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Dimitri Abrahamsson @dimiabrams.bsky.social · 27d

Never forget.
What terrorism did.
Never forget.
Those who perished.
Those who ran towards danger to help.

Dimitri Abrahamsson @dimiabrams.bsky.social · Aug 10

I'm excited to share our new scientific adventure with Benny Chefetz, Evyatar Ben Mordechay, and Moshe Shenker to study the metabolism of pharmaceuticals in plants and humans. We’re grateful to BSF for their support and excited to deepen the collaboration between UCSF and HUJI through this research.

Dimitri Abrahamsson @dimiabrams.bsky.social · Jun 13

We thank the Reviewers for their helpful suggestions

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Tracey Woodruff @traceywoodruff.bsky.social · Jun 9

👇My interview in @newscientist.com on how corporations' control your health - and what we can do about it.

Plus, I have weird blue hair in the illustration, so it is worth checking out just to see that.

www.newscientist.com/article/2481...

Do corporations actually have more control over your health than you?

From the food on supermarket shelves to the air we breathe, large companies exert a greater impact on our health than we might realise, argues health scientist Tracey Woodruff

www.newscientist.com

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Program on Reproductive Health and the Environment @ucsf-prhe.bsky.social · May 23

"You can’t protect children from harmful chemicals while gutting EPA, cutting funding to NIEHS, and rolling back or eliminating environmental rules that protect people from toxic exposures." @traceywoodruff.bsky.social

Statement on Make America Healthy Again Commission report

Dr. Tracey J. Woodruff, PhD, professor and director of the Program on Reproductive Health and the Environment and the Center to End Corporate Harm at UCSF issued the following statement upon release o...

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Laura A. Schmidt PhD @drlauraschmidt.bsky.social · May 21

Now we know that if a study is funded by the meat industry, it is 4 times more likely to conclude that red meat has positive or benign effects on cardiovascular disease risk. NIH should fund nutrition scientists so they can stop working for the food industry. ajcn.nutrition.org/article/S000...

Industry study sponsorship and conflicts of interest on the effect of unprocessed red meat on cardiovascular disease risk: a systematic review of clinical trials

Experimental research on the link between unprocessed red meat and cardiovascular disease risk is inconsistent and may differ according to the financial interests of red meat industry sponsors.

ajcn.nutrition.org

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Program on Reproductive Health and the Environment @ucsf-prhe.bsky.social · May 21

"Eliminating the science will not make the harms go away." @traceywoodruff.bsky.social @epw.senate.gov

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Dimitri Abrahamsson @dimiabrams.bsky.social · May 21

Excellent speech by @traceywoodruff.bsky.social If the administration is serious about making America healthy they need to fund environmental research. It is science fiction to think that you can cut 55% of EPA’s budget and expect people’s health to improve.
www.youtube.com/live/3l-bOsI...

Toxic Priorities: How Trump’s EPA Puts Polluters Over People

YouTube video by Senate Environment & Public Works Committee

www.youtube.com

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Matthew Newmeyer @mnewmeyer.bsky.social · May 20

Our latest manuscript in Environmental Science & Technology is now available, where we detail the implementation of a #nontarget method to help identify novel candidate organic tracers that may help improve estimates of children's dust ingestion rates.

pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....

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Neil deGrasse Tyson @neildegrassetyson.com · May 17

The 80-year recipe stoking America’s Prosperity:

1) Free-market capital investments in brilliant ideas…
2) enabled by Engineering Innovations…
3) based on Science Research in Universities…
4) funded by Grants from the US Government.

It’s time more people understood this.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson @neildegrassetyson.com · May 19

Dear Republicans,

Cutting science budgets has not historically been a Republican thing. For example, Lincoln created the National Academy of Sciences. Eisenhower's term increased the science budget 366%. Gerald Ford, +15%; George H. W. Bush, +30%; George W. Bush, +54%.

Just sayin’.

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Dimitri Abrahamsson @dimiabrams.bsky.social · May 8

Cutting the budget of NASA by 50% will not only have 0 impact on the federal budget, it will also put America in the back seat, while other countries are taking the wheel. The same applies to EPA and NOAA; all three agencies founded by Republican Presidents.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGow...

Addressing the NASA Budget Cuts

YouTube video by StarTalk

www.youtube.com

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Program on Reproductive Health and the Environment @ucsf-prhe.bsky.social · May 2

They are making it easier for polluters to pollute. More air pollution means more asthma, more cardiovascular and respiratory disease, more cancer, and worse pregnancy outcomes.

www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

Senate overturns EPA rule on seven highly toxic air pollutants

If also passed by the House as expected, the action will be the first time Congress has weakened protections under the Clean Air Act.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Dimitri Abrahamsson @dimiabrams.bsky.social · Apr 25

I agree. I believe RFK Jr and the MAHA movement genuinely want to improve public health, but it’s not going to work if on the one hand we are banning food dyes, while on the other we are allowing manufacturers to release toxic chemicals in the environment. At best, this will be a fruitless endeavor.

Tracey Woodruff @traceywoodruff.bsky.social · Apr 24

Thanks for this. 4 sure there are many many toxic chemicals in food, and water and air. I agree about wanting to control our environment. But I also know that unless the government does its job - we will still be exposed to toxic chemicals no matter what.
right now that's not looking so good

Shannon Osaka @shannonosaka.bsky.social · Apr 24

The MAHA movement is surging, and changing the conversation around chemical risks. I wrote about the overlaps -- and some stark differences -- between MAHA and the environmental movement.

www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

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UCSF Industry Documents Library @ucsf-industrydocs.bsky.social · Mar 21

New Paper Alert! UC Irvine researchers used tobacco industry documents to determine whether the US Smokeless Tobacco Industry used #BigTobacco strategies to manipulate research on health risks. @ucirvine.bsky.social
#ScienceIntegrity #archives
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Did the United States smokeless tobacco industry use cigarette industry strategies to sponsor and manipulate research?

Background and aim The cigarette industry in the United States (US) laid the foundation for sponsoring research to improve public relations and defend against product liability cases. Fewer threats ...

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Matthew MacLeod @mattmacleod.bsky.social · Mar 18

March 20th at Noon EST (17:00 CET) I will join a @nationalacademies.org panel on microplastics in the environment & human exposure pathways, with Bart Koelmans, @traceywoodruff.bsky.social and Jane Muncke of @fpffoundation.bsky.social.

Register here: www.nationalacademies.org/event/44668_...

Colorful microplastics mixed with sand on somebody's finger.

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UCSF EaRTH Center @ucsf-earth.bsky.social · Mar 7

W/the rising prevalence of chronic diseases, it is more important than ever to support #environmentalhealth research. Learn about the vital work that we and our fellow NIEHS P30 Centers are doing to improve America's health. Download the fact sheet! #scienceforall

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Tracey Woodruff @traceywoodruff.bsky.social · Mar 4

Reference standards are key for measuring environmental chemicals in people and the environment -

Standards should be required for existing and new chemicals - otherwise, we are working blind on exposures and health effects

Great piece on this
ehp.niehs.nih.gov/doi/10.1289/...

Invited Perspective: Reference Standards Are Key to Environmental and Human Health Research—The Case of PFAS | Environmental Health Perspectives | Vol. 133, No. 1

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Program on Reproductive Health and the Environment @ucsf-prhe.bsky.social · Mar 4

Want to "make America healthy again"? Then EPA needs to use and follow the best available science rather than give the chemical industry free rein to poison our air, food, and water.

prhe.ucsf.edu/sites/g/file...

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Dimitri Abrahamsson @dimiabrams.bsky.social · Feb 20

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ucsf-ihps.bsky.social @ucsf-ihps.bsky.social · Feb 19

UCSF IHPS faculty, Laura Schmidt, on @tradeoffs.org.

RFK Jr. Wants to Change What Americans Eat. He's Not The First.

tradeoffs.org/2025/02/06/r...

RFK Jr. Wants to Change What Americans Eat. He's Not The First.

The fight to improve Americans’ nutrition could get new momentum from Robert F. Kennedy Jr., but he will face practical and political limits to changing U.S. food supply if he’s confirmed to lead the ...

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Liza Gross @lizagross.bsky.social · Feb 19

Corporations are a leading disease “vector," say scientists at #UCSF Center to End Corporate Harm. Makers of harmful products have long fought off health-protective regs to usher in an “industrial epidemic” of chronic diseases. My latest @insideclimatenews.org
insideclimatenews.org/news/1902202...

Lethal Greed: How Corporate Manipulation of Science and Regulation Makes People Sick - Inside Climate News

Scientists launch a new research center to study what they say is now a leading disease risk factor: corporations.

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Tracey Woodruff @traceywoodruff.bsky.social · Jan 14

Wow new #PFAS collection on how the industry waged a coverup and disinformation campaign on #PFAS chemicals and their toxicity

Read the blog on the Forever Pollution - foreverpollution.eu/lobbying/

Access the documents at the UCSF library - www.industrydocuments.ucsf.edu/chemical/col...

The Forever Lobbying Project

The Forever Lobbying Project exposes the real cost of PFAS pollution on the environment, science, and politics.

foreverpollution.eu

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Dimitri Abrahamsson @dimiabrams.bsky.social · Feb 9

This seems particularly apt these days - The Manufacturing of a Mass Psychosis
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdzW...

The Manufacturing of a Mass Psychosis - Can Sanity Return to an Insane World?

YouTube video by Academy of Ideas

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Dimitri Abrahamsson @dimiabrams.bsky.social · Feb 3

Curious to hear what people think about this new study on microplastics in human brains. The concentrations were about 4mg/g brain, which is about 5.2gr of plastic in an adult brain. For reference, a plastic bottle cap of a large energy drink is about 3-4gr. 🧐
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Bioaccumulation of microplastics in decedent human brains - Nature Medicine

Pyrolysis gas chromatography–mass spectrometry reveals the presence of microplastics and nanoplastics in human kidney, liver and brain tissue samples from 2016 and 2024, with higher proportions found ...

www.nature.com

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