Zarya was on the picket line this morning and has a bone to pick with McMaster. This doggie is keen on fair wages, tuition reimbursement, and more belly rubs. 🐶 🪧

Quote: "The [mayfly] specimens hold untold secrets about the environment, world ecology and aquatic life. But because there likely will never be enough biologists to study them properly, many of those secrets will never be revealed." washingtonpost.com/magazine/2022/…

This article was written 110 years ago. 110 years and we still aren't doing what we need to do to address the climate crisis. No time to wait. Let's make 2023 the year we #ActOnClimate #Climate #energy #ClimateEmergency #renewables #GreenNewDeal.

Microplastics pollute every inshore plankton sample I collect. There are many new, modern wool fabrics with similar benefits to manmade materials. As your old plastic clothing wears out why not make a New Year's resolution to replace it with natural fibres. ZEISS Microscopy

Share and please reach out if you are a student or know of a student interested in an MSc. studying stream ecology in Canada's Arctic. This project focuses on the impact of beaver colonization in Nunavik. Come work with Dr. Michael Power (Waterloo Biology), Mathilde Lapointe St-Pierre, and I!

A Critical Arctic Organism Is Now Infested With Microplastics. “As the sea ice retreats, human activities in the region increase,” says Dr. Melanie Bergmann 🐘MBergmann🐘mstdn.social. “As a matter of fact, they already have—fisheries, tourism, shipping—which will perpetuate pollution.” wired.com/story/a-critic…

Thanks for the amazing week of insightful talks and posters IAGLR 🌊🌊 Karen Kidd (@karenkidd.bsky.social) #IAGLR23

Have some new and exciting work on Canadian plastic pollution you'd like to share? Join us at our plastics session at CEW in Ottawa running October 2-5! Abstracts are due June 16th! Submit Here: ecotoxcan.ca/submit-an-abst… Quinn Allamby Karen Kidd (@karenkidd.bsky.social) @ecotoxcan

Everyone knows about 🐘, 🐼, and sea turtles. But this #EndangeredSpeciesDay we're focusing on freshwater mussels, one of the world's most endangered groups of animals. These shelled mollusks have an outsized impact on ecosystems, but face a murky future. smithsonianmag.com/blogs/national…

Trash haul from Lake Huron shoreline🌊 a mixture of packaging, fishing products, foam, pellets and a few balloons #2minutebeachclean

Two weeks to get your abstract into our session on plastic pollution in terrestrial and aquatic environments!

New study indicates ingested #microplastics migrate into #whales’ fat and organs (#translocation). 68% of samples (spanning 2 decades) contained at least one microplastic particle. #plastic sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Plastic soup of the day. #Cornwall

📣New Paper📣 Our quantitative synthesis of the existing #microplastic literature on #seafloor #invertebrates is out in Nature Communications Its freely available here: rdcu.be/dsJ6H written with @CezzaLew Georgie Savage @ProfBenthos Jasmin Godbold & Tamara Galloway 🧵1/n

What happened to Canada’s plastic ban? This op-ed from Peter S. Ross and @annaposacka of Ocean Diagnostics was originally published in the Ottawa Citizen. raincoast.org/2023/12/what-h…

The saddest compilation video I have ever made. But perhaps also the most positive if it causes a reduction in plastic pollution in 2024. In once pristine seas, every nearshore plankton sample I now collect contains plastic microfibers. (Sound On) ZEISS Microscopy

Today, Canada joined 87 other countries by signing the #BBNJ Treaty, a huge step towards protecting the high seas. Thank you Ministers Diane Lebouthillier & Mélanie Joly. The #RacetoRatification is on for 2025! oceansnorth.org/en/blog/2024/0…

1/2 Curious about what “INC-4” means? 🤓 #INC4 stands for the 4th session of the United Nation’s Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee that #Ottawa will host next week as we work towards a global agreement to #BeatPlasticPollution.

We've made our mark but, who cares? (Rt if you care). Plastic pollution at the scale of the phytoplankton. Every inshore plankton sample I collect contains microplastics. (This was sampled yesterday) ZEISS Microscopy

Endangered👏species👏are👏not👏red👏tape👏 Let's stop Bill 5 and the dangerous narrative that the Endangered Species Act is excessive bureaucracy instead of necessary protection for our most vulnerable species. Share and sign our petition to stop Bill5: ontarionature.good.do/bill-5-stop-at…