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Maggie Osburn @geobiomaggie.bsky.social · Apr 9

The fact that these moves are motivated in part to scare the youth is part of what makes them so awful

Maggie Osburn @geobiomaggie.bsky.social · Apr 9

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/u... well this could be a problem.

Trump Officials Freeze $1 Billion for Cornell and $790 Million for Northwestern

The funding pause amid civil rights investigations into both universities sharply escalates the Trump administration’s campaign against elite colleges.

www.nytimes.com

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Maggie Osburn @geobiomaggie.bsky.social · Apr 5

Look at these happy NUgeoclub members making collages out of (mostly) old magazines in my mailbox and out of date geological maps!

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Robert Mahon @bedform.org · Feb 28

no money moves tomorrow.

cash at your local small businesses only!

NPR @npr.org · Feb 28

The People's Union USA, a grassroots group, is calling on Americans to join a national boycott by not shopping for 24 hours on Friday.

A movement is calling for an 'economic blackout' on Friday. Here's what to know

The People's Union USA, a grassroots group, is calling on Americans to join a national boycott by not shopping for 24 hours on Friday.

www.npr.org

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Maggie Osburn @geobiomaggie.bsky.social · Feb 3

I was on the fence about renewing my ASM membership, but this makes my decision easy. If our scientific societies can’t stand up for our values, who can exactly?

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Maggie Osburn @geobiomaggie.bsky.social · Feb 3

Ya, there is a ton of preemptive surrender going on. It’s disgusting the level to which people are willing to pretend that promoting DEI was never a priority.

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Maggie Osburn @geobiomaggie.bsky.social · Feb 3

This is ridiculous. Do not comply in advance. Hell, do not comply at all. Why would independent societies have any reason to do this at all?

STAT @statnews.com · Feb 3

The professional society for microbiologists began stripping content about Black, female, and LGBTQ+ scientists from its website in the last few days, angering its members and highlighting the reach of President Trump’s directives.

Removal of DEI content from a microbiology group’s website shows reach of Trump executive orders

The professional society for microbiologists stripped content about Black, female, and LGBTQ scientists from its website

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Maggie Osburn @geobiomaggie.bsky.social · Jan 30

This is terrible.

Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · Jan 30

National Science Foundation suspends salary payments, leaving researchers unable to pay their bills www.statnews.com/2025/01/30/t...
Story by @ericboodman.bsky.social

National Science Foundation suspends salary payments, leaving researchers unable to pay their bills

An NSF online payment system remained down after the federal funding freeze was lifted, leaving early-career scientists scrambling to pay bills

www.statnews.com

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Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @crockett.house.gov · Jan 30

Women deserve to know the TRUTH about the impact of Texas' total abortion ban.

Today, I along with Rep. Gerry Connolly, Rep. Summer Lee, and Rep. Ayanna Pressley sent ANOTHER letter calling on
Texas to explain why it won't release maternal mortality data from the past 2 years after Dobbs.

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Maggie Osburn @geobiomaggie.bsky.social · Jan 25

There be dragons in my code

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Maggie Osburn @geobiomaggie.bsky.social · Jan 25

A successful OsburnLab winter gathering. Look at all these fabulous scientists I get to work with!

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Maggie Osburn @geobiomaggie.bsky.social · Jan 11

Had fun presenting in the environmental engineering seminar today at northwestern. Amazing that sometimes you can stay in the same building and get a totally different audience

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Maggie Osburn @geobiomaggie.bsky.social · Jan 8

Stay safe Mike. I immediately thought about your family when I heard

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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · Jan 8

In 2006, we determined that climate change would drive "consistent shifts in Santa Ana events from earlier to later in the season" and said this "may significantly increase the extent of CA coastal areas burned by wildfires, loss of life, and property."

Here we are today.... @umairfan.bsky.social

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Microbiology Society @microbiologysociety.org · Jan 8

It’s official: The Microbiology Society is on Bluesky!

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Maggie Osburn @geobiomaggie.bsky.social · Jan 7

Delighted to have managed a quick trip underground for some start-of-the-quarter field work. Between looming government shut downs, administrative hurdles, winter weather, etc. we had all the contingencies, yet science prevailed!

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Maggie Osburn @geobiomaggie.bsky.social · Dec 20

Update. They have agreed the the Jan 2nd…

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Maggie Osburn @geobiomaggie.bsky.social · Dec 20

Who doesn’t need a salamander phylogeny honestly?

Alex Stewart @aast242.bsky.social · Dec 18

Do you need a salamander phylogeny? You're in luck! We put together the largest salamander phylogeny to date based on molecular markers and used more fossil calibrations than any other currently available trees. 765 salamander species! Check it out!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

A time-calibrated salamander phylogeny including 765 species and 503 genes

Recent time-calibrated amphibian phylogenies agree on the family-level relationships among extant salamanders but had disparate sampling regimes and i…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Maggie Osburn @geobiomaggie.bsky.social · Dec 19

Ya, I wouldn’t be salty about it if I thought that anyone was going to look at it at all before Jan 2nd. It’s just the proliferation of rigid timelines at defy logic.

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Maggie Osburn @geobiomaggie.bsky.social · Dec 19

Professor life tail: proposal deadline to sponsor, Jan 15; proposal deadline to submitting institution, Jan 9; Northwestern wants “5 business days to review” which goes to Jan 1; but that’s a holiday so Dec20th….

a man with long hair and a beard is holding a cup and the word dude is on the bottom

ALT: a man with long hair and a beard is holding a cup and the word dude is on the bottom

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Maggie Osburn @geobiomaggie.bsky.social · Dec 19

This is a neat paper!

Karen Lloyd @karenlloyd.bsky.social · Dec 19

Census of Deep Life is the largest compendium of subsurface microbiological samples sequenced together to-date. We found some pretty cool microbial trends across major provinces of Earth's subsurface. Nice job pulling this together, @emilruff.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/epdf/10....

A global comparison of surface and subsurface microbiomes reveals large-scale biodiversity gradients, and a marine-terrestrial divide

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www.science.org

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Jackie Goordial @jackiegoordial.bsky.social · Dec 18

Now hiring! Looking for PhD student for May 2025 semester investigating terrestrial and aquatic microbial biogeochemical cycling of nutrients and pollutant mobilisation in the Canadian north.

Deadline to apply January 20, 2025

More details here: www.envmicrobio.uoguelph.ca/interested-i...

Join the Team – Goordial Environmental Microbiology Laboratory

www.envmicrobio.uoguelph.ca

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Maggie Osburn @geobiomaggie.bsky.social · Dec 11

I will miss your talk because I am convening all day. We got enough abstracts for 2 poster sessions and two orals and they are all Friday.

Maggie Osburn @geobiomaggie.bsky.social · Dec 9

🙋‍♀️ on my way!

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Maggie Osburn @geobiomaggie.bsky.social · Dec 7

I believe it should be #AGU24

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