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Anneliese Abbott

Toxic Labs: Why I Don't Have a Graduate Degree in Plant Science

Note: Everything in this post is true, but I have omitted the name of the professor and the research institution to protect everyone...

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Torturing the Data Reprise: Grant Proposals

Note: Everything in this post is true, but I have omitted the name of the professor and the research institution to protect everyone...

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Lab Culture: Inside an Agricultural Research Lab Group

Note: Everything in this post is true, but I have omitted the name of the professor and the research institution to protect everyone...

Anneliese Abbott

Torturing the Data: How to Make Sure Your Scientific Research is Significant

I loved science when I was a kid—especially biology. I loved learning more about nature, going out in the woods to look at plants and...

Anneliese Abbott

Peanut Butter Decomposition: My Successful C:N Ratio Experiment

Six years after my failed pot fertility experiment at OSU, it happened again. The instructor for my Soil Microbiology class at the...

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Perils of Permaculture: Why the C:N Ratio of Mulch Matters

Fresh out of my first year of agronomy classes, I was excited to do my first internship at an organically managed CSA. My job at the...

Anneliese Abbott

The Real Dirt on no-Till: Why Herbicides Aren't Saving the Environment

Tillage is bad. That’s the message I was getting in all of my agronomy classes at Ohio State. No-till farming was the most...