♻️⬇️🚨NEW PAPER ALERT♻️⬇️🚨

Led by #AdriftLab’s PhD student and all-round superstar, Alix de Jersey, and co-authored by supervisors Jenn Lavers (@SeabirdSentinel), Graeme Zosky, and Jack Auty.

Access the paper here ➡️ https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0269749123014616?via%3Dihub
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RESEARCH SYNOPSIS: in this review article, we discuss the far-reaching, complex, and poorly understood threat that pollution poses for human and wildlife health. We argue #InterdisciplinaryResearch is crucial to encapsulate the diversity of these consequences. We highlight how applying advanced techniques and expertise adapted in medical research to wildlife exposed to pollutants offers a unique opportunity.

Additionally, we bring light to the challenges impeding the progress of this research including lack of funding. To do this, we obtained data on #funding for medical & biological research from major research councils for the last 20 years. Only 0.5% of available funds were dedicated to pollution-focused research and only 0.03% of this already tiny fraction was dedicated to explaining the #wildlife experience!! (read that again and let it sink in!) 😳👎

Paper title: “The understudied global experiment of pollution’s impacts on wildlife and human health”

#WomenInSTEM #TeamWork #PlasticPollution #ResearchFunding