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Ed Straw @edstraw.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

Hit a double digits h-index today. Whether the double-digiti-ness rests on a single shameless self citation in my latest paper is not the question you asked though.

google scholar screenshot showing a h index and i-10 of 10.

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Ed Straw @edstraw.bsky.social · 26/08/2024

NEW PAPER: We report, for the first time, the scale of how many different pesticides are on sale in the UK and Ireland. Nearly 2,500 different pesticides are on sale in the UK, from 266 different active ingredients. doi.org/10.1016/j.di...

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Ed Straw @edstraw.bsky.social · 25/07/2024

Emergency authorisations of banned pesticides aren't so 'emergency' after all. Many are approved for longer than is allowed, or repeatedly re-approved, stretching the definition of emergency! doi.org/10.1016/j.sc...

bar chart showing a significant proportion of emergency authorisations are for longer than the allowed 120 days.

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Ed Straw @edstraw.bsky.social · 27/03/2024

Just hit my 300th citation today, very exciting! If you're ever curious about my research go check my paper out at scholar.google.co.uk/citations?us...

A graph showing citations over time and 300 total citations

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Ed Straw @edstraw.bsky.social · 06/03/2024

Complaint about modern academic papers: Acronyms. Example: Each of these acronyms is only used in this specific table, and there's clearly enough room to expand the acronyms into full text. UAMPHTR,FNBAA: Using acronyms makes papers harder to read, for no benefit at all.

Table with 4 acronyms listed with lots of blank space around then.

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Ed Straw @edstraw.bsky.social · 21/02/2024

New Paper! Here I argue that the list of ingredients on the back of a pesticide should no longer be a secret. Secrecy isn't in farmer's or consumer's interests! I also take on the industry arguments defending the practice. 🧪 doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2024.103701

A graphic showing a pesticide bottle and it's ingredients. 3 ingredients are listed as secrets.

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Ed Straw @edstraw.bsky.social · 08/02/2024

Take home: Pesticides in Ireland leave residues in soils, nectar & pollen. They can have impacts on bees, but the level of risk for fungicides and herbicides needs more work. We need better pesticide usage data, & better mitigation measures, to track change and reduce risk 16/16

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Ed Straw @edstraw.bsky.social · 08/02/2024

This was the result of a huge amount of hard work from an amazing project team (few of whom have bluesky)! 15/16

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Ed Straw @edstraw.bsky.social · 08/02/2024

Thanks to our funders DAFM and institutions for all their support. A special thanks to all the farmers who worked with us to make it all possible 14/16

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Ed Straw @edstraw.bsky.social · 08/02/2024

Herbicides are usually sprayed to kill plants, but bumblebees can forage on them after they’ve been sprayed and before they shrivel and die. These bees can collect pollen and nectar that contain residues of the herbicide in this time doi.org/10.1002/etc.... 9/16

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Ed Straw @edstraw.bsky.social · 08/02/2024

We found lots of different pesticides in nectar and pollen of crops and wild plants. Even some pesticides that haven’t been used for years are still cropping up, suggesting they can last for a long time in the environment. doi.org/10.1016/j.sc... and doi.org/10.1016/j.he... 5/16

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Ed Straw @edstraw.bsky.social · 06/02/2024

New Paper: When we're writing about our experiments, we must be clear about what pesticide we tested. If a formulation was tested, don't blame the active ingredient. Read it free here: rdcu.be/dxJ23

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Ed Straw @edstraw.bsky.social · 19/01/2024

Our systematic review of co-formulant and adjuvant impacts on bees is Proceedings Of The Royal Society: B’s most cited paper of 2022.

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Ed Straw @edstraw.bsky.social · 28/11/2023

Not many jobs will send you a map of where to find a meeting room based on a 19th-century building plan.

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Ed Straw @edstraw.bsky.social · 07/11/2023

New preprint! We counted the number of pesticide formulations in the UK and Ireland finding a whopping 2,463 formulations in the UK alone! chemrxiv.org/engage/chemr...

Bar chart showing pesticides per category

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Ed Straw @edstraw.bsky.social · 02/11/2023

That's it folks, I've sent off the first of two fellowship/grant applications in my desperate bid to stay employed in science. Seriously though, there's some cool science I want to do, please give me money.

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Ed Straw @edstraw.bsky.social · 13/10/2023

After an exhausting while grant writing it’s great to get back into labwork! Some exciting adjuvant pesticide combo exposures coming up.

A series of bee cages stacked on a desk.

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