Tyler G. James, PhD, MCHES
@tylergjamesphd.bsky.social
Science advocate. Assistant professor of family medicine UMich. Disability and deaf health equity, social and legal epidemiology, CHARGE syndrome, and mixed methods. Views own. He/him.
New article at Disability and Health Journal: Disparities in Suicide Mortality Among Individuals With and Without Disabilities: A Nationwide Study in South Korea
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#DisabilityHealth
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November 17, 2025 at 4:57 PM
New article at Disability and Health Journal: Disparities in Suicide Mortality Among Individuals With and Without Disabilities: A Nationwide Study in South Korea
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#DisabilityHealth
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New article at Disability and Health Journal: Disparities in Suicide Mortality Among Individuals With and Without Disabilities: A Nationwide Study in South Korea
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#Disability
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#Disability
November 16, 2025 at 10:14 AM
New article at Disability and Health Journal: Disparities in Suicide Mortality Among Individuals With and Without Disabilities: A Nationwide Study in South Korea
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#Disability
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Still upset about no power of the purse language. You truly do hate to see it. The Trump admin undertook the most expansive set of illegal budgetary actions of any president in history, and broadcast as loudly as possible they’d keep doing it, and nothing. Budgetary lawlessness.
November 10, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Still upset about no power of the purse language. You truly do hate to see it. The Trump admin undertook the most expansive set of illegal budgetary actions of any president in history, and broadcast as loudly as possible they’d keep doing it, and nothing. Budgetary lawlessness.
New article at Disability and Health Journal: A Comparative Analysis of Self-Identification and Functional Measures of Disability
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1936657425002092?dgcid=rss_sd_all
#Disability
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#Disability
November 7, 2025 at 11:44 AM
New article at Disability and Health Journal: A Comparative Analysis of Self-Identification and Functional Measures of Disability
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1936657425002092?dgcid=rss_sd_all
#Disability
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#Disability
New article at Disability and Health Journal: Reasons for cannabis use among adults with disabilities: Findings from the 2023-2024 National Survey on Health and Disabilities
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#Disability
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#Disability
November 7, 2025 at 11:44 AM
New article at Disability and Health Journal: Reasons for cannabis use among adults with disabilities: Findings from the 2023-2024 National Survey on Health and Disabilities
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#Disability
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#Disability
New article at Disability and Health Journal: Differences in Physical Health Between Caregivers of Children with and without Disabilities: A Systematic Review and Meta Analysis
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#Disability
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#Disability
November 6, 2025 at 10:59 AM
New article at Disability and Health Journal: Differences in Physical Health Between Caregivers of Children with and without Disabilities: A Systematic Review and Meta Analysis
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1936657425002067?dgcid=rss_sd_all
#Disability
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#Disability
New article at Disability and Health Journal: Delphi Study for the Development of a Dyadic Social Support Intervention for People with Traumatic Brain Injury
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#Disability
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#Disability
November 6, 2025 at 10:59 AM
New article at Disability and Health Journal: Delphi Study for the Development of a Dyadic Social Support Intervention for People with Traumatic Brain Injury
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1936657425002079?dgcid=rss_sd_all
#Disability
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#Disability
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BLS job numbers are on hold during the shutdown and there are broader concerns about the integrity of that data moving forward after Trump's firing of the BLS commissioner in August. So how good of a substitute is ADP data? New analysis explores: www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...
November 5, 2025 at 10:33 PM
BLS job numbers are on hold during the shutdown and there are broader concerns about the integrity of that data moving forward after Trump's firing of the BLS commissioner in August. So how good of a substitute is ADP data? New analysis explores: www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...
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Beshear: Let me be clear. The president has both the funding and the authority to fund snap during a shutdown. In fact, every other president in every other shutdown has done so. People going hungry in this instance is a choice that this president has made.
November 5, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Beshear: Let me be clear. The president has both the funding and the authority to fund snap during a shutdown. In fact, every other president in every other shutdown has done so. People going hungry in this instance is a choice that this president has made.
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REMINDER: A socialist act by a New Yorker was a major reason why polio was eliminated in the US.
November 4, 2025 at 10:41 PM
REMINDER: A socialist act by a New Yorker was a major reason why polio was eliminated in the US.
New article at Disability and Health Journal: Promoting Community and Social Participation in Chronic Stroke: A Pilot Study of the ENGAGE Intervention
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#Disability
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#Disability
October 29, 2025 at 1:14 PM
New article at Disability and Health Journal: Promoting Community and Social Participation in Chronic Stroke: A Pilot Study of the ENGAGE Intervention
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#Disability
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#Disability
New article at Disability and Health Journal: Healthcare’s Blind Spot—Why People with Disabilities Remain Marginalized and Overlooked
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#Disability
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#Disability
October 29, 2025 at 1:14 PM
New article at Disability and Health Journal: Healthcare’s Blind Spot—Why People with Disabilities Remain Marginalized and Overlooked
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1936657425002043?dgcid=rss_sd_all
#Disability
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#Disability
Why don’t we just call disinformation and misinformation “lies”?
October 27, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Why don’t we just call disinformation and misinformation “lies”?
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It's not about what this country can or can’t afford. It’s about priorities. [Cartoon by Jesse Duquette]
October 27, 2025 at 5:01 PM
It's not about what this country can or can’t afford. It’s about priorities. [Cartoon by Jesse Duquette]
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A short story about our heroes inside NIH:
Between a Trump-imposed freeze on grant-making in Jan/Feb and new political hurdles in spring & early summer, NIH was in trouble.
By the end of June, NIH was 8,300 grants and $3.1 billion behind its FY24 pace. Morale was in the toilet. Things were bleak.
Between a Trump-imposed freeze on grant-making in Jan/Feb and new political hurdles in spring & early summer, NIH was in trouble.
By the end of June, NIH was 8,300 grants and $3.1 billion behind its FY24 pace. Morale was in the toilet. Things were bleak.
October 23, 2025 at 6:18 PM
A short story about our heroes inside NIH:
Between a Trump-imposed freeze on grant-making in Jan/Feb and new political hurdles in spring & early summer, NIH was in trouble.
By the end of June, NIH was 8,300 grants and $3.1 billion behind its FY24 pace. Morale was in the toilet. Things were bleak.
Between a Trump-imposed freeze on grant-making in Jan/Feb and new political hurdles in spring & early summer, NIH was in trouble.
By the end of June, NIH was 8,300 grants and $3.1 billion behind its FY24 pace. Morale was in the toilet. Things were bleak.
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Boycott and divestment isn't really an option for most of the hundreds of companies that work for ICE, which are largely privately owned and don't have consumer brands.
Here are 42 ICE enablers that we *can* opt out of supporting. See why each is included at boycottcitizens.org/ice
Here are 42 ICE enablers that we *can* opt out of supporting. See why each is included at boycottcitizens.org/ice
October 23, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Boycott and divestment isn't really an option for most of the hundreds of companies that work for ICE, which are largely privately owned and don't have consumer brands.
Here are 42 ICE enablers that we *can* opt out of supporting. See why each is included at boycottcitizens.org/ice
Here are 42 ICE enablers that we *can* opt out of supporting. See why each is included at boycottcitizens.org/ice
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Should be a layup legislative move - and ideally Dems would be introducing message bills like this within next 24-48 hrs.
Democrats should be drawing up legislation right now, this very minute, to bar Trump from helping himself to $230 million in taxpayer funds from DOJ. Challenge Republicans to hold a vote on it. Push this so hard in the media that every GOP Senate and House candidate is pressed to comment on it.
October 21, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Should be a layup legislative move - and ideally Dems would be introducing message bills like this within next 24-48 hrs.
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Was reading about how we teach "group work" in the form of "do your part and bring it all together", and how that continues as a norm in academic research collaborations (for better or (mostly) for worse).
I intentionally avoid assigning group work in my own courses...
I intentionally avoid assigning group work in my own courses...
October 23, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Was reading about how we teach "group work" in the form of "do your part and bring it all together", and how that continues as a norm in academic research collaborations (for better or (mostly) for worse).
I intentionally avoid assigning group work in my own courses...
I intentionally avoid assigning group work in my own courses...
New article at Disability and Health Journal: A systematic review of Photovoice studies on health-promoting behaviors among individuals with disabilities: Insights from the socio-ecological model
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1936657425002018?dgcid=rss_sd_all
#Disability
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#Disability
October 23, 2025 at 3:02 PM
New article at Disability and Health Journal: A systematic review of Photovoice studies on health-promoting behaviors among individuals with disabilities: Insights from the socio-ecological model
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1936657425002018?dgcid=rss_sd_all
#Disability
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#Disability
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Great work from my friends at Disability Rights North Carolina on this case.
Nursing facilities can’t blanket ban people with addiction history, per N.C. settlement www.statnews.com/2025/10/21/a... via @statnews.com
Nursing facilities can’t blanket ban people with addiction history, per N.C. settlement www.statnews.com/2025/10/21/a... via @statnews.com
Nursing facilities can’t blanket ban people with addiction history, per N.C. settlement
The ADA is the basis of an agreement that keeps North Carolina nursing centers from excluding all people with addiction histories.
www.statnews.com
October 21, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Great work from my friends at Disability Rights North Carolina on this case.
Nursing facilities can’t blanket ban people with addiction history, per N.C. settlement www.statnews.com/2025/10/21/a... via @statnews.com
Nursing facilities can’t blanket ban people with addiction history, per N.C. settlement www.statnews.com/2025/10/21/a... via @statnews.com
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Amazon controls over a third of the global cloud computing market.
Its customers include Capital One, United Airlines, and the US Army.
Today's outage should be a wakeup call: Dependence on a handful of powerful corporations is a threat to economic and national security.
Its customers include Capital One, United Airlines, and the US Army.
Today's outage should be a wakeup call: Dependence on a handful of powerful corporations is a threat to economic and national security.
BREAKING: Amazon Web Services
A massive AWS outage early this morning sent major websites and apps down for several hours
Tracking site Downdetector has received over 8 million reports around the globe
A massive AWS outage early this morning sent major websites and apps down for several hours
Tracking site Downdetector has received over 8 million reports around the globe
October 20, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Amazon controls over a third of the global cloud computing market.
Its customers include Capital One, United Airlines, and the US Army.
Today's outage should be a wakeup call: Dependence on a handful of powerful corporations is a threat to economic and national security.
Its customers include Capital One, United Airlines, and the US Army.
Today's outage should be a wakeup call: Dependence on a handful of powerful corporations is a threat to economic and national security.
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Reposted by Tyler G. James, PhD, MCHES
No surprises here - removed or altered data sets include health data, and other data related to climate change, air pollution, etc., which enable threats to health and wellbeing and health inequities to be tracked and intervened upon.
A Shortlist of Federal Data the Trump Administration Has Tampered With or Destroyed
The scale and scope of federal data and statistics that have been...
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October 13, 2025 at 6:21 PM
No surprises here - removed or altered data sets include health data, and other data related to climate change, air pollution, etc., which enable threats to health and wellbeing and health inequities to be tracked and intervened upon.
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Universities: We can't afford cost of living adjustments for faculty and staff, we have budget problems.
Also universities: Our football coach lost three games so we will pay him $50 million to go away
Also universities: Our football coach lost three games so we will pay him $50 million to go away
October 12, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Universities: We can't afford cost of living adjustments for faculty and staff, we have budget problems.
Also universities: Our football coach lost three games so we will pay him $50 million to go away
Also universities: Our football coach lost three games so we will pay him $50 million to go away
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HEPA purifiers not tied to less #viral exposure in elementary classrooms, analysis finds
#HEPA purifiers were associated with a 33% decrease in viral diversity, but the reduction wasn't linked to fewer school absences.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/i...
#HEPA purifiers were associated with a 33% decrease in viral diversity, but the reduction wasn't linked to fewer school absences.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/i...
October 13, 2025 at 7:56 PM
HEPA purifiers not tied to less #viral exposure in elementary classrooms, analysis finds
#HEPA purifiers were associated with a 33% decrease in viral diversity, but the reduction wasn't linked to fewer school absences.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/i...
#HEPA purifiers were associated with a 33% decrease in viral diversity, but the reduction wasn't linked to fewer school absences.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/i...