Emily Thrift

📢 Speaker Announcement 📢

@emilyzoologist1.bsky.social reveals how microplastics are entering the European Hedgehog’s diet — found in 19% of samples! 🦔
Join her talk at the Hedgehog Research (on 24th Nov).

🔗 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1672786903...

@hedgehogsociety.bsky.social @ptes-org.bsky.social

Plastic pollution talks fail as negotiators in Geneva reject draft treaties Countries deadlocked on whether legally binding deal should include curbs on production and toxic chemicals

Really depressing to see that despite all the research which proves the damage plastic is doing to the planet, the wildlife and us that the global plastics treaty negotiations have stalled. We need to stop prioritising petrochemical companies over environmental and public health
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Scientists fear whole UK food chain contaminated as study finds microplastics in bugs Researchers say study of insects in Sussex first to find plastics ‘consistently turning up across an entire community of land invertebrates’

Delighted to have my research shared in @the-independent.com tinyurl.com/5c4tw4au and share my piece I wrote in the conversation tinyurl.com/3wztx89j .This research would not have been possible without the funding from the @hedgehogsociety.bsky.social and @sussex.ac.uk @fionamathews.bsky.social

Plastic in every level of food web, say Sussex scientists The university study analyses more than 580 invertebrate samples from 51 sites across Sussex.

Delighted to have a piece about our recent research paper on the BBC today(online and on TV)! We found plastics in a third of soil samples, 12% of invertebrate samples, 24% of snails and slugs 🐌and 30% of earthworms 🪱. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... @fionamathews.bsky.social

🚨 Our new paper has found that #microplastics from a range of sources such as clothes are contaminating invertebrates across 51 sites in Sussex, England which are eaten by predators such as 🦔. Funding from @hedgehogsociety.bsky.social #plastics @sussex.ac.uk 🚨

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Do you want to help a strange but amazing mammal? Vojvodina Blind Mole-Rats are endangered in Europe to help them, please support this GoFundMe by donating or sharing – every bit of help makes a difference. gofund.me/7ce46b95

What can be done to conserve and monitor #hedgehogs? Looking forward to today's discussions at @londonzoo.bsky.social @ptes-org.bsky.social @hedgehogsociety.bsky.social where I will be talking about plastic ingestion, researched by @emilyzoologist1.bsky.social 🦔🦔🦔 #wildlife

A pretty mosaic? Actually 403 bits of plastic removed from the stomach of a dead shearwater chick. Startling new research using proteomics suggests multi-organ dysfunction is linked with plastic exposure. #plastics #birds #health #wildlife www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...