Tony R. Walker
@tonyrwalker1.bsky.social
Professor, Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia, Canada 🇨🇦 Senior Editor, Cambridge Prisms: Plastics Born at 324 in 🇬🇧 #plasticpollution #singleuseplastic #microplastics #GlobalPlasticsTreaty #ClimateChange #SciComm #SciPol
Join Beyond Plastics on Tuesday, September 15 at 7 PM ET / 4 PM PT for a free educational webinar about a groundbreaking study from Duke that exposes the unsustainable economic and societal costs of plastic pollution. Register at beyondplastics.org/events #plastic #webinar #free
Join us for our virtual briefing, #Microplastics and #California #Agriculture: Aligning #Policy, #Science, and Practice on Aug. 19, 2026 from 1:00–2:30 PM PT! Register here: csumb.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Billion-pellet plastic spill blights England's north east coast oceanographicmagazine.com/news/billion... #PlasticPollution #Microplastics
Billion-pellet plastic spill blights North East Coast
Private shipping firms face fury from local communities and the regional mayor over a slow response to the UK's worst-ever microplastic spill
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First chair of the mountain bike season at Ski Wentworth 🚵
Cambridge Prisms: Plastics is the first international journal covering science and policy topics that underpin the nexus between plastics, human and environmental health, environmental justice, and human rights www.cambridge.org/core/journal... @cambup-lifesci.cambridge.org
Super Moon 🌕 Toney River, Pictou County, Nova Scotia, Canada 🇨🇦
I love that our Prime Minister of Canada 🇨🇦 knows actual words, unlike the President of the United States 🇺🇸
Walker, Williams and Wynne. University of Portsmouth Biology Tutorial group from 40 years ago!!!
Fifty years ago, the hedgehog population in the UK stood at 36 million; today, it is down to 880,000. www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrVo...
'Don’t let hedgehogs die out’ warning amid heatwave risk
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The Mersey … but you likely don’t need a ferry to cross it here.
The air in Manchester is still thick with the smell of smoke from this moorland fire 🔥 Woman held on suspicion of arson over moorland fire www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Woman held on suspicion of arson over Dove Stone Reservoir fire
A large fire engulfed land near Dove Stone Reservoir on Saturday and has been burning ever since.
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Helena Guasch Padró kicking off the first keynote on Monday morning at the #MNP26 conference at the University of Birmingham.
Adapter disaster averted at the #MNP26 conference at the University of Birmingham. #PlasticPollution #Microplastics
Happy #NationalMeadowsDay! Wildflower meadows are one of Britain's most diverse habitats and can contain up to 40 species in one square metre. They attract pollinating insects such as bees, beetles, butterflies, and moths, as well as reptiles, amphibians, bats, and birds.
Antarctica's first dinosaur fossil confirmed from 1985 Antarctic expedition ->British Antarctic Survey | More on "Antarctic dinosaur fossil 1985 discovery" at BigEarthData.ai | #Antarctic
Antarctica's first dinosaur fossil confirmed from 1985 Antarctic expedition
A bone collected by a British Antarctic Survey (BAS) geologist nearly 40 years ago has been formally described as the first dinosaur fossil ever found on the Antarctic continent. The vertebra was discovered by Dr Mike Thomson, a BAS geologist, during a 1985 expedition to James Ross Island on the Antarctic Peninsula. The expedition’s aim was to map rock layers to help future geologists and palaeontologists date fossil finds across the region. At the time, Thomson recorded it as a large reptile but it has only now been formally identified as belonging to a dinosaur. Finding the dinosaur bone in our collection Dr Mark Evans, palaeontologist and manager of the geological collections and labs at BAS, said: “This fossil was found by Dr Mike Thomson, one of the true pioneers of Antarctic geology. His work helps us date all fossil finds across the Antarctic Peninsula today. When I first spotted this bone in our collections a few years ago, I suspected it was a dinosaur. After looking at it properly, I thought it was probably a titanosaur tail vertebra. Looking back at Mike’s notebooks, he knew it was a large reptile so it’s very special to confirm his find 40...
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Nice shiny new proof soon to be published in Journal of Coatings Technology and Research. Innovations in sustainable marine antibiofouling solutions: a review of current strategies and future directions #MaritimeShipping #Sustainability #Microplastics #Toxicity @dalhousieu.bsky.social
This little hummingbird loves to return to this perch. Third summer in a row, although hummingbirds typically only live 3 to 5 years in the wild, so this one is an old timer, like me.
I used to be a macchiato coffee man, but now I’m more of a Cortado man. I suppose I’m just less bitter now.
Trail Run up to High Head in Wentworth. I was getting a bit worried as I’d finished all my snacks at the half way point (High Head) and my low blood glucose alarm 🚨 was screaming at me. Made it safely back with plenty of glucose in the tank.
In case you were wondering, bears 🐻 love to eat ants 🐜 My raised garden 🪴 beds were slightly rotten and had become a bit of an ants 🐜 nest (a sort of condo for ants), but our local bear decided to enjoy a light snack.
I'm not sure I've ever seen a single sentence go downhill this far and this fast
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2mo agoTherapy ferrets used to kill rats at UK’s largest children’s prison
