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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

i really can’t bring myself to care about AI anthropomorphism debates. “is AI thinking?” i don’t know. is a calculator calculating? questions for the philosophers. what’s important is that we put sam altman in prison.

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Our World in Data @ourworldindata.org · 14/09/2026

📝 New article on Our World in Data: Is organic farming better for the environment than conventional farming? One of the most common questions we’re asked about food systems is whether organic farming is better for the environment than conventional methods.

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Michael Grunwald @mikegrunwald.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Come on, I'm the Lorax! Since I was a child I've been nature's voice for the green & the wild. Now I am begging you, please understand You must make more food, but with much, much less land. Sure, treasure your soil & nurture your fields. But you'll keep killing trees if you don't boost your yields.

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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

That’s what happens when you get rid of the department of defense

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Leah Stokes @leahstokes.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Spent yesterday in 48°C (118°F) temperatures, with the humidex. It was brutal. Little kids in particular have a hard time with the heat because they can't cool down as easily. Climate change sucks. Maybe we should stop burning fossil fuels... soon?

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Jordon Wade @jordonwade.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

I’m traveling so I had to wake up at 2am to catch this game and wow did the USMNT deliver. Now the trick is to get back to sleep…

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Jordon Wade @jordonwade.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

True story, I had to switch my PHEV car to combustion ⛽️ after two months on just charging ⚡️ Fill issue.

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Jordon Wade @jordonwade.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

There so many great songs in here

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Noah Fierer @noahfierer.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

The recent NY Times article on Oath (a soil inoculant company) warrants a mini-thread, so here we go: www.nytimes.com/2026/05/01/b... (1/9)

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After Prison, a Financial Titan Plots an Unlikely Comeback

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Jordon Wade @jordonwade.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

One of the most frustrating things I find in the soil health world is the assumption that a management is good/bad rather than evaluating it within a given system/context. Finally some nuance - a great reminder!

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thinkingbayonet.bsky.social @thinkingbayonet.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

every car should have air conditioned seats

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Andrew Gelman et al. @statmodeling.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

“I have seen the future of science. It is ruled by bitter competition instead of collaboration, pageantry instead of exploration. . . .Those willing to toil over genuine questions will necessarily lose out to those that can furnish cheap answers. . . .” statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/04/20/94/

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“I have seen the future of science. It is ruled by bitter competition instead of collaboration, pageantry instead of exploration. Bright minds beginning careers in science will be taught to debase th...

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Jordon Wade @jordonwade.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

I’ve already seen enough vibecoded websites to last me a lifetime. It’s like the last stop on the enshittification train. youtube.com/shorts/CkXvh...

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Do you have an unbearable ‘vibecoding’ friend?

YouTube video by Prof G Markets

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Jordon Wade @jordonwade.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

The best version of Bob Dylan songs are the ones performed by others, without exception.

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Jordon Wade @jordonwade.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

One reason soil erosion is so tough is that it occurs over long timescales. In these long term plots in Wooster, OH, you can see that reduced tillage and adding grasses in the rotation has prevented ~4” of topsoil loss in the past decades. This always reminds me of the Wendell Berry quote…

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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Saw a thoughtful thread about AI, don't want to QT or argue. But. The biggest rage factor with LLMs is the people who, because genAI is transformative for coding, think it's transformative for everything else, because they devalue every other form of work and labor and knowledge.

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Will Lowe @conjugateprior.org · 09/02/2026

Perhaps you received a mysterious noreply email asking you to evaluate some publications 'for novelty'. Looked kinda dubious? Yup, that's the one. So what's up with this 'metascience novelty indicators challenge'? 🧵

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McDaniel Lab @soil-plant.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

#AshaniThilakarathne 's latest publication showing long-term, diversified #croprotations improve #soilhealth and help soybeans better withstand extreme #drought, reducing water stress and yield losses, compared to conventional systems. 🌱🫘💦 🔗https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agee.2025.110180

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Jordon Wade @jordonwade.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

Never thought a science journal could have a clever, relevant, and on-topic holiday message, but here we are! 🤓

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Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

It’s good to see papers start to address LLMs as structural plagiarism — provenance, more hidden than the original words or training data. www.nature.com/articles/s42...

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LLM use in scholarly writing poses a provenance problem

Nature Machine Intelligence - LLM use in scholarly writing poses a provenance problem

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Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

Agricultural soil carbon sequestration gets a lot of attention but let’s not forget that the best way to keep carbon in soils is to stop further expansion of agriculture into natural ecosystems. #WorldSoilDay

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Michael Grunwald @mikegrunwald.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Regenerative agriculture is mostly overhyped as a climate solution. But in Brazil, I saw some regenerative grazing practices produce higher beef yields, which meant more money for the rancher and less eating of the earth.

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Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Development vs climate action is a false choice. In the agriculture sector, there are many actions that reduce climate pollution AND help farmers adapt to a changing climate. An underappreciated one is helping smallholders sustainably boost productivity, reducing ag land expansion & deforestation.

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Jordon Wade @jordonwade.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Whatever your research question, I can assure you it is *NOT* answered by a combination of linear mixed models, random forest, and structural equation models.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 21/10/2025

We've somehow settled into an equilibrium wherein *all* the social media sites suck & are unbearable.

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences @pnas.org · 06/10/2025

PNAS highlights Johannes Lehmann’s pioneering soil science—from revealing the secrets of Amazonian dark earths to advancing biochar for fertility and climate solutions. His work is reshaping sustainable agriculture. Read the PNAS Profile: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Check out our team’s new paper about reducing nitrogen losses in US row-crop agriculture, by @mikebadzmierowski.bsky.social. Nitrogen is essential for crop production, but its overuse reduces air and water quality and emits potent GHGs. This paper examines solutions. www.wri.org/research/red...

Reducing Nitrogen Losses in US Row-Crop Agriculture: Challenges, Solutions, and Policy Pathways

Mike Badzmierowski

Executive Summary
Highlights
• Nitrogen is essential for crop production, but its excessive use leads to significant air- and water-borne environmental losses. Nitrous oxide, a greenhouse gas (GHG) 273 times more potent than carbon dioxide and the current leading contributor to ozone depletion, is released particularly from over-applied nitrogen. The costs of agricultural nitrogen pollution in the United States likely surpass US$200 billion, primarily due to its impact on air and water quality.
• The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) suggests that half of US agricultural GHG emissions are nitrous oxide (EPA 2024). New measurements suggest EPA models underestimate emissions, particularly as rising temperatures may increase emission rates.
• Uniform application rates are inefficient due to variability within fields.
Reduced nitrogen rate applications through precision nitrogen manage-ment, leveraging on-farm trials, and improved irrigation are effective strategies for reducing nitrogen losses and fertilizer waste, thereby enhancing farmer profitability. Nitrification inhibitors are likely to be site- and time-dependent regarding their nitrogen loss potential.
• Implementing a "National Nitrogen Initiative" could help improve fertilizer use and boost farmer profitability. With just 24 percent of cropland contributing 63 percent of the nation's nitrogen surplus (Roy et al. 2021), the focus should start in "hotspot regions."

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Soil Biology Group - Wageningen UR @sbl-wur.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

📣We are hiring a PhD candidate to work on modeling soil processes in regenerative agriculture 🌱 If you have experience in process-based modeling and a background in agriculture, we invite you to apply. Deadline, September 30, 2025. More info here: lnkd.in/eGFJktsN

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This link will take you to a page that’s not on LinkedIn

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Jordon Wade @jordonwade.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

The data is just SO clear: the best things we can do for balancing ecosystem integrity and maintaining agricultural production is to avoid future land use change and intensify on current land. Land sparing >>> land sharing.

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Jenny Splitter @jennysplitter.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

In food journalism, the mere mention of not eating meat is some highly suspect bias whereby we might secretly be animal rights activists meanwhile no one questions the widespread preference for small + local ag. It’s been that way since I’ve been a journalist.

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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 04/11/2024

If only scholarly publications came with a short synopsis of the paper right up front, written by the authors to highlight the important and salient points of the study. We could give it a nifty name, like "abstract".

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Jordon Wade @jordonwade.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

“Hmm, it looks like you measured soil health without any actual agronomic or ecological outcomes again. Do you want to try?”

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Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

"Hmm. It looks like you forgot to count the land use again. Do you want to try?"

Clippy (1997-2007), Microsoft's "personal assistant." A paperclip with eyes and moving eyebrows on a yellow sheet of paper JUST TRYING TO HELP YOU

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 21/07/2025

1. From the FDA to the NSF’s new priorities to Chan-Zuckerberg’s recent pivot, there’s a massive push — particularly on they political right — to hand off as much of the scientific process as possible to AI. It’s not about competing with China in AI. Not while gutting the US research ecosystem.

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Dan Killam @dantheclamman.blog · 22/07/2025

One like, one clam fact

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Dr. Jeff Masters @drjeffmasters.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Drought is climate change’s biggest threat, since it impacts both food and water.

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Tuomas Mattila @tuomasjmattila.eurosky.social · 21/07/2025

Do #CoverCrops increase #soil C sequestration consistently across different models? A thread on our new article in European Journal of Agronomy. #agriculture 🧪🌍 1/11 doi.org/10.1016/j.ej...

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Andrew Kniss @wyoweeds.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Our findings provide evidence that herbicide usage does not directly impact soil health and function in sugar beet production, especially compared to the primary weed control alternative, which is tillage + handweeding. enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Herbicides Have Minimal and Variable Effects on the Structure and Function of Bacterial Communities in Agricultural Soils

In vitro analysis of glyphosate impacts does not reflect dynamics in the agroecosystem. This study indicates the importance of a diverse, cooperative microbiome in field soils that could improve resi...

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Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Some people think that if we just farm differently, we can suck lots of carbon back into soils - but it's the original conversion from natural ecosystems to agriculture that leads to the large carbon loss - @mikegrunwald.bsky.social

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Civil Eats @civileats.com · 25/06/2025

This collegiate competition teaches the next generation of soil scientists how to manage the soils used to grow our food and support our agricultural infrastructure.

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A National Soil-Judging Contest Prepares College Students to Steward the Land

The winners return to campus with a 3-foot trophy, but the work from these competing college students will help farmers in the years to come.

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MSU Plant Resilience Institute @msupri.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Congratulations to @sprunger.bsky.social on being selected by the World Food Prize Foundation as a 2025 Top Agri-food Pioneer for her work in regenerative agriculture and soil health that has transformed sustainable farming systems worldwide! Learn more about #FoodPrize25 at: bit.ly/46dbskz

A graphic featuring photos of the 39 Top Agri-food Pioneers titled "2025 Changemakers." The text below reads: "TOP Agri-food Pioneers, You've been TAPped, www.worldfoodprize.org/tap"

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Soil Scientist 🇺🇦 @dylanbeaudette.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

And even more importantly (because we have to eat), soil surveys.

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Jordon Wade @jordonwade.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

This is a really elegant demonstration of why we can’t simply copy/paste older approaches of using enzyme methods to infer nutrient limitation. The “convergence” at 1:1:1 C:N:P is an artifact of the log transformation that people often apply, not some ecological golden ratio. 1/2

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Shelby C. McClelland @scmcclelland.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

🚨New paper alert🚨 We show that maintaining crop yields lowers the global climate benefits of natural climate solutions on croplands. But, we highlight where win-win opportunities exist for these practices to contribute to climate and production goals. 1/N www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Managing for climate and production goals on crop-lands - Nature Climate Change

Climate mitigation through natural climate solutions in crop-lands may be a way to reconcile climate goals with food security. However, here the authors show that some natural climate solution practic...

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