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Prof Sam Illingworth @samillingworth.com · 18d

🦴 Microplastics and bone health

A new review finds microplastics can accumulate in bone tissue, altering cells, weakening structure, and potentially linking to diseases like osteoporosis.

🔗 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

#SciComm #Health #Plastics 🧪

Effects of microplastics on the bones: a comprehensive review - Osteoporosis International

A growing role for the skeleton in human health and longevity emerged recently. However, knowledge regarding the effects of new risk factors, linked to modern life, for bone diseases is not documented...

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Georgina Rannard @georginarannard.bsky.social · Jul 7

A tiny, obscure animal often sold as aquarium food has been quietly protecting our planet from global warming by undertaking an epic migration. My write-up of new research here www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Tiny creature gorges, gets fat, and locks up planet-warming carbon

Scientists find out how the epic deep sea migration of a tiny animal is storing planet-warming carbon.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Prof Jamie Woodward @jamie-woodward.bsky.social · Aug 8

Don’t forget to preorder from your local bookstore! 😊 yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300...

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Prof Jamie Woodward @jamie-woodward.bsky.social · Jul 30

Currently compiling the index! Publication date is 14 October yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300...

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Prof Jamie Woodward @jamie-woodward.bsky.social · Jul 3

It was an honour to present our work on #microplastics in rivers to the APPG on microplastics in Westminster last week chaired by Alberto Costa MP with reps from @womensinstitute.bsky.social & various organisations. Excellent discussion on how to limit microplastics entering the environment.

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The University of Manchester @manchester.ac.uk · Jul 23

🚨 NEW: Graduate Aidan joins Prof. @jamie-woodward.bsky.social to reveal how England’s water firms mislead the public on #sewage #pollution.

youtu.be/5MJ_lC3Tcvw

The truth about English water pollution and sewage

YouTube video by The University of Manchester

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School of Environment, Education, and Development @uomseed.bsky.social · Jul 17

Prof Jamie Woodward recently contributed to the APPG on microplastics' roundtable 'Microplastic Pollution in Sewage and Sludge: Scale, Impact, and Solutions'

The event explored current and emerging solutions, and how government, regulators, and industry can work together to address the issue.

Geography professor delivers impactful Westminster talk on microplastics

Jamie Woodward, Professor of Physical Geography at The University of Manchester, recently addressed key stakeholders at Westminster to speak about the impact of microplastic pollution on our environme...

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Prof Jamie Woodward @jamie-woodward.bsky.social · Jul 3

It was an honour to present our work on #microplastics in rivers to the APPG on microplastics in Westminster last week chaired by Alberto Costa MP with reps from @womensinstitute.bsky.social & various organisations. Excellent discussion on how to limit microplastics entering the environment.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · Jun 10

Here's the Open Statement on sludge spreading launched by us at Fighting Dirty, and signed by many leading figures. The water companies are using farmland as a dump for hazardous chemicals. They mislead farmers, poison the land and threaten our health. It must stop. fightingdirty.org/open-stateme...

Open statement by leading environmentalists demands government action over “toxic cocktail of chemicals” spread on British farmland | Fighting Dirty

In the UK, we have a dirty secret that’s recently been brought into the light. Sewage sludge, we now know, contains far more than just human waste. Not only does a wide range of synthetic chemicals po...

fightingdirty.org

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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · Jun 10

World must move from ‘plunder to protection’ to save oceans, UN chief warns

- At #UNOC summit in France, António Guterres calls for bold pledges to stop deep sea becoming ‘wild west’

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

World must move from ‘plunder to protection’ to save oceans, UN chief warns

Speaking at summit in France, António Guterres calls for bold pledges to stop deep sea becoming ‘wild west’

www.theguardian.com

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Common Wealth @cmmonwealth.bsky.social · Jun 10

The Government said it’d cost £99bn to publicly own our water.

But this figure is based on a report paid for by… the water companies.

The true cost is closer to zero.

@ewanmg.bsky.social explains why on @lbc.co.uk with Andrew Marr 👇

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The University of Manchester @manchester.ac.uk · May 12

Fantastic work! @jamie-woodward.bsky.social @uomhums.bsky.social 💧

youtu.be/JP9o6K2HnME

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Faculty of Humanities @uomhums.bsky.social · May 12

New ‘River Rescue Kit’ empowers campaigners to tackle sewage pollution. 🚱

Expert from @uniofmanchester.bsky.social, has contributed to the online resource designed to empower communities to take action against the growing crisis of river pollution. ⤵️
www.manchester.ac.uk/about/news/n...

New ‘River Rescue Kit’ empowers campaigners to tackle sewage pollution

An expert from The University of Manchester has contributed to the ‘River Rescue Kit’, a groundbreaking online resource designed to empower communities to take action against the growing crisis of riv...

www.manchester.ac.uk

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Tom Sharpe @tomsharperocks.bsky.social · May 1

1 May 1831: Oxford geologist William Buckland writes to Henry De la Beche that #MaryAnning 'has found a small & very perfect Ichthyosaurus...the best she says she has ever seen' and was asking £40. Her waiting list for ichthyosaur specimens included collectors Beriah Botfield and William D. Saull.

Portrait of Mary Anning wearing a green cloak and a straw bonnet which is tied with a red ribbon. She holds a hammer and has a basket over her arm.

Extract of a letter from William Buckland to Henry De la Beche: 'Mary Anning has found another small & very perfect Ichthyosaurus for wh[ich] she asks £40 the best she says she has ever seen. I have sent notice to Sedgwick - but she has promised the first offer to Mr Botfield & Mr Saul has also applied for the choice of the next'.

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Mike Morley @mikegeoarch.bsky.social · Apr 29

Great! Can’t wait to read this, Jamie!

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WATERSHED Investigations @watershed-i.bsky.social · Apr 30

Flood Zone 3 - highest risk areas for flooding - the EA says homes should only be built there in exceptional cases but, BBC File on Four reveals, between 2013 & 2022, 205,000 homes were built in FZ3. "A ticking time bomb of misery" says @jamie-woodward.bsky.social

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

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School of Environment, Education, and Development @uomseed.bsky.social · Apr 29

Pre-order now!

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Prof Jamie Woodward @jamie-woodward.bsky.social · Mar 23

Delighted to share my upcoming book in the @yalebooks.bsky.social Little Histories Series: “A lively account of the history of our planet, from its earliest origins to the present day, told through the major geological changes and scientific breakthroughs” yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300... 23-09-25

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Prof Jamie Woodward @jamie-woodward.bsky.social · Mar 23

Delighted to share my upcoming book in the @yalebooks.bsky.social Little Histories Series: “A lively account of the history of our planet, from its earliest origins to the present day, told through the major geological changes and scientific breakthroughs” yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300... 23-09-25

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Dr Ben King 🌍 @benking01.bsky.social · Apr 29

Excellent analysis.

The UK government is planning to allow the building of yet more new homes in areas at risk from #flooding

HT @Jamie_Woodward_

#GeographyTeacher #ClimateEmergency

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

File on 4 Investigates - Hell and High Water: Are we ready for the floods? - BBC Sounds

Is enough being done to protect people from flooding?

www.bbc.co.uk

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Chris Stringer @chrisbstringer.bsky.social · Mar 23

Born #OTD William 'Strata' Smith was an English geologist, who created the first detailed nationwide geological map of any country

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Tom Sharpe @tomsharperocks.bsky.social · Mar 23

23 March 1769: birth of geologist, surveyor and land drainer William Smith at Churchill, Oxfordshire, a pioneer of the use of fossils in stratigraphy and of geological mapping. His 1815 map, 'A Delineation of the Strata of England and Wales', with its novel colour shading, was groundbreaking.

Part of William Smith's colourful 1815 geological map of England and Wales showing the geology around the city of Bath where Smith did some of his earliest mapping and established the principles of the use of fossils to determine the stratigraphic sequence.

Portrait of William Smith wearing a dark coat. Grey hair and long sideburns fringe his bald head and ruddy cheeks and he has a stern expression.

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Yale University Press London 📖 @yalebooks.bsky.social · Mar 19

Our bestselling Little Histories series is getting a new look! The colourful paperbacks and elegant new hardbacks are coming to all good booksellers very soon...

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@nigelwarburton.bsky.social @snezanalawrence.bsky.social
Discover the series: yalebooks.co.uk/little-histo...

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Prof Jamie Woodward @jamie-woodward.bsky.social · Mar 23

Delighted to share my upcoming book in the @yalebooks.bsky.social Little Histories Series: “A lively account of the history of our planet, from its earliest origins to the present day, told through the major geological changes and scientific breakthroughs” yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300... 23-09-25

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The University of Manchester @manchester.ac.uk · Mar 18

NEW: @jamie-woodward.bsky.social has contributed to the ‘River Rescue Kit’, an innovative online tool to help communities combat river pollution 💧

⬇️ Watch the video to see Jamie reveal devastating sewage contamination in local rivers.

www.manchester.ac.uk/about/news/n...

youtu.be/JP9o6K2HnME?...

River Rescue Kit: Understanding sewage pollution

YouTube video by River Action UK

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Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy.bsky.social · Jan 31

~14.7 million cubic meters of frozen moraine material collapsed and created a ~20 m high tsunami-like wave that eroded the frontal moraine dam. The water released from the lake during the GLOF event was ~50 million m3, (~20,000 Olympic sized swimming pools)
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