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Maggie Osburn

@geobiomaggie.bsky.social
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Science is awesome and social media connects us. Biogeofeminist at Northwestern. all rambling my own. find me @GeoBioMaggie instagram, formerly @ProfMaggie birdapp

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Maggie Osburn @geobiomaggie.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/u... well this could be a problem.
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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.
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Maggie Osburn @geobiomaggie.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Look at these happy NUgeoclub members making collages out of (mostly) old magazines in my mailbox and out of date geological maps!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 · 28/02/2025
no money moves tomorrow. cash at your local small businesses only!
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Maggie Osburn @geobiomaggie.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
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?
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Maggie Osburn @geobiomaggie.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
This is terrible.
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Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @crockett.house.gov · 30/01/2025
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 · 25/01/2025
There be dragons in my code
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Maggie Osburn @geobiomaggie.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
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 · 11/01/2025
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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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 08/01/2025
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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Climate change projected fire weather sensitivity: California Santa Ana wind occurrence
A new method based on global climate model pressure gradients was developed for identifying coastal high-wind fire weather conditions, such as the Santa Ana Occurrence (SAO). Application of this meth....
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Microbiology Society @microbiologysociety.org · 08/01/2025
It’s official: The Microbiology Society is on Bluesky!
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Maggie Osburn @geobiomaggie.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
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 · 20/12/2024
Who doesn’t need a salamander phylogeny honestly?
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Maggie Osburn @geobiomaggie.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
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….
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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 · 19/12/2024
This is a neat paper!
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Jackie Goordial @jackiegoordial.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
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...
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Join the Team – Goordial Environmental Microbiology Laboratory
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Maggie Osburn @geobiomaggie.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Five posters printed, prepare yourself #AGU2024, the Osburn lab is coming!
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Maggie Osburn @geobiomaggie.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Just a couple science queens celebrating their collective 90th birthday together! @yarrowaxford.bsky.social
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Maggie Osburn @geobiomaggie.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
For those of you who have had a great scientific mentor. What was the most important thing they did to help facilitate your growth as a scientist? Full disclosure, I am crowd sourcing opinions for a thing that I am writing
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Maggie Osburn @geobiomaggie.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Thankful for food and family, and science, but not today
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Emil Ruff @emilruff.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
An excellent opportunity to work in a great lab on an exciting topic!
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Maggie Osburn @geobiomaggie.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Come work with us! We are hiring a teach track faculty member in the department of Earth, Environmental, and planetary sciences. Needs GIS skills but otherwise broad: www.earth.northwestern.edu/about/facult...
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Faculty Search: Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences - Northwestern University
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Maggie Osburn @geobiomaggie.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
I hear that science Twitter has shown back up here? Gonna try to check back in here more often and post more Osburn lab content!
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Maggie Osburn @geobiomaggie.bsky.social · 17/02/2024
This culture grows glitter, my work here is done
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Jennifer Biddle @jenbiddle.bsky.social · 02/02/2024
Yesterday we lost a great friend of geobiology, Jan Amend. His sudden passing is quite a shock, but as many of us remember, Jan always seemed to be living life to the fullest. He was a wonderful colleague and a supportive mentor. My heart goes out to everyone impacted, especially his family.
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Dr. Julian Lozos @seismogenic.bsky.social · 01/01/2024
⚒️🧪 Hey L.A.! Did you feel that M4.3 earthquake offshore from Palos Verdes this morning? If you did, why not start 2024 with some citizen science and tell the USGS what it was like where you are! earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...
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Maggie Osburn @geobiomaggie.bsky.social · 24/12/2023
Eagerly awaiting my Christmas Eve grant rejections. Can we just send the emails already to get it over with? 🧪⚒️🦠🤞
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Maggie Osburn @geobiomaggie.bsky.social · 15/12/2023
This is cool new paper lead by a fantastic undergrad! This is a synthetic biology deep subsurface geomicro mashup. 🧪🦠⚒️ journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
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Microbial sensor variation across biogeochemical conditions in the terrestrial deep subsurface | mSy...
The ability to detect extracellular environmental conditions is a fundamental property of all life forms. Because microbial two-component sensor systems convert information about extracellular conditi...
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Maggie Osburn @geobiomaggie.bsky.social · 22/11/2023
news.northwestern.edu/stories/2023... 🧪⚒️🦠
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Maggie Osburn @geobiomaggie.bsky.social · 31/10/2023
Another Job alert! utah.peopleadmin.com/postings/109...
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Maggie Osburn @geobiomaggie.bsky.social · 27/10/2023
Job Alert! www.soest.hawaii.edu/earthscience...
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Maggie Osburn @geobiomaggie.bsky.social · 19/10/2023
How many grad students can cram themselves on the couch? 🧪⚒️🦠
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Maggie Osburn @geobiomaggie.bsky.social · 12/10/2023
Calling all biogeochemists! I am co-chairing this theme at Goldschmidt next year. We are looking for more sessions particularly on metabolisms of new phylogenetic lineages, evolution of microbial traits through time, or habitability and bio signatures in other planetary systems. Reach out! 🧪⚒️🦠
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Danielle L. Schmitt 🔬 @schmittwitt.bsky.social · 10/10/2023
ChemSky & SciSky! UCLA Chem & Biochem is searching for someone passionate about teaching biochemistry or chemistry! If you have a track record in & commitment to scholarly research in STEM pedagogy & educational practice, please apply! recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF08837 cc @chemjobber.bsky.social
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Jer Thorp @jerthorp.bsky.social · 06/10/2023
If you're in any of the white hot areas on this map, dim your lights tonight (and tomorrow). If you have a low window that might reflect trees or other greenery, some quick DIY solutions: - tape strips on the window 4" apart - use tempura paint to make a pattern with a similar density
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Maggie Osburn @geobiomaggie.bsky.social · 03/10/2023
We can’t ignore this.
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Maggie Osburn @geobiomaggie.bsky.social · 03/10/2023
Yup. Feeling this today as I recover from yet another faculty meeting where gender based inequities were totally dismissed by senior men
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Maggie Osburn @geobiomaggie.bsky.social · 29/09/2023
So very excited to see this thrilling paper out! We learned some cool things about Arctic methane cycling in some unexpected places
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Kate Freeman @khfreeman.bsky.social · 24/09/2023
A terrific morning for space science! We are thrilled to help the #OSIRISREx team learn more about the early solar system and building blocks for life 🔭🧪🌎🔬
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Johanna Joyce @johannajoyce.bsky.social · 22/09/2023
Gender (in)equality in academia - what are the most important studies you’ve seen on this? Writing a Commentary on this and we want to make sure not to miss any key articles.. Many thanks for sharing 🙏 #Equity #Diversity #Inclusion 🧪⚕️🩺
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Maggie Osburn @geobiomaggie.bsky.social · 22/09/2023
Is there anything more exciting than proofs on a paper that you thought might never make it out!!! 🧪⚒️🦠#embargoed #whereissciencetwitterwhenyouneedit
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Maggie Osburn @geobiomaggie.bsky.social · 19/09/2023
First day of class excitement here! A whole new batch of winogradsky columns to watch for the year 🧪⚒️🦠🧫
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Maggie Osburn @geobiomaggie.bsky.social · 16/09/2023
Rhodochrosite is my favorite! It’s gorgeous and carbonate and a nice reduced Mn source for microbes, what else do you want?
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Maggie Osburn @geobiomaggie.bsky.social · 14/09/2023
Congrats to all the AGU fellows and awardees! Lots of amazing scientists on the lists this year www.agu.org/honors/annou...
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Maggie Osburn @geobiomaggie.bsky.social · 13/09/2023
I got a thing.
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Michael Henson, Ph.D. @aquaticmicrolab.bsky.social · 13/09/2023
University of Maine is hiring a microbiologist x.com/DrSueIshaq/s... #MicroSky 🦠🧫
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Maggie Osburn @geobiomaggie.bsky.social · 12/09/2023
One of the first mines I ever got to go down in was a lead mine in MO and it made a life long galena fan out of me!
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Maggie Osburn @geobiomaggie.bsky.social · 07/09/2023
So inspired listening to talks at the Packard Fellows Reunion. These people are going to change the world. 🧪
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Maggie Osburn @geobiomaggie.bsky.social · 06/09/2023
sanfordlab.org/article/deca... an article about our work in the Sanford lab. 🧪⚒️
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