Imari Walker-Franklin | Microplastics Bae | PhD
@dr_imariwalker
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Author of Plastics 📚 Scientist 🌊Microplastics Researcher 🎥Youtuber 💙 @UCBerkeley Grad👩🏽🔬Environ Engin. PhD @DukeU Views are my own
Joined June 2011
Still can’t get over getting hooded for my PhD in Environmental Engineering, receiving the departmental outstanding scholar award for my dissertation work studying chemical release from plastics and getting Married to my partner of 7 years all in 7 days .#MrsPhD #MicroplasticsBae
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The gavel has been struck today for the second part of the fifth session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee to develop an international legally binding instrument on #plasticpollution Excited to observe these negotiations and connect with other experts in this space.
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Had a fun moment today realizing my most-viewed YouTube video (70K views!) is a short reel on expectations vs. reality for environmental engineers. Love seeing interest in this interdisciplinary field. If you’re curious, check out the 10-sec short here: .
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RT @RTI_Intl: 🍺This week @Newsweek spotlighted @JennyHopRed’s “Hold My Beer” study, showing how PFAS in your pint links back to local water….
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Beers with the highest concentrations of PFAS, also known as forever chemicals, were found in two states.
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#Circularity2025 is now underway and our team is very excited to be here! . Come stop by the RTI International booth #115 and check out our panel tomorrow at Bluebird 3E from 9:00-10:00am to ask our Scientists about microplastics and the circular economy
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Throwback Saturday!.
The Engineering. The Face. #EnvironmentalEngineering. @BlkInEngineerng @BlackInSciComm @BlackinMarSci @BlackInChem @BlackAFinSTEM #AcademicTwitter #AcademicChatter #PhDLoading #BlackinSTEM #blm #TheFacesOfEngineering
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Really excited for this!.
We’re proud to announce the keynote speakers and program for the Cell Symposia: Chemical solutions for a sustainable plastics future:.Cyrille Boyer (UNSW), John Hartwig (@UCB_Chemistry), @dr_imariwalker (@RTI_Intl) & @karen_wooley (@TAMU)
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RT @DusanMateric: We have a preprint in review about #microplastics and #nanoplastics in human tonsils. See The qua….
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Seabirds chicks have been shown to ingest plastic waste provided by their parents and damaged include harm to their stomach lining, cell rupture and neurodegeneration similar to Alzheimer’s. New paper in science:
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Plastic consumption in seabirds causes blood signatures of widespread organ damage including brain, stomach, kidney, and liver.
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Microplastics have now been detected in skeletal tissue.
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RT @dr_imariwalker: Excited to announce that I got the opportunity to speak about microplastics in food on the @TamronHallShow and share wi….
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RT @DeniseMitrano: While conducting experiments on microplastics settling dynamics when aggregated with algae, we noticed something curious….
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Excited to announce that I got the opportunity to speak about microplastics in food on the @TamronHallShow and share with her my book Plastics an @mitpress EKS. If you missed the episode, here is a short clip from it! .
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Promising climate news that satellites can now identify methane super emitters! .
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RT @dr_imariwalker: Huge review article just released suggesting that microplastics have the potential to harm reproductive, respiratory an….
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Microplastics are ubiquitous environmental contaminants for which there are documented human exposures, but there is a paucity of research evaluating their impacts on human health. We conducted a...
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Huge review article just released suggesting that microplastics have the potential to harm reproductive, respiratory and digestive human health. Additionally they make linkages of microplastic exposure to colon and lung cancer .
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Microplastics are ubiquitous environmental contaminants for which there are documented human exposures, but there is a paucity of research evaluating their impacts on human health. We conducted a...
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RT @dr_imariwalker: 🚨 Calling all Microplastic and Plastic Pollution Researchers and policy makers!. The Research Triangle Health Collabor….
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This meeting will be held (in person only) at the NC Biotech Center in RTP, NC on January 29-30, 2025. Registration is open now. Link:
environmentalhealthcollaborative.org
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🚨 Calling all Microplastic and Plastic Pollution Researchers and policy makers!. The Research Triangle Health Collaborative in coordination with RTI International is hosting its 2025 Summit titled, "Local Solutions to a Global Problem: Microplastics in North Carolina".
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RT @RTI_Intl: @dr_imariwalker, Researcher at RTI & contributor to the study, said: “This not only presented some of the most urgent questio….
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Tyre particles have been found to be the leading contributor to microplastics.
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