Dr. Sandra Steingraber 🏳️‍🌈

Yep. Microplastics create whole new dystopic ecosystems. It’s like the Whos of Whoville only with evil aliens.

And then you have all the towels to hang and dry…

Hosting Thanksgiving for my YA kids + a former student, realized I have no pitcher, stopped by Goodwill to look for one, found a racist ashtray that managed to praise both smoking and Robert E Lee in one disgusting image.

Let’s just say it’s not on that shelf anymore. #NameAGoodReasonForLandfills

“Nurdles and clamydia!” is a possibly one of the greatest openings for a Thanksgiving table conversation.

Just sayin’…

Microplastics pose a human health risk in more ways than one New study shows that microplastics in the natural environment are colonized by pathogenic and antimicrobial resistant bacteria. The study team calls for urgent action for waste management and strongly

And here’s a good plain English summary of findings from Plymouth Marine Lab. (All praise to the science writers who create lively narratives from the findings of technical papers and so bring science to the people.)

pml.ac.uk/news/micropl...

This is the first study to investigate how plastics accelerate antibiotic resistance in a natural setting (not a lab). Also “these findings highlight the importance of considering the combined impacts of co-contaminants in wastewater settings, especially following spills into surface water.”

Sewers to Seas: exploring pathogens and antimicrobial resistance on microplastics from hospital wastewater to marine environments Microplastic particles are extremely prevalent environmental pollutants which support microbial biofilms known as the ‘plastisphere’. Antimicrobial re…

🧪 NEW STUDY led by @emilymaystevenson.bsky.social:

Microplastics in wastewater provide habitat for pathogenic bacteria, including Chlamydiia, and foster antibiotic resistance, “with polystyrene and HDPE nurdle communities posing a particular risk.” 🧵

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Indeed! I’ll post on ScienceSky. Thanks for tagging me

Well played!

Agree. Also dryers are the great randomizers of socks.

Happy Thanksgiving, friend. Waving at you from the Hudson River Valley! I’ll bet evaporation is even less of a struggle in New Mexico.

Yeah you need a cold winter, a heating system, and a need to humidify your indoor air.

I struggle with a lot of things. Evaporation is not one of them.

Just go to sleep. When you wake up: dry clothes for free

What Mark Jacobson has is science. And you are the founder of a carbon capture company.

Nobody cares what the stated or unstated “intention” of carbon capture is. Quite simply, the data shows that 86 percent of CCS in the United States is used for enhanced oil recovery operations. It’s not an argument to agree with. It’s just a fact.

Truly

Exactly

Indeed. I do this every day. And ecofeminist theory feels incoherent unhelpful to me. I’m not working as a queer feminist scientist on the environmental crisis out of some inherently nurturing temperament. And neither was Rachel Carson.

O’Brien supervisors discuss pipeline risks PRIMGHAR—The O’Brien County Board of Supervisors discussed issues citizens have with the proposed carbon dioxide pipeline during its Nov. 12 meeting in Primghar.

Checking in on Iowa:

still mad about CO2 pipelines and seizing farmland to run them through

“The county is just not going to get much out of this. You’ve got all the liability and the danger to your citizens and all that.”

www.nwestiowa.com/nwest_iowa_r...

Not me. I like my ecology and feminism in two separate boxes, with mysticism in neither box.

IMO, ecofeminism never entirely shook off its original anti-science tendencies and essentialist equation of femaleness with nurturing/birth.

Someone should do the Venn diagram of ecofeminism and MAHA.

I’m writing a beginners guide to ecofeminism and would love to know who thinks of themselves as an ecofeminist. I love the work of blueskyers tagged here, so especially keen to know - and all those I’ve yet to encounter. @ssteingraber1.bsky.social @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social

painting of a standing crowned and haloed woman shushing an old guy holding forth at her, him and others sitting clearly in an audience

today is the feast of St Catharine of Alexandria, patron of female scholars, so enjoy this painting of her shutting down a senior prof who treated her paper's question time as an opportunity to hold an impromptu paper of his own

Martyred after refusing to serve on curriculum committee, the student affairs committee, 3 search committees, and as the outside faculty member in 7 dissertation defense committees.

‘I had to lie to get a test’: Men reveal struggles with prostate cancer screening Our community has shared frustration over NHS barriers to prostate cancer screening, welcoming David Cameron’s call for targeted PSA tests to catch the disease earlier

Also a thing that I, an adoptee, say about that time I invented some family medical history I order to get the colonoscopy that may have saved my life and, later, a genetic test for Lynch Syndrome. Yeah “our community has shared frustrations.” We get it. 🥚

www.independent.co.uk/news/health/...

That all of us queer women scientists are even here at all is because earlier generations faced slings and arrows so I figure I need to pay it forward and hold open a space in the culture for those who come next. And because silence never protects us anyway. And courage is contagious.

You're told it'll sabotage your career if you're a vocally politically opinionated, queer, woman. But things sabotaging my career are systemic xenophobia, sexism, and horrible job market. Which are a direct consequences of people not being vocally opinionated in the first place.

Nightmare scenario. I’m so sorry that happened to you.

I just remember trying to deliver a lecture shortly after my colposcopy and thinking I was straight up going to faint from the pain in front of the whole auditorium. And I have a pretty high pain tolerance. Was told I had HPV.

Really yucky

Indeed yes. And also because men spread HPV to women. My son, now 24, was vaccinated against HPV in middle school along with his older sister.

Thanks for filling in the public health message!

a lot of neck and throat cancers in men are caused by HPV, incidentally. you know Rhod Gilbert? that's why he got throat cancer.

if you can get your boys vaccinated too, if as a man you are eligible for it, you absolutely should.