Homes Under the Microscope

A citizen science project in Bristol and Bradford to measure airborne microplastics in the home. Funded by UKRI.

[Homes Under the Microscope @MicroscopeHomes]

101 Jobs that changed the world #citizenscience

By collecting #microplastics in their 🏡our participants are helping to understand where they come from and what they are made of.

Video by @UKRI_News

🎞️📽️ https://t.co/i30NJjB1u9

Helping to change the world 🙏

[Homes Under the Microscope @MicroscopeHomes]

We now have over 100 #citizenscientists in #Bradford and #Bristol collecting airborne #microplastics in their homes and we starting to analyse the samples returned.

There are only a few more places left, if you want to take part please register soon!

https://t.co/GJ8HDPobvs

[UK Research and Innovation @UKRI_News]

Five citizen science projects are working with the public to improve research and its impact in society. Here's what's been achieved so far: https://t.co/e6ZGCDMQtw…
@MicroscopeHomes @history_belong @CRT_Bristol @the_young_fdn

[Homes Under the Microscope @MicroscopeHomes]

"At the current rate of production, more than 10bn tonnes of mismanaged plastic waste will be dispersed in the natural environment by 2050" 😢

https://t.co/5G9xtGzCnV

[Ed Hawkins @ed_hawkins]

BREAKING: the White Cliffs of Dover have been illuminated with the UK 'warming stripes' for #ShowYourStripes day!

These stripes represent the UK average temperature from 1884 to 2022 with blue colours for colder years and red colours for hotter years.

https://t.co/LW5Kgrr8w3

[Laura Michie @LauraAMichie]

A great keynote by @BurfordBen in session 1 of #PlasticsFuture2023

Fantastic to hear about the @MicroscopeHomes project and the use of citizen science in microplastic research 🔬

[Jackie Rogers @Jackie_Rogers_]

Sharing our ⁦@MicroscopeHomes⁩ ⁦@aqmrcUWE⁩ research ⁦@UWE_Research⁩ on microplastics ⁦@FestofNature⁩

[Homes Under the Microscope @MicroscopeHomes]

It's #CleanAirDay today and here at @MicroscopeHomes we are counting airborne microfibres sampled by our #citizenscientists.

Microfibres and microplastics from textiles are an important, but poorly understood, type of indoor air pollution.

[Homes Under the Microscope @MicroscopeHomes]

📢 Last call to return samples! 📭

To all our wonderful participants, if you haven't already returned your sample kit to us please do as soon as possible!

We are ready to start counting microfibers...

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[Dr Jen Grove (she/her) @JenniferEGrove]

New blog by @KJPringle on the @MicroscopeHomes project. Read more about all the Citizen Science Collaboration Grants @UKRI_News funded projects on the programme partner @icstudiesuk website https://t.co/NwxM2l52oc

[Homes Under the Microscope @MicroscopeHomes]

Wow, what an amazing response! Through @MicropscopeHomes 112 people will measure airborne #microplastics in their homes.

This data will build an understanding of how many airborne microplastics there are, what they are made of and how we can reduce them.

[Verity Jones @VerityJones_edu]

Thank you so much Dr Ben Williams for an inspiring talk about micro plastics in the air at tonight’s Climate Change Primary Education Network mtg. 70,000 particles landing in 1m square every fortnight! Check out @MicroscopeHomes for more info. @UWE_Education 🧵

[Homes Under the Microscope @MicroscopeHomes]

📢Registration for @MicroscopeHomes closes on Monday!

Thanks to our #citizenscientists we are building a picture of the scale of the problem of airborne microplastics.

See📽️: https://t.co/hVHggWHLiW

Register now for one of the last places: https://t.co/KPJMuSCxG8

[Homes Under the Microscope @MicroscopeHomes]

We now have over 100 #citizenscientists in #Bradford and #Bristol collecting airborne #microplastics in their homes and we starting to analyse the samples returned.

There are only a few more places left, if you want to take part please register soon!

https://t.co/GJ8HDPobvs

[Homes Under the Microscope @MicroscopeHomes]

@microscopehomes is currently recruiting volunteers in #Bristol and #Bradford to measure airborne #microplastics in their homes.

In the film below one of our pilot #citizenscientists explains why she took part.

Interested? Sign up here: https://t.co/GJ8HDPobvs

[Steve Scott @stevescotttweet]

A short film on @MicroscopeHomes: 🏡🔬
a great @UKRI_News funded #CitizenScience project where researchers and local communities in #Bristol are co-creating research to collect and analyse microplastics in homes to see how to reduce them in the environment
https://t.co/tCn4aimdAg

[Steve Scott @stevescotttweet]

A short film on @MicroscopeHomes: 🏡🔬
a great @UKRI_News funded #CitizenScience project where researchers and local communities in #Bristol are co-creating research to collect and analyse microplastics in homes to see how to reduce them in the environment
https://t.co/tCn4aimdAg

[UWE Air Quality @aqmrcUWE]

Very grateful to @UKRI_News for creating this video of the @MicroscopeHomes co-creative, citizen science, airborne #microplastics research project, as part of their 101 Jobs that Change the World series: https://t.co/kLQz7GNAY4

[Homes Under the Microscope @MicroscopeHomes]

While our #citizenscientists are busy collecting airborne #microplastics in their homes we have been studying the samples from the pilot...

We place different coloured sheets under the sample dish to see if the colour affects how many fibres we can see with our #microscope.

[Homes Under the Microscope @MicroscopeHomes]

Thanks to all the #citizenscientists that have signed up to measure airborne #microplastics in their homes!

Kits like this 👇are starting to go out. Looking forward to seeing what they collect!

Recruiting participants living in #Bristol and #Bradford (https://t.co/szJ2GaBF7k)

[Born in Bradford @BiBresearch]

Our colleagues @MicroscopeHomes are looking for people in Bradford to take part in the study below
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Register your interest here: https://t.co/zP6RFyj1YX

[Unwaste.io @wastebase]

If you live in this part of the #UK seems like a pretty low-hassle way to contribute data