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Michelle Keller, PhD

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Health services researcher focused on optimizing medications and deprescribing. University of Southern California.

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Michelle Keller, PhD @michelleskeller.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
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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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 · 25/06/2025
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.
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Michelle Keller, PhD @michelleskeller.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Our newest article on opioid use trajectories among patients with low back pain is finally out!! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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deprescribing.org @deprescribing.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Also check out further commentary through this editorial on the article: buff.ly/qn2xJWr @michelleskeller.bsky.social The implementation of #Deprescribing needs to be equitable across ALL populations.
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André Picard @picardonhealth @picardonhealth.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
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
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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’
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Michelle Keller, PhD @michelleskeller.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
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 · 14/04/2025
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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 · 20/03/2025
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 · 19/03/2025
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 · 04/03/2025
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 · 04/03/2025
Good to see this Nature piece highlighting #resistance to the Trump assault on research, knowledge, & education: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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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.
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Scott Delaney @scott-delaney.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
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 · 04/03/2025
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...
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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 · 04/03/2025
Study Section meetings actually announced in the Federal Register today! www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
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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...
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
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! 🧪🌎
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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 · 24/02/2025
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 · 24/02/2025
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...
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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 · 24/02/2025
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 · 24/02/2025
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 · 25/02/2025
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 · 24/02/2025
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.
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 24/02/2025
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 · 22/02/2025
NSF employees were unlawfully reclassified from career to probationary, and then fired. www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...
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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.
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
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!
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
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.
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
New York Times article now up on Federal Register stuff. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/s... 1/n
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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.
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AlwaysACivilServant @drneuro.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
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.
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Violeta J. Rodriguez, PhD, MSEd @vjrp.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
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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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
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
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
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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
“Medical and journalism organizations, medical journals, and concerned citizens are mobilizing to make the missing information available... Still, experts are concerned that even as many CDC.gov pages are restored by the agency, they may not be updated in the future to reflect the latest science.”
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Changes to CDC’s Website Threaten Patients, Public Health
This Medical News article discusses the impact of President Donald Trump’s executive orders on the information available on CDC.gov, an important resource for clinicians, researchers, and the public.
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deprescribing.org @deprescribing.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
So many #Deprescribing guidelines currently in development worldwide 🌎: ➡️ Diuretic Deprescribing ➡️ Statin Deprescribing ➡️ Antidepressant Deprescribing ➡️ Gabapentinoid Deprescribing Keep your eyes peeled for updates on our Deprescribing Guidelines Repository (DEPOT) page! 👀 buff.ly/3tkhsqH
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Deprescribing Guidelines Repository (DEPOT) - Deprescribing.org
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Audrey D. Zhang @audreydzhang.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Many more pieces like this could be written to show the impact of sustained federal investment in US biomedical research. This one has a great table highlighting the role of NIH funding in some of our greatest gains against chronic disease in the past 80 years. www.ahajournals.org/doi/full/10....
Table: Ten key advances in CVD and stroke research funded by the NIH. Advances: Framiningham Heart Study, tPA treatment for ischemic stroke, statin therapy for CVD prevention, CRT for heart failure, RCTs for blood pressure management, improving care of children with heart conditions, developing and evaluating stents for treating coronary artery disease, gene editing for CVD, lifestyle interventions to reduce CVD risk, precision medicine
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Dr. K. Lotterhos @drk-lo.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
This excellent Nature paper from 2015 discussed multiple ways that sex is not binary, and why the idea of two sexes is simplistic. Required reading right now - please share! www.nature.com/articles/518... 🧪👨‍🔬🧬🖥️
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Sex redefined - Nature
The idea of two sexes is simplistic. Biologists now think there is a wider spectrum than that.
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Hannah Harris Green @whatsitlike.me · 19/02/2025
“For the last 75 yrs, the NIH has been the biggest funder of biomedical research in the world. Most advances in medicine were seeded by NIH funding. When we became scientists, we just bought into this system. This is how it works. — @tuthill.bsky.social 🧵 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Trump cuts threaten a ‘generation of scientists’ as many weigh leaving US
President’s call to ‘Make America Healthy Again’ has led to slashes in NIH funding – endangering jobs and vital research
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Michael Haslam @twigtechnology.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
This is incredible. It’s the ‘pale blue dot’ of genome plots. Just as Voyager 1’s photo reminded us how tiny and temporary Earth is, this image reminds us that humans (like every other species) are only a temporary and tiny part of life’s expanse 🧪🐞🍄🦠🦍🌼
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Jeremy Koster @jeremykoster.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Upon learning that yesterday would be my last day as a program officer at the National Science Foundation, I shared this parting message with my colleagues. The next few months will be frenetic and stressful for them. Here are some things that you can do to help them with the mission ahead. (1)
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chasingmicrobes @chasingmicrobes.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
My LinkedIn feed is a bloodbath of federal scientists looking for work 😟
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Neil Lewis, Jr. @neillewisjr.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Since federal health information is getting harder to come by, I thought I'd share this new resource. Cornell's College of Veterinary Medicine launched an online Avian Flu Resource Center--a one-stop clearinghouse for trustworthy information on bird flu. www.vet.cornell.edu/highly-patho...
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Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (Bird Flu) Resource Center
What is "bird flu" and why is it in the news so much lately?Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI), also known as "bird flu," is circulating now in the United States and much of the world. This stra...
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Thanks for the info from reviewers... All 8 CSR study section meeting scheduled today have been cancelled (due to the Federal Register announcement issue). Some reviewers are finding out that their meetings are cancelled when they are notified by the travel agency that their tickets are cancelled.
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Tom Wallach @mdwallach.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Not only did @chanzuckerberg.bsky.social cancel their diversity scholar research grants, they stripped their lead PO for DEI efforts of his title.
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Austin Robinson @ausrob-phd.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
I was supposed to have an NIH study section (KEDD) tomorrow, but it was "postponed TBD" today at 3 PM Eastern. Yesterday, individuals who were going to travel for the in-person meeting were told not to travel. Just confirming firsthand that the madness continues.
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Noah Lanard @nlanard.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
DOGE in practice: Disabled Army veteran who has 4 kids and did 3 tours overseas is fired from his job at Bronx VA hospital
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
The "schedule" of upcoming National Advisory Council meetings (based on posted dates) No special meetings have been posted. These meetings must be announced at least 15 days in advance in the Federal Register Once communications and Federal Register posting bans are lifted these may change...
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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
“We’re cutting off our hand to spite our face" www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/u...
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Trump Cuts Target Next Generation of Scientists and Public Health Leaders (Gift Article)
A core group of so-called disease detectives, who track outbreaks, was apparently spared. But other young researchers are out of jobs.
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CNN @cnn.com · 17/02/2025
Brian Gibbs had no clue Friday would be his last day at his dream job. The education technician park ranger at Effigy Mounds National Monument in Iowa reported to work, only to be terminated on despite receiving an exceptional performance evaluation in the fall.
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After landing his dream job as a park ranger, he’s ‘heartbroken’ to be let go in federal cuts | CNN
Brian Gibbs had no clue Friday would be his last day at his dream job. The education technician park ranger at Effigy Mounds National Monument in Iowa reported to work, only to be terminated on despit...
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
For folks in DC with animal pals
To our federal government employee/contractor community:  



We understand more than most that accidents and emergencies have a way of happening at the worst possible time.  



For federal government employees/contractors who have lost their jobs during the downsizing of the federal government workforce, starting tomorrow we are waiving our emergency exam fee, non-routine primary care exam fee (sick visit), and offering extended payment options on all services.  



As always, if you think your pet is having a medical emergency, take him or her to the nearest emergency facility. If you are unsure whether or not your pet needs to be seen, please give us a call at 202-363-7300.  We are available 24-hours a day to help assist you in your decision.  



Sincerely,



Your Friends at Friendship Hospital for Animals
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
ATTENTION If you are on a study section that was scheduled to meet, please post or DM me with information regarding: 1. The name of the study section 2. The scheduled date 3. Whether the meeting actually occurred THANK YOU
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