Maggie Osburn

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

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Look at these happy NUgeoclub members making collages out of (mostly) old magazines in my mailbox and out of date geological maps!

no money moves tomorrow.

cash at your local small businesses only!

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?

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

It’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!

Update. They have agreed the the Jan 2nd…

Who doesn’t need a salamander phylogeny honestly?

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.

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

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!

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...

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.

🙋‍♀️ on my way!

I believe it should be #AGU24

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

An excellent opportunity to work in a great lab on an exciting topic!