Jennifer Bell
@jbell-soil.bsky.social
Assistant professor at the University of Wyoming. All things soil (and sometimes plant) microbial ecology. Over educated cat lady. She/her
Come hangout with me next summer in Laramie! Also I might have an in with the technical program lead (it’s me, I’m the lead) so your abstract is likely to get accepted www.asrs.us/2026-confere...
Call for Abstracts – American Society of Reclamation Sciences (ASRS)
www.asrs.us
November 20, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Come hangout with me next summer in Laramie! Also I might have an in with the technical program lead (it’s me, I’m the lead) so your abstract is likely to get accepted www.asrs.us/2026-confere...
Update: the 17,000 weren’t enough and I just ordered 2,000 more.
I have some money I need to spend by the end of June so I ordered 17,000 tubes of various shapes and sizes for my lab today. Needless to say we will be stocked for a while. If you need to store 0.2ul to 50ml of liquid, hit me up. #labsupplies #newPI
September 23, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Update: the 17,000 weren’t enough and I just ordered 2,000 more.
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We're recruiting!! Myself along with Nathan Gill, Dylan Schwilk @schwilk.org, and Katharine Suding are recruiting people for Master's, PhD, and postdoc positions in GrassFire, an NSF funded project examining fuels and fire risk in grassland ecosystems across the Southern Great Plains! 🔥🌿🐮
September 8, 2025 at 8:29 PM
We're recruiting!! Myself along with Nathan Gill, Dylan Schwilk @schwilk.org, and Katharine Suding are recruiting people for Master's, PhD, and postdoc positions in GrassFire, an NSF funded project examining fuels and fire risk in grassland ecosystems across the Southern Great Plains! 🔥🌿🐮
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Hey, as a librarian I need to tell you:
Our funding depends on usage.
So go ahead and check out that book even if you don't think you'll finish it. No one will know. Check out that DVD even though you might not like it. Get ambitious in your quest for knowledge.
Our funding depends on usage.
So go ahead and check out that book even if you don't think you'll finish it. No one will know. Check out that DVD even though you might not like it. Get ambitious in your quest for knowledge.
August 12, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Hey, as a librarian I need to tell you:
Our funding depends on usage.
So go ahead and check out that book even if you don't think you'll finish it. No one will know. Check out that DVD even though you might not like it. Get ambitious in your quest for knowledge.
Our funding depends on usage.
So go ahead and check out that book even if you don't think you'll finish it. No one will know. Check out that DVD even though you might not like it. Get ambitious in your quest for knowledge.
July 20, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Update: I used 94 of my 17,000 tubes this week. Only 16,904 to go!
July 18, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Update: I used 94 of my 17,000 tubes this week. Only 16,904 to go!
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Despite zero cases of non-citizens voting in Wyoming elections, voters will now be required to show citizenship documents, a move which will penalize women, the elderly, rural voters, and the unhoused for no reason at all, besides fueling xenophobic conspiracy theories and undermining voting rights.
Wyoming is now requiring would-be voters prove their citizenship by showing physical documents.
That could prove most complicated for some married women who have changed their names and don't have the required documents with the right name — and won't have time to get it:
That could prove most complicated for some married women who have changed their names and don't have the required documents with the right name — and won't have time to get it:
Wyoming Is Now Requiring Would-be Voters to Document Their Citizenship - Bolts
On the first of this month, Wyoming residents began facing some of the nation’s harshest rules when registering to vote, and additional barriers may still be coming. Wyoming became the... Read More
boltsmag.org
July 17, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Despite zero cases of non-citizens voting in Wyoming elections, voters will now be required to show citizenship documents, a move which will penalize women, the elderly, rural voters, and the unhoused for no reason at all, besides fueling xenophobic conspiracy theories and undermining voting rights.
A News article about some of my post doc work! #mycorrhiza #restoration #bison #tallgrass uwagnews.com/2025/07/11/s...
From Degraded to Restored: How Soil Mycorrhizal Fungi React to Restoration Management Practices
Native prairie ecosystems have been disappearing across North America since the agricultural revolution of the 1800s. The increased need for higher crop yields, infrastructure, and resource extract…
uwagnews.com
July 13, 2025 at 3:57 PM
A News article about some of my post doc work! #mycorrhiza #restoration #bison #tallgrass uwagnews.com/2025/07/11/s...
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from www.instagram.com/yeweijun98
Slime molds eat the microbes on decaying plants but not the microbes on decaying animals. Badhamia (Physarum) polycephala is an unusually adventurous eater who also enjoys mushrooms, oats, and probably a number of other things!
I wonder what's up with the peanut
Slime molds eat the microbes on decaying plants but not the microbes on decaying animals. Badhamia (Physarum) polycephala is an unusually adventurous eater who also enjoys mushrooms, oats, and probably a number of other things!
I wonder what's up with the peanut
July 5, 2025 at 4:40 PM
from www.instagram.com/yeweijun98
Slime molds eat the microbes on decaying plants but not the microbes on decaying animals. Badhamia (Physarum) polycephala is an unusually adventurous eater who also enjoys mushrooms, oats, and probably a number of other things!
I wonder what's up with the peanut
Slime molds eat the microbes on decaying plants but not the microbes on decaying animals. Badhamia (Physarum) polycephala is an unusually adventurous eater who also enjoys mushrooms, oats, and probably a number of other things!
I wonder what's up with the peanut
Off to Edinburgh for #Rhizosphere6! Looking forward to seeing the latest research and going to a new place.
June 14, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Off to Edinburgh for #Rhizosphere6! Looking forward to seeing the latest research and going to a new place.
I have some money I need to spend by the end of June so I ordered 17,000 tubes of various shapes and sizes for my lab today. Needless to say we will be stocked for a while. If you need to store 0.2ul to 50ml of liquid, hit me up. #labsupplies #newPI
June 4, 2025 at 9:14 PM
I have some money I need to spend by the end of June so I ordered 17,000 tubes of various shapes and sizes for my lab today. Needless to say we will be stocked for a while. If you need to store 0.2ul to 50ml of liquid, hit me up. #labsupplies #newPI
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I don't think anyone outside of universities, pharma and biotech, independent research institutions have any idea of what is happening right now. If you haven't sounded the alarm among your friends, family and colleagues, now is the time to do it.
May 31, 2025 at 11:25 AM
I don't think anyone outside of universities, pharma and biotech, independent research institutions have any idea of what is happening right now. If you haven't sounded the alarm among your friends, family and colleagues, now is the time to do it.
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May 6, 2025 at 3:19 PM
I got this quote for a pretty basic microscope today. What a fun time to be setting up a new lab.
May 6, 2025 at 4:53 PM
I got this quote for a pretty basic microscope today. What a fun time to be setting up a new lab.
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Budget released today:
40% cut to NIH
50% cut to NSF
If enacted, this will destroy academic research in the United States. It will also have a major trickle down effect on the entire academic ecosystem
40% cut to NIH
50% cut to NSF
If enacted, this will destroy academic research in the United States. It will also have a major trickle down effect on the entire academic ecosystem
May 2, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Budget released today:
40% cut to NIH
50% cut to NSF
If enacted, this will destroy academic research in the United States. It will also have a major trickle down effect on the entire academic ecosystem
40% cut to NIH
50% cut to NSF
If enacted, this will destroy academic research in the United States. It will also have a major trickle down effect on the entire academic ecosystem
Found at my local Walmart for $4. I am incredibly skeptical of most of these products.
April 13, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Found at my local Walmart for $4. I am incredibly skeptical of most of these products.
They produce such important data here which is used globally. I literally showed the latest CO2 plot in my class today.
New: A NOAA lab in Hawaii that is connected to the longest-running observation of global greenhouse gas concentrations is slated for closure in August, according to a list of lease terminations Democratic members of Congress shared with @washingtonpost.com.
Trump moves to close government lab that tracks planet-warming pollution
The lab is connected to the Mauna Loa Observatory, where scientists gather data to produce the Keeling Curve, a chart on the daily status of atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations.
www.washingtonpost.com
March 14, 2025 at 8:07 PM
They produce such important data here which is used globally. I literally showed the latest CO2 plot in my class today.
I loved doing an REU and have mentored several of my own REU students. This is such an invaluable program to foster the next generation of scientists.
"downsizes" is a weak way of saying "forced to cancel dozens of programs, which jeopardizes future STEM careers of talented undergrads" @science.org www.science.org/content/arti...
NSF downsizes summer research program for undergraduates
Many participants are from groups underrepresented in science
www.science.org
March 1, 2025 at 7:49 PM
I loved doing an REU and have mentored several of my own REU students. This is such an invaluable program to foster the next generation of scientists.
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We are hiring a seasonal research intern to work in our Bur Oak ACE experiment at The Morton Arboretum. Our lab is a fun group, the experiment fascinating. Come join us!
Application:
careers.hireology.com/themortonarb...
... information:
www.wbez.org/race-class-c...
grist.org/science/to-u...
Application:
careers.hireology.com/themortonarb...
... information:
www.wbez.org/race-class-c...
grist.org/science/to-u...
February 28, 2025 at 5:34 PM
We are hiring a seasonal research intern to work in our Bur Oak ACE experiment at The Morton Arboretum. Our lab is a fun group, the experiment fascinating. Come join us!
Application:
careers.hireology.com/themortonarb...
... information:
www.wbez.org/race-class-c...
grist.org/science/to-u...
Application:
careers.hireology.com/themortonarb...
... information:
www.wbez.org/race-class-c...
grist.org/science/to-u...
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Happy International Day of Women in Science. The National Science Foundation’s list of flagged words includes both “Women” and “Female.”
February 11, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Happy International Day of Women in Science. The National Science Foundation’s list of flagged words includes both “Women” and “Female.”
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That's how it's done! Nice and easy.
Good job Mycological Society of America.
Good job Mycological Society of America.
February 7, 2025 at 12:24 AM
That's how it's done! Nice and easy.
Good job Mycological Society of America.
Good job Mycological Society of America.
I’m a very serious lecturer, only serious soil science happens in my classes.
January 30, 2025 at 6:50 PM
I’m a very serious lecturer, only serious soil science happens in my classes.
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I think some people hear “grants” and think that without them, scientists and government workers just have less stuff to play with at work. But grants fund salaries for students, academics, researchers, and people who work in all areas of public service.
“Pausing” grants means people don’t eat.
“Pausing” grants means people don’t eat.
White House pauses all federal grants, sparking confusion
The Trump administration has put a hold on all federal financial grants and loans, affecting tens of billions of dollars in payments.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 28, 2025 at 3:03 AM
I think some people hear “grants” and think that without them, scientists and government workers just have less stuff to play with at work. But grants fund salaries for students, academics, researchers, and people who work in all areas of public service.
“Pausing” grants means people don’t eat.
“Pausing” grants means people don’t eat.