Ali Ely, Ph.D.

Curious if ICE keeps car seats in their vehicles for when they kidnap children to use as bait?

He is a BABY! He’s a tiny boy in a bunny hat with a spiderman backpack. Fucking cruel, soup chewing, evil goons.

Trump declared fentanyl a weapon of mass destruction. What does it mean? The declaration of fentanyl a weapon of mass destruction is the latest move by President Donald Trump casting the nation’s deadly drug crisis as a national security issue.

Designating fentanyl a WMD will worsen fentanyl misinformation, which does not prevent overdoses -it makes them deadlier- & harms anyone who could ever need pain treatment, anesthesia, & more. Patients already refuse one of the safest, best studied, easiest-to-dose pain meds because of such misinfo!

Annual request to recommenders to stop calling your students "pleasant" in your grad school recommendation letters.

I wanna see trump draw a clock on live tv

Why yes I do have final exams to grade why do you ask

a chef is cooking vegetables in a restaurant Alt: a chef is sharpening his knives cooking vegetables in a hibachi restaurant

I need to cut a manuscript down from 2384 words to 2000 and I could not be more excited

Drugs took both her sons and her leg. Now, Kelly Wyatt is committed to staying sober. Kelly Wyatt is among hundreds of Philadelphians facing lifelong medical needs from xylazine, known as “tranq” on the streets.

Kelly Wyatt lost her leg after developing a severe xylazine wound. Then, in a year, she lost both of her sons to Philly's ongoing drug crisis.

"Sometimes I’m embarrassed to talk about it. But I feel like I have to,” she told me. “Because people need to know." www.inquirer.com/health/a/tra...

This sounds reasonable but is 100% wrong. Whether you or agree or disagree with a study is completely immaterial. What matters is whether the study was conducted properly and generates valid results. And it's impolitic to say but it's true: you have to have some level of expertise to judge that.

$40 billion dollars is the size of the entire NIH budget.

Everyone knows that the classic scientific method is saying something that is wildly stupid and then trying to find proof for it.

I no longer say that every overdose is a policy failure.

Every overdose is a policy *decision*.

Improving Oversight of Federal Grantmaking By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and to improve the process of Federal

1. Federal funding for research promotes tech, biomedical, and scientific discovery in the US, and provides training for the sci/tech workforce that has brought immeasurable wealth to the US over the past 75 years.

Today's executive order includes a provision that will obliterate both functions.

Academics seeing today’s date

a little girl is making a funny face while wearing a blue shirt with a leopard print . Alt: a little girl is making a funny face while wearing a blue shirt with a leopard print .

(This is also my first last-authored pub)

Just published in WestJEM! Using the reallocation paradigm at Cooper, patients with OUD were offered XR-BUP in the ED and over 70% of them showed up for a second shot a month later. Lowering the barriers to treatment means more people can do better.

escholarship.org/uc/item/4w26...

BREAKING: Scientists are staging a “science fair” in the lobby of a Congressional building to tell elected officials about the critical knowledge the US will lose because their research grants have been canceled.

Indiana Jones and the dissertation student just trying to schedule their defense in time to graduate in five years

I’m troubled even if it is a blip but taking all the funding away for overdose prevention, harm reduction, treatment, and the social safety net is probably not going to help

Kennedy guts CDC's vaccine panel of independent experts The Advisory Committee for Immunization Practices helps the agency make recommendations on who should get certain vaccines.

An outspoken vaccine conspiracy theorist just fired every last member of CDC's vaccine advisory committee.

RFK Jr. is paving the way to reshape vaccine policy based not on decades of science, but on his own unhinged fanaticism.

This is unprecedented, and unthinkably dangerous.

I made a plot of my affection towards a research project based on the stage of the project.

If you weren't angry enough already, here are the rates of non-competitive renewals through May.

4008 Non-competitive renewals were due to be funded in May.

The total funded was 99!

Some is due to terminations, but most is due to slow grant making due to DOGE review and other impediments.

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“I Have Lost Everything”: The Toll of Cities’ Homeless Sweeps Cities often take belongings — including important documents and irreplaceable mementos — when they conduct sweeps of homeless encampments. ProPublica gave notecards to people across the country so…

We asked people who lived in homeless encampments that were cleared out in city “sweeps” to write about what object was the hardest for them to lose.

“They took my baby pictures and my moms obituaries,” a 29-year-old in California wrote.

‘Devastated’ and ‘Hopeless.’ Researchers Speak Out on Funding Cuts | ACLU

⚖️Heartbroken but proud to stand with fellow researchers in court today⚖️

NIH’s sudden grant cuts:
🚫 Silence lifesaving health equity work
⏳ Undermine years of progress
⚠️ Put vital discoveries at risk

We won’t stop fighting for science & justice 🧪

👇More details from our @aclu.org representation👇

OPINION: Federal cuts put addiction treatment and recovery at risk I vividly remember growing up and my grandmother warning me to be careful with alcohol — because addiction “runs in our family.” She wasn’t wrong. For generations, both sides of

New op-ed out in the Albuquerque Journal. I share about the importance of federal substance use and addiction funding for families like mine.

www.abqjournal.com/opinion/arti...

and in case you hit a paywall: unmm-my.sharepoint.com/:b:/g/person...

RFK Jr. just said he wants NIH to support “younger scientists instead of older folks" but is cutting funding that supports entire areas of research and career support for generations of scientists.

Drug Overdose Deaths Plummeted in 2024, C.D.C. Reports

Drug fatalities in the U.S. fell by about 30,000 last year, the CDC reported, a drop of nearly 27%.

Exactly my point - brain changes may make “different thinking” but they don’t make bad people, so saying dude is a bad person because of the brain changes is inaccurate

Hi kids! Helping people is fun and just as cool as professional sports! 😭