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 · 3d ago

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...

Our lab website is updated with a new postdoc opening! This is a 2-year, in-person position looking at the relationships between climate change, pandemic risk, and policy choices over the 21st century. Please reach out (not on here)! www.carlsonlab.bio/join

Opportunities — The Carlson Lab

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So here's what happened to my lab (and @viralemergence.org). www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Exclusive: NSF puts new research grants to top universities on hold

US science funder once again restricts awards to Harvard University and other research institutions.

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Nice coverage of our study in the LA Times! www.latimes.com/science/stor...

The longer a species stays in the wildlife trade, the more dangerous it becomes. A new study explains why

A study finds that 41% of traded mammal species share at least one pathogen with humans, compared with just 6.4% of species not involved in trade.

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For anyone looking to deepen their understanding of the energy-AI challenge (should be everyone!), there's an excellent new Substack worth subscribing to currentclimatedp.substack.com

Current/Climate | Daniel Propp | Substack

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New in @science.org ‼️ In the most comprehensive study to date, we show that wildlife trade is driving animal-to-human zoonotic spillover at a planetary scale, with +1 spillover per host every 10 years. Live animal markets and illegal trade pose even greater risks. 🔓 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Check it out! New work in which we undertake the first systematic look at the science of health impact attribution, plus a great thread by @colincarlson.bsky.social below on attribution science and what we tried to accomplish with this study.

Colin Carlson@colincarlson.bsky.social · 11mo ago

🚨 NEW: Climate change is already causing 30,000 deaths per year - a global annual economic loss of $100-350B USD - but the true damage is probably 10x higher. Out TODAY in Nature Climate Change: the first systematic look at the science of "health impact attribution" 🔓 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We may have a one-year postdoctoral position opening! We're looking for someone with experience in attribution science OR very strong skills in climate epidemiology to come help us launch a Global Burden of Climate Change Study. Remote possible for the right person; aim to raise $ for a second year.

🚨 NEW today in Nature Genetics: the LISTEN principles are a FAIR-compatible framework that will allow genetic sequence databases to seamlessly participate in new multilateral access and benefit-sharing systems, such as the CBD Cali Fund and the WHO PABS System. 🧬🧪 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The LISTEN principles for genetic sequence data governance and database engineering - Nature Genetics

This Perspective proposes a checklist of six database design considerations, LISTEN: licensed, identified, supervised, transparent, enforced and non-exclusive, aimed at ensuring access and benefit-sharing principles in open science.

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Proud to have played a small role in moving this forward. Give our paper on a proposed Intergovernmental Panel on Pandemics a read!

Colin Carlson@colincarlson.bsky.social · last yr.

🚨 Very, very big news. Today, a global coalition - including members of the IPCC, IPBES, and WHO expert advisors, as well as independent virologists, epidemiologists, and lawyers - started the process of creating an "IPCC for Pandemics." 🔓 www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... 🧵 Five things to know 👉

🦠🌿🐦🧪 How can biodiversity monitoring help global efforts in disease surveillance? With ✨ fantastic ✨ colleagues from @viralemergence.org and the @geobon.org working group on One Health, we try to identify three key lessons for the future. 🧵 A short thread! academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...

Biodiversity science and biosurveillance are fellow travelers

The failure to meet the Aichi targets to alleviate global biodiversity decline (Nature 2020) was a wake-up call to the biodiversity monitoring community (T

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Infectious disease researcher Hailey Robertson writes home to Kansas, where bird flu reached four dairy cattle herds in 2024, to urge support for American science 🧪 🏠

Hailey Robertson@haileyrobertson.bsky.social · last yr.

A bit different from my usual writing, but excited (despite the circumstances) to share my op-ed in the Topeka Capital-Journal! I discuss recent NSF funding cuts and what they mean for Kansans, both now and in the future. 🌻 www.cjonline.com/story/opinio...

🧬🦠🌍 What are the big, cross-scale questions shaping the ecology and evolution of emerging viruses? @torrelavelle.bsky.social and I are building a list of 100 questions + want your input. Help map the future of EEID — fill out & share our short survey! 🔗 airtable.com/appTW4ZoSFjR...

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If you’re an ecology and evolution researcher of emerging viruses, please take 10 minutes to fill the survey! It help the amazing project of @torrelavelle.bsky.social and @haileyrobertson.bsky.social!

Torre Lavelle@torrelavelle.bsky.social · last yr.

@haileyrobertson.bsky.social and I are excited to officially launch our research exercise to identify the 100 most pressing questions about the ecology and evolution of emerging viruses! If you have some subject matter expertise in this area, we'd love to have you fill out our 10-minute survey below

Hey YSPH students! Are you excited about climate change, zoonotic and vector-borne diseases, ecology, and global governance? We've got a new course for you! Check out EMD 568:

@haileyrobertson.bsky.social and I are excited to officially launch our research exercise to identify the 100 most pressing questions about the ecology and evolution of emerging viruses! If you have some subject matter expertise in this area, we'd love to have you fill out our 10-minute survey below

Get the word out far and wide. New opportunity from the Simons Foundation in the Eco-Evo space. 2026 Simons Graduate Fellowship in Ecology and Evolution Awards, due July 31, 2025, only for incoming PhD students who plan to start their PhDs in Fall 2026. www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons...

Simons Graduate Fellowships in Ecology and Evolution

The purpose of these awards is to provide support for students entering U.S.-based Ph.D. programs with a plan to perform research in ecology and evolution. While we will consider all projects in ecolo...

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Do you write code? Do you wonder why we don't review code like we review writing? Well, we should :) Led by @jpeters7.bsky.social, we wrote some guidelines and resources for reviewing code, check it out! ecoforecast.org/resources-fo...

Bad news: the beach that makes you old is real, and I'm sorry to say that it's climate change (h/t @torrelavelle.bsky.social) www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Ambient outdoor heat and accelerated epigenetic aging among older adults in the US

Ambient outdoor heat, especially long term, may accelerate epigenetic aging in a diverse national cohort of older adults.

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🔔🔨 Updated preprint! An overview of health impacts formally attributed to climate change through the end of 2024. Lots of heat, lots of mortality, lots of high-income countries. Now featuring some new global burden estimates. 😷🧪 www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

NEW! 🌍🌡️ A really cool collaboration led by Katie Worsley-Tonks exploring how to manage shifting infectious disease risks in low-resource settings, with a focus on east Africa (because yes, we still have to do research on climate change and health... imagine that) 🧪😷 journals.plos.org/globalpublic...

🧪😷NEW: What happened to outbreak reporting during Covid-19 and the mpox clade II outbreak? We highlight shifts in what was reported and how information was communicated, providing insight into how decisions were made and communicated during these health emergencies🔓 journals.plos.org/globalpublic...

The WHO Disease Outbreak News during the Covid-19 pandemic

During the Covid-19 pandemic, the World Health Organization (WHO) was an important public source of information – not only about the pandemic, but also thousands of other potential health emergencies....

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Talked about flu for @yalesph.bsky.social! (Behind the scenes on this one: big thanks to my friend @melodyschreiber.com for fact-checking my assumptions and teaching me a lot about tangible steps people can be taking right now) medicine.yale.edu/news-article...

The bird flu threat to humans in the United States

The United States recorded its first human death from bird flu on January 6, heightening concerns that the latest strains of influenza A/H5N1 virus could become

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🚨New paper out @natrevbiodiv.bsky.social on how pathogens and parasites are responding to global change, and implications for pandemic prevention and biodiversity conservation. Check it out below!

Colin Carlson@colincarlson.bsky.social · 2y ago

🚨😷🧪 NEW: A growing body of evidence shows that pandemics, biodiversity loss, and climate change are part of a broader polycrisis - but there are no simple solutions. A sweeping overview of "Pathogens and planetary change" for the first issue of @natrevbiodiv.bsky.social, out now 🔓 rdcu.be/d6lHl

🧪😷 Biodiversity loss and disease emergence share common drivers - meaning that there are opportunities to create shared solutions for biodiversity and health. Global and national governance efforts to combat disease events must be integrated with environmental protection and sustainable development

Colin Carlson@colincarlson.bsky.social · 2y ago

If you take one thing away from our paper, I hope it's this: there's no safe path through the Pandemicene without action on environmental protection, sustainable development, and health system strengthening. Single-issue advocacy and siloed solutions put the world at greater risk from pandemics.

🚨😷🧪 NEW: A growing body of evidence shows that pandemics, biodiversity loss, and climate change are part of a broader polycrisis - but there are no simple solutions. A sweeping overview of "Pathogens and planetary change" for the first issue of @natrevbiodiv.bsky.social, out now 🔓 rdcu.be/d6lHl

Check out Daniel Propp's incredible investigative piece for @insideclimatenews.org!

Inside Climate News@insideclimatenews.org · 2y ago

Commercial Development Co. bills itself as North America’s leading redeveloper of industrial brownfields, but many of the properties currently or previously in the company’s portfolio remain untouched.

Excited to have this new paper out on what the scope and governance of an Intergovernmental Panel on Pandemics might look like. Take a look! 🦠

Colin Carlson@colincarlson.bsky.social · 2y ago

NEW 🦠‼️ Several countries and reports have called for the creation of an Intergovernmental Panel on Pandemics. Over the last two years, we brought global health law experts together with IPCC and IPBES members, and mapped out a blueprint for its scope and governance. 🔓 papers.ssrn.com/abstract=508...

For my first Bluesky post...I wrote about what it’s like when the world’s foremost source of weather and climate data went offline during Hurricanes Helene and Milton, exactly when it was needed most www.carlsonlab.bio/thoughts/the...

There are no climate havens for our climate data — The Carlson Lab

The world’s foremost source of weather and climate data went offline during Hurricanes Helene and Milton, exactly when it was needed most.

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