Dr. Susanne Brander
@smbrander.bsky.social
Ecotox & EnvStress lab PI, AssocProf @OSU_coastal, co-lead @pnwmicroplastic, AE @STOTEN_journal, Sr. Scientist ASI, #teamsilverside, mom, liberal
Pinned
Thoughts as we leave INC 5.2, without consensus 😞
@scientistscoa.bsky.social
@pnwmicroplastics.bsky.social
@oregonstate.edu
#plasticstreaty #UNEP
@scientistscoa.bsky.social
@pnwmicroplastics.bsky.social
@oregonstate.edu
#plasticstreaty #UNEP
Having fun in Japan at the PICES meeting this week 🇯🇵
November 10, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Having fun in Japan at the PICES meeting this week 🇯🇵
Had some fun on Halloween with thrifted costumes. T-Rex vs Elastigirl, ended in a truce thankfully 😅
November 2, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Had some fun on Halloween with thrifted costumes. T-Rex vs Elastigirl, ended in a truce thankfully 😅
Joining the mud rebellion. #mudtherapy #nokings
October 26, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Joining the mud rebellion. #mudtherapy #nokings
Can we please have #nokings again this weekend? I don’t know where to put all of the rage and need to shout at clouds again with other sane people.
October 23, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Can we please have #nokings again this weekend? I don’t know where to put all of the rage and need to shout at clouds again with other sane people.
I’m returning from a work trip during the protest on Saturday so I made a portable sign 🪧
October 17, 2025 at 8:51 AM
I’m returning from a work trip during the protest on Saturday so I made a portable sign 🪧
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In case you need something … less dark… on your timeline:
This week I started my seminar focused on the legacy of Rachel Carson.
I’m thinking I’ll post here what we are reading/watching/doing, and if you are interested, you could follow along. Like a bit of a Carson book group. 📕 🐦
This week I started my seminar focused on the legacy of Rachel Carson.
I’m thinking I’ll post here what we are reading/watching/doing, and if you are interested, you could follow along. Like a bit of a Carson book group. 📕 🐦
October 2, 2025 at 3:38 AM
In case you need something … less dark… on your timeline:
This week I started my seminar focused on the legacy of Rachel Carson.
I’m thinking I’ll post here what we are reading/watching/doing, and if you are interested, you could follow along. Like a bit of a Carson book group. 📕 🐦
This week I started my seminar focused on the legacy of Rachel Carson.
I’m thinking I’ll post here what we are reading/watching/doing, and if you are interested, you could follow along. Like a bit of a Carson book group. 📕 🐦
Sums up this moment. #portlandfrog #nokings
October 15, 2025 at 3:05 AM
Sums up this moment. #portlandfrog #nokings
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Widespread mortality of warm-water coral reefs is underway as the world reaches its first climate tipping point. The Global Tipping Points Report 2025 underlines that the only way to avert catastrophe is to act urgently. Research from @sthlmresilience.bsky.social
www.su.se/english/news...
www.su.se/english/news...
Widespread mortality of coral reefs - Stockholm University
Widespread mortality of coral reefs
Widespread mortality of warm-water coral reefs is now underway as the world reaches its first climate tipping point. The Global Tipping Points Report 2025, released...
www.su.se
October 13, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Widespread mortality of warm-water coral reefs is underway as the world reaches its first climate tipping point. The Global Tipping Points Report 2025 underlines that the only way to avert catastrophe is to act urgently. Research from @sthlmresilience.bsky.social
www.su.se/english/news...
www.su.se/english/news...
October 10, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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Short sweet letter by @smbrander.bsky.social and others (including myself) on why the US, with our astronomical health care costs, should be at the forefront of a global #plasticstreaty. But we're not. substack.com/inbox/post/1...
Public and environmental health in the US would benefit greatly from global rules on plastic chemicals
There are more microplastics in the ocean than stars in the Milky Way; however, as we all know by this point, the latest round of global plastic treaty negotiations ended in a stalemate.
substack.com
October 7, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Short sweet letter by @smbrander.bsky.social and others (including myself) on why the US, with our astronomical health care costs, should be at the forefront of a global #plasticstreaty. But we're not. substack.com/inbox/post/1...
Please be aware of what might happen next. #insurrectionact
Trump’s Plan
open.substack.com/pub/robertre...
Trump’s Plan
open.substack.com/pub/robertre...
Trump's Plan
To invoke the Insurrection Act
open.substack.com
October 7, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Please be aware of what might happen next. #insurrectionact
Trump’s Plan
open.substack.com/pub/robertre...
Trump’s Plan
open.substack.com/pub/robertre...
October 4, 2025 at 7:36 AM
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If the government remains shut down, a program that feeds more than six million low-income mothers and their children is likely to run out of funding within the next two weeks, advocates and government officials say.
Nutrition Program for Mothers and Infants May Run Out of Money Within Weeks
Nearly 41 percent of U.S.-born infants participate in the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children, which may not have enough funding for an extended government shutdown.
nyti.ms
October 3, 2025 at 11:20 PM
If the government remains shut down, a program that feeds more than six million low-income mothers and their children is likely to run out of funding within the next two weeks, advocates and government officials say.
Reposted by Dr. Susanne Brander
Reposted by Dr. Susanne Brander
BREAKING: A federal appeals court upheld a ruling that blocks President Trump's executive order on birthright citizenship.
The president can't rewrite the 14th Amendment with the stroke of a pen.
The president can't rewrite the 14th Amendment with the stroke of a pen.
October 3, 2025 at 9:52 PM
BREAKING: A federal appeals court upheld a ruling that blocks President Trump's executive order on birthright citizenship.
The president can't rewrite the 14th Amendment with the stroke of a pen.
The president can't rewrite the 14th Amendment with the stroke of a pen.
This woman can write a lyric or five 👀
“Every eldest daughter was the first lamb to the slaughter, so we all dressed up as wolves and we looked fire”
music.apple.com/us/album/eld...
“Every eldest daughter was the first lamb to the slaughter, so we all dressed up as wolves and we looked fire”
music.apple.com/us/album/eld...
Eldest Daughter by Taylor Swift on Apple Music
Song · 2025 · Duration 4:06
music.apple.com
October 3, 2025 at 10:02 PM
This woman can write a lyric or five 👀
“Every eldest daughter was the first lamb to the slaughter, so we all dressed up as wolves and we looked fire”
music.apple.com/us/album/eld...
“Every eldest daughter was the first lamb to the slaughter, so we all dressed up as wolves and we looked fire”
music.apple.com/us/album/eld...
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Jane Goodall’s legacy: three ways she changed science
Jane Goodall’s legacy: three ways she changed science
The primatologist challenged what it meant to be a scientist.
www.nature.com
October 2, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Jane Goodall’s legacy: three ways she changed science
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If the regime can change your out of office reply, I assume that means they can read your emails as well?
This is disgusting. Furloughed department of education employees had their out of office reply changed to one that blames the Democrats for the shut down.
Written in the first person too!!
This is disgusting. Furloughed department of education employees had their out of office reply changed to one that blames the Democrats for the shut down.
Written in the first person too!!
Education Department employees surprised to find their email automatically changed to blame Democrats for shutdown
Five furloughed employees told NBC News they had put up nonpartisan out-of-office messages, only to see they were changed — without their permission — to partisan ones.
www.nbcnews.com
October 2, 2025 at 8:17 PM
If the regime can change your out of office reply, I assume that means they can read your emails as well?
This is disgusting. Furloughed department of education employees had their out of office reply changed to one that blames the Democrats for the shut down.
Written in the first person too!!
This is disgusting. Furloughed department of education employees had their out of office reply changed to one that blames the Democrats for the shut down.
Written in the first person too!!
Reposted by Dr. Susanne Brander
www.ctvnews.ca/calgary/arti...
“I am saddened to share that we have had our first death from measles in the province. A child, born prematurely after the mother contracted measles during pregnancy, died shortly after birth,” Alberta Health Minister Adriana LaGrange, in a statement, said
“I am saddened to share that we have had our first death from measles in the province. A child, born prematurely after the mother contracted measles during pregnancy, died shortly after birth,” Alberta Health Minister Adriana LaGrange, in a statement, said
Alberta baby dies from measles
An Albertan has died from complications due to measles, government data released Thursday says.
www.ctvnews.ca
October 2, 2025 at 8:18 PM
www.ctvnews.ca/calgary/arti...
“I am saddened to share that we have had our first death from measles in the province. A child, born prematurely after the mother contracted measles during pregnancy, died shortly after birth,” Alberta Health Minister Adriana LaGrange, in a statement, said
“I am saddened to share that we have had our first death from measles in the province. A child, born prematurely after the mother contracted measles during pregnancy, died shortly after birth,” Alberta Health Minister Adriana LaGrange, in a statement, said
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At Climate Week NYC, the message was clear: progress is underway. While none of us can do this alone, the number of people who are committed to tackling climate together is growing every day.
Read on Mailchimp: shorturl.at/yXmnn
Read on LinkedIn: shorturl.at/bssRq
Read on Mailchimp: shorturl.at/yXmnn
Read on LinkedIn: shorturl.at/bssRq
Climate action can't wait
NYC Climate Week: The world leans in, the U.S. checks out, and how to SHIFT into action
www.talkingclimate.ca
October 2, 2025 at 8:09 PM
At Climate Week NYC, the message was clear: progress is underway. While none of us can do this alone, the number of people who are committed to tackling climate together is growing every day.
Read on Mailchimp: shorturl.at/yXmnn
Read on LinkedIn: shorturl.at/bssRq
Read on Mailchimp: shorturl.at/yXmnn
Read on LinkedIn: shorturl.at/bssRq
Fan girl since I was very young, thanks to @pbs.org
RIP Jane and thank you for showing women what is possible.
RIP Jane and thank you for showing women what is possible.
“It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.”
― Jane Goodall
💙 RIP to a real one. My childhood hero
― Jane Goodall
💙 RIP to a real one. My childhood hero
October 2, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Fan girl since I was very young, thanks to @pbs.org
RIP Jane and thank you for showing women what is possible.
RIP Jane and thank you for showing women what is possible.
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EXCLUSIVE: In her first interview all year, Susan Monarez, CDC director for only 29 days, tells me why Trump/RFK fired her and where this is all headed.
The CDC director is an “inherently political position, but that doesn’t mean that it has to be politically compromised”, she tells @nature.com.
The CDC director is an “inherently political position, but that doesn’t mean that it has to be politically compromised”, she tells @nature.com.
Exclusive: ex-CDC director talks about why she was fired
“I would never do that, as a scientist,” Susan Monarez says of being asked to approve changes to vaccine recommendations without knowing the details.
www.nature.com
October 2, 2025 at 11:15 AM
EXCLUSIVE: In her first interview all year, Susan Monarez, CDC director for only 29 days, tells me why Trump/RFK fired her and where this is all headed.
The CDC director is an “inherently political position, but that doesn’t mean that it has to be politically compromised”, she tells @nature.com.
The CDC director is an “inherently political position, but that doesn’t mean that it has to be politically compromised”, she tells @nature.com.
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A CNN review has found two dozen incidents of people posing as ICE officers in 2025 – more incidents than during the prior four presidential terms combined.
ICE impersonator incidents rise during Trump’s second term | CNN
A CNN review has found two dozen incidents of people posing as ICE officers in 2025 – more incidents than during the prior four presidential terms combined.
www.cnn.com
October 2, 2025 at 11:41 AM
A CNN review has found two dozen incidents of people posing as ICE officers in 2025 – more incidents than during the prior four presidential terms combined.
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The Moore Institute for Plastic Pollution Research
is seeking a visionary and compassionate leader to serve as Executive Director of their laboratory. Truly an incredible opportunity to work with some of the world's leading researchers on #microplastics!
Apply by October 31st! <- lnkd.in/g2u_pJxs
is seeking a visionary and compassionate leader to serve as Executive Director of their laboratory. Truly an incredible opportunity to work with some of the world's leading researchers on #microplastics!
Apply by October 31st! <- lnkd.in/g2u_pJxs
September 17, 2025 at 9:25 PM
The Moore Institute for Plastic Pollution Research
is seeking a visionary and compassionate leader to serve as Executive Director of their laboratory. Truly an incredible opportunity to work with some of the world's leading researchers on #microplastics!
Apply by October 31st! <- lnkd.in/g2u_pJxs
is seeking a visionary and compassionate leader to serve as Executive Director of their laboratory. Truly an incredible opportunity to work with some of the world's leading researchers on #microplastics!
Apply by October 31st! <- lnkd.in/g2u_pJxs
Fun at the #SETAC World Congress dinner this week. First time ever in Africa, won’t be my last. @setac.bsky.social
@pnwmicroplastics.bsky.social
@pnwmicroplastics.bsky.social
October 2, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Fun at the #SETAC World Congress dinner this week. First time ever in Africa, won’t be my last. @setac.bsky.social
@pnwmicroplastics.bsky.social
@pnwmicroplastics.bsky.social