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Colin Carlson

@colincarlson.bsky.social

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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 · 26d

🚨 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 · 4h

This is a good take

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Ria Kapoor @riakapoor.bsky.social · 3d

I have a new article out.

TLDR: Actively courting deportation by air is a way to claim rights as a stateless person and even as a refugee.

academic.oup.com/past/advance...

Air Travel, Statelessness, and the Rights Claims of Ugandan Asians, c.1973*

Abstract. In the aftermath of Idi Amin’s expulsion of Uganda’s South Asians in 1972, some of those made technically stateless arrived in India unsupported

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 6h

A reminder.

Humanity has never removed an atmospheric pollutant at a global, continental or, even, regional scale — we have only ever shut down the source and let nature do the clearing up. This is the case for chlorofluorocarbons and stratospheric ozone destruction, for sulfur dioxide and acid rain, and for sulfur and nitrogen oxides and photochemical smog. We must be prepared for CDR to be a failure, leaving us to rely on the environment to stabilize atmospheric CO₂ over thousands of years. This is another argument for rapid decarbonization.

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Michael Mazengarb @michaelmazengarb.bsky.social · 11h

This is very sad, but also not surprising. The science has warned for a long time, including in IPCC reports, that even modest levels of global warming will devastate virtually all coral reefs.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Planet’s first catastrophic climate tipping point reached, report says, with coral reefs facing ‘widespread dieback’

Unless global heating is reduced to 1.2C ‘as fast as possible’, warm water coral reefs will not remain ‘at any meaningful scale’, a report by 160 scientists from 23 countries warns

www.theguardian.com

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ceej @ceej.online · 9h

caught my vampire neighbor creeping through my front door. he claims my saying “for sure dude, we should definitely hang out sometime” the other night counts as an invitation, but I disagree. we’re on hold with the etiquette hotline

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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 8h

I love to ask my students normal questions about the incredibly normal thing we do for a living

Is vomitus that which you vomit
I always just assumed that you vomit vomit
But it is it like detritus

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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 8h

Neither a journal publication nor a preprint but a secret third option*

*book about the history of biopiracy I shouldn’t be writing for any reason

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Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 1d

a post by Alejandro Arbona:

[David Letterman voice]
"fraudulent labubu"

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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 10h

sometimes i am suddenly struck with the memory that there's a person who is respected and liked in the conservation field who proudly admits to having led part of the iraq wmd investigation

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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 10h

do you think if i report this tweet for hate speech i can finally put an end to all of this

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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 10h

going to do this to some of you if you're not careful

Upstate Bozo @stuntbirdarmy.bsky.social · Jul 26

When I was in high school there was a real annoying hardcore kid who came to all the local shows so my friend started a rumor that he supported the Iraq war.

Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 10h

a bit surprised to see you get into straight play this late in life but as i've always said, sexuality is a spectrum

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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 11h

okay but where do I get the jacket

Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 11h

Has any american newspaper done an in-depth profile of DSA? @nathantankus.bsky.social @jwmason.bsky.social @danieldenvir.bsky.social

FT- worlds best capitalist newspaper writes about a remarkable decade for the DSA and the long tradition of socialists running US cities
www.ft.com/content/46f1...

Will Zohran Mamdani’s rise mark a new dawn for American socialism?

Tens of thousands of volunteers mobilised by the Democratic Socialists of America are working to elect a torchbearer for a beleaguered US left

www.ft.com

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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 11h

replies are disabled. everyone enjoy my sandwich in silence

Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 11h

i won't abide this

Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 11h

next town over - Katz's! but the best Jewish deli in Connecticut is Rein's, which is about a 45 minute drive away

Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 12h

it's pastrami, a little bit of sauerkraut, swiss cheese, and thousand island dressing on rye. it is simply the best sandwich there is

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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 12h

this is a sincere and curious question: has the glorious concept of the pastrami reuben not reached the United Kingdom

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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 12h

This is the greatest treat known to man

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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 12h

I’m on a level of grantwriting treating myself that you simply could not comprehend if you tried. There’s a serious risk your brain would explode

Reuben, knish, pickles, and you know I gotta have that Dr Brown’s black cherry

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Laprofmme @laprofmme.bsky.social · 13h

Courtesy of colleagues at Penn

A variation on Benjamin Franklin’s 1754 engraving in the Pennsylvania Gazette, published in Philadelphia, in an effort to foster cooperation among the various colonies against the tyrant king of Britain, with the American colonies replaced by the nine universities selected for special collaboration opportunities

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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 13h

how i'm feeling six hours into this grantwriting session tbh

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

Trump: "I don't think there's anything that's gonna get me in heaven. I think I'm not maybe heaven bound. I may be in heaven right now as we fly on Air Force One. I'm not sure I'm gonna be able to make heaven."

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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 14h

i would kiss this face so hard we both exploded

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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 15h

I've had to pause Buffy so I can get words on the page but also because someone in my building is practicing the flute and that's honestly way spookier on a rainy day than this show

Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 16h

Love when I see a headline and I immediately know it's gonna be an absolute banger from @zteirstein.bsky.social

Grist @grist.org · 16h

In Arizona, a fight against a deadly fungus is under threat from Trump’s health policies.

What one doctor’s quest to stop valley fever says about America’s preparedness for climate-driven disease.

grist.org/health/valle...

#PublicHealth #Health #Fever #AZ #Arizona

In Arizona, a fight against a deadly fungus is under threat from Trump’s health policies

What one Arizona doctor’s quest to stop valley fever says about America’s preparedness for climate-driven disease.

grist.org

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