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Mrs. Winstead 💙👩‍🔬
@aewinstead.bsky.social
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💙Mom, ally, rock flipper, lichen finder, ghost story connoisseur, cauldron carrier. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
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Hundred eighty eight
Soil dried and ground so tidy
Poster won contest
#soil #soilscience #gradschool #data
November 2, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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Hay ride pumpkin patch
Goodest Boy grand day outside
Golden sun fall breeze
November 2, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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Draft thesis due soon
Semester progresses fast
Lab vs writing
September 26, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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#ESA2025 was a success! and I got bust out my bow ties again. Bow ties are cool. 😎🤓😎
August 16, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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Semester all done
Resting on laurels not cool
Field season up next
#haiku #STEM #gradschool #soilscience
May 22, 2025 at 5:39 AM
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Practice presenting
Smile and breathe past sweaty hands
We will all improve
#STEM #womeninSTEM #soilscience #biogeochemistry @kstate.bsky.social
May 6, 2025 at 5:24 AM
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Happy to have a #posterpresentation under my belt. :) @meec2025.bsky.social was educational, fun, and worth the trip. #science #soilscience #STEM @kstate.bsky.social
May 1, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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A #haiku for a rainy day:

Cold rain on campus
My #backpack has a jacket
Clouds grey like sidewalks
March 4, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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#haiku for Thursday

#mammogram was bad
Ultrasound was bad, but hey!
#biopsy inbound
February 20, 2025 at 7:08 AM
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A #haiku for Sunday

Should unlock the #lab
Glassware in acid bath rest
Procrastination
February 9, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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#haiku for extractions:

Cups are downside up
Funnels hug filters and soil
Microbes spilled their guts
February 2, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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#haiku for Wednesday:
Surprise paper toad
Unknown #lab partner so kind
Brings delight to me
January 29, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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#haiku for a Tuesday…

RIP my #pen
Sacrificed for my #degree
Advanced #STEM worth it
January 28, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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A Sunday morning #haiku to honor potassium sulfate:
Chloroform is gone
Wash the samples and filter
#Microbes spilled their guts
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.
January 26, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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What’s under your hood today? 🥰 chloroform fumigation of incubated soil samples. Gonna measure that NPOC and total nitrogen LIKE A BOSS. #STEM #soilscience #microbialbiomass
January 25, 2025 at 6:54 PM