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Michelle Keller, PhD @michelleskeller.bsky.social · 28d

We’re hiring a 2-year Postdoc @ USC Gero School!
Lead NIH-funded qualitative + community-engaged research on dementia care, neurology referrals, and medication management.

🧩 Implementation science
💬 Qual methods
🌎 Spanish proficiency highly desirable

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USC Postdoc Fellow Job Announcement | Michelle S. Keller, PhD, MPH

** I'm hiring a postdoc for my lab!! ** Postdoctoral Fellowship in Dementia, Implementation Science, and Medication Management at the University of Southern California, Leonard Davis School of Geront...

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · Jun 25

NIH BREAKING NEWS NIH BREAKING NEWS

Hearing from multiple sources that an email went out late yesterday afternoon

Effective immediately: Please do not terminate any additional grant projects. Please pull back all grant projects that are in the cue to be terminated.

two men in suits and ties are waving their hands in a room

ALT: two men in suits and ties are waving their hands in a room

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Michelle Keller, PhD @michelleskeller.bsky.social · May 14

Our newest article on opioid use trajectories among patients with low back pain is finally out!!

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deprescribing.org @deprescribing.bsky.social · Apr 24

Also check out further commentary through this editorial on the article:
buff.ly/qn2xJWr

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The implementation of #Deprescribing needs to be equitable across ALL populations.

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André Picard @picardonhealth @picardonhealth.bsky.social · Apr 7

Toronto’s University Health Network launches recruitment campaign for scientists. Hospital network will invest $15-million in recruiting 50 scientists as a part of its ‘Canada Leads 100 Challenge,’ by @jenniferyang.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... via @theglobeandmail.com

Toronto’s University Health Network launches recruitment campaign for scientists

Hospital network will be investing $15-million in recruiting 50 scientists immediately as a part of its ‘Canada Leads 100 Challenge’

www.theglobeandmail.com

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Michelle Keller, PhD @michelleskeller.bsky.social · Apr 14

@deprescribing.bsky.social @deprescribeus.bsky.social

Michelle Keller, PhD @michelleskeller.bsky.social · Apr 14

Our new editorial in JAMA Network Open:
Lower rates of high-risk med use in minoritized Medicare beneficiaries may reflect access barriers, not better care. Highlights urgent need for equity in deprescribing practices & alternatives to PIMs. With @uressien.bsky.social jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Screenshot of the article, "Disparities in High-Risk Medication Use—Implications for Health Equity and Deprescribing Practices"

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · Apr 14

www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

One of the country's leading Alzheimer's projects is in jeopardy

A pause to NIH funding has researchers scrambling for contingency plans at the University of Washington’s Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center. The center’s brain bank is preserving more than 4,000 bra...

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UCSF Geriatrics @ucsfgeriatrics.bsky.social · Mar 20

Dr. @ashwinkotwalmd.bsky.social shares insights on #SocialPrescribing in the March-April 2025 edition of Generations Today by the American Society on Aging. Now featured on the Generations landing page! generations.asaging.org/social-presc... #Geriatrics #Aging

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · Mar 19

It appears that the overarching UM grant for the Utah Clinical and Translational Science Awards was terminated. It is no longer in NIH Reporter.

Here is the abstract. Too much focus on health equity, health disparities, and underserved populations...

Another obscenity...

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Linda Andersson Burnett @lindaaburnett.bsky.social · Mar 4

My department at Uppsala university has just announced two open PhD positions: one in history of science and the other in history of ideas. We research, for example, colonial history of science, history of medicine, and intellectual history. Deadline: 8 April

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Lisa Schiff @lschiff.bsky.social · Mar 4

Good to see this Nature piece highlighting #resistance to the Trump assault on research, knowledge, & education: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

US science is under threat ― now scientists are fighting back

Researchers are organizing protests and making their voices heard as Trump officials slash funding and lay off federal scientists.

www.nature.com

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Scott Delaney @scott-delaney.bsky.social · Mar 3

BREAKING: NIH CSR meeting notices in the Federal Register will restart tomorrow (Tuesday, 3/4).

The first notice is for 4 CSR meetings in late March and early April. 3 special emphasis panels, 1 for kidney disease.

This is the first such notice since January 21.

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CADeN | ReCAD @caden-recad.bsky.social · Mar 4

Calling #deprescribing researchers! The journal of Basic & Clinical Pharmacology & Toxicology is accepting submissions for its special issue on deprescribing!

Submit your deprescribing research before June 1st, 2025. For more info on the special issue:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1...

Continuing the progress in deprescribing: Learnings from the second international conference on deprescribing: Basic & Clinical Pharmacology & Toxicology

Click on the title to browse this issue

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · Mar 4

Study Section meetings actually announced in the Federal Register today!

www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

Center for Scientific Review; Notice of Closed Meetings

Search, browse and learn about the Federal Register. Federal Register 2.0 is the unofficial daily publication for rules, proposed rules, and notices of Federal agencies and organizations, as well as e...

www.federalregister.gov

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · Mar 3

Today, a broad coalition of scientific professional societies who represent over 92,000 scientists are speaking out against the politicization and demonization of Federally funded science and government scientist jobs.

It was an honor to help the Union of Concerned Scientists with this! 🧪🌎

48 Scientific Societies Representing Almost 100,000 Scientists Ask Congress to Protect the Future of Science

48 scientific societies representing almost 100,000 scientists signed on to a letter asking Congress to protect the future of science

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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · Feb 24

I'm looking to see if the cuts & chaos at CDC and NIH have affected any clinical trials or research for drugs for the treatment of cancer, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, or other serious diseases. If you know anything, please contact me at DavidCorn.99 at Signal.

Or if you have any other good stories.

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Lydia Jennings, PhD @1nativesoilnerd.bsky.social · Feb 24

Graduating during the pandemic slowed down my process and is part of why I did two postdocs. Now as a first year faculty, all the federal grants are frozen. I love the work I do but this has all of us questioning how much www.science.org/content/arti...

U.S. early-career researchers struggling amid chaos

Uncertain funding, government firings, and distressed universities hit vulnerable groups especially hard

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · Feb 24

Just in one year, just the clean air act, prevented hundreds of thousands of early deaths. The lowest possible estimate of the benefits found that benefits outweigh the costs by 3 to 1. The most likely estimate is 30 to 1. The high estimate is 90 to 1. Ninety. Nine Zero. www.epa.gov/clean-air-ac...

A figure from EPA's report https://www.epa.gov/clean-air-act-overview/benefits-and-costs-clean-air-act-1990-2020-second-prospective-study showing a blue circle of benefits of $2,000 billion ($2 trillion) and much smaller circle of costs of $65 billion, for the clean air act ammendments

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Taal Levi @taaltree.bsky.social · Feb 24

The Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Diseases NSF program has been archived. Huge loss. Does anyone know if the current proposals in the queue for funding will not be reviewed or are panels still happening?

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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · Feb 25

What is your pace of aging? A new @nature.com feature on molecular clocks by gets into the issues surrounding these tests (can is really can't) nature.com/articles/d41... by @heidiledford.bsky.social

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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · Feb 24

NIDA has announced it, but all the NIH summer internship programs are likely cancelled.

Sorry college students interested in STEM jobs, sorry high school students looking at science 🧪 careers. Trump and Musk are cancelling your futures.

Erika Crable, PhD @erikacrable.bsky.social · Feb 24

Another loss for #science & the next generation of researchers. The 28-year running NIDA summer internship program is cancelled for this year.
@altnih4science.bsky.social #SavetheNIH

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · Feb 24

Studies show that funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) contributed to 354 of 356 drugs (99.4%) approved by the FDA from 2010 to 2019. Recklessly slashing NIH funding will mean that patients will be waiting much longer for life-saving treatments.

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Elena Litchman @elenalitchman.bsky.social · Feb 22

NSF employees were unlawfully reclassified from career to probationary, and then fired.
www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

US science agency reclassifies hundreds of workers as probationary, US lawmaker says

National Science Foundation administrators reclassified hundreds of employees from permanent to probationary status in violation of labor contracts, according to a U.S. lawmaker and agency employee.

www.reuters.com

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · Feb 24

IMPORTANT

Collecting data to understand and strengthen arguments about the impact of the administration's ill-considered actions and the responses of universities...

Please share!

Rosa Lafer-Sousa @rosalafersousa.bsky.social · Feb 24

As a result of Trump’s slashes to research funding, dozens of graduate programs have announced reductions and cancellations of graduate admissions slots.

If you are an impacted applicant, please fill out this survey: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Grad Admission Impacts Survey

It is grad admissions season and many postbacs are feeling the chilling impacts of the Trump administration's recent executive orders freezing and slashing extramural research funding. Dozens of gradu...

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