MisheardNerd ☕️🖤

for analysis, sure. but if someone was interested in pursuing a career in environmental science; it’s not any more chem than a biology major requires and when it’s baked into the context of something of interest (soil chemistry, for example); it’s not bad at all.

Not as a career, I’ve just read a few papers as a lab technician for environmental science. I’m just interested in all kinds of bioremediation (phyto-, myco-, microbial) as a whole.

feels like a good place for me to plug my love of sunflowers as a well-established phytoremediator; particularly heavy metals 🤘🌻

well, maybe in direct consumption? but the lecture was centered around studies re: pressures threatening native mussel populations in TN (specifically Clinch River) and sources of microplastics contributing to its microplastic abundance. but to the point of OP, they’re definitely all around us.

So, something interesting I learned at a lecture from the Dept. Chair of Environmental studies at UTK who kinda specializes in sources of microplastics, is that perhaps the largest contributor to municipal water sources is the rinse cycle of laundry machines. Dang synthetics👕 🧦, we need filters.

Brb playing telescope on repeat just to hear this part

#gumbrose

made this one for a book that was never written. does that count?

when what was joked about just a few days(? what is time anymore) ago in an ecology lab - asking ourselves how we’d even communicate literally ANY of our research?? fully cooked.

unsolicited challenge accepted

yule log? yeah, yule log off after reading the rest of my posts

that second exclamation point really has me feeling seen, thank you 😆 also, i just thought about it and realized that regardless of brand/generic; boxed mac & cheese macaroni elbows.. aren’t elbows? i mean, this is so they can slide onto fork tines, obvs, but is this a pasta shape reserved for m&c?

feel like this is a good time to admit how critical I am about the order in which ingredients are added to macaroni elbows.

haha, it’s the kind of dad joke that relies hard on delivery

fret not, ye of little faith, do not underestimate the power of 💭 tots and 🙏 pears, or do; i legitimately don’t know how they work anyway, but i hear about them A LOT.

tots and pears are a popular remedy, i’ve heard. i think.

this is fully what the barbie brush was for

volunteering at a youth rock and roll camp, the awesome little music nerds did amazing things with button makers, making zines, rocking out. rad idea! 🎸⚡️

perpetual academic mood

Two stages of writing:

1) This shouldn't take too long
2) Oh no

this nice pic just made me learn a new word! “if mushrooms are not close enough to be called a cluster, but are still clearly a group, they are called a troop”

Well wouldya lookit that nice troop of mushrooms! 🍄‍🟫

who is your audience?

thanks for sharing! I agree with the paper and commentary that it’s a lot of micro-aggressions that accumulate, and in my experience, when that kicks off by coming from another female colleague, that really sucks.

my dreams have gotten, like, covid-times weird again. thanks for the fresh nightmare fuel.

may he rotisserie in peace.
unlike the person who invented the gas station roller grill, out there thump-wobbling to and fro, like the hotdogs that wait. and roll. eternal.

couch potato just now made actual sense; nailed it.

a frilly, rubber-y yellow growth of fungi called witches butter on the narrow trunk of a tree in the woods.

it’s fun times flipping the wobbly floppies in the woods

1970s conversation pit with shag rug and orange floor cushions. Cozy vibe

it’s not an echo chamber, it’s a conversation pit

🌱🐿️

it’s difficult gardening in the squirrel-dominated territory of my backyard. but amidst all the carnage of stolen fruits of my labor, i see a single, solitary bite taken from a spicy boi 🌶️ and feel the encouragement of a battle won.