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Dr. Scott Coffin

@ecoboffin.bsky.social
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Enviro' Toxicologist | Research Scientist @OEHHA | #Microplastics | @ToMExApp dev | @ThePlastiverse founder | RYT:200 | DJ | Surfer | Views Own | he/him | 🌈∞

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Dr. Scott Coffin @ecoboffin.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
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/...
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Dr. Scott Coffin @ecoboffin.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
#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!
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Dr. Scott Coffin @ecoboffin.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
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/...
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Science Homecoming @sciencehomecoming.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
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
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Science Homecoming @sciencehomecoming.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Homecoming isn’t just for football. Scientists, write an article for SCIENCE HOMECOMING
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
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
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Dr. Scott Coffin @ecoboffin.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
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
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Kīlauea Fountain Event Tracker
https://kilauea-tracker.streamlit.app/
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Dr. Scott Coffin @ecoboffin.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
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?
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Dr. Scott Coffin @ecoboffin.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
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
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Live | US EPA
US EPA live events are available to watch on this page as they occur.
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Dr. Scott Coffin @ecoboffin.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
This is too fun... bluesky-map.theo.io
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Bluesky Map
Interactive map of 3 million Bluesky users, visualised by their follower pattern.
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
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.
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Dr. Scott Coffin @ecoboffin.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
🙌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...
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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
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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
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.
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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 08/01/2026
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.
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Dr. Scott Coffin @ecoboffin.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
Join me at The #Microplastics Exposure & Human Health Conference in Santa Fe, NM (January 11 - 14, 2026)!
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Dr. Scott Coffin @ecoboffin.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
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....
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Dr. Scott Coffin @ecoboffin.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Six US state governors have signed a petition demanding the USEPA to monitor #microplastics in #drinkingWater. michiganadvance.com/2025/12/02/w...
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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...
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Dr. Scott Coffin @ecoboffin.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
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...
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Dr. Scott Coffin @ecoboffin.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
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"
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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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Dr. Scott Coffin @ecoboffin.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
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!
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Dr. Scott Coffin @ecoboffin.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
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.
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Dr. Scott Coffin @ecoboffin.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
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...
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Dr. Scott Coffin @ecoboffin.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
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...
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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 ...
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Dr. Scott Coffin @ecoboffin.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
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...
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
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...
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How mRNA Vaccines Can Help Fight Cancer
Turning "cold" tumors "hot"
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PLOS @plos.org · 23/10/2025
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.
Promotional graphic for PLOS Webinar titled 'Open 2.0', featuring a butterfly on a monochromatic flower on the left and colorful abstract shapes on the right, discussing the progress of open science through case studies.
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Dr. Scott Coffin @ecoboffin.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
@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...
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Dr. Scott Coffin @ecoboffin.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
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...
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
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/...
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Peddling expensive, unproven treatments vs microplastics wapo.st/4nX0A0d
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As new treatments for microplastics emerge, here’s the evidence on how well they work
Entrepreneurs aim to remove microplastics from the body, but the cost can be steep and the clinical benefit remains uncertain.
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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
Chicago No Kings
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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
Today, millions of Americans sent a message to the Trump regime. We are not scared. We will keep fighting. We will organize, we will mobilize, and we will resist—over and over again—until this corrupt wannabe authoritarian regime is removed from power. Because in America, we have No Kings.
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Dr. Scott Coffin @ecoboffin.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Paper: 'Low-cost, portable, rapid #microplastics sensor can lower barriers to address #plasticPolluton'! 😍🥳✌️ Me: "what an incredible scientific beeakthrough! Now let's apply it! Paper: "Data will be made available upon request" Me: kindly requests data from authors The authors:
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Beyond Plastics @beyondplastics.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Please join Beyond Plastics Science Director @trishavv.bsky.social, @amizota.bsky.social of Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health, and Ryan Babadi of @toxicfreefuture.bsky.social on Nov. 12 for a free webinar about toxic chemicals in plastics. www.beyondplastics.org/events/toxic...
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Plastiverse @plastiverse.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Mapping the invisible world of #microplastics? Try #OpenSpecy, #siMPle, and #FLOPP-E (with its brand-new RShiny viewer) - open tools that turn raw FTIR/Raman spectra into clear polymer IDs. Which spectral tool do you use most? 🔗 www.plastiverse.org/tools?_resou... #PlasticPollution #Spectroscopy
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Plastiverse @plastiverse.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
New on Plastiverse.org: two open, classroom-ready tools for detecting microplastics with Nile Red 🎉🔬 Both Open Data + Open Source. Perfect for secondary schools & citizen science. Details below 👇 #Microplastics #STEM #OpenSource #OpenData
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Home » Plastiverse
Plastiverse is a hub for assets and information exchange on plastic pollution research. A live, crowd-sourced repository for tools, databases, protocols, and information related to micro- and macro-pl...
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Capital Science Communicators 🌶️ @capscicomm.org · 09/09/2025
Don't miss Sacramento Science on Tap at New Helvetia Brewing Co. tonight! 🍻 The first event of the new series welcomes as its inaugural speaker none other than Jared Shaw, host of the long-running Davis Science Cafe. #KeepScienceSpicy🌶️
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Sacramento Science on Tap: Chemical Tinker Toys — California Groundbreakers
Have the most fun evening of your week — learn about science in laypeople's terms by our local experts. ENLIGHTENMENT is partnering with Capital Science Communicators to host Sacramento Scienc...
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Dr. Scott Coffin @ecoboffin.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
The Moore Institute for Plastic Pollution Research is seeking a visionary and compassionate leader to serve as Executive Director of their laboratory. Truly an incredible opportunity to work with some of the world's leading researchers on #microplastics! Apply by October 31st! <- lnkd.in/g2u_pJxs
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The Sacramento Bee @sacbee.com · 19/05/2025
“Four times a week, my little boy will not see me in the morning, and not in the evening until 5:30 p.m., leaving us just two hours before bedtime.”
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Sacramento state employee: Newsom’s RTO order will cost me $730 a month | Opinion
“Four times a week, my little boy will not see me in the morning, and not in the evening until 5:30 p.m., leaving us just two hours before bedtime.”
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Dr. Scott Coffin @ecoboffin.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Do you find yourself constantly reusing code for #machineLearning projects? Need a faster way to train/compare many ML models on a new dataset? Want to improve the explainability of your black-box models? I built an #openSource #RShiny app that does all this and more! 👇 github.com/ScottCoffin/...
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Universität Wien / University of Vienna @univie.ac.at · 29/04/2025
In this video, environmental scientists Anya Sherman and Thilo Hofmann from the University of Vienna explain the results of their study: ⤵️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3WO...
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🧗‍♂️ Rubber chemicals in climbing shoes: A hidden health risk? 🧪🌬️
YouTube video by Universität Wien
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
2 new #LongCovid reports: —Factors influencing (such as vaccination protection dose response, Table) bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... —Post-Omicron (5% developed LC, increased w/ reinfection) www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Dr. Scott Coffin @ecoboffin.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
First findings of #microplastics (MPs) in human uterine fibroids (UF). MPs were significantly higher in UF tissues in diseased patients. #Raman spectroscopy of 48 patients linked higher levels to takeout meals and bottled water consumption. #WomensHealth sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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