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Colin Carlson

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Assistant Professor at Yale. Climate change, pandemics, and global governance. Punk rock didn't live up to what I'd hoped that it could be. Look, I made a hat: carlsonlab.bio ᛫ viralemergence.org ᛫ gbcc.study

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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 23d

🚨 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...

"Health losses attributed to anthropogenic climate change," a brief communication in the journal Nature Climate Change. There's a map showing regions of the world, and pie charts of relevant studies as they apply to different health impacts like "heat-related deaths" and "maternal and child health"

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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 22m

benjamin button disease has just been disproved in my mentions

Furious Femme @terrifiedintersex.bsky.social · 23m

Impossible. Teeth can’t age backwards, so they tell the person’s real age.

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Never mind how I know this. Just trust me.

Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 22m

If you were about to turn back into a baby, I just think you'd also be pretty worried about circumcision. But you know, do your little "posts" online. Bobby Kennedy Jr. is my brave friend and I hope he's able to live a full and beautiful life as he travels backwards through mitochondrial time

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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 26m

He’s scared of shots and doesn’t understand where his dad went. And you think it’s funny to laugh at that, just because he looks like a sandal someone lost on a beach 37 years ago

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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 30m

Oh you think it’s “cool” to make fun of RFK Jr.? You’re laughing? That young boy has the first real case of Benjamin Button syndrome and all he wants is to learn about medicine before he shrinks down to being a baby. And you’re laughing at him

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Tammy @tbobrowsky.bsky.social · 55m

today's connnnections is a head scratcher

a fake connections grid with words to the lyrics of Once in a Lifetime by the Talking Heads

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 45m

What does it mean? COVID may have created a new year-round baseline for work absences that is similar to influenza season conditions before the pandemic; policymakers should consider expanding interventions & data collection efforts to address the negative impacts of COVID-19 on the labor force. 5/

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 48m

Our latest paper in @jamanetworkopen.com where we asked: Following the #COVID pandemic, has SARSCoV2 circulation been associated with health-related absences from work and labor force exits? @yaleemd.bsky.social @princetonecon.bsky.social @brookings.edu 1/ jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Enduring Outcomes of COVID-19 Work Absences on the US Labor Market

This cohort study examines the extent to which COVID-19 continues to generate work absences and decrease labor force participation beyond the pandemic period in the US.

jamanetwork.com

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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 45m

Le Creuset is now a Brambles company

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Jason Rasgon @vectorgen.bsky.social · 1h

Don't threaten me with a good time.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

Thune: "If the Democrats had won the majority, they probably would've tried to nuke the filibuster. And then you'd have four new senators from Puerto Rico and DC, you'd have a packed Supreme Court, you'd have abortion on demand ... "

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Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 3h

News: Bari Weiss just sent a memo to staffers at CBS News asking them to produce a memo explaining "how you spend your working hours—and ideally, what you've made (or are making) that you're most proud of."

One CBS News staffer puts it like this to me: "We just got Elon Musked."

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jeff computers @helldude.bsky.social · 59m

HOLD THE LINE EGGHEADS

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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 2h

But I don't think that the framing you're describing is misleading, and if you're sensing some unease, it's because it's a critique you can't make of the media and not the science itself: see the exact phrasing in my pinned post.

Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 2h

Many scientists feel uneasy about the use of extrapolation, but I think that your original statement as broadly written is about a subset of studies that are (1) almost exclusively about heat, and (2) not representative of the broader field. But in those cases, I share the frustration!

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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 2h

This is true of some, but certainly not all, health impact attribution studies. Many are based on observed mortality or observed cause-specific disease burden. We actually report that extrapolation transparently here: www.healthattribution.org

The Health Attribution Library

www.healthattribution.org

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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 4h

On rereading the thread and other replies I’m also concerned two things may be being conflated here - studies on weather and climate attributable health outcomes (and the use of long run averages therein), versus studies on climate change attributable health outcomes, of which there are roughly 30

Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 5h

Happy to discuss more! But I have strong opinions here and, well, kinda literally wrote the book on it

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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 5h

I think there’s also a growing heterogeneity in the health attribution literature and the growing use of storyline methods means you’re talking about real events that happened and the specific observable deaths that occurred. This discourse is very 10 years ago

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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 5h

I both am not sure about the approach you’re describing, and as an epidemiologist, strongly disagree with framing the use of counterfactual as dishonest. This is one of many ways we estimate, e.g., how many people smoking kills each year

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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 12h

Theory and practice of meat …

Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 18h

the era of precision antisemitism

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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 18h

nih nofo for circumcision gwas studies

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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 21h

then you're never going to get to the root cause of autism melody

Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 21h

(visibly broken look in my eyes) haha yeah

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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 21h

i feel like one of those guys who stayed behind to deal with chernobyl and got irradiated but it's just that my body is getting absolutely fucking riddled with hitler particles. im secretly throwing up on my lunch breaks as my body tries to clear the hitler out of the cells

Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 21h

i miss when everything was less hitler. everything is currently very hitler. perhaps too much so in my opinion

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