Andrea Bonisoli-Alquati
@abonisoli.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Ecotoxicology @ Cal Poly Pomona. EcoEvo of pollution effects & response. (What doesn't kill you still trades off.) Fan of birds.
http://bonisolialquatilab.com
http://bonisolialquatilab.com
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1/2 “#Plastic credits are a false solution that can enable #greenwashing while potentially sidestepping transparency and accountability” says Prof. @abonisoli.bsky.social, from California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, and co-author."
#PlasticCredits, are being promoted as an innovative way of addressing plastic pollution. A new study with AWI participation now shows that such compensation programs make the plastic problem worse - not better.
Photo: @melaniebergma18.bsky.social
Photo: @melaniebergma18.bsky.social
June 2, 2025 at 12:07 PM
1/2 “#Plastic credits are a false solution that can enable #greenwashing while potentially sidestepping transparency and accountability” says Prof. @abonisoli.bsky.social, from California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, and co-author."
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These are grant TO THE STUDENTS, not to the institution, so this is just straight-up punishing students for choosing the institution
All NSF GRFPs to students choosing to attend Harvard in the Fall were just terminated
May 22, 2025 at 7:55 PM
These are grant TO THE STUDENTS, not to the institution, so this is just straight-up punishing students for choosing the institution
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A poignant picture: NSF staff overcome obstacles to mark agency's 75th anniversary. www.science.org/content/arti...
Is a photo subversive? NSF staff overcome obstacles to 75th anniversary portrait
Management tried to quash outpouring of support for beleaguered agency
www.science.org
May 22, 2025 at 7:36 PM
A poignant picture: NSF staff overcome obstacles to mark agency's 75th anniversary. www.science.org/content/arti...
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Exclusive: National Science Foundation staff were told today that the agency’s 37 divisions—across all eight directorates—are being abolished and the number of programs within those divisions will be drastically reduced.
Exclusive: NSF faces radical shake-up as officials abolish its 37 divisions
Changes seen as a response to presidential directives on what research to fund
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May 8, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Exclusive: National Science Foundation staff were told today that the agency’s 37 divisions—across all eight directorates—are being abolished and the number of programs within those divisions will be drastically reduced.
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How many lifetimes' worth of work is being destroyed by all this? And to what end?? www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
Trump plan would eliminate NOAA climate research, slash agency budget
The plan would cut NOAA’s budget by 27 percent overall and eliminate a research branch of the agency studying the world’s weather, climate and oceans.
www.washingtonpost.com
April 13, 2025 at 1:47 PM
How many lifetimes' worth of work is being destroyed by all this? And to what end?? www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
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In LA today - love the La Brea Tar Pits shade:
April 14, 2025 at 8:08 PM
In LA today - love the La Brea Tar Pits shade:
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NEW: EPA is planning to eliminate requirements to report greenhouse gas emissions for thousands of facilities.
“It would be a bit like unplugging the equipment that monitors the vital signs of a patient that is critically ill”
@maibached.bsky.social told me
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
“It would be a bit like unplugging the equipment that monitors the vital signs of a patient that is critically ill”
@maibached.bsky.social told me
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
Trump’s EPA Plans to Stop Collecting Greenhouse Gas Emissions Data From Most Polluters
Climate experts expressed shock and dismay at the move. “It would be a bit like unplugging the equipment that monitors the vital signs of a patient that is critically ill,” one said.
www.propublica.org
April 10, 2025 at 8:40 PM
NEW: EPA is planning to eliminate requirements to report greenhouse gas emissions for thousands of facilities.
“It would be a bit like unplugging the equipment that monitors the vital signs of a patient that is critically ill”
@maibached.bsky.social told me
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
“It would be a bit like unplugging the equipment that monitors the vital signs of a patient that is critically ill”
@maibached.bsky.social told me
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
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Meta has just started activating its slop machine within Whatsapp across Europe
Generative AI reminds me of single-use plastic in terms of how it's being rolled out: no one asked for it, everyone lives fine without it, but a company will manufacture demand for it through sheer brute, bloody force
Generative AI reminds me of single-use plastic in terms of how it's being rolled out: no one asked for it, everyone lives fine without it, but a company will manufacture demand for it through sheer brute, bloody force
April 7, 2025 at 7:42 AM
Meta has just started activating its slop machine within Whatsapp across Europe
Generative AI reminds me of single-use plastic in terms of how it's being rolled out: no one asked for it, everyone lives fine without it, but a company will manufacture demand for it through sheer brute, bloody force
Generative AI reminds me of single-use plastic in terms of how it's being rolled out: no one asked for it, everyone lives fine without it, but a company will manufacture demand for it through sheer brute, bloody force
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Today in 1954 at Bikini Atoll, the United States conducted Castle ROMEO, its third-largest thermonuclear weapon test (11 Megatons, a proof test of the Mark-17 bomb) and the first set off on a barge (inside the March 1 BRAVO crater, because testing was rapidly vaporizing the atoll’s coral islands).
March 27, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Today in 1954 at Bikini Atoll, the United States conducted Castle ROMEO, its third-largest thermonuclear weapon test (11 Megatons, a proof test of the Mark-17 bomb) and the first set off on a barge (inside the March 1 BRAVO crater, because testing was rapidly vaporizing the atoll’s coral islands).
27 of my articles...
Meta used at least 16 of my books, and numerous articles, to help train the AI it will use to make billions.
Authors, search your name here:
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
Authors, search your name here:
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI
Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.
www.theatlantic.com
March 21, 2025 at 1:26 AM
27 of my articles...
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Republicans are helping Putin abduct and disappear Ukrainian children.
They’re destroying the one real path to reunification these kids have.
They don’t care about child trafficking, unless it furthers their goal of imposing white Christian purity culture.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
They’re destroying the one real path to reunification these kids have.
They don’t care about child trafficking, unless it furthers their goal of imposing white Christian purity culture.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Trump terminates program tracking mass abductions of Ukrainian children
Observers fear the move has compromised evidence of war crimes by Russian officials and will hinder efforts to rescue thousands of missing Ukrainian children.
www.washingtonpost.com
March 18, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Republicans are helping Putin abduct and disappear Ukrainian children.
They’re destroying the one real path to reunification these kids have.
They don’t care about child trafficking, unless it furthers their goal of imposing white Christian purity culture.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
They’re destroying the one real path to reunification these kids have.
They don’t care about child trafficking, unless it furthers their goal of imposing white Christian purity culture.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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But how on earth can the US pay for the transition to a low-carbon society?!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wealth_...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wealth_...
March 14, 2025 at 3:23 PM
But how on earth can the US pay for the transition to a low-carbon society?!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wealth_...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wealth_...
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🧪 The NSF director is lying to you.
Let’s fact check 7 claims from yesterday’s letter to the community, while pointing out 3 critical omissions. 🧵
Let’s fact check 7 claims from yesterday’s letter to the community, while pointing out 3 critical omissions. 🧵
March 12, 2025 at 12:51 PM
🧪 The NSF director is lying to you.
Let’s fact check 7 claims from yesterday’s letter to the community, while pointing out 3 critical omissions. 🧵
Let’s fact check 7 claims from yesterday’s letter to the community, while pointing out 3 critical omissions. 🧵
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@theperegrinefund.bsky.social is hiring a Social Scientist. Come help us save raptors from extinction!
peregrinefund.org/sites/defaul...
peregrinefund.org/sites/defaul...
peregrinefund.org
March 12, 2025 at 2:35 PM
@theperegrinefund.bsky.social is hiring a Social Scientist. Come help us save raptors from extinction!
peregrinefund.org/sites/defaul...
peregrinefund.org/sites/defaul...
This "Biggest Deregulatory Action in U.S. History" will cause countless deaths, and go down in history as infamy www.epa.gov/newsreleases...
EPA Launches Biggest Deregulatory Action in U.S. History | US EPA
EPA News Release: EPA Launches Biggest Deregulatory Action in U.S. History
www.epa.gov
March 12, 2025 at 11:45 PM
This "Biggest Deregulatory Action in U.S. History" will cause countless deaths, and go down in history as infamy www.epa.gov/newsreleases...
Great feature being announced! This may well soon make @bsky.app as useful a place for science communication as Twitter once was.
Please repost to get the word out! @nkgarg.bsky.social and I are excited to present a personalized feed for academics! It shows posts about papers from accounts you’re following bsky.app/profile/pape...
March 11, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Great feature being announced! This may well soon make @bsky.app as useful a place for science communication as Twitter once was.
Coverage in @highcountrynews.bsky.social of our recent paper where we document that Turkey Vultures in California remain exposed to anticoagulant #rodenticides, despite recent state-wide bans.
bioone.org/journals/jou...
bioone.org/journals/jou...
March 11, 2025 at 5:04 AM
Coverage in @highcountrynews.bsky.social of our recent paper where we document that Turkey Vultures in California remain exposed to anticoagulant #rodenticides, despite recent state-wide bans.
bioone.org/journals/jou...
bioone.org/journals/jou...
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The U.S. Department of Defense is ending all of its funding for social science research, stopping 91 ongoing studies related to threats such as climate change, extremism, and disinformation. scim.ag/4hqu6HA
Pentagon abruptly ends all funding for social science research
More than 90 studies on threats such as climate change, extremism, and disinformation are halted
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March 10, 2025 at 8:50 PM
The U.S. Department of Defense is ending all of its funding for social science research, stopping 91 ongoing studies related to threats such as climate change, extremism, and disinformation. scim.ag/4hqu6HA
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Kidnapping students for thought crimes is not something democracies do. zeteo.com/p/breaking-d...
BREAKING: DHS Detains Palestinian Student from Columbia Encampment, Advocates Say
Agents told him his student visa was revoked. But he had a green card. Agents then said that was revoked too.
zeteo.com
March 9, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Kidnapping students for thought crimes is not something democracies do. zeteo.com/p/breaking-d...
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SO MANY STAND UP FOR SCIENCE EVENTS TO CHOOSE FROM—153 and COUNTING!
To get more information on our local events and to register your own, head to www.standupforscience2025.org/local-event-information/ ☀️⬇️🌎
To get more information on our local events and to register your own, head to www.standupforscience2025.org/local-event-information/ ☀️⬇️🌎
March 6, 2025 at 7:14 PM
SO MANY STAND UP FOR SCIENCE EVENTS TO CHOOSE FROM—153 and COUNTING!
To get more information on our local events and to register your own, head to www.standupforscience2025.org/local-event-information/ ☀️⬇️🌎
To get more information on our local events and to register your own, head to www.standupforscience2025.org/local-event-information/ ☀️⬇️🌎
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📢 Calling all #plastics scientists. #ecologists, #HumanHealth experts and #foodies!
We are hosting our hybrid workshop on Plastic pollution on the 6th of March 2025. If you are interested to attend the workshop, kindly rsvp using the link:
forms.gle/6tisLDBjvC9c...
We are hosting our hybrid workshop on Plastic pollution on the 6th of March 2025. If you are interested to attend the workshop, kindly rsvp using the link:
forms.gle/6tisLDBjvC9c...
March 5, 2025 at 7:17 AM
📢 Calling all #plastics scientists. #ecologists, #HumanHealth experts and #foodies!
We are hosting our hybrid workshop on Plastic pollution on the 6th of March 2025. If you are interested to attend the workshop, kindly rsvp using the link:
forms.gle/6tisLDBjvC9c...
We are hosting our hybrid workshop on Plastic pollution on the 6th of March 2025. If you are interested to attend the workshop, kindly rsvp using the link:
forms.gle/6tisLDBjvC9c...