Dr. Scott Coffin
@ecoboffin.bsky.social
Enviro' Toxicologist | Research Scientist @OEHHA | #Microplastics | @ToMExApp dev | @ThePlastiverse founder | RYT:200 | DJ | Surfer | Views Own | he/him | 🌈∞
Did you know that #ToMEx is provided as an open-source R package? PSSDplusplus (currently installable via Github) provides functionality to perform all of the alignments, SSDs, pSSDs and more that have been used for #microplastics ecological risk assessments. Try it out! github.com/ScottCoffin/...
#Microplastics brain trust, I need your help! Looking for inspiration for research projects for a #dataScience masters student that can be completed in ~9 months. Any ideas welcome!
Looking for a job? Tired of constantly checking different sites for updates? I built a #free, #openSource #jobScraper + triage #dashboard that requires zero code/software to get started! github.com/ScottCoffin/...
Send us your published op-eds to add to the growing map 🌱. Use the map to find fellow scientists from nearby hometowns. We’ll help you contact your REGIONAL newspaper to pitch a story about homegrown scientists 🏠 🧪 sciencehomecoming.com
I feel like people focus a little too much on Bruce Springsteen having a slightly cringey stage persona singing boomer music and not enough on that boomer music being pretty fuckin good and him genuinely caring about stuff
My friend Madison Rickert made a #WebApp that predicts 🌋 eruptions! During a visit to #Kīlauea, she built a model based on #USGS data to predict when the volcano would erupt. It was accurate within a few days and was able to take some rad photos during the eruption! kilauea-tracker.streamlit.app
Kīlauea Fountain Event Tracker
https://kilauea-tracker.streamlit.app/
kilauea-tracker.streamlit.app
USEPA announced the 'STOMP' - Systematic Targeting of #Microplastics program through ARPA-H, which will provide ~$115 mil to standardize monitoring methods, determine exposure and hazards to human health, and develop methods to reduce body burden. Thoughts on this?
The #USEPA will make an announcement today from 2-3:30 pm Eastern regarding #microplastics in #drinkingWater. Tune in to learn more. www.epa.gov/newsroom/live
Live | US EPA
US EPA live events are available to watch on this page as they occur.
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BREAKING: Bernie Sanders is introducing an amendment to cut ICE’s $75 billion funding increase, and to use those funds to restore the federal cuts to health care.
🙌Some good news! Washington State just adopted a law that requires companies to ensure products contains <50ppm total fluorine to reduce consumer exposure to #PFAS! www.globalelr.com/2026/01/wash...
Washington State’s Amended PFAS Rule Restricts New Product Categories and Adds Total Fluorine Threshold
The amended rule adds to the growing patchwork of state-level PFAS laws and to compliance burdens. By Julia A. Hatcher, Tom Lee, and Hunter J. Kendrick
globalelr.com
ICE must be abolished. It has become a lawless, rogue agency. Federal law enforcement agencies must follow the law, if they're going to have any credibility enforcing it. We are demanding justice for Renee Good and the prosecution of ICE agent Jonathan Ross for her murder.
I’m seeing a lot of people predict that “the right wing media is going to turn this story for Trump” and “they’re going to work overtime to make America forget this” and you should tell that to all these people out there in Minnesota in fucking January. This can matter. This will matter.
Alex Baumhardt@alexbaumhardt.bsky.social · 7mo agoA friend in Minneapolis just sent me this video. Looks like thousands have come together for a vigil after an ICE agent shot and killed 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good. This was my neighborhood for several years before coming to Portland.
Join me at The #Microplastics Exposure & Human Health Conference in Santa Fe, NM (January 11 - 14, 2026)!
This @universitypress.cambridge.org article by @leiliab.bsky.social and @tonyrwalker1.bsky.social genuinely warmed my heart. It’s a reminder that the work we’ve been doing in #California on #microplastics in drinking water can- and does- travel far beyond our borders! doi.org/10.1017/plc....
Six US state governors have signed a petition demanding the USEPA to monitor #microplastics in #drinkingWater. michiganadvance.com/2025/12/02/w...
Whitmer joins Democratic governors calling on the EPA to monitor microplastics in drinking water • Michigan Advance
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer last week joined governors from six other states signing onto a petition demanding the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency add microplastics to its program collecting d...
michiganadvance.com
Join #DTSC's Safer Consumer Products team for a virtual workshop on #microplastics in consumer products Thursday, Dec. 11! Get an overview of our preliminary research/findings + share insights w/ us on Zoom: ⌚ 9:30 – noon (PST) 🔗 Learn more & RSVP: dtsc.ca.gov/event/microp...
Just learned a #nonviolent replacement for the phrase, "Kill two birds with one stone" that I am totally in love with. "Feed two birds with one scone"
a couple of birds in a cage with one sitting on top of a coconut
ALT: a couple of birds in a cage with one sitting on top of a coconut
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Disappointing to see that scientists are still conflating gender and sex in the literature. The reviewers or editors really should have caught this glaring error in the title of this 2016 paper!
New paper out! 🎉 Our team published “A Quality-Assured Global Database and Multidimensional Analysis of #Microplastic #Toxicity Studies” in STOTEN. We evaluated 286 microplastic ecotoxicity studies using quality criteria developed to support #California’s regulatory needs under SB 1263.
Looking to apply high-throughput and automated #microplastics analysis techniques in your laboratory for sediment, water, or air? Attend this 5-day intensive by the Moore Institute for Plastic Pollution Research! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
A two-year study by SCCWRP reveals that biofiltration #stormwater BMPs remove ~72% of #microplastic particles from runoff. Engineered media in biofilters - used to trap sediment, nutrients, metals - also work well for microplastics - a multi-benefit intervention! www.sccwrp.org/biofiltratio...
Biofiltration BMPs found to remove microplastic particles - Southern California Coastal Water Research Project
A two-year study examining whether biofiltration BMPs (best management practices) can efficiently remove microplastics from Southern California runoff has found that these stormwater control measures ...
sccwrp.org
Just published in the Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology (@springernature.com)! Our multi-agency team examined links between #PFAS in public drinking water and levels in people’s blood across #SouthernCalifornia. #openAccess link -> doi.org/10.1038/s413...
How do mRNA vaccines help fight cancer? A @nature.com paper today tells the story, one with big implications, as reviewed here erictopol.substack.com/p/how-mrna-v...
How mRNA Vaccines Can Help Fight Cancer
Turning "cold" tumors "hot"
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There is still time to register for our next Open 2.0 webinar exploring how #OpenScience monitoring helps track and understand open science in practice. 📅 Oct 31, 2.30 PM CET 📝 plos.io/3WnuNJM 🤝 Speakers: @sabinaleonelli.bsky.social, @ismaelrafols.bsky.social and Antónia Correia.
@efsa.europa.eu just released a literature review of >1,700 publications reporting #microplastics occurrence in food contact materials. Unfortunately, methodological shortcomings and inadequate reporting prevents reliable exposure estimation. #LiteratureReview www.efsa.europa.eu/en/supportin...
10-22: Don['t miss this free virtual #conference: the 2025 Great Lakes #Microplastics Summit! From cutting-edge research to real-world challenges, this summit dives into the latest knowledge on microplastics in #surfaceWater and #drinkingWater. Register free -> egle.idloom.events/2025-Micropl...
Evidence keeps accumulating for the environmental toxin exposure link to Parkinson's disease, beyond pesticides. Today on trichloroethylene (TCE), used in dry cleaning www.neurology.org/doi/10.1212/...
