Felicitas Tenbrink

*currently taking twitter break, email me :) PhD student at @EEIatHull @uniofhull
|Microplastics in marine food webs|
Alumna @GEOMAR_en @kieluni

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@pokemondealsuk Back in

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@A_Dehaut Hi, could I submit two abstracts (to different topics)?

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Who drew this adorable bee butt? #EAB2021

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And that's a wrap!
I am not saying the "draw your study organism" board was the best thing about #EAB2021 but I I just keep thinking about the little bee someone drew, so maybe it was. My drawing of #afruca ingesting #microplastics is not even half as good!
@BES_AquaEco

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@LNMNash @BES_AquaEco @KratinaLab Really interesting talk, and I love the idea of aquatic ecosystems on top of trees ;)

[Fiona Chong @fionidae]

Enjoed a fabulous talk by @FeeTenbrink at #EAB2021 on plane tyre microplastics found in fiddler crabs! @PlasticsEnvRes

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Slightly late, but I was getting used to socialize in person again! My first in-person talk at a conference! #EAB2021
@BES_AquaEco #microplastics

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@_JanaBusch @HullGGEPGR @g_lekan @WalshHull @Chapanangaboy1 Ohh I wanna join next time! #SafetyFirst

[Felicitas Tenbrink @FeeTenbrink]

I am a YouTube star now! ;) Thanks for the shoutout and thanks for listening in! It was definitely intimidating to be online and recorded, looking forward to when face to face seminars make a Comeback!

[Plastics in the Environment Research Group @PlasticsEnvRes]

We're proud of our researcher @FeeTenbrink winning funding from @ASSEMBLE_Plus @EMBRC_EU & kindly hosted by @CienciasDoMar to carry out sampling work in Portugal. Today she gave an excellent seminar talking about her PhD work: https://t.co/aSIG68cfOk @EEIatHull @HullUniScience

[Felicitas Tenbrink @FeeTenbrink]

@NourheneRebai I am using 2M KOH !

[Felicitas Tenbrink @FeeTenbrink]

I think somebody might be overcompensating here!
Fiddler crabs are one of my study species and the males clearly do think that the bigger the better!
PS: yup, I am still fighting with the FTIR behind the scenes, I think the machine just hates me #phdlife #microplastics

[Plastics in the Environment Research Group @PlasticsEnvRes]

A rubber chicken, a gnome & a bathtub show up on a beach. The start of a bad joke? No these are the stranger items @ourOcean recorded at the 2019 #beachcleanup. Read more about the top 5 #plastic items & how to minimize their use for #PlasticFreeJuly here https://t.co/L2TkmAwxVC

[Plastics in the Environment Research Group @PlasticsEnvRes]

TO DO TOMORROW: @KeepBritainTidy **Power Hour litter-pick at 11am** on #ThankYouDay this 4th July. Thank our environment for keeping us healthy #MentalHealthMatters by cleaning up our waste. Share your good work with #ThankYouDay #LitterLess #PlasticFreeJuly

[Felicitas Tenbrink @FeeTenbrink]

@OpenSpecy I mostly have the problem that it doesn't recognize big particles as particles or takes the background as particles but not the particles themselves :(

[Felicitas Tenbrink @FeeTenbrink]

Okay guys, forget what I said yesterday.
Today things didn't work, things which worked perfectly fine yesterday. And then the software just kept crashing for an hour before making a mysterious, logic-defying comeback at 6pm #AcademicChatter #phdlife #microplastics #ftir

[Felicitas Tenbrink @FeeTenbrink]

@OpenSpecy Yes, I am using Omnic Picta and the software has problems recognizing particles from mosaics.... And then if I try to adjust the detection limits manually sometimes the software just stops working...would be interested to know if others had the same issue

[Felicitas Tenbrink @FeeTenbrink]

@Nephropseu That sounds awfully familiar hahah

[Felicitas Tenbrink @FeeTenbrink]

... although the keywords here are "seems to work" , trust me there were many confused moments with spectra that did not make any sense, software crashes and a quick chemistry lesson ! #realphdlife

[Felicitas Tenbrink @FeeTenbrink]

Yesterday, I collected my first IR spectra from potential #microplastics extracted from clams in the Ria Formosa! It is very exiting times for any researcher when your methods actually seem to work first try ;) @EEIatHull @UAlg @ASSEMBLE_Plus #phdlife #FTIR

[Felicitas Tenbrink @FeeTenbrink]

My first week at @CienciasDoMar was all about fieldwork! Luckily, it was easy to find help; who doesn't want to go for a boat trip on the beautiful Ria Formosa? It's days like this that make this PhD seem doable ;) #microplastics @ASSEMBLE_Plus @EEIatHull @cbdelosantos