Jaimie West

Get it together New York Times Spelling Bee

We did the thing! @ZebaNayela and I (Successfully!) defended our PhD dissertations last week. With much gratitude for @TheaWhitman and our lab mates.

The UW-Madison Department of Soil Science is recruiting for a non-tenure track teaching faculty position: jobs.hr.wisc.edu/en-us/job/5160…

@igisci @Jeffinerca was this recorded?

@yichaorui @PurdueAg @PurdueAgronomy Congrats Yichao! I hope your lab isn't still that clean and empty.

Finishing my 1st full week as a new faculty at Purdue and still feeling thrilled. Start to build a new program from scratch and wonder how it will look like in 5 years. Plant a seed and watch it grow. @PurdueAg @PurdueAgronomy

I'm excited about the first paper of my PhD--What happens to soil bacterial communities when soil is mixed? Diversity decreases at a small scale, but high diversity is maintained across disconnected microsites. @TheaWhitman academic.oup.com/femsec/article…

I've always loved thinking about just why soils are so diverse, microbially-speaking. @jaimiewest's new preprint experimentally demonstrates that a lack of mixing is key to maintaining bacterial diversity in soils.

It's out! Persistent soil C enhanced in Mollisols by well-managed grasslands but not annual grain or dairy forage cropping systems pnas.org/content/119/7/… thanks to my co-authors @JacksonRD @francescacotruf @gregg_sanford @BrianSpiesman Leo Deiss @CulmanLab Chao Liang @RuarkLab

Spread the word & RT! We are hosting a virtual career panel Feb 8 with an amazing group of federal, non-profit, & academic female soil scientists!! Use this link to register! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

Check out this paper that I co-authored with @RuarkLab and Kevin Shelley (Nutrient and Pest Management) @UWMadisonCALS @UWMadisonExt @WisCropMan @DepartmentSoil

The latest report from a United Nations panel on climate change says agriculture must change in order to prevent the worst effects of global warming. buff.ly/2KpSqNN

Hypotheses Versus Predictions | Psychology Today psychologytoday.com/blog/perceptio…

Scientists’ warning to humanity: microorganisms and climate change go.nature.com/2KXOiF7 A group of leading microbiologists have come together to alert humanity that the central role and global importance of microorganisms in climate change biology must not be underestimated.

#UWMadison's @UWArboretum, the birthplace of restoration ecology and home to the world’s oldest restored prairie, is now listed in the National Register of Historic Places. #OnWisconsin! go.wisc.edu/18w16c

Jean-Michel Ané of @UWBact & @UWMadAgronomy has worked with colleagues to identify a corn that can acquire nitrogen from the air, reducing the need for artificial fertilizers. Read more: bit.ly/2vRAp2l

BBC Radio wanted to have me on today to debate a climate-denier in the context of the drought/heatwave. I said NO. I told them it was a disgrace that they still give climate-deniers airtime at a time like this. I won’t be part of such charades any longer. Please RT if you agree.