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Tristy Vick-Majors

@tjvmajors.bsky.social
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Wherever there's water | Microbial Ecology |Biogeochemistry | Assoc Prof | #firstgen | whereverthereswater.org | opinions are my own

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Tristy Vick-Majors @tjvmajors.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
PhD opportunity alert: Glacial Biogeochemistry at Stockholm University. Deadline soon! Please share. More info at the link (in multiple languages). su.varbi.com/what:job/job...
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Doktorand i naturgeografi med inriktning mot glacial biogeokemi
Institutionen för naturgeografi är en av de större institutionerna inom Naturvetenskapliga fakulteten, med ca 100 anställda och ca 1 000 studenter per läsår. Vi undervisar och forskar i naturgeo
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Tristy Vick-Majors @tjvmajors.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Really happy to be back in Montreal for #ASLOSIL26! Already off to a strong start with some pre-meeting cafe hopping, and sessions are going strong this morning.
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Tristy Vick-Majors @tjvmajors.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Pleased to share our new work, out this week in jgrbiogeo.bsky.social! We looked at how different guilds of aquatic microbial primary producers respond to changing winter conditions in a multi-year study. Great work led by an @michigantech.bsky.social M.S. grad! #winterlimnology shorturl.at/Lsqoy
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Differential Contributions From Chemo‐ and Photoautotrophy to Winter Primary Production in a North Temperate Freshwater System
Changing winter conditions influence snow and ice accumulation in inland waterbodies Diverse communities of primary producers are responsible for the fixation of inorganic carbon year-round Guil...
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Tristy Vick-Majors @tjvmajors.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Nice new work out in Ecology Letters by Ozersky and colleagues, showing that high latitude lakes will likely feel the greatest impacts of warming winters. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #winter #limnology
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Impacts of Changing Winters on Lake Ecosystems Will Increase With Latitude
Climate warming is particularly strong in winter and at high latitudes, driving changes in lake ice and snow cover. Using simple models, we show that the interaction between ice duration and seasonal....
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Science Magazine @science.org · 28/07/2025
The National Science Foundation plans to abruptly end operation of the RV Nathaniel B. Palmer, the sole U.S. research ship capable of braving the farthest reaches of Antarctica and the Southern Ocean. scim.ag/4mB8LOX
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NSF plans abrupt end to lone U.S. Antarctic research icebreaker
Imminent termination of the RV Nathaniel B. Palmer shocks polar scientists
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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Are you an early-career biologist or ecologist who would benefit from an invited seminar? Would you like to come to UMaine next fall or spring to give a talk? Leave a brief comment with some info about what you do. I'm co-hosting our seminar series again, and am filling out our rosters.
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Tristy Vick-Majors @tjvmajors.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Read the entire thread for extra fun.
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Tristy Vick-Majors @tjvmajors.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Really helpful thread on today’s NSF Division of Earth Sciences webinar.
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Tristy Vick-Majors @tjvmajors.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Our @noaa.gov funded team is getting after it on Lake Erie this week, with PhD student An leading sample collection like a pro. Great Lakes, great carbon, great microbes, great students!
A researcher collecting water samples from a Niskin bottle on a boat on Lake Erie.A buoy on a boat on its way to Lake Erie.
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Tristy Vick-Majors @tjvmajors.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
I am sadly not at the @iaglr.bsky.social conference this week, but thanks to colleagues got some great photo evidence of my students sharing their posters!
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Sapna Sharma @sapnasharma.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Today on #World Environment Day, we’re launching 3 FREE courses on water sustainability: i) Climate change impacts on ice; ii) Indigenous relationships to water, and iii) Big data analytics. Enrol here: www.yorku.ca/research/wat... Thank you to all of our contributors for sharing their expertise!
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Michigan Sea Grant @miseagrant.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
"Research that MISG funds is critical to understand Great Lakes ecosystems and the life they support." For 50+ years, Michigan Sea Grant has provided science-based info, educational programs, and much more. Sign this letter to show your support for our continued federal funding: buff.ly/CerVNTt
the quote "Research that MISG funds is critical to understand Great Lakes ecosystems and the life they support" over an image of Pictured Rocks cliffs
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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
OK, this is wild. In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them. It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*. What the HELL? 1/
Unsplash image of the Earth, mostly the nightside with a tracery of city lights on every continent.
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biodefensecomm.bsky.social @biodefensecomm.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
The State of Biodefense is beleaguered but resilient. Watch below the Commission's State of Biodefense Address delivered by our Executive Director, Dr. Asha M. George, during yesterday's public meeting. Read the testimony here: biodefensecommission.org/the-state-of... youtu.be/R5VHNkHDMm4?...
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2025 State of U.S. Biodefense Address
YouTube video by Bipartisan Commission on Biodefense
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Jeremy Bassis @bassisjeremy.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Everyone needs to understand that dismantling NSF will have devastating long term consequences in our competitiveness and innovation in science, technology and beyond. 1/
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Exclusive: NSF faces radical shake-up as officials abolish its 37 divisions
Changes seen as a response to presidential directives on what research to fund
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Tristy Vick-Majors @tjvmajors.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
I’m so pleased to see the important issues of planetary protection and biodefense being given attention, and honored to be part of the conversation. Many thanks to the Bipartisan Commission on Biodefense for your work.
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Michigan Sea Grant @miseagrant.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Your NOAA $$ at work! We're funding @tjvmajors.bsky.social at MTU to coordinate a "winter grab" of hard-to-get water samples. Last week, our director @newelllab.bsky.social joined @nicolewagner.bsky.social and her students from Oakland University to collect samples under Lake St. Clair's ice. (1/2)
Three women in winter gear stand on the icy surface of Lake St. Clair with sampling equipment and big smiles.A clover-shaped hole in the ice allows a researcher to dip sampling equipment into the waters of Lake St. Clair.
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Silvia Newell @newelllab.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Felt great to get out in the field for #winter #limnology #GreatLakes-wide sampling on Lake St. Clair yesterday with @nicolewagner.bsky.social as part of a @miseagrant.bsky.social funded project led by @tjvmajors.bsky.social. Just happened to be an all-women team. #womeninSTEM
Three women scientists holding a zooplankton net over an ice hole
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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
“What part of diversity, equity, and inclusion do you have a problem with?” www.science.org/content/arti...
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U.S. early-career researchers struggling amid chaos
Uncertain funding, government firings, and distressed universities hit vulnerable groups especially hard
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Tristy Vick-Majors @tjvmajors.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
These students rock! A great day sampling for @miseagrant.bsky.social funded Great Lakes Winter Grab on Lake Superior. MI Sea Grant work is critical to the health and understanding of our largest source of freshwater, and we are proud to do the science they support!
A sun dog over frozen Keweenaw Bay on Lake SuperiorStudents giving thumbs up next to the field work truck.The field team carrying gear onto the lake ice.The field teams starting sampling on the lake ice.
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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Firings are happening right now at the National Science Foundation. Essential staff are being cut. This isn’t about the budget. If it was, they’d be going after the military (17%) or state appropriations (38%). NSF is 0.7% of the federal budget. All federal employees make up only 4% of the budget.
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Tristy Vick-Majors @tjvmajors.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Cutting overhead on new and existing grants will do dire damage to universities and scientific research.
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National Institutes of Health radically cuts support to universities
Sudden and drastic change will make it hard for researchers to keep the lights on.
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 06/02/2025
Worried about losing access to US federal data that may go off-line, or already is? You’re not alone—but duplication isn’t the answer. Many ongoing efforts have already archived key datasets and many more are ongoing. Check out these existing resources and, if you can, support their work. 🧵
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Tristy Vick-Majors @tjvmajors.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
The federal workforce does work that is critical to all of our every day lives. That work isn’t always visible. But we need you, federal employees! I know people are hurting or confused by the messages coming from OPM. Don’t resign. Hang in there. We see you, we appreciate you. You are not alone.
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Trump wants to cut the federal workforce. Who they are and what that means
President Trump's efforts to cut the federal workforce by 10% might not save as much money as hoped and could have unintended consequences. NPR explains why.
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a grassland chase 🌾🌾🌾🌾 @chasesolidago.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
The world has been through anti-science cycles before, to disastrous results On a detour on my lit review, a mosey through the history of our familiar friend, the standard onion (Allium cepa) brought me right to one of botany's greatest cautionary tales of what happens when ideology overrides data
a illustration of our standard kitchen onion, Allium cepa, from 1586. Handcolored engravinga black and white photograph of a white man in a suit, holding stalks of some plant, possibly corn or some sort of grain. Photo depicts Nikolai Vavilov (1887 - 1943)
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David Barrett @davidbarrettyyc.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Very excited to see some of my PhD work published after much (much) too long! Using mesocosms and controlled ponds, we manipulated ice cover conditions and looked at the corresponding DO, light, and chlorophyll-a regimes. aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Evaluating the influence of snow and ice conditions on under‐ice light regimes, dissolved oxygen, and primary production in shallow lakes using controlled manipulative systems
Shifts in hydroclimatic regimes associated with global climate change are affecting the timing and duration of winter ice-cover in temperate and high-latitude lakes. Less is known on how associated c....
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Tristy Vick-Majors @tjvmajors.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Should have completed the migration from the social that shall not be named ages ago, but better late than never. What do we call ourselves over here? Scisky? Sciblue? Regardless, let’s get this started!
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