Mark Miodownik
@markmiodownik
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Materials scientist & engineer; Director of the UCL Institute of Making; Author of It's a Gas; Occasional tv/radio presenter.
London
Joined September 2010
Rare European and US consensus that PFAS are bad news and that companies responsible must pay to clean up the chemical pollution they caused.
nytimes.com
The decision came despite an effort by a former industry lawyer who is now at the E.P.A. to reverse the regulation.
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I was writing my book Stuff Matters at the time and walking past the construction site daily. The concrete chapter explains the magnificent achievement of the construction, plus the Roman history of inventing concrete.
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The Manna Centre for the homeless at London Bridge is looking for a volunteer van driver to pick up items donated by local churches and schools at their harvest festivals this autumn
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If you are a parent of a kid in nappies/diapers please do join our study
bigtoiletproject.org
Are you a parent or adult responsible for toilet training a child? We need your help to understand toilet training better! Get involved with the Big Toilet Project to be part of the world’s biggest...
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Our data is from our global citizen science project on toilet training and nappy use:
bigtoiletproject.org
Are you a parent or adult responsible for toilet training a child? We need your help to understand toilet training better! Get involved with the Big Toilet Project to be part of the world’s biggest...
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We are presenting our data and analysis on the impact of disposable nappies on child health, school readiness and plastic pollution to UK MPs on 5th Nov. Contact your local MP to request their presence: https://t.co/wyVcYjYhn8
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Our work testing biodegradable PAC plastics shows they dont work in the UK.
royalsocietypublishing.org
Pro-oxidant additive containing (PAC) plastics are designed to degrade in the unmanaged natural environment through oxidation and biological processes. In 2020, the British Standard Institution...
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Our original research paper here: Frontiers | The Big Compost Experiment: Using citizen science to assess the impact and effectiveness of biodegradable and compostable plastics in UK home composting
frontiersin.org
Compostable and biodegradable plastics are growing in popularity but their environmental credentials need to be more fully assessed to determine how they can...
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The Advertising Standards Authority have updated their guidance on using the terms 'biodegradable' and 'compostable' to sell plastics. They cited our research showing that biodegradable plastics rarely live up to their claim. https://t.co/JJaAkW14nZ
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In the fifth installment of the #SciencePodcast🎙️ series on books that look to an optimistic future, host Angela Saini talks with Peter Coveney and Roger Highfield on the future of “digital twins”—personalized virtual models that may one day help predict an individual’s risk for
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Did you know only about 3% of UK statues represent non-royal women? And none celebrate modern engineers - until today. 🚀 We're changing the narrative by honouring mechanical engineer Alice Kan, with a striking new statue in central London. Visit the statue until 20 November
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Happy #NationalEngineeringDay! To celebrate, here are some of my #EngineeringRoleModels, who are all chemical engineers and authors: @davidneiladam @jaegawise @erskine_fiona. @IChemE @RAEngNews @QEPrize
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Alice Kan, mechanical engineer and vaccine hero, is the #EngineeringRoleModel depicted in our bold and vibrant new statue for #NationalEngineeringDay. But who inspires Alice? Watch the clip below to find out:
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Thank you Jim for telling us who inspires you on #NationalEngineeringDay - a day to celebrate, showcase, and highlight the contributions made by engineers and engineering.
Today is #NationalEngineeringDay in the UK and the Royal Academy of Engineering @RAEngNews has a campaign focusing on #EngineeringRoleModels. So as an honorary Fellow of the Academy, here is a short video post saying who inspires me.
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Meet #EngineeringRoleModel Dr @shinisomara. Shini has been recognised for her incredible science communication with @TheCrashCourse, research in computational fluid dynamics and authoring SEVEN books to inspire young children into engineering. #NationalEngineeringDay
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This is such a great piece by @SCP_Hughes. Fascinating.
worksinprogress.co
Why are buildings today simple and austere, while buildings of the past were ornate and elaborately ornamented? The answer is not the cost of labor.
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Come work with me! I'm looking for postdocs to work together on a project called "Power over platforms?" focused on civil society groups and others who seek to influence how platform companies behave. Project outline: https://t.co/SRyZ5mjnr1 Links in🧵w/details on the jobs 1/2
rasmuskleisnielsen.net
I am very grateful that the Danish National Science Foundation has awarded me a DNRF Chair grant to support my new project “Power over Platforms?”. Power over platforms? The aim of this 3-year proj…
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In case you are wondering about why the Remembrance poppy went all paper this year - its a result of LCA work that UCL's @And_Paulillo did for the British Legion last year to reduce plastic waste @PlasticWasteHub
https://t.co/SHDiyCGRs9
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