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Torre Lavelle @torrelavelle.bsky.social · 21d

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 · 22d

🚨 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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The Carlson Lab @ Yale @carlsonlab.bsky.social · Aug 19

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.

The Global Burden of Climate Change Study Working Group

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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · Jul 28

🚨 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.

www.nature.com

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Torre Lavelle @torrelavelle.bsky.social · Jul 21

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 · Jul 17

🚨 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 👉

Pathways to an Intergovernmental Panel on Pandemics: lessons from the IPCC and IPBES

Colin J Carlson, Christopher H Trisos, Ben Oppenheim, Shweta Bansal, Sara E Davies, Aïda Diongue-Niang, Victoria Y Fan, John D Kraemer,
Rachel Golden Kroner, Lawrence O Gostin, David T S Hayman, Marion Koopmans, Torre E Lavelle, Carlos G das Neves, Zoe O’Donoghue,
Laura M Pereira, Benjamin Roche, Matiangai Sirleaf, Kayla Zamanian, Carlos Zambrana-Torrelio, Alexandra L Phelan

Pandemics pose a global threat to human wellbeing, justice, economies, and ecosystems and are comparable with other planetary crises such as climate change and biodiversity loss in terms of urgency and impact. The global community would benefit from a dedicated scientific synthesis body to assess pandemic risks and solutions. In this Personal View, we explore proposals for an Intergovernmental Panel on Pandemics and assess potential pathways to its creation. Learning lessons from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) might help national governments and international organisations to chart a course through important decisions about format, governance, operations, scientific scope and process, and ability to recommend policies that make the world safer.

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Timothée Poisot @ctrlalttim.com · Jun 30

🦠🌿🐦🧪 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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Science Homecoming @sciencehomecoming.bsky.social · Jun 29

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 · Jun 29

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...

Topeka scientist says NSF funds critical to infectious disease forecasting | Opinion

Planned budget cuts for 2026 would deepen damage to STEM education, jobs, and public access to taxpayer-funded data.

www.cjonline.com

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Hailey Robertson @haileyrobertson.bsky.social · Jun 17

🧬🦠🌍 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!

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Rafa Lopes @rafalpx.bsky.social · Jun 7

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 · Jun 6

@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

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The Carlson Lab @ Yale @carlsonlab.bsky.social · Jun 16

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:

EMD 568
Global Change and Infectious Disease Epidemiology

TTh 1:30pm-2:50pm

Course Description
This course explores infectious disease epidemiology and public health practice in a world that has been transformed by human influence on the biosphere. The course is divided into three modules, focused on: (1) the role of anthropogenic environmental change in the process of zoonotic and vector-borne disease emergence, including new epidemic and pandemic threats; (2) the effects of climate change on infectious disease dynamics in humans and animals; and (3) levers for intervention to curb environmental drivers of disease risk or reduce their impact on human health and health systems. A primary aim of this course is to expose students to different frameworks for study design and causal inference, including approaches from epidemiology, ecology, econometrics, and anthropology.

Suggested prerequisite: Principles of Infectious Diseases I or equivalent survey course on major infectious diseases or permission of the instructor. Students would benefit from a working familiarity with major kinds of pathogen life cycles/major categories of global health burden in order to contextualize the material/dive deeper into the ecology and epidemiology of these pathogens.

0 credits for Yale College students

Instructors
Colin Carlson
colin.carlson@yale.edu

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Torre Lavelle @torrelavelle.bsky.social · Jun 6

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Torre Lavelle @torrelavelle.bsky.social · Jun 6

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Torre Lavelle @torrelavelle.bsky.social · Jun 6

@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

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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · Jun 2

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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Cole Brookson @colebrookson.bsky.social · Mar 11

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...

Resources for Reviewing Code | Ecological Forecasting Initiative

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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · Feb 27

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.

www.science.org

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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · Feb 27

🔔🔨 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...

An overview of health impact attribution studies. Top panel is a map with pie charts, showing a focus on Africa, Asia, and Europe, and a focus on heat-related impacts and maternal and child health. Bottom panels include a bar graph over time, showing studies get more diverse, and several more bar graphs showing that studies are focused on mortality, temperature, and long-term trends.

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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · Jan 30

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...

A diagram showing that disease risk emerges from hazard, exposure, and vulnerability, with six steps to action: strengthening stakeholder knowledge, conducting research, improving surveillance, reducing exposure, improving health and health systems, and building climate-health capacity

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Ciara Weets @ciaramweets.bsky.social · Jan 27

🧪😷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....

journals.plos.org

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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · Jan 17

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

medicine.yale.edu

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Torre Lavelle @torrelavelle.bsky.social · Jan 15

🚨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 · Jan 15

🚨😷🧪 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

Top panels: graphs showing increases in spillover events, extinction rates, and temperature anomalies over the last few centuries. Bottom panel: a map of 10 pandemics since the year 1900. Four were linked to agriculture, two to wildlife use, and one to climate change.

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Ciara Weets @ciaramweets.bsky.social · Jan 15

🧪😷 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 · Jan 15

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.

header of our paper "Pathogens and planetary change"

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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · Jan 15

🚨😷🧪 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

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Torre Lavelle @torrelavelle.bsky.social · Jan 13

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

Inside Climate News @insideclimatenews.org · Jan 13

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.

How North America’s Leading Brownfield Redeveloper Makes Millions by Not Redeveloping Brownfields - Inside Climate News

Although Commercial Development Co. and its affiliates have pledged to revive the former industrial sites they purchase, residents are often stuck looking at undeveloped acreage for years.

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Torre Lavelle @torrelavelle.bsky.social · Jan 8

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 · Jan 8

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...

The scientific mission and governance of an Intergovernmental Panel on Pandemics: lessons from the IPCC and IPBES

<span> <p><span>Pandemics pose a global threat to human-wellbeing, justice, economies, and ecosystems, comparable in urgency and impact to other planetary cris

papers.ssrn.com

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Torre Lavelle @torrelavelle.bsky.social · Nov 22

Thanks to @colincarlson.bsky.social for helping coax this blog into existence!

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