For decades, researchers have measured #PlasticPollution by counting individual pieces. But those numbers don’t tell the whole story: internal damage caused by plastic (eg. inflammation) is largely invisible
Importantly, this gives us a way to monitor harm in living birds, rather than only understanding the impacts of #plastic after death
Our congrats to @alixdejersey.bsky.social on another brilliant article!
This hand-painted #shearwater was sent to an #AdriftLab team member with a note about #kindness and #gratitude.
A reminder that whatever your talent, it has the greatest impact when used for good. Who knows, your small gesture might just be the kindness that someone desperately needed 💙
WHERE TO SEE THIS EXHIBIT:
Ulladulla Community University Centre. On display for 30 days starting today. The CUC is open business hours, Monday to Friday, 146 Princes Highway
#ArtFromWaste #recycle #collaboration #MarineScience #PlasticPollution #birds #shearwaters #Ulladulla
In our #NewPaper, we developed a minimally invasive test to detect the hidden harm from plastic ingestion in live #seabirds. By looking at proteins in the blood, we identified a biological signature of plastic-associated damage doi.org/10.1016/j.en...