Colin Carlson
@colincarlson.bsky.social
Climate change, global health security, science diplomacy, and good bad futures • Yale • carlsonlab.bio • viralemergence.org • he/they
For US researchers who do social-ecological systems work: what mechanisms are you applying to at NSF now that... everything?
BREAKING: The Eleventh Circuit, en banc, upholds Florida's anti-drag law, holding that it is neither unconstitutionally vague nor unconstitutionally overbroad. More to come at Law Dork: www.lawdork.com
The US owes the Pan-American Health Organization $135 million in past dues. Trump's budget proposal cuts funding for PAHO entirely, even though our contribution is 0.001% of federal spending. The result will be even weaker defenses agst measles, dengue & more. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/30/h...
Former Officials Protest U.S. Plan to Defund Pan American Health Organization
The group of former health and national security officials warned that Americans will be more vulnerable to infectious disease threats.
nytimes.com
Diseases don’t stop at borders. Pandemics, the climate crisis and conflicts demand a collective approach. The need for a science-led, evidence-based, impartial and globally representative health organization has never been greater. 80 years on, the @who.int constitution remains a living promise:
Why the need for the WHO has never been greater
Diseases don’t stop at borders. Pandemics, climate change and conflicts demand a collective approach.
nature.com
another day guarding the river you can't go into twice. everyone keeps asking me if they can go into the river again. buddy, you aren't the same man.
we are being held between stations due to Scylla. we can switch to the express track, however
Giovanni Colantonio@marioprime.bsky.social · 2d agothe odyssey is a realistic depiction of what it’s like when you’re trying to get home to your girl at 2 am on the mta. it’s always some shit
I don't even know what to say. This is real, this is true, so, like, thank you all, from the bottom of my heart. This took over 25 years to happen so if there's any lesson here it's either "keep at it, who knows" or "many people are divorced"
Faster heartbeats. Non-stop sweat. Endless rage. Get that dog blood today.
Anyway, you can say all you want that MAHA isn’t antivax, but all the big MAHA accounts are doing donuts in the parking lot because they found out Tony Fauci got a blood clot sometime in his life after he got the Moderna vaccine, so.
It’s interesting how irreconcilable but coexistent these three things are on here: (1) belief that journalism is vital and being killed by fascism, (2) belief that mainstream media is all actively participating in a secret fascist project, and (3) hanging out with MSM journalists on this website
The FDA cyclospora page hasn't been updated in more than a week www.fda.gov/food/outbrea...
Investigation of 9-State Outbreak of Cyclospora Illnesses
Do not eat recalled iceberg lettuce from Taylor Farms de Mexico. FDA’s investigation is ongoing.
fda.gov
Aaron Rodgers is talking shit about Tony Fauci, which raises an interesting possibility: could he beat the shit out of that old man in a cage match? The old man, to be clear, being Aaron Rodgers
is it a bad sign if i recognized this image from swan boy
lilli@toomanymouths.bsky.social · 2d agoTheme for a Late Night at Taco Bell in 1996
did you know that unlike replies, you have to manually turn off quote tweets for every post in a thread
should i post a really unhinged take to really reset my feed
me watching RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK for the first time: which character is supposed to be Spielberg's dad??
One of the more frustrating legacies of 2020 is the idea that reporting risk factors for mortality is somehow always a slight against disabled and chronically ill people, as opposed to an essential piece of information for people in that category to assess their risk before *or after* they get sick
The New York Times@nytimes.com · 2d agoBreaking News: Two deaths in Michigan have been linked to cyclospora. Both people who had the parasite also had underlying health issues.
Inflammatory disorders can be brutal. I’d know personally (thanks vasculitis et al). But the misinformation, including on vaccines, is dangerous. A deep dive from me into how MAHA sped up the inflammation panic. New from me at @motherjones.com www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
The Great Inflammation panic
The wellness world's favorite buzzword has gone federal. For those of us with real inflammatory disorders, the misinformation isn't just annoying—it's harmful.
motherjones.com
It took a year but I finally figured it out - he reminds me of Michael Emerson’s horrible little satanic minion on Evil
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d agoHassett: "One of the metrics of shelter costs that I find most interesting is that they're going down pretty rapidly in places like California because everybody is leaving. Even though there are high prices in California, it puts downward pressure on inflation because everybody is leaving the state"
Pandemic risk—where is it heading, and how can we (re-)conceptualize it within current modeling frameworks? Check out our new preprint below! @carlsonlab.bsky.social @viralemergence.org
Colin Carlson@colincarlson.bsky.social · 2d agoNEW stuff for Monday morning! Get your new stuff here! Pandemic risk is going up. Can we bring it back down? Probably not - unless we radically reimagine our relationship with nature, food, and each other. First preprint led by the brilliant @torrelavelle.bsky.social: www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...
NEW stuff for Monday morning! Get your new stuff here! Pandemic risk is going up. Can we bring it back down? Probably not - unless we radically reimagine our relationship with nature, food, and each other. First preprint led by the brilliant @torrelavelle.bsky.social: www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...
+1 to what @colincarlson.bsky.social said: the RFK interview is seen by the Right as a win. Bash grilled him, but there were lies that went unanswered/poorly refuted — making it look like to vaxhesitant or RW viewers like maybe RFK has a point (he doesn’t). THIS is the danger of platforming him. 
Yes, even though it looks appalling to all of us, the Fauci hearing is absolutely having the consequences intended by the right wing media machine. Let’s check in on America’s favorite cube of expired meat Joe Rogan:
EsmeWrites@esmewrites.bsky.social · 2d agodid Fauci hearing draw similar reaction fm them?