Emily Thrift
@emilyzoologist1.bsky.social
PhD student, running the #PlasticInMammals research project looking at plastic ingestion in terrestrial habitats and small UK mammals
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Emily Thrift
@emilyzoologist1.bsky.social
· Apr 17
Recycling your plastic bottles and carrier bags isn't enough. Our ⭐️new paper⭐️ shows #microplastics from clothes, paint, and other sources, contaminate invertebrates widely eaten by 🦔🐦⬛. academic.oup.com/etc/advance-... @emilyzoologist1.bsky.social
Funding: @hedgehogsociety.bsky.social @sussex.ac.uk
Funding: @hedgehogsociety.bsky.social @sussex.ac.uk
Microplastic contamination is widespread across invertebrate taxa frequently consumed by terrestrial vertebrates
Abstract. Little is known about the contamination of terrestrial food webs by microplastics. We conducted community-level assessments of invertebrates at 5
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🚨 Our new paper has found that #microplastics from a range of sources such as clothes are contaminating invertebrates across 51 sites in Sussex, England which are eaten by predators such as 🦔. Funding from @hedgehogsociety.bsky.social #plastics @sussex.ac.uk 🚨
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Just a few of the microplastics we've been finding in the beetles and bugs eaten by hedgehogs. Great to be joined by almost 200 people for this morning's webinar about our research @emilyzoologist1.bsky.social @ptes-org.bsky.social @biologicalrecording.co.uk 🦔🌍 #plasticpollution #hedgehogs
November 24, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Just a few of the microplastics we've been finding in the beetles and bugs eaten by hedgehogs. Great to be joined by almost 200 people for this morning's webinar about our research @emilyzoologist1.bsky.social @ptes-org.bsky.social @biologicalrecording.co.uk 🦔🌍 #plasticpollution #hedgehogs
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📢 Speaker Announcement 📢
@emilyzoologist1.bsky.social reveals how microplastics are entering the European Hedgehog’s diet — found in 19% of samples! 🦔
Join her talk at the Hedgehog Research (on 24th Nov).
🔗 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1672786903...
@hedgehogsociety.bsky.social @ptes-org.bsky.social
@emilyzoologist1.bsky.social reveals how microplastics are entering the European Hedgehog’s diet — found in 19% of samples! 🦔
Join her talk at the Hedgehog Research (on 24th Nov).
🔗 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1672786903...
@hedgehogsociety.bsky.social @ptes-org.bsky.social
October 10, 2025 at 3:12 PM
📢 Speaker Announcement 📢
@emilyzoologist1.bsky.social reveals how microplastics are entering the European Hedgehog’s diet — found in 19% of samples! 🦔
Join her talk at the Hedgehog Research (on 24th Nov).
🔗 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1672786903...
@hedgehogsociety.bsky.social @ptes-org.bsky.social
@emilyzoologist1.bsky.social reveals how microplastics are entering the European Hedgehog’s diet — found in 19% of samples! 🦔
Join her talk at the Hedgehog Research (on 24th Nov).
🔗 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1672786903...
@hedgehogsociety.bsky.social @ptes-org.bsky.social
Really depressing to see that despite all the research which proves the damage plastic is doing to the planet, the wildlife and us that the global plastics treaty negotiations have stalled. We need to stop prioritising petrochemical companies over environmental and public health
tinyurl.com/3wevt9n9
tinyurl.com/3wevt9n9
Plastic pollution talks fail as negotiators in Geneva reject draft treaties
Countries deadlocked on whether legally binding deal should include curbs on production and toxic chemicals
www.theguardian.com
August 15, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Really depressing to see that despite all the research which proves the damage plastic is doing to the planet, the wildlife and us that the global plastics treaty negotiations have stalled. We need to stop prioritising petrochemical companies over environmental and public health
tinyurl.com/3wevt9n9
tinyurl.com/3wevt9n9
Delighted to have my research shared in @the-independent.com tinyurl.com/5c4tw4au and share my piece I wrote in the conversation tinyurl.com/3wztx89j .This research would not have been possible without the funding from the @hedgehogsociety.bsky.social and @sussex.ac.uk @fionamathews.bsky.social
Scientists fear whole UK food chain contaminated as study finds microplastics in bugs
Researchers say study of insects in Sussex first to find plastics ‘consistently turning up across an entire community of land invertebrates’
tinyurl.com
May 29, 2025 at 7:22 AM
Delighted to have my research shared in @the-independent.com tinyurl.com/5c4tw4au and share my piece I wrote in the conversation tinyurl.com/3wztx89j .This research would not have been possible without the funding from the @hedgehogsociety.bsky.social and @sussex.ac.uk @fionamathews.bsky.social
Delighted to have a piece about our recent research paper on the BBC today(online and on TV)! We found plastics in a third of soil samples, 12% of invertebrate samples, 24% of snails and slugs 🐌and 30% of earthworms 🪱. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... @fionamathews.bsky.social
Plastic in every level of food web, say Sussex scientists
The university study analyses more than 580 invertebrate samples from 51 sites across Sussex.
www.bbc.co.uk
May 23, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Delighted to have a piece about our recent research paper on the BBC today(online and on TV)! We found plastics in a third of soil samples, 12% of invertebrate samples, 24% of snails and slugs 🐌and 30% of earthworms 🪱. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... @fionamathews.bsky.social
🚨 Our new paper has found that #microplastics from a range of sources such as clothes are contaminating invertebrates across 51 sites in Sussex, England which are eaten by predators such as 🦔. Funding from @hedgehogsociety.bsky.social #plastics @sussex.ac.uk 🚨
Recycling your plastic bottles and carrier bags isn't enough. Our ⭐️new paper⭐️ shows #microplastics from clothes, paint, and other sources, contaminate invertebrates widely eaten by 🦔🐦⬛. academic.oup.com/etc/advance-... @emilyzoologist1.bsky.social
Funding: @hedgehogsociety.bsky.social @sussex.ac.uk
Funding: @hedgehogsociety.bsky.social @sussex.ac.uk
Microplastic contamination is widespread across invertebrate taxa frequently consumed by terrestrial vertebrates
Abstract. Little is known about the contamination of terrestrial food webs by microplastics. We conducted community-level assessments of invertebrates at 5
academic.oup.com
April 17, 2025 at 9:08 PM
🚨 Our new paper has found that #microplastics from a range of sources such as clothes are contaminating invertebrates across 51 sites in Sussex, England which are eaten by predators such as 🦔. Funding from @hedgehogsociety.bsky.social #plastics @sussex.ac.uk 🚨
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March 29, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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What can be done to conserve and monitor #hedgehogs? Looking forward to today's discussions at @londonzoo.bsky.social @ptes-org.bsky.social @hedgehogsociety.bsky.social where I will be talking about plastic ingestion, researched by @emilyzoologist1.bsky.social 🦔🦔🦔 #wildlife
February 24, 2025 at 7:42 AM
What can be done to conserve and monitor #hedgehogs? Looking forward to today's discussions at @londonzoo.bsky.social @ptes-org.bsky.social @hedgehogsociety.bsky.social where I will be talking about plastic ingestion, researched by @emilyzoologist1.bsky.social 🦔🦔🦔 #wildlife
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A pretty mosaic? Actually 403 bits of plastic removed from the stomach of a dead shearwater chick. Startling new research using proteomics suggests multi-organ dysfunction is linked with plastic exposure. #plastics #birds #health #wildlife www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
March 19, 2025 at 8:11 AM
A pretty mosaic? Actually 403 bits of plastic removed from the stomach of a dead shearwater chick. Startling new research using proteomics suggests multi-organ dysfunction is linked with plastic exposure. #plastics #birds #health #wildlife www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...