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| | How much of the stuff are we taking into our bodies, and what are the health effects of doing so?
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| | From the Antarctic to the deepest depths of the ocean, microplastics are found in increasingly large numbers. These tiny, seemingly inescapable plastics pose a range of threats to human health, animal life and the ecosystems on which we rely. How can we deal with this avalanche of microplastics? For more, Dr Maria Armoudian speaks to [...],
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| | In a training session recently, we were talking about plastic pollution, and I saw something on a graph that I hadn't noticed before. Here's a similar graph from the Seas at Risk campaign, showing the main sources of microplastics. It's the yellow curve above that jumped out to me: road markings. It hadn't occurred to...
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| We are trying again to fill our fifth tenure track position. Please share the position ad with anyone who might be interested! Whereas last time around we launched a spring search, this time we will start reading applications on October 18, the median application deadline for CS faculty jobs at primarily undergraduate institutions in 2022-23....