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Ashley Bulseco, Ph.D.

@ashleybulseco.bsky.social
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Assistant Professor | Coastal Microbial Ecologist & Biogeochemist interested in how we change the environment, one microbe at a time | Views my own | She/her 🏳️‍🌈🌊🌱🧬 ashley.bulseco.org

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Ashley Bulseco, Ph.D. @ashleybulseco.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Don’t mind me! Just an academic mom writing a proposal while entertaining my 2 and 5-year old, who enjoy sitting in my lap while singing Danny Go. I may or may not have just had a wedge of brie, crackers, and iced coffee for dinner… But actually, I’m loving every second.
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Ashley Bulseco, Ph.D. @ashleybulseco.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Earlier this week, Camille kicked off the field season by scoping out sites for her thesis! Big thanks to Dr. David Burdick for sharing his expertise and insights. We’re excited to learn more about what microbes can tell us about restoration trajectory. Stay tuned! 🧬🌎🌱 #restoration #microbes
Two scientists standing in salt marsh holding a sediment core 

Scientist facing the camera holding a sediment core Hand holding sediment core pointing at a white line Fence leading into the water in front of a salt marsh
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Ashley Bulseco, Ph.D. @ashleybulseco.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Interested in hearing updates from our SPARC working group focused on understanding consequences of plant-microbe interactions over time? Join us tomorrow March 10 at 1 PM ET to hear from our team. Register below! 🌱🦠📈📉 #nsffunded #plant #microbe #synchrony #lter
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Maggi Brisbin @margaretbrisbin.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Our college is hiring a new TT faculty in Aquatic Ecotoxicology. Feel free to reach out if you have any questions about working in the college or living in St. Pete, FL (spoiler, I love it here :)) jobs.sciencecareers.org/job/676280/t...
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Tenure-Track Faculty Position in Aquatic Ecotoxicology - Saint Petersburg, Florida job with University of South Florida | 676280
The College of Marine Science (CMS) at the University of South Florida (USF) seeks applications for a tenure-track faculty in Aquatic Ecotoxicology.
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Rebecca Nagle @rebeccanagle.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Did you know that less than 0.5% of philanthropic giving goes to Native Americans. Here are Native-led places you can donate this #GivingTuesday.🧵
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Ashley Bulseco, Ph.D. @ashleybulseco.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
Today’s cozy cabin vibes combine the calm of snowy seclusion with the chaos of proposal writing. ‘Tis the season! 🌲❄️
Chair aside a table with computer and monitor in front of a window leading to a snowy exterior.
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Wafik S. El-Deiry, MD, PhD, FACP @weldeiry.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
EPA accused of misleading public about ongoing production of harmful PFAS www.thenewlede.org/2025/10/epa-...
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EPA accused of misleading public about ongoing production of harmful PFAS
Federal regulators are falsely claiming that production of a dangerous PFAS chemical has been phased out in the US, according to a complaint filed this week by an environmental watchdog group alleging...
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Vera Starbard @verastarbard.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
On this 19th day of #AlaskaNativeHeritageMonth we’re highlighting #Yup’ik agricultural specialist Elias Kelly’s memoir about life in #Alaska. #nativeamericanheritagemonth #alaskanative #yupik #indigenous #books #booksky #writer #author #native #nativeamerican verastarbard.com/2025/11/19/t...
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Thirty Days of Alaska Native Books: Day 19
On this nineteenth day of Alaska Native Heritage Month we’re highlighting “My Side of the River” by Yup’ik writer Elias Kelly. In this memoir Elias gives a unique look at ecological and legal discu…
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Ashley Bulseco, Ph.D. @ashleybulseco.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
The Coastal MicroEco Lab had a blast at the CERF @cerfscience.bsky.social conference! Congrats to lab members Camille and Marley for superb posters and THANKS to panelists/participants of collab sesh with @ellewoodsofmyco.bsky.social) focused on integrating microbes into restoration efforts 🌎🦠🧬
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Ashley Bulseco, Ph.D. @ashleybulseco.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
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.” 🥇
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Ashley Bulseco, Ph.D. @ashleybulseco.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Fall views in the salt marsh = some of my favorite field work days 🍁🌱🧬
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Holly Moeller @mixotrophe.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
🚨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...
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NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)
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Ashley Bulseco, Ph.D. @ashleybulseco.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
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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Niema Moshiri @niema.net · 09/09/2025
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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Ocean Carbon & Biogeochemistry (OCB) @usocb.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
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 🌊
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Ashley Bulseco, Ph.D. @ashleybulseco.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
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!
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Ashley Bulseco, Ph.D. @ashleybulseco.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
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
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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...
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Julie Johnston @queermsfrizzle.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
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
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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...
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Alex Graudins @toonyballoony.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
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
The cover spread from a one page zine printout. The left (back cover) features images of a scale and gavel, with notes on First Amendment and filming rights, and the advice to “shut the fuck up.”

On the right is the cover, a megaphone with the title text “PROTEST SAFELY.” Behind it are faceless protestors. The subtitle notes, “A brief collection of tips from around the internet.”A spread from one page zine printout.
On the left is an illustration of a protestor with the title “What to Wear,” including a helmet, goggles, ear plugs, gloves, a mask, a backpack, and layers/long sleeves/pants. Each have additional notes explaining their use.

On the right is “What to Bring,” featuring illustrations of a backpack, money, water bottles, a mask, a granola bar and bag of trail mix, a first aid kit, folded shirt and pants, and an ID, with “DIY Defense” listed underneath it showing one protestor using a luggage case, one holding a trash can lid, and one using an open umbrella as a shield.A spread from one page zine printout.
On the left is “Protect Your Identity,” advising to cover up identifying features, avoiding photography of protesters, deactivating biometric phone-unlocking tools, and writing emergency contact and counsel numbers on your arm.

On the right is “Be Like Water,” the motto of the 2019 Hong Kong protests, and the text “BEWARE THE BAIT” with images of a palette of bricks and a masked man holding a crowbar toward a protestor with a sign, “Psst, free crowbar?” encouraging the reader not to engage with traps and undercover agents.A spread from one page zine printout featuring the hazards of protest opposition, including tear gas, rubber bullets, and LRAD sound cannons and flash bangs. Caution tape images accompany the text explaining the dangers of each, how to flush out eyes that have been maced/etc, and how to extinguish a gas canister with a traffic cone.
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Jesse Shapiro @bjesseshapiro.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
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/...
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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...
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Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
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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Morgan Carter @morgancarterphd.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
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?
A table depicting discretionary spending requests for NIFA budget authority. The Hatch Act line has a - for the 2026 budget instead of the $265 million from the years before.
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Tessa Hill @tessahill.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
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.
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Heather Randell @heatherrandell.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Yes! Another foundation stepping up to meet the moment. I’ve been waiting to hear more news like this.
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Emil Ruff @emilruff.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
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
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Scott Delaney @scott-delaney.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
🧪 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...
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Alanna Smith @alannawrites.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
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.
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Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
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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David Malakoff @davidmalakoff.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
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...
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NSF halts grant awards while staff do second review
Action comes after DOGE team arrives at science agency
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Ashley Bulseco, Ph.D. @ashleybulseco.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
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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Kelton Minor @keltonminor.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
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/🧵
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Jenn Fehrenbacher @jennfehrenbacher.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
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...
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Oregon State University Jobs Portal | Assistant/Associate/Full Professor | Print Preview
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Claire G. Griffin @polargriffin.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
This is a devastating list
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Pleuni Pennings @pleunipennings.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
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,…
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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, with for each of the designs 2-page and 4-page printables with solid letters or just the outlines of the letters.
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Katie O'Reilly @drkatfish.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
For context, the funding being terminated is 50% of Maine Sea Grant's budget. Cutting $4.5 million won't make a drop in the overall federal budget, but will decimate the program. Maine Sea Grant, like all Sea Grant programs, exists to serve the American people. The return on investment is huge.
An infographic about the impact of Sea Grant funding
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Ashley Bulseco, Ph.D. @ashleybulseco.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
My REU in 2011 helped me understand I had a path in research. Since then, I’ve had the privilege of mentoring several REU’s, many of whom have gone onto grad school or scientific careers. The gutting of these programs will have a devastating impact for many years. www.science.org/content/arti...
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NSF downsizes summer research program for undergraduates
Many participants are from groups underrepresented in science
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Adriana Romero-Olivares, PhD @fungi-lover.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Proud to be part of this awesome team! Thanks to @balachaudhary.bsky.social and @khadlily.bsky.social, unstoppable forces in EcoEvo 💜💜 @wocineeb.bsky.social has done a lot for me and other POC in EcoEvo so please help us protect groups like this www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Protect US racial affinity groups
On its first day, the Trump administration released several executive orders terminating diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs, calling them “illegal,” “immoral,” and “discriminatory” (1, 2)...
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joe vallino ∫🦠dxdt ≻∫🔥dxdt @mepjoe.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Nice review on connecting marine biogeochemistry models with -omics: Microbial Ecology to Ocean Carbon Cycling: From Genomes to Numerical Models doi.org/10.1146/annu...
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Microbial Ecology to Ocean Carbon Cycling: From Genomes to Numerical Models | Annual Reviews
The oceans contain large reservoirs of inorganic and organic carbon and play a critical role in both global carbon cycling and climate. Most of the biogeochemical transformations in the oceans are dri...
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Natalie Cohen @oceanatalie.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
I am looking for a summer undergraduate intern to help out with harmful algal bloom monitoring in coastal GA! Fully funded internship and housing is available. Pls help spread the word! www.skio.uga.edu/undergraduat... #habs #REU #aquaticecology #internship #oceanography
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Undergraduate Internships - Skidaway Institute of Oceanography
“The classroom is where we lay the foundation, but an internship at the Skidaway Institute provides the framework to build a... Read more »
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GutMichaelBiome @gutmichaelbio.me · 25/02/2025
If anyone else, like me, is on the lookout for #microbiome #postdoc positions, check out this custom feed I made. Any posts within the last 7 days mentioning both "microbiome" and "postdoc" will populate in the feed. bsky.app/profile/did:... #AcademicSky #PostDocJobs #Microsky
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Ashley Bulseco, Ph.D. @ashleybulseco.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Frantically finding a new (and safe) daycare for my two kids in the midst of a childcare shortage because of a carbon monoxide emergency was certainly NOT something I planned for... Please, please - make it stop.
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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
This is an attack on US science. NSF staff provide critical support for scientific infrastructure and global excellence. These are valuable dedicated public servants. Please contact your reps, write letters, make noise! Are there any plans for rallies at NSF headquarters? Journalists: COVER THIS!
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Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
I am done being sad about anti-DEI measures & am solidly back in the succeeding-by-spite mode. It got me through undergrad, & grad school, & my postdoc & my first asst prof position. Want me to jump through hoops for funding? Fine. I'll jump over the hoops & teach the next gen how to do it too.
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Vaughn Cooper @vscooper.micropopbio.org · 31/01/2025
Since 1991, the NIH Science Education Partnership Award (SEPA) is dedicated to K-12 students & funds innovative STEM educational projects. It supports our EvolvingSTEM program that engages >1500 students/yr in authentic research. 🚨Its Program Announcement (PAR-23-137) is now GONE.😡 nihsepa.org
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The Science Education Partnership Award (SEPA) program funds innovative science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) and Informal Science Education (ISE) educational projects for pre-kinde
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Jeremy Yoder says no war @jbyoder.org · 28/01/2025
A reprieve, for now Federal judge temporarily blocks Trump administration freeze on federal grants and loans apnews.com/article/dona...
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Federal judge temporarily blocks Trump administration freeze on federal grants and loans
A federal judge has temporarily blocked a Trump administration freeze on federal grants and loans that could total trillions of dollars. U.S. District Judge Loren L.
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Vaughn Cooper @vscooper.micropopbio.org · 17/01/2025
Childhood vaccination rates began declining in the pandemic but haven't recovered. H/T to @patschloss.bsky.social who featured these plots in his newsletter. Article shows state-by-state trends, allowing outbreak risk forecasting www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Childhood Vaccination Rates Were Falling Even Before the Rise of R.F.K. Jr.
The declines began with the pandemic, well before routine vaccines became part of the national political conversation.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 26/01/2025
Black and Asian Queer-owned Loyalty Books maintains a list of forthcoming queer and BIPOC authored books for you to preorder from them. Preorders support the store and the authors, and ensure you do get little surprises in the mail later! www.loyaltybookstores.com/preorders
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Ayana Elizabeth Johnson @ayanaeliza.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
As expected, the Trump team is already deleting climate info from government websites. In anticipation, our team at Urban Ocean Lab created a permanent archive of 100+ key resources and published a permanent archive: www.urbanoceanlab.org/resource-hub 👩🏽‍💻
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Ashley Bulseco, Ph.D. @ashleybulseco.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Heavy day, heavy week. Here if anyone needs to talk it out. I got your back no matter what!
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