Ashley Eng
@ashyeneng.bsky.social
PhD student at PMB UC Berkeley. Microbial ecology. Communities first. NSF GRFP fellow 🧬🌿🤩 she/her.
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What happens when science funding disappears?
At UCSF and the SF VA, labs are laying off staff, trials are paused, and patients are left waiting.
Our new Civic episode breaks down how federal cuts — and now a shutdown — are reshaping science in the Bay Area.
🎧
At UCSF and the SF VA, labs are laying off staff, trials are paused, and patients are left waiting.
Our new Civic episode breaks down how federal cuts — and now a shutdown — are reshaping science in the Bay Area.
🎧
Effects of Research Funding Cuts Ripple Through San Francisco Labs, Clinics and Lives - San Francisco Public Press
Federal funding cuts to medical research and new rules for grants are dismantling projects at the University of California, San Francisco, and the San Francisco Veterans Administration Medical…
www.sfpublicpress.org
October 9, 2025 at 8:00 PM
What happens when science funding disappears?
At UCSF and the SF VA, labs are laying off staff, trials are paused, and patients are left waiting.
Our new Civic episode breaks down how federal cuts — and now a shutdown — are reshaping science in the Bay Area.
🎧
At UCSF and the SF VA, labs are laying off staff, trials are paused, and patients are left waiting.
Our new Civic episode breaks down how federal cuts — and now a shutdown — are reshaping science in the Bay Area.
🎧
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New today: We're petitioning NSF to revert GRFP eligibility criteria to last year's terms, to avoid pulling the rug out from under the earliest of early-career scientists who had every reason to think they'd be able to apply this year. Sign and spread the word!
laurenkuehne.github.io/grfpChanges/
laurenkuehne.github.io/grfpChanges/
September 29, 2025 at 6:36 PM
New today: We're petitioning NSF to revert GRFP eligibility criteria to last year's terms, to avoid pulling the rug out from under the earliest of early-career scientists who had every reason to think they'd be able to apply this year. Sign and spread the word!
laurenkuehne.github.io/grfpChanges/
laurenkuehne.github.io/grfpChanges/
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Please share with anyone who cares about NSF support for graduate students and take 30 seconds to sign and leave a comment.
The deadline for the 2025 Graduate Research Fellowship Program is about one month away and literally no one can apply. #NSFGRFP
jasonjwilliamsny.github.io/grfp2025/
The deadline for the 2025 Graduate Research Fellowship Program is about one month away and literally no one can apply. #NSFGRFP
jasonjwilliamsny.github.io/grfp2025/
An Open Letter to U.S. STEM Leadership on the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program
An Open Letter to U.S. STEM Leadership on the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program
jasonjwilliamsny.github.io
September 25, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Please share with anyone who cares about NSF support for graduate students and take 30 seconds to sign and leave a comment.
The deadline for the 2025 Graduate Research Fellowship Program is about one month away and literally no one can apply. #NSFGRFP
jasonjwilliamsny.github.io/grfp2025/
The deadline for the 2025 Graduate Research Fellowship Program is about one month away and literally no one can apply. #NSFGRFP
jasonjwilliamsny.github.io/grfp2025/
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Our piece is out in SciTech Forefront!
Check it out here:
medium.com/scitech-fore...
Disclaimer: I am NO LONGER part of @standupforscience.bsky.social & haven't been affiliated for months! Was just part of the original team that organized March 7 😊
Check it out here:
medium.com/scitech-fore...
Disclaimer: I am NO LONGER part of @standupforscience.bsky.social & haven't been affiliated for months! Was just part of the original team that organized March 7 😊
Science Funding Cuts Break the Research Pipeline
Subtitle: It Was Leaky. With Cuts to Scientific Funding, It’s Now Breaking. We Must Repair the Pipeline for Early Career Researchers…
medium.com
August 15, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Our piece is out in SciTech Forefront!
Check it out here:
medium.com/scitech-fore...
Disclaimer: I am NO LONGER part of @standupforscience.bsky.social & haven't been affiliated for months! Was just part of the original team that organized March 7 😊
Check it out here:
medium.com/scitech-fore...
Disclaimer: I am NO LONGER part of @standupforscience.bsky.social & haven't been affiliated for months! Was just part of the original team that organized March 7 😊
That would be @erinmorrow.bsky.social doing incredible work as always!
PhD student @ucla appeals for research funding, building a student led campaign for science www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/phd-stu...
Ph.D. student pens heartfelt appeal for research funding, building a student-led campaign for science
Graduate student Erin Morrow is spending her summer break campaigning for the McClintock Letters.
www.universityofcalifornia.edu
August 10, 2025 at 12:26 AM
That would be @erinmorrow.bsky.social doing incredible work as always!
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Coming down the home stretch for #McClintockLetters! If you signed up to participate, there is still time.
Please reach out if you need a hand with getting published or edits or your pitch! We are here to help.
blogs.cornell.edu/asap/events-...
Please reach out if you need a hand with getting published or edits or your pitch! We are here to help.
blogs.cornell.edu/asap/events-...
July 9, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Coming down the home stretch for #McClintockLetters! If you signed up to participate, there is still time.
Please reach out if you need a hand with getting published or edits or your pitch! We are here to help.
blogs.cornell.edu/asap/events-...
Please reach out if you need a hand with getting published or edits or your pitch! We are here to help.
blogs.cornell.edu/asap/events-...
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An important correction in the NYT, to a chart that was shared a lot in recent days & that I shared myself, shows they'd made a mistake with the 18-24 year old turnout, and so it's not the case that age group outvoted all others.
Still: nothing to sneeze at here, still a huge surge in youth vote.
Still: nothing to sneeze at here, still a huge surge in youth vote.
July 1, 2025 at 12:07 AM
An important correction in the NYT, to a chart that was shared a lot in recent days & that I shared myself, shows they'd made a mistake with the 18-24 year old turnout, and so it's not the case that age group outvoted all others.
Still: nothing to sneeze at here, still a huge surge in youth vote.
Still: nothing to sneeze at here, still a huge surge in youth vote.
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As part of the #McClintockLetters Initiative, members of the Taga Lab wrote op-ed's and letters to their local hometown papers to defend federal science funding. Check them out in this thread and join the fight to defend federal science funding (1/4)!
June 26, 2025 at 9:21 PM
As part of the #McClintockLetters Initiative, members of the Taga Lab wrote op-ed's and letters to their local hometown papers to defend federal science funding. Check them out in this thread and join the fight to defend federal science funding (1/4)!
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So important! Please contact your Republican senators, especially Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME), Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA), Sen. Katie Britt (R-AL), and Sen. Dave McCormick (R-PA). 🙏 amplify!
As Robert Kuttner writes, the NIH will need support from Republican Senators to avoid draconian cuts to its FY2026 budget.
prospect.org/politics/202...
prospect.org/politics/202...
Will the Senate Save NIH?
Rescuing biomedical research is every bit as important as saving Medicaid.
prospect.org
June 25, 2025 at 1:01 AM
So important! Please contact your Republican senators, especially Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME), Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA), Sen. Katie Britt (R-AL), and Sen. Dave McCormick (R-PA). 🙏 amplify!
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Thank you, @pleunipennings.bsky.social, for sharing your experience with the #McClintockLetters Initiative, and for highlighting the excellent work of other participants.
Reaching people outside of our academic bubbles is exactly what we need to do!
abetterscientist.wordpress.com/2025/06/23/i...
Reaching people outside of our academic bubbles is exactly what we need to do!
abetterscientist.wordpress.com/2025/06/23/i...
I published my first letter-to-the-editor as part of the McClintock Letters initiative!
Flyer about the McClintock letters from To change minds, we need to reach people with our message. A group of graduate students came up with the idea to encourage scientists to publish letters in l…
abetterscientist.wordpress.com
June 24, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Thank you, @pleunipennings.bsky.social, for sharing your experience with the #McClintockLetters Initiative, and for highlighting the excellent work of other participants.
Reaching people outside of our academic bubbles is exactly what we need to do!
abetterscientist.wordpress.com/2025/06/23/i...
Reaching people outside of our academic bubbles is exactly what we need to do!
abetterscientist.wordpress.com/2025/06/23/i...
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It's not too late to participate in #McClintockLetters!
Check out all the resources we have available and get writing: tinyurl.com/McClintockLettersInitiative
Please don't hesistate to reach out with any questions!
Check out all the resources we have available and get writing: tinyurl.com/McClintockLettersInitiative
Please don't hesistate to reach out with any questions!
June 18, 2025 at 7:58 PM
It's not too late to participate in #McClintockLetters!
Check out all the resources we have available and get writing: tinyurl.com/McClintockLettersInitiative
Please don't hesistate to reach out with any questions!
Check out all the resources we have available and get writing: tinyurl.com/McClintockLettersInitiative
Please don't hesistate to reach out with any questions!
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Ashley Eng writes to MA, “I would not have gotten my start in science without the passionate community of science teachers I had as a proud BHS and UMass alum.” But now, “Federal funding agencies are terminating grants without reason and our valued federal employees are losing their jobs.” 🧪🏠
I hope my #Brookline community sees how these cuts are affecting those around us and joins the fight to defend federal science funding. (2/2) @brooklinenews.bsky.social @samjmintz.bsky.social brookline.news/re-the-world...
RE: ‘The world stopped making sense’: How Trump’s VA cuts uprooted the life and career of a Brookline researcher - Brookline.News
Science is being attacked in our country. Federal funding agencies are terminating grants without reason and our valued federal employees are losing their jobs. Our friends, families, and neighbors ar...
brookline.news
June 19, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Ashley Eng writes to MA, “I would not have gotten my start in science without the passionate community of science teachers I had as a proud BHS and UMass alum.” But now, “Federal funding agencies are terminating grants without reason and our valued federal employees are losing their jobs.” 🧪🏠
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Taga lab (past and present) will be at #ASMMicrobe2025! Swing by our posters to learn more about corrinoid producers in Archaea and more! Poster details are included in this thread. @asm.org #ASMMicrobe #MicroSky #ASMMicrobe25 #Microbe2025
June 16, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Taga lab (past and present) will be at #ASMMicrobe2025! Swing by our posters to learn more about corrinoid producers in Archaea and more! Poster details are included in this thread. @asm.org #ASMMicrobe #MicroSky #ASMMicrobe25 #Microbe2025
As part of #McClintockLetters, I wrote a response to an article sharing how federal funding cuts uprooted a neighbor's life. My path to science was directly shaped by my MA public education, and I wouldn't be the scientist and person I am today without it. (1/2)
June 17, 2025 at 4:59 AM
As part of #McClintockLetters, I wrote a response to an article sharing how federal funding cuts uprooted a neighbor's life. My path to science was directly shaped by my MA public education, and I wouldn't be the scientist and person I am today without it. (1/2)
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So grateful to be one of the 500+ early-career scientists returning to their roots this month. The SNAP team behind this campaign has been such a blast to work with! @snapcoalition.bsky.social
Check out my piece in the Marietta Daily Journal, as well as other national coverage: bit.ly/3HXlfB4
Check out my piece in the Marietta Daily Journal, as well as other national coverage: bit.ly/3HXlfB4
June 16, 2025 at 8:09 PM
So grateful to be one of the 500+ early-career scientists returning to their roots this month. The SNAP team behind this campaign has been such a blast to work with! @snapcoalition.bsky.social
Check out my piece in the Marietta Daily Journal, as well as other national coverage: bit.ly/3HXlfB4
Check out my piece in the Marietta Daily Journal, as well as other national coverage: bit.ly/3HXlfB4
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Working with and learning from incredible leaders like @isakoditomassi.bsky.social and dozens others @snapcoalition.bsky.social has been the highlight of my year! Read how trainees are taking action: www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
Researchers have a radical plan to thwart Trump's war on science: Talking to people
Faced with federal funding cuts, scientists are learning to communicate about what they do — and why it matters.
www.nbcnews.com
June 12, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Working with and learning from incredible leaders like @isakoditomassi.bsky.social and dozens others @snapcoalition.bsky.social has been the highlight of my year! Read how trainees are taking action: www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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Scientists at UC Berkeley have filed a lawsuit against the Trump admin, accusing of politically motivated cuts to funding.
“I think that if we fight back and we show that our laws still work, it means something to people,” says Sabeeha Merchant, Berkeley professor.
zurl.co/xnJgg
@tktk.bsky.social
“I think that if we fight back and we show that our laws still work, it means something to people,” says Sabeeha Merchant, Berkeley professor.
zurl.co/xnJgg
@tktk.bsky.social
UC Berkeley researchers team up for first-of-its-kind lawsuit over Trump funding cuts
University of California staff members hope to use a class action lawsuit to restore their research funding.
zurl.co
June 8, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Scientists at UC Berkeley have filed a lawsuit against the Trump admin, accusing of politically motivated cuts to funding.
“I think that if we fight back and we show that our laws still work, it means something to people,” says Sabeeha Merchant, Berkeley professor.
zurl.co/xnJgg
@tktk.bsky.social
“I think that if we fight back and we show that our laws still work, it means something to people,” says Sabeeha Merchant, Berkeley professor.
zurl.co/xnJgg
@tktk.bsky.social
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For some perspective, the federal government funds *over half* of all scientific research and development conducted by the @uofcalifornia.bsky.social -- and UC is collectively responsible, in turn, for over 8% of all academic research conducted in the United States.
June 6, 2025 at 11:41 PM
For some perspective, the federal government funds *over half* of all scientific research and development conducted by the @uofcalifornia.bsky.social -- and UC is collectively responsible, in turn, for over 8% of all academic research conducted in the United States.
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Share your science story!✍️ Join the McClintock Letters Initiative to write op-eds for your hometown newspaper, explaining the importance of your research and why science matters
Join their free writing workshop June 6 @ 12p ET via Zoom
Learn more: blogs.cornell.edu/asap/events-...
Join their free writing workshop June 6 @ 12p ET via Zoom
Learn more: blogs.cornell.edu/asap/events-...
June 5, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Share your science story!✍️ Join the McClintock Letters Initiative to write op-eds for your hometown newspaper, explaining the importance of your research and why science matters
Join their free writing workshop June 6 @ 12p ET via Zoom
Learn more: blogs.cornell.edu/asap/events-...
Join their free writing workshop June 6 @ 12p ET via Zoom
Learn more: blogs.cornell.edu/asap/events-...
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Yes! Scientists, let's share our work with the public. Write an LTE/op-ed/ or guest column in a LOCAL HOMETOWN PAPER, published June 16! #McClintockLetters #SciComm
Share how we serve the public with fed dollars, & insights into fed funded research. Signup + more info: tinyurl.com/McClintockLetters
Share how we serve the public with fed dollars, & insights into fed funded research. Signup + more info: tinyurl.com/McClintockLetters
May 22, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Yes! Scientists, let's share our work with the public. Write an LTE/op-ed/ or guest column in a LOCAL HOMETOWN PAPER, published June 16! #McClintockLetters #SciComm
Share how we serve the public with fed dollars, & insights into fed funded research. Signup + more info: tinyurl.com/McClintockLetters
Share how we serve the public with fed dollars, & insights into fed funded research. Signup + more info: tinyurl.com/McClintockLetters
I wrote/interviewed folx shortly after everything started to crumble in Jan, but I was re-reminded that communities prevail. There are amazing people doing beautiful things to improve our communities, and I’m excited to highlight their work. berkeleysciencereview.com/article/2025...
May 15, 2025 at 3:28 PM
I wrote/interviewed folx shortly after everything started to crumble in Jan, but I was re-reminded that communities prevail. There are amazing people doing beautiful things to improve our communities, and I’m excited to highlight their work. berkeleysciencereview.com/article/2025...
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Bezos plans to sell ~$4.8 billion of Amazon stock. That's only 2.5% of his holdings in the company.
That sale roughly equals the proposed ~50% cut to NSF.
IOW, with modest endowment-level growth of Amazon, Bezos could fund the entire NSF shortfall into perpetuity.
www.cnbc.com/2025/05/02/j...
That sale roughly equals the proposed ~50% cut to NSF.
IOW, with modest endowment-level growth of Amazon, Bezos could fund the entire NSF shortfall into perpetuity.
www.cnbc.com/2025/05/02/j...
May 2, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Bezos plans to sell ~$4.8 billion of Amazon stock. That's only 2.5% of his holdings in the company.
That sale roughly equals the proposed ~50% cut to NSF.
IOW, with modest endowment-level growth of Amazon, Bezos could fund the entire NSF shortfall into perpetuity.
www.cnbc.com/2025/05/02/j...
That sale roughly equals the proposed ~50% cut to NSF.
IOW, with modest endowment-level growth of Amazon, Bezos could fund the entire NSF shortfall into perpetuity.
www.cnbc.com/2025/05/02/j...
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I’m thrilled to share my first ever publication, now published in PNAS! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
With mentorship from the amazing @ksxue.bsky.social, I looked at how the outcomes of species introductions to microbial communities are influenced by the number of introduced microbes.
With mentorship from the amazing @ksxue.bsky.social, I looked at how the outcomes of species introductions to microbial communities are influenced by the number of introduced microbes.
PNAS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
www.pnas.org
March 11, 2025 at 1:22 PM
I’m thrilled to share my first ever publication, now published in PNAS! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
With mentorship from the amazing @ksxue.bsky.social, I looked at how the outcomes of species introductions to microbial communities are influenced by the number of introduced microbes.
With mentorship from the amazing @ksxue.bsky.social, I looked at how the outcomes of species introductions to microbial communities are influenced by the number of introduced microbes.