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MisheardNerd ☕️🖤
@misheardnerd.bsky.social
Environmental Scientist 📚🔬🌱

Studying Ecology (forest / wetland), Mycology, Agricultural Science, Climate Change, Soil Science, Water Science. I dabble.
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.
April 12, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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.
April 12, 2025 at 12:18 PM
feels like a good place for me to plug my love of sunflowers as a well-established phytoremediator; particularly heavy metals 🤘🌻
April 12, 2025 at 5:55 AM
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.
March 12, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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.
March 11, 2025 at 11:51 AM
made this one for a book that was never written. does that count?
February 20, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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.
February 9, 2025 at 12:37 PM
unsolicited challenge accepted
December 22, 2024 at 9:22 PM
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?
December 22, 2024 at 1:31 PM
feel like this is a good time to admit how critical I am about the order in which ingredients are added to macaroni elbows.
December 20, 2024 at 11:37 PM
haha, it’s the kind of dad joke that relies hard on delivery
December 11, 2024 at 2:33 AM
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.
December 11, 2024 at 12:16 AM
tots and pears are a popular remedy, i’ve heard. i think.
December 10, 2024 at 11:42 AM
this is fully what the barbie brush was for
December 6, 2024 at 2:05 AM
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! 🎸⚡️
December 5, 2024 at 1:31 PM
perpetual academic mood
December 5, 2024 at 1:17 PM
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! 🍄‍🟫
December 5, 2024 at 1:10 PM
who is your audience?
December 4, 2024 at 12:10 PM
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.
December 1, 2024 at 3:43 PM
my dreams have gotten, like, covid-times weird again. thanks for the fresh nightmare fuel.
November 29, 2024 at 11:27 PM
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.
November 29, 2024 at 11:13 PM