Posts by Bryan D. James, PhD
@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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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.
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.
Balinese cat perched on banister with one leg hanging down
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.
As a Vietnamese person, this was very alarming to read at first
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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OOPs forgot to tag the journal! Rookie mistake. See above: submit to @ajeadvances.bsky.social call for papers on AI and Epidemiology.
📣 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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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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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/
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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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."
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.]
A First: Gauging Alzheimer’s Prevalence from Blood Test www.alzforum.org/news/researc...
#Alzheimers #dementia #biomarkers #science #neuroscience #epidemiology #NeuroSkyence
Main results from this case-control study of over 600,000 participants in All of Us study shows increased odds ADRD and Parkinson's disease for neurodevelopmental conditions
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...
BREAKING: WATCH the full 60 Minutes CECOT segment here. This was sent to me anonymously. It appears to be the segment CBS' Bari Weiss killed. www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-...
There is no bottom--not only is this sick, vile, and lacking of any human empathy, but it is a not subtly veiled threat that anyone who opposes him can be murdered (and a green light to his extremist base to carry it out). The only derangement is our president's, and anyone who can condone this
📣 @bryandjames.bsky.social is hiring a postdoc at @rushalzheimers.bsky.social. This work examines predictors and consequences of a timely #dementia diagnosis using CMS claims linked to cohort data. Could be great for an #hpss #statssky #episky #hspr #geronsky PhD student finishing up this year.
The highlight of #GSA2025 was watching my friend and colleague @beyoung40.bsky.social give her speech for the James Jackson Mentorship Award , about her path from being mentored to becoming an exemplary mentor. Dr. Barnes has inspired SO many people. Lisa, you’re the best!
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Not on Bluesky: Alden Gross, Emma Nichols, Lindsay Kobayashi
I had a blast participating in the @geronsociety.bsky.social #GSA2025 Epi of Aging IG debate on the “Biggest Baddest Bias in Aging Research” as “The Confounder 😎” I got SMOKED in the final vote (3%!) as @sfackley.bsky.social ran away with it at 85% but still fun! 😆
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Haha it does look like Daria
Fun with friends and AI at #GSA2025:
Drinks and oysters at Rochambeau ➡️ our imagined selves at a 1940s speakeasy 🍸🦪
@ekgraham22.bsky.social @gabriellepfund.bsky.social @chops310.bsky.social
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Had the pleasure of serving as discussant for this great session on Blood-based Biomarkers of Aging and Neurodegeneration yesterday at @geronsociety.bsky.social #GSA2025 #geronsky
Speakers: Natascha Mertens, Joe Coresh, James Pike, Jason Smith
📸: Priya Palta
While the government was shut down, 379 NIH study section meetings (containing 24,380 grant applications) were postponed. NIH is committed to getting these reviewed, but please be patient and understanding with staff, as this is a complex and heavy lift.