#as well as a decent amount of understanding of biology/microbiology

[skimblyspones]

Sometimes I forget how much shit McCoy canonically knows, at least to a degree of competence. Like ok sure he's not an Engineer or a bricklayer but he's damn well more than "a simple, country doctor"; he's got the sciences badge instead of the medical one for a reason

#like 23rd century be damned #mccoy wears so many medical hats #as well as a decent amount of understanding of biology/microbiology #and i mean. the guy whipped up a whoke cure in Miri with a team of 3 agitated ppl #himself #an old microscope #only spock to immediately bounce ideas off of #and very limited access to ship computers #he formulated a non-lethal fainting formula from ancient materials by hand #so thats chemistry #and back to the (micro)biology—he *was* a genuine option to end out in the immunity syndrome #and swinging back to miri—both pharmacology and virology with a hint of epidemiology #Oh! and he's delivered babies on multiple occasions. no word on if he's particularly trained in gynecology or obstetrics but. #frankly i wouldnt put it past him to be trained in obstetrics and midwifery #like yes a lot of his fields of knowledge are medical #but even in a far future it seems p wild that hes *this* widely competent aross fields like. #physicians are who ppl think of when they hear 'doctor' #and he is a physician #he's just. also. a surgeon. allegedly he is a space psychologist as well #and then see above for grounds to argue he knows pharmacology virology epidemiology and obstetrics/midwifery too #and knows biology and chemistry #no wonder he wanta tk study everything

[electronicneutrino]

but fanny...as a field biologist/professor of biology, esp at the undergrad/graduate level, teaches the field biology courses but also ecology, evolution, zoology, etc. depending on what she esp likes at the moment. has little to no interest in microbiology/genetics/etc, knows its important and she knows the basics though. just. can’t understand why anyone would dedicate their life to studying it yo ucan’t even see a cell

new students don’t even ask her former students about her they already know she yells a lot. it’s not even she’s super loud all the time, just her tone sounds like a yelling tone even when she’s quiet enough that the floors above/below can’t hear her. she’s pretty good at controlling the actual volume of her voice in dB, but it just. seems like she’s yelling all the time. so everyone says she yells all the time

no one ever falls asleep in her class. also she doesn’t like it when students fall asleep. so she makes sure to yell louder if anyone looks like they’re doozing off. the students who are already paying attention hates it. fanny’s aware they do. she uses that to further pressure students into not sleeping

it’s also known that she’s actually a pretty good lecturer and reeeaally knows her stuff. regardless of whether she remembers knd or not, she still retains the experience from leading teams and has gotten very good at giving very very clear instructions/explainations. despite making lesson plans the day before class, or not at all

her students are kinda scared of her, but it’s known if you get her actually angry she’s really quiet and looks about ready to punch someone so after the first week there’s less fear over the yelling. just less. like it’s actually not hard to tell when she’s in her normal mood or when she’s angry. she continuously emphasizes extra help is avaiable they must all pass the class gdi why else would they take her course

field biology is the one time fanny’s actually reeally quiet bc don’t want to scare the animals. it’s a bit of self control and also intense focus on completing the task, and even when students call her she’s actually quiet. it’s weird. afterwards she’s loud again but whatever about scaring away the animals at that time. 

still a risk taker and a bit reckless and impulsive, and still. still wears skirts. she’ll be out in the field, spots something up a tree she wants to make a remark about and will just start climbing up, wearing a skirt. she’s almost always a bit roughed up, proably has leaves in her mess of her hair half the time, her legs covered in scratches, she doesn’t care. 

also known for being loud during lectures and conferences. she’s just. well known. because not only does she  k e e p  publishing journals, they also have decent ideas at the least, especially for the amount she publishes. and often it’ll be having research supporting one thing bu t then a couple weeks later a journal going ‘i know i said that before but given this new information--’. also tons and tons of journals pretty much telling anyone, who write an journal arguing against her, ‘fight me i have facts and your facts suck’ but if they’re right she’ll accept it and maybe even cite it in a later journal of hers. 

loves it when people criticizes her work. like she’ll argue like ‘fight me’ but she’d much much rather be criticized than no one saying anything or even her work be praised. like she’ll take compliments, but they don’t mean as much unless said person has also been critical of her work. she absolutely hates it when people think she’s so renouned that they’re scared to say ‘you’re wrong’ to her

like in general she’s just known as outspoken and rather rude and abrasive but also a great biologist. probably won some prizes, although idk what bio prizes exists. keeps them as well as certificates and stuff in her room on the wall or shelves. like. even some of the public knows her. she’s probably written a popular science book or two but honestly. enjoys giving out public lectures a lot more

by the end of the course/some time, whether her students like her or not they respect her. they really really respect her.  

also random headcanon but while she’s not good at understanding abstract math or whatever, and it takes her some effort to get calc/whatever math she needs, and she rarely never study more math than she needs, fanny’s really good at mental math. like adding, subtracting, multiplying, dividing, even finding roots and logs. somehow she’s very fast at it. like you ask her what’s root 244 and within a couple of seconds she’s huh about 15.6 like how does she do that?? she just can. can’t do abstract math but no problem with root random number. 

#knd #knd talk #why am i going on about fanny as a biologist again? idk i think i'm thinking of making more fanny explaining bio doodles #then got carried away with headcanons #really i'm just waiting some time for the meletonine pills to work and to be tired enough to sleep #i think its fine if i use my computer on lowest brightness + flux to make the screen dimmer and pretty much orange? #idk. it doesn't do anything about the cursor though so the cursors still bright and. its funny #i really like coming up with knd in stem headcanons though okay i tried #the only things i really know about uni is tumblr posts/that one samplle lecture i attended/online uni courses/physicist daily lives #also partially based off high school bc...that's what i know. so whoops if i got anything relating to uni classes/professors wrong #i think i lowkey headcanon rachel as a computer programmer but that may just be me projecting my interest in comp sci on her #at the same time though...she's a spy. she does problem solving a lot. she works in quiet #like...that sounds kinda math/comp sci to me? at the same time she could also be a politician of sorts #bc well she's supreme leader later also she's probably really good with people and figuring out intentions and stuff #due to being a spy id imagine she's good at telling when someone lies; motives using word choice; etc etc #or idk she works in government intelligence but more with tech and stuff. idk. i do like the idea of rachel liking comp sci though #besides as supreme leader she has like 50 monitors and probably has cool spy tech from her days as a knd spy so #anyway yeah i really like biologist fanny okay?okay #personal //