Collab Fertility at Action Science Initiative. We are aiming to reduce the use of plastics in IVF!

@pnwmicroplastics.bsky.social #humanhealth #microplastics #plasticchemicals

Get to work in one of my favorite cities this week. #sanfrancisco

Some thoughts from the beach about what is happening to the #EPA and why we aren’t feeling #plasticsfreeJuly in the US right now.

@pnwmicroplastics.bsky.social

At this school, kids given detention can choose a hike instead We take a hike in the Maine woods with high school students who've been given the option to hike instead of sit in detention.

file under why I love #Maine www.npr.org/2025/06/26/n...

Ready for tomorrow #goodtrouble #johnlewis #civilrights #nokings @50501movement.bsky.social

Ok, so now “mRNA” is on the banned list? I’m pretty sure everyone in Trump’s cabinet expresses genes, perhaps none in the prefrontal cortex though 🫠

Comments from @smbrander.bsky.social @ Oregon State and Erin Murphy @oceanconservancy.org, story by @beccapox.bsky.social.

Policy Success: Fees and Bans on Plastic Bags Reduce Beach Trash - Eos Regardless of the patchwork of regulations aimed at limiting plastic bag use in the United States, new research indicates that such legislation does, indeed, limit the number of plastic bags found on ...

Good news: A new study by @annapappp.bsky.social @mit.edu and @kimberlyoremus.bsky.social @udelaware.bsky.social suggests that bans and fees on plastic bags are successful in reducing the number of plastic bags that end up on beaches. eos.org/articles/pol...

Me and my best girls.

#momsinSTEM

Why a strong global plastics treaty is essential for agricultural systems, food safety, food security and human health | Cambridge Prisms: Plastics | Cambridge Core Why a strong global plastics treaty is essential for agricultural systems, food safety, food security and human health - Volume 3

📄 Open Access in Cambridge Prisms: Plastics
doi.org/10.1017/plc....
Why a strong global #plasticstreaty is essential for #agricultural systems, #food safety, food security and human #health

#INC5.2 #microplastics

@smbrander.bsky.social @kristiansyberg.bsky.social

US senators poised to reject Trump’s proposed massive science cuts Committee gives first hint that policymakers might preserve, rather than slash, funding for US National Science Foundation and other agencies.

Continue to call your representative & senators -- our voices matter!! www.nature.com/articles/d41...

SEIU California | SEIU California Demands Release of CSU Faculty Member Brutalized By ICE SEIU California members call for the immediate release of our brother Jonathan Caravello, PhD, a U.S. citizen and union member, who was brutally assaulted and detained by federal agents as he…

A worker was killed. Dozens detained.

Dr. Jonathan Caravello, A CSU faculty member and US citizen, was brutalized & disappeared by ICE for observing.

Trump’s ICE thugs are escalating terror in our communities. Release them ALL.

seiuca.org/press-releas...