Maggie Sogin

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Writing proposals (for NSF) in 2025:

Congratulations!!!!

This conference on EcoFABs looks awesome! Registration ends soon!

eco-fab.org/ecofab-2025-...

Some awesome speakers, including:
@maggiesogin.bsky.social
@elizabethshank.bsky.social
@jackgilbertt.bsky.social

Started a starter pack for the presenters and attendees of the 2025 Animal-Microbe Symbiosis Gordon Research Conference. Let me know if I should add (or remove) you!

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I wanted (should have) turned around and asked if they would take their daughter to the hospital if she broke her leg… Sigh.

Overheard last night at dinner: “My daughter can’t go to HS bc she isn’t vaccinated- it’s ridiculous bc everyone else is vaccinated so there is no chance of her getting sick”

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Do not treat this as fait accompli. We are winning in courts and public opinion. Nominees are being withdrawn. Congress is shook. Musk is leaving.

Organize. Call. Appeal. Sue. Keep the pressure on your bosses.

Do the same for trans and immigrant rights, public health, and more. Solidarity forever.

student sitters?

YES! These NIH cuts to training grants are especially harmful at lower research active universities. SJSU had our U-RISE program (which we've had since 1988) cut, leaving students w 4 days notice of no stipend and cutting off an important way to get the research experience needed for PhD programs.

Two undergrads in my lab were URISE scholars. One is graduating, but the other was counting on the funds to support her tuition next year (as well as a paycheck). Accepting any recommendations for fellowships she can apply for. She is hispanic if that helps and interested in viral ecology.

Bitter sweet emotions for the two current and one former trainees in my lab who received honorable mentions this year...

We've also had very good results - and ended up rerunning the assemblies with the raw data using Autocycler, which provided to also improve the overall assembly metrics and in some cases close the genomes.

🧪 NSF GRFP update!

New graduate NSF fellowships will likely be announced this week for the GRFP (see bottom of 🧵 for why).

First off, I'm *very* glad to hear of those going forward, given the otherwise bleak year so far for graduate training.

Some observations... 1/12

Excited about microbiomes and want to study them at the single-cell level? Join our team to pioneer research using microfluidics paired with automated timelapse microscopy. We're hiring motivated postdocs to push the boundaries of microbial ecology!

Apply now: apply.interfolio.com/165601

Flyer advertising summer INSITE program at UC Merced

If you know undergrads who are still looking for a summer research opportunity (esp with the cancellation of so many REUs) - Our NSF BII INSITE is still taking applications for our summer internship program.

Excited to work alongside the JGI and members of the User community!

Stand up for Science 🧪💪

Quote post with a picture you took in a National Park.

Yosemite National Park

Fall 2024

🤿 HIRING POSTDOC 🤿 🌊
We are hiring a full time postdoc in ecological oceanography (2 yr) at University of Hawai'i at Mānoa. Seeking excellent candidates w/ experience in coral reef ecology & oceanography to develop research projects in Hawai'i & Okinawa, Japan. ID# 225109 www.rcuh.com/work/careers/

Upon learning that yesterday would be my last day as a program officer at the National Science Foundation, I shared this parting message with my colleagues. The next few months will be frenetic and stressful for them. Here are some things that you can do to help them with the mission ahead. (1)

Seagrass Zostera marina in Baltic Sea showing blue carbon, photo credit Pekka Tuuri

The GEOMAR seagrass team is hiring. Time to make coastal restoration long-term sustainable. A fully funded 4-yr PhD position on eelgrass seascape genomics in the Baltic Sea, further details see here www.geomar.de/en/karriere/... @geomarkiel.bsky.social DM me for inquiries

We are calling for a nationwide and international boycott of all Elon Musk-related products and services. Sell your Tesla shares, avoid buying Tesla vehicles, cancel Starlink, and delete your X accounts.

📣 JOB ALERT📣
The Silbiger Lab is hiring a full time research tech @ University of Hawai’i at Mānoa to support research on intertidal ecology in Hawai’i & coral reef/coastal oceanography in Okinawa, Japan. RCUH ID: 225085 application link below. 1 year to start, but have several years of funding.

The team science grant I'm a CO-PI on is on this list 🤢
www.commerce.senate.gov/2025/2/cruz-...

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USAID
Save Foreign Aid

I got the email as well - not sure if it's because I at one point was an ASM member or if because I was an editor for mSystems. (I am not either ATM)

an email from the society for integrative and comparative biology that reads "Attn SICB Members: The past few weeks have been a stressful time in our scientific community, and we want to make our position clear: The Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology unequivocally condemns recent attacks on scientific integrity, funding for scientific research, and the importance of broadening participation in science."

This is how you do it.

Thank you @sicbjournals.bsky.social

Read their whole email to membership here
mailchi.mp/sicb.org/sic...

1. When will the Award Cash Management Service (ACM$) be restored to allow disbursements on active awards? Access to ACM$ has been restored and the system is available to accept payment requests as of 12:00 PM ET on February 2, 2025. 2. On Friday, January 31, 2025, a Federal Court issued a Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) directing Federal grant-making agencies, including the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), to"..not pause, freeze, impede, block, cancel, or terminate... awards and obligations." What is NSF doing to comply with this TRO? NSF has restored access to the ACM$ system as of 12:00 PM ET on February 2, 2025 and is in compliance with the TRO.

The National Science foundation has just updated their FAQ to say they are complying with the court order and has restored access to funds and the ACM$ platform new.nsf.gov/executive-or...

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What it’s like being a PI right now…