Maggie Osburn
Science is awesome and social media connects us. Biogeofeminist at Northwestern. all rambling my own. find me @GeoBioMaggie instagram, formerly @ProfMaggie birdapp
- www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/u... well this could be a problem.
- Look at these happy NUgeoclub members making collages out of (mostly) old magazines in my mailbox and out of date geological maps!
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- 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?
- This is terrible.
- 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
- Reposted by Maggie OsburnWomen 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.
- There be dragons in my code
- A successful OsburnLab winter gathering. Look at all these fabulous scientists I get to work with!
- 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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- Reposted by Maggie OsburnIt’s official: The Microbiology Society is on Bluesky!
- 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!
- Who doesn’t need a salamander phylogeny honestly?
- 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….
- This is a neat paper!
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- Five posters printed, prepare yourself #AGU2024, the Osburn lab is coming!
- Just a couple science queens celebrating their collective 90th birthday together! @yarrowaxford.bsky.social
- 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
- Thankful for food and family, and science, but not today
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- 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...
- 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!
- This culture grows glitter, my work here is done
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- Eagerly awaiting my Christmas Eve grant rejections. Can we just send the emails already to get it over with? 🧪⚒️🦠🤞
- 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/...
- Another Job alert! utah.peopleadmin.com/postings/109...
- Job Alert! www.soest.hawaii.edu/earthscience...
- How many grad students can cram themselves on the couch? 🧪⚒️🦠
- 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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- We can’t ignore this.
- Yup. Feeling this today as I recover from yet another faculty meeting where gender based inequities were totally dismissed by senior men
- 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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- Is there anything more exciting than proofs on a paper that you thought might never make it out!!! 🧪⚒️🦠#embargoed #whereissciencetwitterwhenyouneedit
- First day of class excitement here! A whole new batch of winogradsky columns to watch for the year 🧪⚒️🦠🧫
- Rhodochrosite is my favorite! It’s gorgeous and carbonate and a nice reduced Mn source for microbes, what else do you want?
