Cecilia Howard

Queer PhD candidate studying biogeochemistry @MichiganEarth 🏳️‍🌈 they/them

[Jerónimo Morales Toledo @JMT_MHL]

📢 Excited to share that my latest paper has just been published! 📚🌿 I explored the intriguing world of Middle Jurassic conifers from Mexico. 🌍🌲 Check out the paper here:https://t.co/kTXyAOipC4
#MasterThesis #Paleobotany

[Grad Employees' Org UMich @geo3550]

BREAKING: Grad workers vote to ratify U-M offer, ending longest strike in GEO history

This guarantees a 20-80% raise for incoming grad workers and a living wage for most PhDs, with wins across a host of issues, from trans & parental care to abolition and harassment protections.

[Grad Employees' Org UMich @geo3550]

BREAKING: Grad Workers Vote for Tentative Agreement (TA) with U-M

Winning a living wage for most PhD students and major gains in harassment protections, police abolition, and parent & transgender grad care, the TA is a testament to the power of our strike.

[Greg Dick @GreatLakesGreg]

a wonderfully written and illustrated article on paleolimnology as a window into the anthropocene

https://t.co/pKRrQazKEC

[Dr. Jenan Kharbush 🇵🇸 @jjkharbush]

I'm hiring a technician to help with research on biogeochem of harmful algal blooms. It's a one year position, ideal if you're thinking about a career in research or grad school but wanting to get more research experience first! More details here 👇
https://t.co/PM5PDcHFqx

[Cecilia Howard @BicrobeGeochem]

@Friedman_Lab Still going, and no longer my concern!

[Cecilia Howard @BicrobeGeochem]

@Friedman_Lab If it gives out in the middle of my scanner time I'm blaming you for cursing it 😂

[Cecilia Howard @BicrobeGeochem]

@Friedman_Lab If it gives out in the middle of my scanner time I'm blaming you for cursing it 😂

[U-M SpColl @u_mspcoll]

Happy #PinbackThursday! From 1996

"I Support GEO MFT #3550..."

@geo3550
#Labadie Pinback Buttons LBC 0851
https://t.co/AF8usSRIuj

[Colleen Yancey, PhD @ColleenYancey]

Excited to announce the newest publication from dissertation work! We know Microcystis can produce microcystins, but what else might they be making in blooms? @GreatLakesGreg @davidhsumich @ashumich
https://t.co/H6xmjmYGjo

[Cecilia Howard @BicrobeGeochem]

UMich GSIs are getting as much money this month from Ohio State as they are from UMich

[Cecilia Howard @BicrobeGeochem]

UM has no intention of bargaining fairly and no commitment to actually determining if workers are striking. They've already set up their system to withhold all but one day of April's pay when they have yet to even try to determine whether folks worked for half of that pay period

[olivia stowell @oliviastowell]

well. @UMich has officially docked all pay but $100 for april from its grad workers, putting many of us in a position of dangerous financial precarity. friends/allies, please consider donating to @geo3550 strike fund at https://t.co/NlE4QIQXh6. we need all the help we can get ✊

[Cecilia Howard @BicrobeGeochem]

@feldspathic A mystery that will never be solved

[Cecilia Howard @BicrobeGeochem]

Yesterday was a phenomenal day (the sort that reminds me why I'm doing a PhD). I...
- baked a cake
- heard that the new combustion module for our mass spec (that's been offline since Nov 2021) should ship next week
- submitted my first paper
- and won the GeoClub Best GSI Award!

[Cecilia Howard @BicrobeGeochem]

When inflation in December was 6.5% and my rent is going up 7%, this isn't a counter; this is an insult.

[Grad Employees' Org UMich @geo3550]

Many GEO members have been betting as to what HR’s counter on compensation would be, but no one was expecting a 2% raise per year for 3 years. #ShowUp next week for the week of Grad Labor Visibility, esp. next week’s bargaining session open to salaries, to show HR what you think

[Cecilia Howard @BicrobeGeochem]

The deadline for this is coming up next Tuesday! If you work on Great Lakes geobiology, consider submitting an abstract!!

[Cecilia Howard @BicrobeGeochem]

Do you work on geobiology in the Great Lakes? Submit an abstract to our GSA North-Central Section Meeting session! https://t.co/t8EjyNz8YN

[Cecilia Howard @BicrobeGeochem]

Do you work on geobiology in the Great Lakes? Submit an abstract to our GSA North-Central Section Meeting session! https://t.co/t8EjyNz8YN

[Zack Savitsky @savagitsky]

🪐🔭 my cover story for @ScienceMagazine on the hazes that harbor secrets of distant worlds, and the researchers racing to concoct them in chambers:

https://t.co/j69f3yvoD4

[Cecilia Howard @BicrobeGeochem]

@spaceandweather You will pretty much need a car in Caribou. There is a bus that can connect you down to Portland/Boston, but Caribou does not really have public transportation, and it's not really bikeable in the winter

[Cecilia Howard @BicrobeGeochem]

A microbial geochemist in their natural environment (Grand Prismatic, Yellowstone National Park)