Researchers have published a study, in Environmental Science and Ecotechnology, revealing the first clear evidence that BPs biomagnify within Arctic marine food webs.nce that BPs biomagnify within Arctic marine food webs.
#Polar bear #Biomagnification
Detail: doi.org/10.1016/j.es...
#Polar bear #Biomagnification
Detail: doi.org/10.1016/j.es...
October 29, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Researchers have published a study, in Environmental Science and Ecotechnology, revealing the first clear evidence that BPs biomagnify within Arctic marine food webs.nce that BPs biomagnify within Arctic marine food webs.
#Polar bear #Biomagnification
Detail: doi.org/10.1016/j.es...
#Polar bear #Biomagnification
Detail: doi.org/10.1016/j.es...
Fish feel fear and pain like we do.
Mammals that evolved on trees in forests don’t need to eat fish for health. Walnuts offer omega 3 with fiber and without dangerous toxins due to bioaccumulation & biomagnification.
Mammals that evolved on trees in forests don’t need to eat fish for health. Walnuts offer omega 3 with fiber and without dangerous toxins due to bioaccumulation & biomagnification.
October 18, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Fish feel fear and pain like we do.
Mammals that evolved on trees in forests don’t need to eat fish for health. Walnuts offer omega 3 with fiber and without dangerous toxins due to bioaccumulation & biomagnification.
Mammals that evolved on trees in forests don’t need to eat fish for health. Walnuts offer omega 3 with fiber and without dangerous toxins due to bioaccumulation & biomagnification.
Mercury biomagnification patterns in boreal and subarctic lake food webs #stableisotopes www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Mercury biomagnification patterns in boreal and subarctic lake food webs
Climate change and land use are significant pressures on northern environments with the potential to influence mercury (Hg) biomagnification in lake f…
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October 15, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Mercury biomagnification patterns in boreal and subarctic lake food webs #stableisotopes www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Every time I hear this, I think of biomagnification: toxins concentrating higher up in the food chain.
That’s our real national symbol—a poisoned apex predator, majestic in form, rotting in function.
#FreeTheBear
That’s our real national symbol—a poisoned apex predator, majestic in form, rotting in function.
#FreeTheBear
My dad used to say that America was like the eagle that represents it, it has a left and a right wing and both are required to fly. But without the heart in the center, it would just die.
Never more true than it is today.
Never more true than it is today.
October 6, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Every time I hear this, I think of biomagnification: toxins concentrating higher up in the food chain.
That’s our real national symbol—a poisoned apex predator, majestic in form, rotting in function.
#FreeTheBear
That’s our real national symbol—a poisoned apex predator, majestic in form, rotting in function.
#FreeTheBear
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September 25, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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Due to its persistence in the environment, DDT built up in the fatty tissues of animals and humans through bioaccumulation and biomagnification. In the mid-1900s, nearly all Americans had detectable levels of DDT in their systems. That's just one of many linked to cancer and other health issues.
September 21, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Due to its persistence in the environment, DDT built up in the fatty tissues of animals and humans through bioaccumulation and biomagnification. In the mid-1900s, nearly all Americans had detectable levels of DDT in their systems. That's just one of many linked to cancer and other health issues.
As much as this is an Ignoble prize waiting to happen, if done correctly (big "if") it's surprisingly useful data on aquatic invertebrate neurochemistry and bioavailability/biomagnification in the food chain.
We know shockingly little about it all because they're a non-model organism.
We know shockingly little about it all because they're a non-model organism.
September 14, 2025 at 3:41 AM
As much as this is an Ignoble prize waiting to happen, if done correctly (big "if") it's surprisingly useful data on aquatic invertebrate neurochemistry and bioavailability/biomagnification in the food chain.
We know shockingly little about it all because they're a non-model organism.
We know shockingly little about it all because they're a non-model organism.
#Maybe
0.5% of our brain is plastic. Up 50% in only 8 years. In the meantime, dementia has overtaken heart disease and cancer as the leading cause of death.
Bioaccumulate and biomagnification are a deadly cocktail. Every hour that passes treating symptoms makes the risks exponentially worse now.
0.5% of our brain is plastic. Up 50% in only 8 years. In the meantime, dementia has overtaken heart disease and cancer as the leading cause of death.
Bioaccumulate and biomagnification are a deadly cocktail. Every hour that passes treating symptoms makes the risks exponentially worse now.
Dementia has become the leading cause of death. We see 10 times more #microplastic in the brains of people who die from #dementia.
But "evidence does NOT confirm health risks".
Is this some form of dementia in itself?
www.bbc.com/future/artic...
But "evidence does NOT confirm health risks".
Is this some form of dementia in itself?
www.bbc.com/future/artic...
September 4, 2025 at 12:33 PM
#Maybe
0.5% of our brain is plastic. Up 50% in only 8 years. In the meantime, dementia has overtaken heart disease and cancer as the leading cause of death.
Bioaccumulate and biomagnification are a deadly cocktail. Every hour that passes treating symptoms makes the risks exponentially worse now.
0.5% of our brain is plastic. Up 50% in only 8 years. In the meantime, dementia has overtaken heart disease and cancer as the leading cause of death.
Bioaccumulate and biomagnification are a deadly cocktail. Every hour that passes treating symptoms makes the risks exponentially worse now.
This means that #biomagnification too gets worse each year. This means that eating livestock or fish or anything with flesh, gets more dangerous exponentially now.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biomagn...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biomagn...
September 3, 2025 at 2:03 PM
This means that #biomagnification too gets worse each year. This means that eating livestock or fish or anything with flesh, gets more dangerous exponentially now.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biomagn...
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Why is life becoming exponentially riskier by the hour?
What is #bioaccumulation and #biomagnification? 🧵
"EPA estimates that more than 90% of typical human exposure is through the intake of meat and animal fats, dairy products, fish, and shellfish."
www.epa.gov/dioxin
What is #bioaccumulation and #biomagnification? 🧵
"EPA estimates that more than 90% of typical human exposure is through the intake of meat and animal fats, dairy products, fish, and shellfish."
www.epa.gov/dioxin
Dioxin | US EPA
This site contains all of EPA's information on the chemical known as 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin, which is more commonly referred to as "dioxin."
www.epa.gov
September 3, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Why is life becoming exponentially riskier by the hour?
What is #bioaccumulation and #biomagnification? 🧵
"EPA estimates that more than 90% of typical human exposure is through the intake of meat and animal fats, dairy products, fish, and shellfish."
www.epa.gov/dioxin
What is #bioaccumulation and #biomagnification? 🧵
"EPA estimates that more than 90% of typical human exposure is through the intake of meat and animal fats, dairy products, fish, and shellfish."
www.epa.gov/dioxin
One easy way you can support the salmon stock is to simply not to eat them. Most sealife is contaminated with heavy metals from biomagnification and farmed salmon infested with parasites.
You can eat the same things they eat to get omegas and DHA - algae and seaweeds.
#wormsinyourbrain #salmon
You can eat the same things they eat to get omegas and DHA - algae and seaweeds.
#wormsinyourbrain #salmon
Decline in BC salmon monitoring creates worst data gap in 70 years, study finds (BC)
Decline in BC salmon monitoring creates worst data gap in 70 years, study finds - BC News
New research links commercial priorities to a roughly 50 per cent decline in the annual monitoring of Pacific salmon stocks since the 1980s.
www.castanet.net
August 29, 2025 at 7:25 PM
One easy way you can support the salmon stock is to simply not to eat them. Most sealife is contaminated with heavy metals from biomagnification and farmed salmon infested with parasites.
You can eat the same things they eat to get omegas and DHA - algae and seaweeds.
#wormsinyourbrain #salmon
You can eat the same things they eat to get omegas and DHA - algae and seaweeds.
#wormsinyourbrain #salmon
Biomagnification and potential health effects of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in a terrestrial food web
->Nature | #Toxic #Food #PFAS #Health | More info from EcoSearch
->Nature | #Toxic #Food #PFAS #Health | More info from EcoSearch
Biomagnification and potential health effects of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in a terrestrial food web
We performed our study on the island of Frösön (41.6 km2; 63°11’N, 14°32’E) at lake Storsjön, boreal central Sweden, that has been identified as a hotspot of PFAS contamination in Sweden41,42 (Supplementary Fig. S1). As a reference, we used samples...
www.nature.com
August 24, 2025 at 3:40 AM
After Rachel Carson’s courageous “Silent Spring” exposé back in 1962, surely by now we’ve learned not to release bioaccumulating toxins into ecosystems.
No, of course not.
“Results suggest biomagnification of PFAS from soil, mushrooms, and berries to bank voles, from mushrooms to ungulates and […]
No, of course not.
“Results suggest biomagnification of PFAS from soil, mushrooms, and berries to bank voles, from mushrooms to ungulates and […]
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August 23, 2025 at 9:08 AM
After Rachel Carson’s courageous “Silent Spring” exposé back in 1962, surely by now we’ve learned not to release bioaccumulating toxins into ecosystems.
No, of course not.
“Results suggest biomagnification of PFAS from soil, mushrooms, and berries to bank voles, from mushrooms to ungulates and […]
No, of course not.
“Results suggest biomagnification of PFAS from soil, mushrooms, and berries to bank voles, from mushrooms to ungulates and […]
Biomagnification!
...Theomagnification?
...Theomagnification?
August 19, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Biomagnification!
...Theomagnification?
...Theomagnification?
It tastes really fucking good, that’s what’s going awn. Enjoy it.
You do have to limit it over time because of mercury and biomagnification and stuff. But craving it doesn’t mean there’s anything wrong with you. You just have good taste.
You do have to limit it over time because of mercury and biomagnification and stuff. But craving it doesn’t mean there’s anything wrong with you. You just have good taste.
August 13, 2025 at 11:52 PM
It tastes really fucking good, that’s what’s going awn. Enjoy it.
You do have to limit it over time because of mercury and biomagnification and stuff. But craving it doesn’t mean there’s anything wrong with you. You just have good taste.
You do have to limit it over time because of mercury and biomagnification and stuff. But craving it doesn’t mean there’s anything wrong with you. You just have good taste.
Biomagnification is a big problem. The toxins build up in the tissues of organisms lower in the food web (like oysters), and when another organism eats a substantial quantity of them, it can absolutely have lethal consequences. Just because you haven't seen it doesn't mean it's not happening.
August 7, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Biomagnification is a big problem. The toxins build up in the tissues of organisms lower in the food web (like oysters), and when another organism eats a substantial quantity of them, it can absolutely have lethal consequences. Just because you haven't seen it doesn't mean it's not happening.
"Compost the rich."
(Mustn't eat them to avoid biomagnification issues)
(Mustn't eat them to avoid biomagnification issues)
August 6, 2025 at 1:20 AM
"Compost the rich."
(Mustn't eat them to avoid biomagnification issues)
(Mustn't eat them to avoid biomagnification issues)
It's biomagnification: plants with deep roots absorb tiny amounts of radiation from groundwater, concentrate it, then the rabbits eat them, one more concentration step then wasps eat the carrion and here you are.
At Hanford they hunt for radioactive coyote dung to find contaminated groundwater.
At Hanford they hunt for radioactive coyote dung to find contaminated groundwater.
August 2, 2025 at 10:48 PM
It's biomagnification: plants with deep roots absorb tiny amounts of radiation from groundwater, concentrate it, then the rabbits eat them, one more concentration step then wasps eat the carrion and here you are.
At Hanford they hunt for radioactive coyote dung to find contaminated groundwater.
At Hanford they hunt for radioactive coyote dung to find contaminated groundwater.
August 2, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Bioaccumulation and biomagnification are underrated actors. They deserve Oscars for best supporting roles?
August 1, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Bioaccumulation and biomagnification are underrated actors. They deserve Oscars for best supporting roles?
Oh jeez, I use the Minamata incident when I teach about bioaccumulation and biomagnification. I really don't want to have to create an updated more recent slide!
July 29, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Oh jeez, I use the Minamata incident when I teach about bioaccumulation and biomagnification. I really don't want to have to create an updated more recent slide!
Spider Webs as Noninvasive Indicators of Biomagnification and Tissue Partitioning of Halogenated Organic Contaminants in Mangrove Ecosystems | Environmental Science & Technology pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/... #stableisotopes
Spider Webs as Noninvasive Indicators of Biomagnification and Tissue Partitioning of Halogenated Organic Contaminants in Mangrove Ecosystems
Mangrove ecosystems are increasingly threatened by halogenated organic contaminants (HOCs), posing a significant threat to resident arthropods, including spiders and insects. Spider webs, due to their...
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July 15, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Spider Webs as Noninvasive Indicators of Biomagnification and Tissue Partitioning of Halogenated Organic Contaminants in Mangrove Ecosystems | Environmental Science & Technology pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/... #stableisotopes
Lab grown meat could be the future if it can be made en masse with cheap prices .. @georgemonbiot.bsky.social writes about it quite a bit. Toxins also build up in the food chain - biomagnification - and so meat is toxic as well as bad for the climate.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Lab-grown food is about to destroy farming – and save the planet | George Monbiot
Scientists are replacing crops and livestock with food made in factories from microbes and water. It may save humanity’s bacon, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
July 4, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Lab grown meat could be the future if it can be made en masse with cheap prices .. @georgemonbiot.bsky.social writes about it quite a bit. Toxins also build up in the food chain - biomagnification - and so meat is toxic as well as bad for the climate.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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July 2, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Powered by alvaDesc molecular descriptors, it currently supports prediction of:
🔹 Biomagnification Factor
🔹 Bioconcentration Factor
🔹 Ready Biodegradability
🔹 Daphnia magna LC₅₀
🔹 Fathead minnow LC₅₀
More endpoints will be added soon.
🔹 Biomagnification Factor
🔹 Bioconcentration Factor
🔹 Ready Biodegradability
🔹 Daphnia magna LC₅₀
🔹 Fathead minnow LC₅₀
More endpoints will be added soon.
The science on blood plasma use for "rejuvenation" purposes is actually really interesting. There are some biological markers that show it can (in certain respects) reduce "biological age."
That said, biomagnification of toxins is also a thing.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biomagn...
That said, biomagnification of toxins is also a thing.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biomagn...
Biomagnification - Wikipedia
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July 1, 2025 at 7:57 PM
The science on blood plasma use for "rejuvenation" purposes is actually really interesting. There are some biological markers that show it can (in certain respects) reduce "biological age."
That said, biomagnification of toxins is also a thing.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biomagn...
That said, biomagnification of toxins is also a thing.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biomagn...