Petra van Cronenburg<p>Perhaps you know about the art collaboration between Herbert Duprat and <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/caddisflies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>caddisflies</span></a> producing precious <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/casings" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>casings</span></a>?<br>Inspired by this work, biologist Auke-Florian Hiemstra et al. worked about the cases for detecting <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/plasticWaste" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>plasticWaste</span></a> before the term <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/microplastics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>microplastics</span></a> existed.</p><p>A fascinating thread about the scientists' detective work <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/aukeflorian.nl/post/3lmeqk4xpnc2m" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bsky.app/profile/aukeflorian.n</span><span class="invisible">l/post/3lmeqk4xpnc2m</span></a> and the study: <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969725005820" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">sciencedirect.com/science/arti</span><span class="invisible">cle/pii/S0048969725005820</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Trichoptera" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trichoptera</span></a> tell about 50 years of <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/plastics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>plastics</span></a> history.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/naturalMuseum" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>naturalMuseum</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/anthropocene" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>anthropocene</span></a></p>