Bryan D. James, PhD
@bryandjames.bsky.social
Epidemiologist, @rushalzheimers.bsky.social
Host, Epi Counts podcast https://serepidemiologycounts.blubrry.net/
Social media editor, American Journal of Epidemiology @amjepi.bsky.social
#EpiSky #Geronsky #ADRD #scicomm
Proud papa of three crazy kids
Host, Epi Counts podcast https://serepidemiologycounts.blubrry.net/
Social media editor, American Journal of Epidemiology @amjepi.bsky.social
#EpiSky #Geronsky #ADRD #scicomm
Proud papa of three crazy kids
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Neurology® Journals
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Our article on the Associations of ADRD Neuropathologies With Timely Diagnosis of Dementia in Healthcare Settings is out in Neurology @greenjournal.bsky.social!
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For ADRD researchers working with Medicare claims: our work led by Yi Chen validates the use of the Bynum-Standard algorithm to identify dementia diagnosis in Medicare Advantage (MA).
@rushalzheimers.bsky.social @umich.edu
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@rushalzheimers.bsky.social @umich.edu
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Identification of Prevalent Dementia in Medicare Advantage Encounters, Compared with Rigorous Cohort Assessments
AbstractBackground. Rapid growth in Medicare Advantage (MA) enrollment has spurred dementia research using diagnoses in MA encounter data. However, the val
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August 24, 2026 at 3:24 PM
For ADRD researchers working with Medicare claims: our work led by Yi Chen validates the use of the Bynum-Standard algorithm to identify dementia diagnosis in Medicare Advantage (MA).
@rushalzheimers.bsky.social @umich.edu
academic.oup.com/biomedgeront...
@rushalzheimers.bsky.social @umich.edu
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Our work on the effects of redlining in Chicago on cognitive function in older Black adults, led by Brittney Lange-Maia in Social Science & Medicine.
Older Black adults living in historically redlined communities had lower cognitive function (equivalent to 5 years of age).
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Older Black adults living in historically redlined communities had lower cognitive function (equivalent to 5 years of age).
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August 21, 2026 at 8:16 PM
Our work on the effects of redlining in Chicago on cognitive function in older Black adults, led by Brittney Lange-Maia in Social Science & Medicine.
Older Black adults living in historically redlined communities had lower cognitive function (equivalent to 5 years of age).
doi.org/10.1016/j.so...
Older Black adults living in historically redlined communities had lower cognitive function (equivalent to 5 years of age).
doi.org/10.1016/j.so...
Our article on the Associations of ADRD Neuropathologies With Timely Diagnosis of Dementia in Healthcare Settings is out in Neurology @greenjournal.bsky.social!
www.neurology.org/doi/full/10....
www.neurology.org/doi/full/10....
Neurology® Journals
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August 7, 2026 at 8:22 PM
Our article on the Associations of ADRD Neuropathologies With Timely Diagnosis of Dementia in Healthcare Settings is out in Neurology @greenjournal.bsky.social!
www.neurology.org/doi/full/10....
www.neurology.org/doi/full/10....
Our collaborative study on the impact of COVID-19 on health Behaviors in Older African Americans using @rushalzheimers.bsky.social MARS study (PI @beyoung40.bsky.social) data is out now!
doi.org/10.2196/79432
doi.org/10.2196/79432
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August 3, 2026 at 4:35 PM
Our collaborative study on the impact of COVID-19 on health Behaviors in Older African Americans using @rushalzheimers.bsky.social MARS study (PI @beyoung40.bsky.social) data is out now!
doi.org/10.2196/79432
doi.org/10.2196/79432
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#StandUpForScience at #ADA! Today and tomorrow during the Presidential Addresses at 9:45am. Audience members stand throughout the talk.
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June 6, 2026 at 2:20 PM
#StandUpForScience at #ADA! Today and tomorrow during the Presidential Addresses at 9:45am. Audience members stand throughout the talk.
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Our official guide to help you write a public comment on the OMB-2026-0034 is here: zurl.co/XgyzA
Submit your comment and take additional actions here: zurl.co/RiDuv
#StandUpForScience #OMB #Vought #SaveScience #FundScience
Submit your comment and take additional actions here: zurl.co/RiDuv
#StandUpForScience #OMB #Vought #SaveScience #FundScience
June 6, 2026 at 9:48 PM
Our official guide to help you write a public comment on the OMB-2026-0034 is here: zurl.co/XgyzA
Submit your comment and take additional actions here: zurl.co/RiDuv
#StandUpForScience #OMB #Vought #SaveScience #FundScience
Submit your comment and take additional actions here: zurl.co/RiDuv
#StandUpForScience #OMB #Vought #SaveScience #FundScience
Is it just me or does it look like they’re building the wormhole transport machine from Contact in front of the White House? But nah, that would require believing in science… never mind.
May 28, 2026 at 3:06 PM
Is it just me or does it look like they’re building the wormhole transport machine from Contact in front of the White House? But nah, that would require believing in science… never mind.
He's opening the journal review request. He clicked decline. Make him have to enter a password to be able to decline. Tell him the password is incorrect. Make him click "Forgot password" and enter a new one. When he enters a new password tell him "Error: you cannot use previous password".
May 18, 2026 at 3:29 PM
He's opening the journal review request. He clicked decline. Make him have to enter a password to be able to decline. Tell him the password is incorrect. Make him click "Forgot password" and enter a new one. When he enters a new password tell him "Error: you cannot use previous password".
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Session one of #ROSMAP2026 focused on Lifestyle Factors in Older Adults. Speakers, RADC’s Andrea Zammit, Yi Chen and @bryandjames.bsky.social
May 12, 2026 at 3:02 PM
Session one of #ROSMAP2026 focused on Lifestyle Factors in Older Adults. Speakers, RADC’s Andrea Zammit, Yi Chen and @bryandjames.bsky.social
So proud of our @rushalzheimers.bsky.social REC Scholar Emily Morris @epmorris.bsky.social for winning the Rising Star Poster Award at the @naccdata.org Spring ADRC meeting! 🤩 Proud postdoc mentor: @beyoung40.bsky.social
May 5, 2026 at 8:22 PM
So proud of our @rushalzheimers.bsky.social REC Scholar Emily Morris @epmorris.bsky.social for winning the Rising Star Poster Award at the @naccdata.org Spring ADRC meeting! 🤩 Proud postdoc mentor: @beyoung40.bsky.social
@alzassociation.bsky.social 2026 Alzheimer's Disease Facts & Figures report out today! It was once again an honor to contribute to this important document and to compile the facts about what we know about this devastating disease. Download for free at the link below.
As the size of the U.S. population age 65+ continues to grow, so will the number of Americans living with Alzheimer’s.
Share the facts and help change the trajectory of this disease. alz.org/facts #ENDALZ
Share the facts and help change the trajectory of this disease. alz.org/facts #ENDALZ
April 21, 2026 at 5:45 PM
@alzassociation.bsky.social 2026 Alzheimer's Disease Facts & Figures report out today! It was once again an honor to contribute to this important document and to compile the facts about what we know about this devastating disease. Download for free at the link below.
To @societyforepi.bsky.social members: please vote for my friend Meredith Shiels as member at large! She has been a highly valued member of the Awards Committee and would make a fantastic member of the exec committee. Could not endorse more highly to take my place!
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2026 Elections – Society for Epidemiologic Research
It is one of the highest honors in my career to be nominated for President of the Society for Epidemiologic Research. SER has been my intellectual and professional home for the past 20 years.
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April 10, 2026 at 3:01 PM
To @societyforepi.bsky.social members: please vote for my friend Meredith Shiels as member at large! She has been a highly valued member of the Awards Committee and would make a fantastic member of the exec committee. Could not endorse more highly to take my place!
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In an age of creeping relativism, a universal moral law still exists.
Threatening to end an entire civilization of 90 million people in order to bend a nation’s conduct to your will is grossly morally wrong. It is evil. And we should say this loudly.
Threatening to end an entire civilization of 90 million people in order to bend a nation’s conduct to your will is grossly morally wrong. It is evil. And we should say this loudly.
April 7, 2026 at 2:45 PM
In an age of creeping relativism, a universal moral law still exists.
Threatening to end an entire civilization of 90 million people in order to bend a nation’s conduct to your will is grossly morally wrong. It is evil. And we should say this loudly.
Threatening to end an entire civilization of 90 million people in order to bend a nation’s conduct to your will is grossly morally wrong. It is evil. And we should say this loudly.
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just to be clear, everyone, when 8 pm EDT comes and goes, regardless of what does or does not happen, the president still threatened genocide and war crimes and we should still impeach, arrest, and try him
April 7, 2026 at 5:30 PM
just to be clear, everyone, when 8 pm EDT comes and goes, regardless of what does or does not happen, the president still threatened genocide and war crimes and we should still impeach, arrest, and try him
I haven't bothered to post about what comes out of this mad man's mouth for a while because what's the point--But his threat that a "whole civilization will die tonight" is beyond anything we can ignore or normalize. He must be stopped.
I guess we're just waiting around to see if this demented psychopath kills everyone: defector.com/i-guess-were...
I Guess We're Just Waiting Around To See If This Demented Psychopath Kills Everyone | Defector
There is a particular indignity that comes from living in America, derived from the experience of waking up in the morning to see reports that Donald Trump has said something profoundly evil, and then...
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April 7, 2026 at 6:54 PM
I haven't bothered to post about what comes out of this mad man's mouth for a while because what's the point--But his threat that a "whole civilization will die tonight" is beyond anything we can ignore or normalize. He must be stopped.
Cat posts seem to get all the engagement on here, so here’s our cat Louie Pickle, who continues to hang his surgically repaired and completely healed “chicken leg” whenever he sits 😂 Vet says there’s no physical reason he has to do that, it’s all in his head.
April 7, 2026 at 4:58 PM
Cat posts seem to get all the engagement on here, so here’s our cat Louie Pickle, who continues to hang his surgically repaired and completely healed “chicken leg” whenever he sits 😂 Vet says there’s no physical reason he has to do that, it’s all in his head.
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Postdoctoral Job Opportunity: Join me and the WELLab at WashU in St. Louis to study well-being in daily life and across the lifespan. This position is perfect for folks interested in ESM and longitudinal data analysis and well-being and affective science.
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Postdoctoral Research Associate - Psychological & Brain Sciences
Position Summary Applications are invited for a Postdoctoral Research Associate position in the Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences at WashU in St. Louis, to work on department-funded res...
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February 27, 2026 at 7:10 PM
Postdoctoral Job Opportunity: Join me and the WELLab at WashU in St. Louis to study well-being in daily life and across the lifespan. This position is perfect for folks interested in ESM and longitudinal data analysis and well-being and affective science.
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📣 As Co-Editor of AJE Advances: Research in Epidemiology, I invite you to submit to our call for papers on "AI and Epidemiology". Will it help or hinder the field? Let us know your thoughts!
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#episky @societyforepi.bsky.social @johnshopkinssph.bsky.social
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#episky @societyforepi.bsky.social @johnshopkinssph.bsky.social
AI and Epidemiology
AJE Advances: Research in Epidemiology publishes high-quality, peer-reviewed research from an interdisciplinary community of scholars and clinicians.
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February 25, 2026 at 8:28 PM
📣 As Co-Editor of AJE Advances: Research in Epidemiology, I invite you to submit to our call for papers on "AI and Epidemiology". Will it help or hinder the field? Let us know your thoughts!
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#episky @societyforepi.bsky.social @johnshopkinssph.bsky.social
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#episky @societyforepi.bsky.social @johnshopkinssph.bsky.social
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Attention science communicators!
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The 2026 Science IRL mini-grant application is NOW OPEN!
Submit your creative ideas for connecting people with actionable science information *offline*.
The deadline for this round of grants is March 23, 2026.
Apply here!
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Attention science communicators!
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The 2026 Science IRL mini-grant application is NOW OPEN!
Submit your creative ideas for connecting people with actionable science information *offline*.
The deadline for this round of grants is March 23, 2026.
Apply here!
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SCIENCE IRL: SciComm mini-grant 2026
Skype a Scientist is offering $300-$1,000 mini-grants to support boots-on-the-ground science communication. The Science IRL mini-grants will support projects that put either 1) important science mess...
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February 18, 2026 at 5:46 PM
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Attention science communicators!
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The 2026 Science IRL mini-grant application is NOW OPEN!
Submit your creative ideas for connecting people with actionable science information *offline*.
The deadline for this round of grants is March 23, 2026.
Apply here!
forms.gle/4emvpRPddmEt...
Attention science communicators!
🚨🚨🚨
The 2026 Science IRL mini-grant application is NOW OPEN!
Submit your creative ideas for connecting people with actionable science information *offline*.
The deadline for this round of grants is March 23, 2026.
Apply here!
forms.gle/4emvpRPddmEt...
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Today's @nytimes.com dialogue with Ross Douthat & Jay Bhattacharya is tough sledding. I wrote a book on how silent transmission made COVID harder to stop and drove misleading narratives. The interview continues to mislead as a means to seize more power.
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Asymptomatic: The Silent Spread of COVID-19 and the Future of Pandemics
Asymptomatic: The Silent Spread of COVID-19 and the Future of Pandemics
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January 29, 2026 at 2:19 PM
Today's @nytimes.com dialogue with Ross Douthat & Jay Bhattacharya is tough sledding. I wrote a book on how silent transmission made COVID harder to stop and drove misleading narratives. The interview continues to mislead as a means to seize more power.
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Trust in science was destroyed not by scientists, but by the right and rightwing billionaires. I wrote a rebuttal to Douthat’s bad article on Tue w/out even seeing it.
Bhattacharya did this.
Putting an arsonist in charge of putting their fire out is insanity. 1/
Bhattacharya did this.
Putting an arsonist in charge of putting their fire out is insanity. 1/
January 29, 2026 at 3:46 PM
Trust in science was destroyed not by scientists, but by the right and rightwing billionaires. I wrote a rebuttal to Douthat’s bad article on Tue w/out even seeing it.
Bhattacharya did this.
Putting an arsonist in charge of putting their fire out is insanity. 1/
Bhattacharya did this.
Putting an arsonist in charge of putting their fire out is insanity. 1/
Incredibly important points made here about our current reality. It seems so dissonant to go to work and raise our families while people are being murdered by the state in the streets. And that is actually the point. #DualState
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www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/o...
January 26, 2026 at 10:33 PM
Incredibly important points made here about our current reality. It seems so dissonant to go to work and raise our families while people are being murdered by the state in the streets. And that is actually the point. #DualState
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/o...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/o...
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Van Hollen: "They really think the American people are stupid. I mean, we can all see the video. We saw the video with Renee Good. We saw the video with Alex Pretti. The real domestic terrorists are in the White House right now."
January 25, 2026 at 12:20 AM
Van Hollen: "They really think the American people are stupid. I mean, we can all see the video. We saw the video with Renee Good. We saw the video with Alex Pretti. The real domestic terrorists are in the White House right now."
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A First: Gauging Alzheimer’s Prevalence from Blood Test www.alzforum.org/news/researc...
#Alzheimers #dementia #biomarkers #science #neuroscience #epidemiology #NeuroSkyence
#Alzheimers #dementia #biomarkers #science #neuroscience #epidemiology #NeuroSkyence
![ADNC and Cognitive Function. In HUNT, the percentage of people per age group with plasma p-tau217 without cognitive impairment (green), mild cognitive impairment (orange), and dementia (purple). [Image courtesy of Aarsland et al., Nature, 2025.]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:goucgvtb37dvzftgcejg7mon/bafkreidfdyg2mlauavpajeomxpdlwumwswjiuq4jajyam37k5zdgkxonpu)
January 18, 2026 at 1:41 PM
A First: Gauging Alzheimer’s Prevalence from Blood Test www.alzforum.org/news/researc...
#Alzheimers #dementia #biomarkers #science #neuroscience #epidemiology #NeuroSkyence
#Alzheimers #dementia #biomarkers #science #neuroscience #epidemiology #NeuroSkyence
Check out our LEGENNDS consortium paper showing an association of autism and other ND conditions with dementia using All of Us data:
“Association of neurodevelopmental conditions with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias and Parkinson’s disease” academic.oup.com/biomedgeront...
“Association of neurodevelopmental conditions with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias and Parkinson’s disease” academic.oup.com/biomedgeront...
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January 6, 2026 at 6:47 PM
Check out our LEGENNDS consortium paper showing an association of autism and other ND conditions with dementia using All of Us data:
“Association of neurodevelopmental conditions with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias and Parkinson’s disease” academic.oup.com/biomedgeront...
“Association of neurodevelopmental conditions with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias and Parkinson’s disease” academic.oup.com/biomedgeront...