In the past week, only three people have signed up, and we still have over 200 kits ready to send to those who rarely swim in rivers or the sea (once a month or less). Help us reach more people—please share this and spread the word! 🌊📢

*buys everything*

☔️Great to hangout with #LitterHeroes Beach Guardian Emily, Action Nan Pat & Keep Britain Tidy South West rep Neil for a #BeachClean. 🚮 Amongst the usual dog poo bags & plastic cups we also found a shoe, a disposable bbq & a Victorian hand forged ships nail. #LitterHeroAmbassadors

Advances and Challenges in Assessing Antimicrobial Resistance in Environmental Settings by William Calero-Cáceres , AC Maganha de Almeida Kumlien, & JL Balcazar in Current Opinion in Environmental Science & Health (Elsevier Environment) sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

👩‍🔬 After being part of Exeter Med School since 2019, I finally visited the ‘actual’ Medical School today to drop off my samples for sequencing from my latest experiment at Uni of Exeter's ESI with Plymouth Marine Lab… v exciting 🦠 🧫

Very pleased to see that the new Scottish Government Quality Prescribing for Antidepressants has a dedicated section on 'sustainability' and 'pharmaceuticals in the water environment'. Specifically considering a sustainability principle in the 7-step review process.

There are ONLY six weeks left to take part in the Poo-Sticks study - sign up today: bit.ly/poo-sticks Find out more: ecehh.org/news/poo-stick… Please share with any 🇬🇧UK resident 🇬🇧 who might be interested in taking part!

Great to chat to BBC Cornwall this morning about my fave thing to find on #BeachCleans! Here are some of the oldest packets we have found…. pre-decimalisation!

Are you worried about 💩pollution in 🇬🇧 rivers spreading 'superbugs'? The Poo-Sticks project needs your help! This summer, we've been studying the gut microbiomes of river swimmers and are now looking for people who don't swim in rivers, lakes, or the sea. Your participation

A critical meta-analysis of predicted no effect concentrations for #AMR selection in the environment Aimee Murray, Dr Isobel Stanton, Dr Holly Tipper, Wilkinson, Wiebke Schmidt, Alwyn Hart, Andrew Singer, Will Gaze (ECEHH, Environment Agency Chief Scientist, UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology) in Water Research dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.watr…

It took me SEVEN years to figure out that you can save a ggplot as a vectorized .svg file ggsave("file.svg"). The svg file can be opened on powerpoint and it will be completely vectorized, even text are still recognized as text boxes! No more recreating plots on illustrator!!!!!

Concerned about 💩pollution in 🇬🇧UK rivers and lakes causing illness? Whether you're a #wildswimmer or not-a-swimmer, help us quantify the health risks to people who bathe in UK rivers. Anyone over the age of 16, living in the UK can take part, it takes less than 10 minutes.

This took us a while — very happy it is finally out! Parallel ecological and evolutionary responses to selection in a natural bacterial community | PNAS pnas.org/doi/abs/10.107…

💧 Concerned about pollution in UK rivers and lakes causing illness? Whether you're a #wildswimmer or not-a-swimmer, help us quantify the health risks to people who bathe in UK rivers. Anyone over the age of 16, living in the UK can take part, it takes 10 minutes, or less. ⏱️

Is antibiotic-resistant bacteria in 🇬🇧rivers a threat to public health? 💧🦠 This is what the #PooSticksStudy aims to understand but we need your help! We've been studying the gut microbiomes of #wildswimmers and are now looking for volunteers who don't swim in rivers, lakes,

🎉 Excited and honoured that my Uni of Exeter's ESI and Plymouth Marine Lab #PhD has been selected as a finalist in the University of Exeter Knowledge Exchange Awards 2024 with Exeter Innovation! Looking forward to seeing the other finalists and hearing the results in October ☺️ #ExeKEAwards24

Emily Stevenson Uni of Exeter's ESI University of Exeter Exeter Innovation University of Exeter News Exeter Med School University of Exeter, Cornwall Beach Guardian Massive congratulations Emily 🥳 To find out more about Emily and her research, check out our Staff Spotlight pml.ac.uk/news/phd-stude…

Over the summer at the University of Exeter we have been investigating whether swimming in #sewage polluted rivers and lakes across the UK 🇬🇧 increases the risk of carrying antibiotic-resistant E. coli in our guts 🦠 But non-swimmers can carry these bacteria, too. If you do not swim in

Our new paper investigates the transport of #microplastics from biosolids to Australian agricultural soils and discusses the challenges in detection of smaller #microplastics in complex samples Environmental Science & Technology pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…