Mrs. Winstead 💙👩‍🔬

Hundred eighty eight
Soil dried and ground so tidy
Poster won contest
#soil #soilscience #gradschool #data

Hay ride pumpkin patch
Goodest Boy grand day outside
Golden sun fall breeze

Draft thesis due soon
Semester progresses fast
Lab vs writing

The Invention of “Sesame Street” Renata Adler’s 1972 review of the program that revolutionized children’s television.

“Small children from poor or middle-class families who watch ‘Sesame Street’ do better on cognitive tests and in first grade than children who do not watch it,” Renata Adler wrote, in 1972.

#ESA2025 was a success! and I got bust out my bow ties again. Bow ties are cool. 😎🤓😎

Semester all done
Resting on laurels not cool
Field season up next
#haiku #STEM #gradschool #soilscience

Practice presenting
Smile and breathe past sweaty hands
We will all improve
#STEM #womeninSTEM #soilscience #biogeochemistry @kstate.bsky.social

Happy to have a #posterpresentation under my belt. :) @meec2025.bsky.social was educational, fun, and worth the trip. #science #soilscience #STEM @kstate.bsky.social

From interview of Lee Bollinger, 1st Amendment scholar who served as dean of @UMichLaw, president of @UMich, and president of Columbia University.
www.chronicle.com/article/were...

A #haiku for a rainy day:

Cold rain on campus
My #backpack has a jacket
Clouds grey like sidewalks

#haiku for Thursday

#mammogram was bad
Ultrasound was bad, but hey!
#biopsy inbound

Musk is pouring $1.5 million into Wisconsin’s upcoming Supreme Court race.

Two isomers of hexane are shown - 2,2-dimethyl butane and 2,3-dimethyl butane. They are labelled as constitutional isomers. Cartoon showing 2 x arsole molecules. The first looks like elon and is doing a nazi salute. It has a methyl group at the 3-position. The second arsole has a red tie, is gesticulating, is orange with a big combover. Face set with a scowel. It has a methl group at the 2-position. They are labelled as unconstitutional arsomers.

My daughter messaged me after her chem class the other day and asked if i could do a cartoon about Trump and Musk as isomers. Dear followers, inspired by Amelia i present to you, unconstitutional arsomers.

*insert applause here*

#chemsky

A #haiku for Sunday

Should unlock the #lab
Glassware in acid bath rest
Procrastination

Well the award for most cowardly, boot-lickingest academic society has squarely gone to the American Society of Microbiology, who has taken down features of various non-white scientists. Absolutely pathetic behavior. Those articles are now coming up as “under review”. Truly sickening cowardice here.

#haiku for extractions:

Cups are downside up
Funnels hug filters and soil
Microbes spilled their guts

Yes, this administration is dangerous and cruel, but they are also shockingly dim and incompetent.

Opportunities are everywhere.

Make everything as hard as possible. Resist every demand. Refuse entry without a warrant. Don’t take the buyout. Their problem solving skills are 📉

“Senator, if I may, I can address this one,” — the brain worm as it wriggles out of RFK’s ear

If you're an educator now would be a good time to suddenly be incapable of remembering if your students previously used another name or pronouns. What are you talking about, that kid's always been Wren? I don't recall them ever going by a different name, but I mean, I'm just not great at names.

RFK Jr. signals he’ll give the anti-abortion movement exactly what they want The abortion pill has been FDA-approved for 25 years. Trump's HHS pick would reevaluate its safety.

Under questioning from senators, Kennedy said that he would instruct the NIH and FDA to study the safety of mifepristone—a medication that has been FDA-approved to end pregnancies for 25 years, with vast amounts of research supporting its safety and effectiveness.

#haiku for Wednesday:
Surprise paper toad
Unknown #lab partner so kind
Brings delight to me

#haiku for a Tuesday…

RIP my #pen
Sacrificed for my #degree
Advanced #STEM worth it

There is, in fact, a #war in Ba Sing Se.

Nine 250mL Erlenmeyer flasks in a glass vacuum canister. Below the white ceramic tray rests a bowl with boiling chips and chloroform. The flasks contain soil samples from Konza Prairie LTER.

After fumigation, soil samples are washed in 0.05M K2SO4 and shaken for 1 hour. Here, the samples are shown being filtered to separate soil from liquid. The liquid contained K2SO4, organic carbon, nitrogen, and misc salt-soluble compounds from the soil and soil microbes.

A Sunday morning #haiku to honor potassium sulfate:
Chloroform is gone
Wash the samples and filter
#Microbes spilled their guts

Kansas tuberculosis outbreak is now America's largest in recorded history Kansas public health officials say the state's ongoing tuberculosis outbreak is the largest since the CDC started reporting TB cases in the 1950s.

Trump has gagged the CDC, but not me. So I'm sharing this. www.cjonline.com/story/news/p...

Insanity: The deportation flights Trump used military jets for—that Mexico refused to accept—cost the U.S. up to $852,000 per flight to attempt to deport just 80 migrants at a time.

To compare, flights directly chartered by Immigration and Customs Enforcement cost just $8,577.

This same Christian Nationalist symbol is tattooed on the guy they just confirmed. Hegseth has raged against Muslims while drunk in public. He’s told racist jokes about Mexicans according to his sister-in-law. We know what he’s about and why he has that tattoo. So disgraceful.

Woody plant encroachment in grasslands is occurring globally and impacting watershed biogeochemistry and hydrology in ways that are not well understood. Our new Chemical Geology article examines impacts in 2 watersheds at Konza Prairie: kwnsfk27.r.eu-west-1.awstrack.me/L0/https:%2F...

Arsenic Mobilization from Thawing Permafrost Thawing permafrost releases labile organic carbon and alters groundwater geochemistry and hydrology with uncertain outcomes for the mobility of hazardous metal(loid)s. Managing water quality in thawing permafrost regions is predicated on a detailed understanding of the speciation and abundance of metal(loid)s in permafrost soils and porewaters produced during thaw, which remains limited at present. This study contributes new knowledge on the sources and fate of arsenic during the thaw of organic-rich permafrost using samples collected from a subarctic permafrost region associated with geogenic arsenic (Dawson Range, Yukon, Canada). Several permafrost cores and active-layer samples from this region were analyzed for their solid-phase and aqueous geochemical characteristics and their arsenic speciation. Porewaters were extracted from permafrost cores after thaw under anaerobic conditions for aqueous geochemical analyses. Bedrock samples from the field site were also analyzed for arsenic speciation and mineralogy. X-ray diffraction and X-ray near-edge spectroscopy (XANES) analyses of weathered bedrock upgradient of soil sampling locations contained arsenic(V) hosted in iron-(oxyhydr)oxides and scorodite. XANES and micro X-ray fluorescence analyses of permafrost soils indicated a mixture of arsenic(III) and arsenic(V), indicating redox recycling of arsenic. Soil-bound arsenic was colocated with iron, likely as arseniferous iron-(oxyhydr)oxides that have been encapsulated by aggrading permafrost over geologic time. However, permafrost thaw produced porewater containing elevated dissolved arsenic (median 40 μg L–1, range 2–96 μg L–1). Thawed permafrost porewater also contained elevated dissolved iron (median 5.5 mg L–1, range 0.5–40 mg L–1) and dissolved organic carbon (median 423 mg L–1, range 72–3240 mg L–1), indicative of reducing conditions. This study highlights that arsenic can be found in reactive forms in permafrost soil, and that its thaw can release arsenic and iron to porewater and produce poor water quality.

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