Jordon Wade
@jordonwade.bsky.social
Soil Health Assessment Lead @ Syngenta Group | Mostly soils and agronomy but probably some other odds n end too | X: jordon_wade
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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.
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.
October 28, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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.
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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The dark truth behind FormatMyPaper.com
Beware giving this site your unpublished data
Users noticed the website had fake testimonials and a domain name registered seemingly overnight.
https://ubadah.substack.com/p/beware-giving-this-site-your-unpublished\
October 24, 2025 at 12:11 AM
The dark truth behind FormatMyPaper.com
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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.
October 22, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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.
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.
October 22, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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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We've somehow settled into an equilibrium wherein *all* the social media sites suck & are unbearable.
October 21, 2025 at 4:03 PM
We've somehow settled into an equilibrium wherein *all* the social media sites suck & are unbearable.
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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/...
October 6, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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/...
WE ARE THE ALGORITHM
If something is bad, don’t make it sound even worse
If something is good, don’t make it sound like the One Weird Trick that can fix everything
If something sounds like it could be right, but you know it’s wrong, don’t write or reshare it
Double check stuff before amplifying
We are the algorithm
If something is good, don’t make it sound like the One Weird Trick that can fix everything
If something sounds like it could be right, but you know it’s wrong, don’t write or reshare it
Double check stuff before amplifying
We are the algorithm
September 29, 2025 at 2:22 AM
WE ARE THE ALGORITHM
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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...
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...
September 10, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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...
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...
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📣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
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
LinkedIn
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lnkd.in
August 18, 2025 at 8:44 AM
📣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
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
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.
Land sparing >>> land sharing.
Thoughts on 1st scan:
- Authors say ecosystem restoration can provide some mitigation, but not huge (couple billion tons CO2e/year). IOW necessary but not sufficient.
- They said 2.8 Bha “available for restoration.” Good they excluded cropland, but not sure they excluded pasture - does anyone know?
- Authors say ecosystem restoration can provide some mitigation, but not huge (couple billion tons CO2e/year). IOW necessary but not sufficient.
- They said 2.8 Bha “available for restoration.” Good they excluded cropland, but not sure they excluded pasture - does anyone know?
We should come to terms with the fact that forest, shrubland, grassland, and wetland ecosystems cannot offset fossil fuel CO₂ emissions.
But we should still protect and restore them for biodiversity and other ecosystem benefits.
But we should still protect and restore them for biodiversity and other ecosystem benefits.
August 2, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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.
Land sparing >>> land sharing.
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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.
August 1, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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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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".
We could give it a nifty name, like "abstract".
Well I'm sure this won't negatively impact the idea of scholarship as a shared collective endeavour to better understand the world.
November 4, 2024 at 3:51 PM
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".
We could give it a nifty name, like "abstract".
“Hmm, it looks like you measured soil health without any actual agronomic or ecological outcomes again. Do you want to try?”
"Hmm. It looks like you forgot to count the land use again. Do you want to try?"
August 1, 2025 at 2:55 PM
“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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"Hmm. It looks like you forgot to count the land use again. Do you want to try?"
July 31, 2025 at 5:21 PM
"Hmm. It looks like you forgot to count the land use again. Do you want to try?"
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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.
It’s not about competing with China in AI. Not while gutting the US research ecosystem.
July 21, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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.
It’s not about competing with China in AI. Not while gutting the US research ecosystem.
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One like, one clam fact
One like, one opinion about how to solve climate change.
1 like, 1 housing opinion
July 22, 2025 at 3:18 AM
One like, one clam fact
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Drought is climate change’s biggest threat, since it impacts both food and water.
July 21, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Drought is climate change’s biggest threat, since it impacts both food and water.
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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...
July 21, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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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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/...
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...
enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
July 16, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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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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
July 1, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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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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.
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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June 25, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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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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
June 25, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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
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And even more importantly (because we have to eat), soil surveys.
There Might Not Be a Map for That: Budget Cuts Threaten Geological Surveys www.nytimes.com/2025/06/20/c...
There Might Not Be a Map for That: Budget Cuts Threaten Geological Surveys
www.nytimes.com
June 20, 2025 at 11:36 PM
And even more importantly (because we have to eat), soil surveys.