Ashley Bulseco, Ph.D.
@ashleybulseco.bsky.social
Assistant Professor | Coastal Microbial Ecologist & Biogeochemist interested in how we change the environment, one microbe at a time | Views my own | She/her 🏳️🌈🌊🌱🧬
http://ashley.bulseco.org
http://ashley.bulseco.org
Today’s win so far is when the barista handed me my chai latte and told me to “enjoy,” I refrained from saying, “you too.” 🥇
October 27, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Today’s win so far is when the barista handed me my chai latte and told me to “enjoy,” I refrained from saying, “you too.” 🥇
Fall views in the salt marsh = some of my favorite field work days 🍁🌱🧬
October 17, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Fall views in the salt marsh = some of my favorite field work days 🍁🌱🧬
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🚨GRFP DEADLINE ALERT!🚨 I missed this in my original solicitation read-through, so FYI 📣LETTERS ARE DUE BEFORE PROPOSALS📣 this year!
"Reference letters are due Friday, November 7 at 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time (ET)."
www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
"Reference letters are due Friday, November 7 at 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time (ET)."
www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)
www.nsf.gov
October 3, 2025 at 10:36 PM
🚨GRFP DEADLINE ALERT!🚨 I missed this in my original solicitation read-through, so FYI 📣LETTERS ARE DUE BEFORE PROPOSALS📣 this year!
"Reference letters are due Friday, November 7 at 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time (ET)."
www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
"Reference letters are due Friday, November 7 at 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time (ET)."
www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
Sometimes #academicmom life is writing a proposal narrative draft on your phone with two kids sitting in your lap while watching Bluey on a Friday night.
October 3, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Sometimes #academicmom life is writing a proposal narrative draft on your phone with two kids sitting in your lap while watching Bluey on a Friday night.
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Pro-tip for faculty who are more trusting than me: any time anyone tells me to do something verbally, I always send an email to them right after saying "For my memory, just to recap our conversation a few minutes ago, you asked me to do X. Please let me know if I misunderstood." Paper👏trail👏ALWAYS!👏
This shit is happening in Florida, too, only more quietly. Deans are regularly strangling readings, grants, entire courses. They do it all verbally. No paper trail, no policies cited, just vague threats about the need to "follow the laws." Colleagues in China report less surveillance over teaching
Texas A&M’s President just removed a dean and department head from their positions after they supported a professor whose lesson on gender was challenged by a student. www.kbtx.com/2025/09/09/a...
September 9, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Pro-tip for faculty who are more trusting than me: any time anyone tells me to do something verbally, I always send an email to them right after saying "For my memory, just to recap our conversation a few minutes ago, you asked me to do X. Please let me know if I misunderstood." Paper👏trail👏ALWAYS!👏
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2026 OCB Activity Proposal Solicitation now open until Oct 24 - spread the word! www.us-ocb.org/science-supp... @nacp-carbon.bsky.social @usclivar.bsky.social @ccspo.bsky.social @solas-ipo.bsky.social 🌊
August 20, 2025 at 7:12 PM
2026 OCB Activity Proposal Solicitation now open until Oct 24 - spread the word! www.us-ocb.org/science-supp... @nacp-carbon.bsky.social @usclivar.bsky.social @ccspo.bsky.social @solas-ipo.bsky.social 🌊
At #ESA2025? Ideas on how to expand above and belowground community datasets? Check out: SS 10 "Time is of the Essence: Toward Meeting the Pressing Need for Paired Long-Term Sampling of Above- and Belowground Communities." BCC 338 Mon 10:30-11:30.
We will discuss practical ideas & form a network!
We will discuss practical ideas & form a network!
August 10, 2025 at 3:30 PM
At #ESA2025? Ideas on how to expand above and belowground community datasets? Check out: SS 10 "Time is of the Essence: Toward Meeting the Pressing Need for Paired Long-Term Sampling of Above- and Belowground Communities." BCC 338 Mon 10:30-11:30.
We will discuss practical ideas & form a network!
We will discuss practical ideas & form a network!
Exciting news, our SPARC proposal has been funded! Our project brings together experts across disciplines and will explore above-belowground coupling/synchrony. Big thanks to @uslter.bsky.social! lternet.edu/stories/thre... 🌱🦠📉🌎
#LTER #SPARC #plants #microbes #SynthesisScience #TeamScience
#LTER #SPARC #plants #microbes #SynthesisScience #TeamScience
Three new SPARC Synthesis Groups demonstrate the value of long-term data collected across ecosystems - LTER
The LTER Network Office is excited to announce that three Scientific Peers Advancing Research Collaborations (SPARC) proposals were funded this year. The three groups will meet in person at the Nation...
lternet.edu
July 1, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Exciting news, our SPARC proposal has been funded! Our project brings together experts across disciplines and will explore above-belowground coupling/synchrony. Big thanks to @uslter.bsky.social! lternet.edu/stories/thre... 🌱🦠📉🌎
#LTER #SPARC #plants #microbes #SynthesisScience #TeamScience
#LTER #SPARC #plants #microbes #SynthesisScience #TeamScience
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Protect Trans Scientists.
cowritten with a lot of amazing people (I tagged those I could find but there are so many more incredible folks)
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
@thepunkscientist.bsky.social @jlw-ecoevo.bsky.social @bfrancescol.bsky.social @drsueishaq.bsky.social
cowritten with a lot of amazing people (I tagged those I could find but there are so many more incredible folks)
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
@thepunkscientist.bsky.social @jlw-ecoevo.bsky.social @bfrancescol.bsky.social @drsueishaq.bsky.social
Protect transgender scientists
Transgender and gender nonconforming (TGnC) people are a primary target of the Trump administration. Multiple executive orders seek to erase TGnC protections; mandate denial of gender identity; and ba...
www.science.org
June 19, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Protect Trans Scientists.
cowritten with a lot of amazing people (I tagged those I could find but there are so many more incredible folks)
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
@thepunkscientist.bsky.social @jlw-ecoevo.bsky.social @bfrancescol.bsky.social @drsueishaq.bsky.social
cowritten with a lot of amazing people (I tagged those I could find but there are so many more incredible folks)
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
@thepunkscientist.bsky.social @jlw-ecoevo.bsky.social @bfrancescol.bsky.social @drsueishaq.bsky.social
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I did my best to compile as many protest safety notes as possible into a one page foldout zine! Coincidentally…it seems the file has breached containment…like it’s available for anyone to print or hand out 👀⚖️
toonyart.com/s/PSZine.pdf
toonyart.com/s/PSZine.pdf
June 12, 2025 at 11:59 PM
I did my best to compile as many protest safety notes as possible into a one page foldout zine! Coincidentally…it seems the file has breached containment…like it’s available for anyone to print or hand out 👀⚖️
toonyart.com/s/PSZine.pdf
toonyart.com/s/PSZine.pdf
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Are you a recent PhD (or soon to be PhD) from outside Canada looking to do a postdoc in Quebec?
Get in touch if you are excited about microbes, evolution, ecology, genomics (or all of the above!) and I'd be happy to help develop a project together!
www.mcgill.ca/gps/funding/...
Get in touch if you are excited about microbes, evolution, ecology, genomics (or all of the above!) and I'd be happy to help develop a project together!
www.mcgill.ca/gps/funding/...
PBEEE/Quebec Merit Scholarship for Foreign Postdocs and Visiting Research Student and Visiting Researchers
**Note that the FRQ is in the process of revamping their webpages. We will update links soon as we can with the current 2025 year's information. Be sure to check back to see if any eligibility or docu...
www.mcgill.ca
June 11, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Are you a recent PhD (or soon to be PhD) from outside Canada looking to do a postdoc in Quebec?
Get in touch if you are excited about microbes, evolution, ecology, genomics (or all of the above!) and I'd be happy to help develop a project together!
www.mcgill.ca/gps/funding/...
Get in touch if you are excited about microbes, evolution, ecology, genomics (or all of the above!) and I'd be happy to help develop a project together!
www.mcgill.ca/gps/funding/...
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For non-scientists: the funding rate is somewhere between 7% to ~25% (rare) for NIH or NSF grants, depending on where you are applying. Grants are reviewed by a panel of peers who read the grants, score them, then debate the ratings for 1-2 days to rank them. It is INCREDIBLY competitive already.
Republican Senator Katie Britt: We need to create a system "where the beat idea wins... This is our opportunity to make a dollar go further and to make it have a greater impact."
(NIH already generates $2.56 for every $1 spent it spends on research.)
(NIH already generates $2.56 for every $1 spent it spends on research.)
June 10, 2025 at 5:07 PM
For non-scientists: the funding rate is somewhere between 7% to ~25% (rare) for NIH or NSF grants, depending on where you are applying. Grants are reviewed by a panel of peers who read the grants, score them, then debate the ratings for 1-2 days to rank them. It is INCREDIBLY competitive already.
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I hadn't seen anything about USDA NIFA/AFRI in the FY26 request so I looked it up. Does this just get rid of Hatch Act funding for land grants? Am I reading that right?
May 31, 2025 at 6:59 PM
I hadn't seen anything about USDA NIFA/AFRI in the FY26 request so I looked it up. Does this just get rid of Hatch Act funding for land grants? Am I reading that right?
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I’m not going to retweet that NOAA propaganda post about deep sea mining.
Instead, I’ll tell you that I don’t know a single NOAA scientist who would promote deep sea mining in this way, because the available science we have does not justify exploitation of deep sea habitats for minerals.
Instead, I’ll tell you that I don’t know a single NOAA scientist who would promote deep sea mining in this way, because the available science we have does not justify exploitation of deep sea habitats for minerals.
April 25, 2025 at 10:10 PM
I’m not going to retweet that NOAA propaganda post about deep sea mining.
Instead, I’ll tell you that I don’t know a single NOAA scientist who would promote deep sea mining in this way, because the available science we have does not justify exploitation of deep sea habitats for minerals.
Instead, I’ll tell you that I don’t know a single NOAA scientist who would promote deep sea mining in this way, because the available science we have does not justify exploitation of deep sea habitats for minerals.
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Yes! Another foundation stepping up to meet the moment. I’ve been waiting to hear more news like this.
Are you a health equity researcher who has lost federal funding for a project?
RWJF’s Evidence for Action is offering Rapid Response grants to support community-centered, social science research disrupted by cuts. ☀️
More details: www.rwjf.org/en/grants/ac...
RWJF’s Evidence for Action is offering Rapid Response grants to support community-centered, social science research disrupted by cuts. ☀️
More details: www.rwjf.org/en/grants/ac...
Research to Advanced Racial and Indigenous Health Equity
We seek to build an actionable body of evidence to construct fair systems that determine resource distribution and support health equity. Deadlines: Rapid Response brief proposal 5/28/25; New Research...
www.rwjf.org
April 23, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Yes! Another foundation stepping up to meet the moment. I’ve been waiting to hear more news like this.
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PANGAEA is working to rescue data from the US!
Many datasets - e.g. from NOAA - are being decommissioned in May. PANGAEA has opened its archive to safeguard these valuable resources.
"If you become aware of any endangered datasets, please don't hesitate to contact us. We ❤️ data!" www.pangaea.de
Many datasets - e.g. from NOAA - are being decommissioned in May. PANGAEA has opened its archive to safeguard these valuable resources.
"If you become aware of any endangered datasets, please don't hesitate to contact us. We ❤️ data!" www.pangaea.de
April 21, 2025 at 1:19 PM
PANGAEA is working to rescue data from the US!
Many datasets - e.g. from NOAA - are being decommissioned in May. PANGAEA has opened its archive to safeguard these valuable resources.
"If you become aware of any endangered datasets, please don't hesitate to contact us. We ❤️ data!" www.pangaea.de
Many datasets - e.g. from NOAA - are being decommissioned in May. PANGAEA has opened its archive to safeguard these valuable resources.
"If you become aware of any endangered datasets, please don't hesitate to contact us. We ❤️ data!" www.pangaea.de
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🧪 Our Terminated NSF Grant Tracker is live 🧪
🔴 114 NSF grants listed so far
🔴 Cancelled grants focused on
→ Training scientists
→ Misinformation
→ AI
→ Climate change
Credit to @noamross.net for all the work to build this & to all PIs who submitted their info.
Link: airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni...
🔴 114 NSF grants listed so far
🔴 Cancelled grants focused on
→ Training scientists
→ Misinformation
→ AI
→ Climate change
Credit to @noamross.net for all the work to build this & to all PIs who submitted their info.
Link: airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni...
April 21, 2025 at 7:59 PM
🧪 Our Terminated NSF Grant Tracker is live 🧪
🔴 114 NSF grants listed so far
🔴 Cancelled grants focused on
→ Training scientists
→ Misinformation
→ AI
→ Climate change
Credit to @noamross.net for all the work to build this & to all PIs who submitted their info.
Link: airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni...
🔴 114 NSF grants listed so far
🔴 Cancelled grants focused on
→ Training scientists
→ Misinformation
→ AI
→ Climate change
Credit to @noamross.net for all the work to build this & to all PIs who submitted their info.
Link: airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni...
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This is evil and awful and trans people everywhere deserve better than what's happening right now.
And I think it's impossible to overtstate the pivotal role that JK Rowling played in mainstreaming hateful and false ideas about trans people. Every dollar you give her goes toward efforts like this.
And I think it's impossible to overtstate the pivotal role that JK Rowling played in mainstreaming hateful and false ideas about trans people. Every dollar you give her goes toward efforts like this.
The U.K. Supreme Court rules that Britain's equalities law defines a woman as someone born biologically female. The ruling means a transgender person with a certificate that recognizes them as female should not be considered a woman for equality purposes.
UK Supreme Court rules that equalities law defines a woman as someone born biologically female
The Supreme Court has ruled that the U.K. equalities law defines a woman as someone born biologically female.
bit.ly
April 16, 2025 at 1:49 PM
This is evil and awful and trans people everywhere deserve better than what's happening right now.
And I think it's impossible to overtstate the pivotal role that JK Rowling played in mainstreaming hateful and false ideas about trans people. Every dollar you give her goes toward efforts like this.
And I think it's impossible to overtstate the pivotal role that JK Rowling played in mainstreaming hateful and false ideas about trans people. Every dollar you give her goes toward efforts like this.
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Shout out to the tenured and emeritus faculty who are speaking up on here, at rallies, in calls and emails to legislators, in board meetings, in meetings with funders, so that us non-tenured folks don't risk our careers to speak out against *waves hands wildly* all of this
April 16, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Shout out to the tenured and emeritus faculty who are speaking up on here, at rallies, in calls and emails to legislators, in board meetings, in meetings with funders, so that us non-tenured folks don't risk our careers to speak out against *waves hands wildly* all of this
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BREAKING:The National Science Foundation (NSF) has put a cork in its grantmaking pipeline after billionaire Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) set up shop at the agency this week. | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
NSF halts grant awards while staff do second review
Action comes after DOGE team arrives at science agency
www.science.org
April 16, 2025 at 9:12 PM
BREAKING:The National Science Foundation (NSF) has put a cork in its grantmaking pipeline after billionaire Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) set up shop at the agency this week. | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
Interested in what we can learn from microbes in coastal restoration efforts? Submit an abstract to our session for @cerfscience.bsky.social in Nov: "Microscopic to Mighty: Harnessing Microbial Ecology for Restoration Success", co-led by the fabulous @ellewoodsofmyco.bsky.social! #CERF2025
CERF 2025 Registration is NOW OPEN! Join us November 9–13, 2025, in Richmond, Virginia for an incredible opportunity to connect, learn, and grow with fellow coastal and estuarine science professionals. #CERF2025
🔗 Secure your spot today at conference.cerf.science
🔗 Secure your spot today at conference.cerf.science
April 12, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Interested in what we can learn from microbes in coastal restoration efforts? Submit an abstract to our session for @cerfscience.bsky.social in Nov: "Microscopic to Mighty: Harnessing Microbial Ecology for Restoration Success", co-led by the fabulous @ellewoodsofmyco.bsky.social! #CERF2025
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There are days in life that shake you.
I’m shattered 💔 to share that I just found out that the US Government terminated my 2024 NIH Director’s Early Independence Award (~$2 million), threatening my long-promised assistant professor job at Columbia University
& academic career... 1/🧵
I’m shattered 💔 to share that I just found out that the US Government terminated my 2024 NIH Director’s Early Independence Award (~$2 million), threatening my long-promised assistant professor job at Columbia University
& academic career... 1/🧵
March 18, 2025 at 11:27 PM
There are days in life that shake you.
I’m shattered 💔 to share that I just found out that the US Government terminated my 2024 NIH Director’s Early Independence Award (~$2 million), threatening my long-promised assistant professor job at Columbia University
& academic career... 1/🧵
I’m shattered 💔 to share that I just found out that the US Government terminated my 2024 NIH Director’s Early Independence Award (~$2 million), threatening my long-promised assistant professor job at Columbia University
& academic career... 1/🧵
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OSU is hiring! Come work at CEOAS - Open rank faculty position and director of the Oregon State Stable Isotope Laboratory. My network is small on Bluesky, please share widely! Reach out if you have questions about living in Corvallis or about CEOAS specifically.
jobs.oregonstate.edu/postings/165...
jobs.oregonstate.edu/postings/165...
Oregon State University Jobs Portal | Assistant/Associate/Full Professor | Print Preview
jobs.oregonstate.edu
March 19, 2025 at 5:12 PM
OSU is hiring! Come work at CEOAS - Open rank faculty position and director of the Oregon State Stable Isotope Laboratory. My network is small on Bluesky, please share widely! Reach out if you have questions about living in Corvallis or about CEOAS specifically.
jobs.oregonstate.edu/postings/165...
jobs.oregonstate.edu/postings/165...
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This is a devastating list
Congress has just released a list of federal DOI offices to be closed under the ongoing massacre of our natural resource agencies -- it's extensive and includes many important NPS, BLM, USGS and USFWS facilities across the country. Truly horrific. democrats-naturalresources.house.gov/imo/media/do...
democrats-naturalresources.house.gov
March 2, 2025 at 12:22 AM
This is a devastating list
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Free to print posters for the Stand Up for Science Protest
Hi everyone, I am not in the US at the moment and I am sad to miss the Stand Up for Science demonstration on March 7th! I hope you will go, and it make it easier for you, I made some easy-to-print signs! I made 7 different poster designs,…
Hi everyone, I am not in the US at the moment and I am sad to miss the Stand Up for Science demonstration on March 7th! I hope you will go, and it make it easier for you, I made some easy-to-print signs! I made 7 different poster designs,…
Free to print posters for the Stand Up for Science Protest
Hi everyone, I am not in the US at the moment and I am sad to miss the Stand Up for Science demonstration on March 7th! I hope you will go, and it make it easier for you, I made some easy-to-print signs! I made 7 different poster designs, with for each of the designs 2-page and 4-page printables with solid letters or just the outlines of the letters.
abetterscientist.wordpress.com
March 1, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Free to print posters for the Stand Up for Science Protest
Hi everyone, I am not in the US at the moment and I am sad to miss the Stand Up for Science demonstration on March 7th! I hope you will go, and it make it easier for you, I made some easy-to-print signs! I made 7 different poster designs,…
Hi everyone, I am not in the US at the moment and I am sad to miss the Stand Up for Science demonstration on March 7th! I hope you will go, and it make it easier for you, I made some easy-to-print signs! I made 7 different poster designs,…