Ali Ely, Ph.D.
@alicevelyphd.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Clinical Psych @ Widener
Addiction Med @ CMSRU
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Ali Ely, Ph.D.
@alicevelyphd.bsky.social
· Jul 14
escholarship.org
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...
escholarship.org/uc/item/4w26...
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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.
JD Vance: "Science as practiced in its best form is that if you disagree with it, then you ought to criticize it and you ought to argue against it."
November 12, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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.
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$40 billion dollars is the size of the entire NIH budget.
Trump says his $40B bailout for Argentina's failing libertarian economy is "not gonna make a big difference for our country."
Really?
Imagine if we invested those billions on healthcare and housing for Americans, instead of bailing out Trump's pals abroad.
Really?
Imagine if we invested those billions on healthcare and housing for Americans, instead of bailing out Trump's pals abroad.
October 16, 2025 at 8:10 PM
$40 billion dollars is the size of the entire NIH budget.
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Everyone knows that the classic scientific method is saying something that is wildly stupid and then trying to find proof for it.
October 9, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Everyone knows that the classic scientific method is saying something that is wildly stupid and then trying to find proof for it.
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I no longer say that every overdose is a policy failure.
Every overdose is a policy *decision*.
Every overdose is a policy *decision*.
August 31, 2025 at 7:33 PM
I no longer say that every overdose is a policy failure.
Every overdose is a policy *decision*.
Every overdose is a policy *decision*.
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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.
Today's executive order includes a provision that will obliterate both functions.
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
www.whitehouse.gov
August 8, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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.
Today's executive order includes a provision that will obliterate both functions.
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Academics seeing today’s date
August 1, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Academics seeing today’s date
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...
escholarship.org/uc/item/4w26...
escholarship.org
July 14, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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...
escholarship.org/uc/item/4w26...
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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.
July 8, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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
Indiana Jones and the grad students he's supposed to be mentoring who keep covering for him missing the classes he's supposed to be teaching
Indiana Jones and the Deadline Extension
July 2, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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
The latest 12-month report from the CDC showed 1,400 more deaths in January of this year compared with the year prior. This comes after more than a year of dramatic progress. Experts say they're not sure if this is a "blip" or something more troubling.
New Report: U.S. drug overdose deaths rise again after hopeful decline
The latest 12-month report from the CDC showed 1,400 more deaths in January of this year compared with the year prior. This comes after more than a year of dramatic progress. Experts say they're not sure if this is a "blip" or something more troubling.
n.pr
June 19, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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
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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.
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.
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.
www.nbcnews.com
June 9, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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.
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.
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I made a plot of my affection towards a research project based on the stage of the project.
June 9, 2025 at 8:15 PM
I made a plot of my affection towards a research project based on the stage of the project.
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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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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.
1/2
June 9, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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.
1/2
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.
1/2
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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.
“They took my baby pictures and my moms obituaries,” a 29-year-old in California wrote.
“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…
projects.propublica.org
June 5, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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.
“They took my baby pictures and my moms obituaries,” a 29-year-old in California wrote.
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⚖️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👇
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👇
‘Devastated’ and ‘Hopeless.’ Researchers Speak Out on Funding Cuts | ACLU
www.aclu.org
May 22, 2025 at 11:43 AM
⚖️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👇
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👇
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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...
www.abqjournal.com/opinion/arti...
and in case you hit a paywall: unmm-my.sharepoint.com/:b:/g/person...
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
www.abqjournal.com
May 19, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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...
www.abqjournal.com/opinion/arti...
and in case you hit a paywall: unmm-my.sharepoint.com/:b:/g/person...
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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.
May 14, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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.
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Drug fatalities in the U.S. fell by about 30,000 last year, the CDC reported, a drop of nearly 27%.
Drug Overdose Deaths Plummeted in 2024, C.D.C. Reports
www.nytimes.com
May 15, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Drug fatalities in the U.S. fell by about 30,000 last year, the CDC reported, a drop of nearly 27%.
Worst case scenario: I signed up to present to my first graders class for career day and I’m paired w a guy who works with the OK City Thunder
May 13, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Worst case scenario: I signed up to present to my first graders class for career day and I’m paired w a guy who works with the OK City Thunder
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“Fentanyl Awareness Day” seems to lack any awareness of fentanyl
April 30, 2025 at 4:36 AM
“Fentanyl Awareness Day” seems to lack any awareness of fentanyl
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There are few things as cost effective as Narcan, especially in a country where (entirely preventable) opioid overdoses have been a leading cause of death for years. For every 6 kits distributed 1 OD is prevented. The $56M in this grant trained >66K people and distributed >282,500 kits in 2024 alone
RFK Jr. to End 'Godsend' Narcan Program That Helped Reduce Overdose Deaths Despite His Past Heroin Addiction
Despite overcoming heroin addiction himself, RFK Jr. is backing plans to cut a critical Narcan program that helped reduce overdose deaths.
www.latintimes.com
April 30, 2025 at 12:22 AM
There are few things as cost effective as Narcan, especially in a country where (entirely preventable) opioid overdoses have been a leading cause of death for years. For every 6 kits distributed 1 OD is prevented. The $56M in this grant trained >66K people and distributed >282,500 kits in 2024 alone
Bookmarking this for the Fall semester!
I am teaching my phd writing workshop course this quarter, question: are there any words/phrases said to you by an advisor/mentor that stuck with you, were memorable, or particularly helpful? If so please reply below!
April 24, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Bookmarking this for the Fall semester!
My patients would report that withdrawing from tranq was leagues worse than fentanyl alone. The wounds were so painful and gnarly but treating them can be fairly straightforward if they’re caught early enough.
Amputations are spiking amid Philly’s tranq crisis. It’s a mark of the slow public health response to the latest threat in the drug epidemic.
Amputations are soaring as a tranq crisis takes hold in the Philly region
To amputate or save a limb? Philly’s tranq crisis is forcing doctors to make difficult choices amid a slow public health response to the latest threat in the drug epidemic.
inquirer.com
April 23, 2025 at 1:05 AM
My patients would report that withdrawing from tranq was leagues worse than fentanyl alone. The wounds were so painful and gnarly but treating them can be fairly straightforward if they’re caught early enough.
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I'm so grateful to the patients who shared their stories with us, like Joe Kunz, who had fingers and toes amputated after developing multiple xylazine wounds. He's been in recovery for nearly a year -- in part because of a doctor who wouldn't give up on him: www.inquirer.com/health/tranq...
How a doctor’s persistence helped one man survive Philly’s tranq crisis
Joe Kunz, who battled addiction for years, entered recovery last fall after seeking treatment for wounds caused by the animal tranquilizer xylazine.
www.inquirer.com
April 22, 2025 at 1:36 PM
I'm so grateful to the patients who shared their stories with us, like Joe Kunz, who had fingers and toes amputated after developing multiple xylazine wounds. He's been in recovery for nearly a year -- in part because of a doctor who wouldn't give up on him: www.inquirer.com/health/tranq...