Michelle Keller, PhD
@michelleskeller.bsky.social
Health services researcher focused on optimizing medications and deprescribing. University of Southern California.
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
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
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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September 10, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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
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.
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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June 25, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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.
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/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
May 14, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Our newest article on opioid use trajectories among patients with low back pain is finally out!!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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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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@michelleskeller.bsky.social
The implementation of #Deprescribing needs to be equitable across ALL populations.
jamanetwork.com
April 24, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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.
buff.ly/qn2xJWr
@michelleskeller.bsky.social
The implementation of #Deprescribing needs to be equitable across ALL populations.
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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
April 7, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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
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...
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...
April 14, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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...
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...
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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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March 20, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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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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...
Here is the abstract. Too much focus on health equity, health disparities, and underserved populations...
Another obscenity...
March 19, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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...
Here is the abstract. Too much focus on health equity, health disparities, and underserved populations...
Another obscenity...
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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
March 4, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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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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
March 4, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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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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.
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.
March 3, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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.
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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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...
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
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
March 4, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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...
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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Study Section meetings actually announced in the Federal Register today!
www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
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
March 4, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Study Section meetings actually announced in the Federal Register today!
www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
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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! 🧪🌎
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
www.ucsusa.org
March 3, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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! 🧪🌎
It was an honor to help the Union of Concerned Scientists with this! 🧪🌎
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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.
Or if you have any other good stories.
February 24, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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.
Or if you have any other good stories.
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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
www.science.org
February 24, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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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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...
February 24, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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...
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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?
February 24, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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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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
February 25, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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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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.
Sorry college students interested in STEM jobs, sorry high school students looking at science 🧪 careers. Trump and Musk are cancelling your futures.
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
@altnih4science.bsky.social #SavetheNIH
February 24, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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.
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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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.
February 24, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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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NSF employees were unlawfully reclassified from career to probationary, and then fired.
www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...
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
February 22, 2025 at 10:44 PM
NSF employees were unlawfully reclassified from career to probationary, and then fired.
www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...
www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...
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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!
Collecting data to understand and strengthen arguments about the impact of the administration's ill-considered actions and the responses of universities...
Please share!
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...
🧪🧠🧬🔬🥼👩🏼🔬🧑🔬
If you are an impacted applicant, please fill out this survey: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
🧪🧠🧬🔬🥼👩🏼🔬🧑🔬
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...
docs.google.com
February 24, 2025 at 5:48 AM
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!
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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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.
“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.
a man in a red suit and tie is holding a piece of paper that says breaking news on it
ALT: a man in a red suit and tie is holding a piece of paper that says breaking news on it
media.tenor.com
February 24, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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.
“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.