Jackie Bussjaeger

Writer/editor from Minnesota. 100 percent nerd. 🖖 She/her

[Jackie Bussjaeger @JackieBus]

@sydboll EVST ought to just advertise on trees imho

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Me: if big cats became sentient maybe we wouldn’t even know from looking at their culture because they’re solitary

My brother: yeah, we’d only know from the emails they send us saying their food bowls are empty

[Frank Izaguirre @BirdIzLife]

Seriously considering adopting this as my email sign off:

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@RebeccaRennerFL What do you recommend for someone who wants to get there someday?

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@gregseitz I’ve already gotten 3 off me; I was surprised I got off so light last year

[Jackie Bussjaeger @JackieBus]

I finally got bored enough to watch ST: Discovery season 3 and...I like it now? I always wanted to like DISCO but watching seasons 1-2 were like pulling teeth. I’m pleasantly surprised?

[Natalie Wallington @narwhallington]

a cryptocurrency that you can only earn by picking up all the trash off a beach

[Jackie Bussjaeger @JackieBus]

@DigiNaturalist Bare minimum bird accuracy is literally all it takes to convince me to buy something

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@hankgreen Wait I think it’s trying to communicate

[Natalie Wallington @narwhallington]

my brain will really look at the state of the economy, the pandemic, the country, the journalism industry, my own life, capitalism, and society as a whole and still be like “the reason i’m unemployed must be that i’m not working hard enough”

[Jackie Bussjaeger @JackieBus]

@sydboll Right now it’s just a damp spot in the woods but yeah!

[Jackie Bussjaeger @JackieBus]

Me: I want to build a cool little writing workshop

My dad: Oh yeah, like a She Shed?

Me: yeah, except I want it to be called something more sophisticated, like...my Hidey-Hole

[Hank Green @hankgreen]

SciComm tip: People with expertise in the subject you are discussing with the general public will sometimes rag on you for not saying something exactly how they’d say it.

That is usually not feedback you need to internalize. They don’t know how to do your job.

[Jackie Bussjaeger @JackieBus]

Me: I feel weird. Like I’m not really here; my atoms are just floating around in a mystical ocean.

My brother: Yeah I’m hungry too

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@AncientLitDude The Princess Bride was in my curriculum; which was just all around a fun time

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@maggietiede trying to harness this energy now

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@N8Swick I once mistook a duck for a squirrel; being that I’d never seen a duck in that particular place before but I had seen lots of squirrels there

[Jackie Bussjaeger @JackieBus]

@gregseitz Oh my goodness these are adorable! We have a resident fisher in our Wisconsin woods, I see tracks everywhere, but I’ve never managed to spot it

[Anna Klassen @AnnaJKlassen]

Harsh writing advice:

You don’t need any more advice, you just need to finish that script

[Jackie Bussjaeger @JackieBus]

@mathematichole_ Endangered Species Act. I was taking an environmental law course when I first saw that ep and I was like...what?!