www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/u... well this could be a problem.

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Look at these happy NUgeoclub members making collages out of (mostly) old magazines in my mailbox and out of date geological maps!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

NPR@npr.org · 2y ago

The People's Union USA, a grassroots group, is calling on Americans to join a national boycott by not shopping for 24 hours on Friday.

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?

STAT@statnews.com · 2y ago

The professional society for microbiologists began stripping content about Black, female, and LGBTQ+ scientists from its website in the last few days, angering its members and highlighting the reach of President Trump’s directives.

This is terrible.

Carl Zimmer@carlzimmer.com · 2y ago

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

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

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

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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Climate Desk@climatedesk.org · 2y ago

Explainer on the winds that make the fires so bad by @vox.com

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!

Who doesn’t need a salamander phylogeny honestly?

Alex Stewart@aast242.bsky.social · 2y ago

Do you need a salamander phylogeny? You're in luck! We put together the largest salamander phylogeny to date based on molecular markers and used more fossil calibrations than any other currently available trees. 765 salamander species! Check it out! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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….

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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This is a neat paper!

Karen Lloyd@karenlloyd.bsky.social · 2y ago

Census of Deep Life is the largest compendium of subsurface microbiological samples sequenced together to-date. We found some pretty cool microbial trends across major provinces of Earth's subsurface. Nice job pulling this together, @emilruff.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/epdf/10....

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...

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!

🇨🇦 Marc Strous@marcstrous.bsky.social · 2y ago

I'm looking for a new grad student interested in microbiology of ancient groundwaters, a fascinating journey into an enigmatic environment with opportunities for fundamental discovery and relevance to groundwater remediation. Contact me if you like fieldwork, mesocosm experiments and metagenomics.

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...

Faculty Search: Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences - Northwestern University

earth.northwestern.edu

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

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.

Jennifer Biddle@jenbiddle.bsky.social · 3y ago

Just got awful news. Life is short. Take care of yourself and love each other. Will share news when family is ready and it’s released.

⚒️🧪 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/...

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/...

news.northwestern.edu/stories/2023... 🧪⚒️🦠

Another Job alert! utah.peopleadmin.com/postings/109...