#Plymouth university

[materialsscienceandengineering]

Mechanical devices are increasingly being considered as a potential way to help address plastic pollution found globally in marine environments.

However, a new study suggests that while they do remove plastics and other items of marine litter, the quantities of litter removed can be comparatively low and they can also trap marine organisms.

The study was led by researchers from the International Marine Litter Research Unit at the University of Plymouth, who have been studying the issue of marine microplastics for more than two decades.

Their research was conducted in Plymouth (UK), and provides the first formal independent evaluation of the performance of a Seabin device.

The devices are designed to continuously suck water inwards using a submersible pump which is then filtered, and the cleaned water is returned to the surrounding area leaving the litter in the catch bag.

Hundreds have been installed globally and are reported to have captured over 2.5million kg of litter from calm sheltered environments such as marinas, ports, and yacht clubs.

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#Materials Science #Science #Environment #Waste #Plastics #Polymers #University of Plymouth

[emaadsidiki]

Happy Fat Tuesday!

#And someday we'll look back and say it was fun #universal orlando #rainy #plymouth cab #mardi gras #universal orlando resort #orlando #florida

[learningnewstuff]

FAB CITY PLYMOUTH

Did you know that Plymouth is a Fab City?

But what is a Fab City? The Fab City Global Initiative is a network of 52 cities committed to producing nearly everything they consume by 2054. Originally growing out of the Fab Lab rapid prototyping movement, Fab City covers everything from food to farming, from manufacturing to making, from creativity to culture. It asks, how can we make the best use of the resources on our doorstep and fully realise the social, economic and environmental benefits of a more circular economy.

@fabcityglobal

#fabcity #fabcityplymouth #circular economy #circulareconomy #arts university plymouth

[newsfromtherooftop]

Arts University Plymouth shortlisted for University of the Year 

Arts University Plymouth has been shortlisted for University of the Year and in three other categories of the Whatuni Student Choice Awards (WUSCAs) 2024. The nominees and winners are based on reviews submitted by students from across the UK, and winners are judged by a panel made up of prospective and current university students. One recent student review of Arts University Plymouth from a BA…

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#Awards #Students #University of Plymouth

[janescreativeyears]

Lundy Art Trail

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#Arts University Plymouth #AUP

[neil-gaiman]

I'm sorry Neil, although I love your writing and agree with your opinions on most subjects I have to disagree with you on the writers' strike. No-one should have a more privileged life as a result of being clever and creative. I worked from the age of 15 to the age of 65 in low-paid jobs, taking 1 year off to go to drama school and 3 years off to get a fine art degree. I worked in terrible but necessary jobs, labouring, stacking boxes, unloading trucks, running errands, filing, going to work on a bicycle at all hours of the day and night on shift work in all kinds of weather. Even when I was a student I was still working in part-time cleani8ng jobs and even during periods of unemployment I worked in volunteer jobs for charities and social services.

According to Mensa I have an IQ of 160 and according to Plymouth University I have a BA hons in Fine Art but I cannot accept the idea that writers and other creative people should avoid normal jobs like driving an "Uber" or working in an office/shop/factory/construction site. To accept that idea would be to create a new aristocratic class when we should abolishing the old princes and aristocrats.

What we need, I feel sure, is a redistribution of labour so that everybody who can do so would spend some time each year in blue collar work and everybody who can would get higher education and a chance to make art of one sort or another.

The idea of doing other jobs to supplement writing or drawing shouldn't be seen as a terrible thing, a punishment or a suffering. Sharing the jobs around should be seen as normal.

I mean, I've done my half century of sweat labour and it didn't hurt me too much. I'm retired now and still making art of various kinds and I've never asked anyone to pay me for any art piece I've made. making art, writing, drawing etc. is the fun stuff which we get to do in exchange for the blue collar stuff which puts food on the table.

The worst pop song ever written was Sting/Dire Straits song "Money for Nothing" which ridicules the working class from a position of educational privilege.

So what's my question? My question is: What's wrong with a writer doing other jobs to make ends meet? Sounds perfectly fine to me.

Nothing's wrong with a writer doing other jobs to make ends meet. Writers and artists have been doing that since the dawn of time. Actors too.

But by the same token, there's nothing right about assuming that writing isn't a blue-collar job, or that writers and other people who make art can only make it for love and that thus they need other jobs to subsidise their craft.

I like living in a world in which the people who make the things that make the world worth living in get paid for their work. For me, that includes the people who make films and TV, books, art and music and comics.

Having spent a lot of time on film and TV sets, it's a blue-collar world on set, and everyone is working long and hard to make the shows you love. I'm never going to suggest that the riggers or the gaffers or the make-up team or the focus-pullers should drive ubers in order to have the privilege of being on the set and working there.

Or to put it another way, from the most blue-collar writer I ever knew...

#wga strike #wga strong

[planetplymouth]

Help! Planet Plymouth News...

Help! Planet Plymouth news Journalism and Design students in Plymouth, Devon and Cornwall

Planet Plymouth is a “from scratch” internet news start up for the Plymouth, Devon and Cornwall postcodes PL and TQ Right now I’m in start up mode and am looking for local journalism students and locals with something to say to help me get this non-profit off the ground. We will all own it and set up a committee to get everything perfect. Planet Plymouth is looking for… Marjon University…

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#Journalism #journalists #marjon #News #Plymouth #University of Plymouth

[kanishkasaini]

The University of Plymouth offers a wide range of courses for Indian students, catering to their diverse interests and career goals. From undergraduate degrees to postgraduate programs, the university has an extensive selection of courses available.

#university of plymouth

[newsandmediarepublic]

Judith Noble appointed as Professor of Film and the Occult

Arts University Plymouth has appointed Head of Academic Research Judith Noble as Professor of Film and the Occult, recognising her significant contribution to academic scholarship, teaching and research, particularly her outstanding and sustained international contribution to the scholarship of surrealism, film and the occult. (more…)

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#Arts University Plymouth

[reportwire]

Scientists call for global push to eliminate space junk

Newswise — Scientists have called for a legally-binding treaty to ensure Earth’s orbit isn’t irreparably harmed by the future expansion of the global space industry. In the week that nearly 200 countries agreed to a treaty to protect the High Seas after a 20-year process, the experts believe society needs to take the lessons learned from one part of our planet to another.  The number of…

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#All Journal News #Newswise #Pollution #Pollution Control;Space Sciences;Artificial Satellites #Space and Astronomy #University of Plymouth

[gristle-von-raben]

#spring #new hampshire #Plymouth State University

[anky123]

This post will show you the Top 4 Universities that you can join without IELTS in the UK. This post has the details to get into universities such as the University of Plymouth, the University of Portsmouth, and many more. To know more, read it and contact our UK study visa consultants in Chandigarh today.

#study visa in uk #study in uk #study abroad #University of Portsmouth #uk universities #university of plymouth

[learningnewstuff]

PLYMOUTH COLLEGE OF ART ACHIEVES UNIVERSITY STATUS, NEW TITLE IS ARTS UNIVERSITY PLYMOUTH

#Arts University Plymouth #The World Needs Creatives Now More Than Ever

[runwaycolombo]

University of Plymouth invests heavily in offering its Health degrees in Sri Lanka

The University of Plymouth, one of the most highly recognised universities in England has been a collaboration with the National School of Business Management – NSBM for over ten years, offering degrees in Business, Computing, Engineering and Science. For the first time, the University of Plymouth is facilitating foreign students to take their degrees in health-related fields abroad. This…

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#University of Plymouth

[theinconvenientlifestyle]

At a time when students and activists around the world are demanding a boycott of Israeli products, services and institutions, the universities below have taken the cash – some of them twice:

Aston University – Weizzman Institute of Science and Bar-Ilan University

Edge Hill University – Tel Aviv University

Queen Mary University of London – The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Tel Aviv University

Royal Veterinary College – Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Teesside University – Tel Aviv University

UCL – Tel Aviv University

University of Exeter – Tel Aviv University

University of Greenwich – Hebrew University of Jerusalem 

University of Kent – Technion 

University of Leeds – Tel Hai College

University of Plymouth – Technion 

University of Surrey – Bar-Ilan University

The Boycott Divestment and Sanctions movement has described Israeli universities as working closely with the Israeli state to develop weapons and systems that can be used to oppress and kill Palestinians:

Israeli universities are major, willing and persistent accomplices in Israel’s regime of occupation, settler-colonialism and apartheid. They are involved in developing weapon systems and military doctrines deployed in Israel’s recent war crimes in Lebanon and Gaza, justifying the ongoing colonization of Palestinian land, rationalizing gradual ethnic cleansing of indigenous Palestinians, providing moral justification for extra-judicial killings, systematically discriminating against “non-Jewish” students, and other implicit and explicit violations of human rights and international law. To end this complicity in Israel’s violations of international law, Palestinian civil society has called for an academic boycott of complicit Israeli academic institutions. Refusing to normalize oppression, many academic associations, student governments and unions as well as thousands of international academics now support the academic boycott of Israel.

#uk politics #ukpol #israel #palestine