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Look at these happy NUgeoclub members making collages out of (mostly) old magazines in my mailbox and out of date geological maps!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

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

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!

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!

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!

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

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.

⚒️🧪 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...

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! 🧪⚒️🦠

ChemSky & SciSky! UCLA Chem & Biochem is searching for someone passionate about teaching biochemistry or chemistry! If you have a track record in & commitment to scholarly research in STEM pedagogy & educational practice, please apply! recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF08837 cc @chemjobber.bsky.social

If you're in any of the white hot areas on this map, dim your lights tonight (and tomorrow). If you have a low window that might reflect trees or other greenery, some quick DIY solutions: - tape strips on the window 4" apart - use tempura paint to make a pattern with a similar density

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

A terrific morning for space science! We are thrilled to help the #OSIRISREx team learn more about the early solar system and building blocks for life 🔭🧪🌎🔬

Gender (in)equality in academia - what are the most important studies you’ve seen on this? Writing a Commentary on this and we want to make sure not to miss any key articles.. Many thanks for sharing 🙏 #Equity #Diversity #Inclusion 🧪⚕️🩺

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?

Congrats to all the AGU fellows and awardees! Lots of amazing scientists on the lists this year www.agu.org/honors/annou...

I got a thing.

University of Maine is hiring a microbiologist x.com/DrSueIshaq/s... #MicroSky 🦠🧫

One of the first mines I ever got to go down in was a lead mine in MO and it made a life long galena fan out of me!

So inspired listening to talks at the Packard Fellows Reunion. These people are going to change the world. 🧪

sanfordlab.org/article/deca... an article about our work in the Sanford lab. 🧪⚒️