Michelle Keller, PhD

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...

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

shorturl.at/kMt3n

#PostdocJobs

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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.

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

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Also check out further commentary through this editorial on the article:
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@michelleskeller.bsky.social

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

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’

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

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

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

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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

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.

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

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.

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

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...

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...

Study Section meetings actually announced in the Federal Register today!

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

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

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! 🧪🌎

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.

U.S. early-career researchers struggling amid chaos Uncertain funding, government firings, and distressed universities hit vulnerable groups especially hard

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...

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...

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?

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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Some good-ish news from NIH

“Federal Register notices for study sections run by CSR (but not those by ICs) will start being permitted again”

As far as I know, the timing for this is not clear, but I will be checking the Federal Register.

Trump Administration Stalls Scientific Research Despite Court Ruling (Gift Article) Using an arcane law, officials have effectively delayed funding from the National Institutes of Health, leaving medical studies in jeopardy.

New York Times article now up on Federal Register stuff.

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/s...

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So.

It has officially happened. I have been officially let go from my position at CDC. I wasn’t a probationary employee. I had stellar performance reviews every year.

I’ll be ok. But please understand that many worked HARD to get into these positions and were doing great public health work.

I’m an NIH-funded researcher, drowning in uncertainty “I’ll keep doing what I can to move my research forward. But I, and so many others, can’t do this indefinitely,” this assistant professor writes

In my latest article for @science.org, I reflect on the current challenges faced by early-career researchers, including delays in grant reviews, uncertainty around NIH funding freezes and changes, and the critical need for continued support and advocacy.
www.science.org/content/arti...

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ATTENTION:

If you have received a NoA from NIH within the last 10 days, please let me know the grant number and award date.

I am trying to characterize the time lag between awards and NIH Reporter.

DM me if you wish or just reply