Inspiring to be at Dr. Marlene Ågerstrand’s keynote at #SETACSeville! When discussing examples of good chemical regulations, Marlene highlighted #PMT substance policy as supporting innovation and research to reduce exposure of hazardous substances!

In #Plastchem we presented that there are several thousands of chemicals of concern in plastic. How do we prioritize action towards plastic causing the most exposure over their lifecycle. Mari Løseth from NGI presents a Material Flow analysis to help prioritize solutions.

This year's Science Slam was rather disappointing I must say. It seemed like the funniest thing was a technical difficulty with sound... #SETACSeville Nonetheless, congratulations to the winner!

Excited for the upcom8ng IPCP - International Panel on Chemical Pollution social, organized by our wonderful board! #SETACSeville Dr. Marlene Ågerstrand zhanyu

One more #PlastChem poster, featuring our awesome evidence map on toxicity of plastics leachates (lots of hard work in there!), is on display today #SETACSeville, poster area 1, 268. See also plastchem-project.org Mⓐrtin Wⓐgner Hans Peter Arp Jane Muncke Zhanyun Wang Utox_Eawag

What's your "favorite" omics method? The session I co-chaired with Denina Simmons today #SETACSeville ventured "beyond transcriptomics", diving deep into metabolomics' and (phospho)proteomics' insights into toxicity mechanisms and environmental effects of chemicals Utox_Eawag

Keynote by Maura Hiney highlighted the existing issues with research integrity and diverse flavors of scientific misconduct. Scary 😨 I must say, and the trend's apparently going up despite various remedies suggested. Are we not trying hard enough? #SETACSeville

Also a great poster spotlight talk given by Christoph Schür in Thursday's NAMs session #SETACSeville. He could also have taken longer than 5 min, as the two other spotlight presenters didn't show up (what, really?!), but his pitch was also perfectly timed - impeccable, as usual 👌👏👏

Enjoyed the #SETACSeville session co-chaired by Terje Svingen, You Song and Claudia de Lima e Silva, focusing on "better alignment of AOPs and NAMs". I'm a fan of both 🤓 and yes, AOP is a "NAM" itself, but also a very useful framework to make sense of other NAMs Maurice EURL ECVAM

The busy time in #SETACSeville is already coming to an end. Announcements: Sabine Apitz the new SETAC Europe President 2024-2025, SETAC Europe meeting 2025 will be in Vienna - see you latest there! @setacworld

Excited about the upcoming start of the large mesocosm experiment on-site Eawag to explore combined effects of heat waves and chemicals. 60-bucket strong setup by Markus Hermann and team, tirelessly working each day, rain or shine👏👏👏 Henner hollert Thomas Backhaus Utox_Eawag

Utterly embarrassing that #Sweden voted (again) against the #NatureRestaurationLaw. Oh well, this time it didn't help them 😁 Happy to see that Germany supported it. 😁

Engaged in discussions with Thomas Backhaus and Henner hollert, preparing for our Thursday session focused on chemical effects on biodiversity - the first time ever World Biodiversity Forum 2024 in Davos

Though I deeply respect Sir David, the saying by emma sayer that "nobody cared about #plastics until the 2018 docu and now look, how fast!" is simply NOT true and doesn't do justice to all those who diligently worked for decades to raise the pushback at the scale we witness today

Last night had a pleasure to hang out with 'real', hardcore ecologists and evolutionary biologists 🙂 World Biodiversity Forum Thoroughly enjoyed the conversations, though must admit that some technicalities e.g. regarding genomic assembly for cryptic species were just beyond my grasp 😅

There at last! Our brand new joint Mass Spectrometry Facility MSF Eawag opens its doors to deliver new advances in omics, organics, elemental and isotopic analyses for study and management of aquatic environment and water resources 🥳 Utox_Eawag Marco E. Franco