Colin Carlson
@colincarlson.bsky.social
Planetary epidemiologist at Yale • carlsonlab.bio • viralemergence.org.
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Viral diversity and zoonotic risk in endangered species
A growing body of evidence links zoonotic disease risk, including pandemic threats, to biodiversity loss and other upstream anthropogenic impacts on ecosystem health. However, there is little current...
esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
NEW! 🦠🦧 We revisited a perplexing paradox: do wildlife really pose less of a risk to human health as they become more endangered? Turns out, it's sampling bias all the way down: conservation risks correlate with disease surveillance blindspots. 🔓 esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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NEW — Trump has signed an executive order "designating illicit fentanyl and its core precursor chemical as weapons of mass destruction (WMD)." www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
As a reminder, The Handbasket had the scoop that this was coming back in MARCH:
As a reminder, The Handbasket had the scoop that this was coming back in MARCH:
Trump to declare 'illicit' fentanyl 'Weapon of Mass Destruction,' per draft EO
A copy of the draft was obtained and reviewed by The Handbasket.
www.thehandbasket.co
December 15, 2025 at 9:08 PM
NEW — Trump has signed an executive order "designating illicit fentanyl and its core precursor chemical as weapons of mass destruction (WMD)." www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
As a reminder, The Handbasket had the scoop that this was coming back in MARCH:
As a reminder, The Handbasket had the scoop that this was coming back in MARCH:
At today's HHS press conference on Lyme, Rep. Morgan Griffith promotes organ transplantation company Revivicor (they do "medicinal stuff"), helpfully notes that he does NOT have a financial conflict of interest, and then reveals to the world he gave them the idea of alpha gal-safe pork 👍
December 15, 2025 at 8:02 PM
At today's HHS press conference on Lyme, Rep. Morgan Griffith promotes organ transplantation company Revivicor (they do "medicinal stuff"), helpfully notes that he does NOT have a financial conflict of interest, and then reveals to the world he gave them the idea of alpha gal-safe pork 👍
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“and the acting Captain of Sea City”
December 15, 2025 at 7:25 PM
“and the acting Captain of Sea City”
check out this wet guy. that's our wet cdc director www.youtube.com/live/1woXJsP...
Deputy Secretary O'Neill Gives Update on Viral Hemorrhagic Fever Outbreaks
YouTube video by U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
www.youtube.com
December 15, 2025 at 7:23 PM
check out this wet guy. that's our wet cdc director www.youtube.com/live/1woXJsP...
watching this because i don't respect myself
This afternoon, RFK Jr. is hosting a roundtable event about Lyme disease, featuring patients and health providers. HHS says the event will include an announcement of "new diagnostic efforts."
@thesicktimes.org is watching, and will likely have a short write-up of the highlights later today.
@thesicktimes.org is watching, and will likely have a short write-up of the highlights later today.
December 15, 2025 at 7:21 PM
watching this because i don't respect myself
STUNNING late-breaking update in flag watch 2k25. Never stop appealing to heaven!!!
December 15, 2025 at 7:05 PM
STUNNING late-breaking update in flag watch 2k25. Never stop appealing to heaven!!!
no offense but why is it 20 degrees
December 15, 2025 at 4:31 PM
no offense but why is it 20 degrees
SCOOP: Sources confirm that Trump (President USA) may not be President anymore, citing developments in death related matter now unfolding; alive status considered requirement for Presidential position, throwing wrench in presidency just one year into four-year elected nature of the second term
Schefter or Shams seem like the reporters most likely in this realm
December 15, 2025 at 4:27 PM
SCOOP: Sources confirm that Trump (President USA) may not be President anymore, citing developments in death related matter now unfolding; alive status considered requirement for Presidential position, throwing wrench in presidency just one year into four-year elected nature of the second term
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Just a reminder that at least 600 Americans were fired for failing to show sufficient respect after Charlie Kirk's murder.
December 15, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Just a reminder that at least 600 Americans were fired for failing to show sufficient respect after Charlie Kirk's murder.
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Annual reminder:
Die Hard is about using impossibly limited resources to defend a tower from foreign invaders.
Die Hard is a Hanukkah movie.
Die Hard is about using impossibly limited resources to defend a tower from foreign invaders.
Die Hard is a Hanukkah movie.
December 14, 2024 at 1:55 PM
Annual reminder:
Die Hard is about using impossibly limited resources to defend a tower from foreign invaders.
Die Hard is a Hanukkah movie.
Die Hard is about using impossibly limited resources to defend a tower from foreign invaders.
Die Hard is a Hanukkah movie.
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Why is this tiny gesture so funny
December 15, 2025 at 4:17 AM
Why is this tiny gesture so funny
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People who protest for human rights are not a threat to the Australian community. That is a proposition that doesn't hold up to the smallest amount of scrutiny. And repeating it will not not make it true. Just stop it. #auspol
December 15, 2025 at 9:59 AM
People who protest for human rights are not a threat to the Australian community. That is a proposition that doesn't hold up to the smallest amount of scrutiny. And repeating it will not not make it true. Just stop it. #auspol
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Thread
Oh wow what a thread
Oh wow what a thread
When Rob Reiner was on his all-time epic run at the start of his career, he had an opportunity to read a script that was looking for a production partner, and he lost his mind for it. He decided Castle Rock had to have it, no matter what.
December 15, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Thread
Oh wow what a thread
Oh wow what a thread
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What would degrowth imply for petrochemicals?
A multilateral treaty enforcing a cap on global production, yes - as forcefully argued by many brilliant voices - but that is not all. In a new paper, I reflect on what remains in place also after a seemingly ambitious policy.
doi.org/10.1177/0963...
A multilateral treaty enforcing a cap on global production, yes - as forcefully argued by many brilliant voices - but that is not all. In a new paper, I reflect on what remains in place also after a seemingly ambitious policy.
doi.org/10.1177/0963...
December 5, 2025 at 1:46 PM
What would degrowth imply for petrochemicals?
A multilateral treaty enforcing a cap on global production, yes - as forcefully argued by many brilliant voices - but that is not all. In a new paper, I reflect on what remains in place also after a seemingly ambitious policy.
doi.org/10.1177/0963...
A multilateral treaty enforcing a cap on global production, yes - as forcefully argued by many brilliant voices - but that is not all. In a new paper, I reflect on what remains in place also after a seemingly ambitious policy.
doi.org/10.1177/0963...
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Who were the Bondi beach shooting victims? What we know
Who were the Bondi beach shooting victims? What we know
Authorities say two rabbis, a Holocaust survivor and a 10-year-old girl were among the victims.
www.bbc.com
December 15, 2025 at 6:55 AM
Who were the Bondi beach shooting victims? What we know
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Probably the song that first made me really fall in love with Tom Waits and still a favorite. I also quite like this cover—a bit less bluesy and more folky, but the latter genre is no less suited I think to the song’s sort of wry rueful sense of humor youtu.be/THh_hWrGXYw?...
Come On Up To The House
YouTube video by Sarah Jarosz - Topic
youtu.be
December 15, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Probably the song that first made me really fall in love with Tom Waits and still a favorite. I also quite like this cover—a bit less bluesy and more folky, but the latter genre is no less suited I think to the song’s sort of wry rueful sense of humor youtu.be/THh_hWrGXYw?...
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Australia's opposition leader is already blaming the mass murder in Bondi on university campus anti-genocide protests.
Blaming exactly the wrong causes for political reasons will lay the groundwork for even more gun violence slipping through, in Australia.
Blaming exactly the wrong causes for political reasons will lay the groundwork for even more gun violence slipping through, in Australia.
Sussan Ley accuses Albanese of failing to keep Jewish Australians safe
Opposition Leader Sussan Ley says Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has allowed antisemitism to "fester" and failed to keep Jewish Australians safe in the wake of yesterday's "evil" terror attack on the...
www.abc.net.au
December 15, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Australia's opposition leader is already blaming the mass murder in Bondi on university campus anti-genocide protests.
Blaming exactly the wrong causes for political reasons will lay the groundwork for even more gun violence slipping through, in Australia.
Blaming exactly the wrong causes for political reasons will lay the groundwork for even more gun violence slipping through, in Australia.
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I also don't think that Americans fully grasp that Australia's media environment is more concentrated, racist and right-wing than America's media environment
December 15, 2025 at 9:17 AM
I also don't think that Americans fully grasp that Australia's media environment is more concentrated, racist and right-wing than America's media environment
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Today I'll be arguing that AI tools (specifically LLMs and AI agents) are NOT the future of health and social science but are more likely to be the death of health and social science.
Here's a sneak peak slide with the main components of my argument.
Here's a sneak peak slide with the main components of my argument.
December 15, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Today I'll be arguing that AI tools (specifically LLMs and AI agents) are NOT the future of health and social science but are more likely to be the death of health and social science.
Here's a sneak peak slide with the main components of my argument.
Here's a sneak peak slide with the main components of my argument.
I think I’ve coalesced why I felt a bit neutral on Wake Up Dead Man: it’s the first one that really feels like a love letter to the genre as its starting point, and so Blanc falls into the background a bit - and what it executes, ultimately, is a PERFECT story, but for Poirot, not Blanc
December 15, 2025 at 9:14 AM
I think I’ve coalesced why I felt a bit neutral on Wake Up Dead Man: it’s the first one that really feels like a love letter to the genre as its starting point, and so Blanc falls into the background a bit - and what it executes, ultimately, is a PERFECT story, but for Poirot, not Blanc
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Tom Waits - "Come On Up To The House"
YouTube video by Tom Waits
www.youtube.com
December 15, 2025 at 8:52 AM
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In the center of the Zone is the Room, inside of which lies the thing you most desire (hot dog that regenerates every time you take a bite)
November 24, 2024 at 4:29 AM
In the center of the Zone is the Room, inside of which lies the thing you most desire (hot dog that regenerates every time you take a bite)
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Rob and Michelle Reiner wrote the preface to one of my dad's books about parenting kids with special needs.
They cared so deeply about kids and families and community.
They cared so deeply about kids and families and community.
December 15, 2025 at 4:37 AM
Rob and Michelle Reiner wrote the preface to one of my dad's books about parenting kids with special needs.
They cared so deeply about kids and families and community.
They cared so deeply about kids and families and community.
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Had to track down the Rob Reiner cameo on 30 Rock.
December 15, 2025 at 4:51 AM
Had to track down the Rob Reiner cameo on 30 Rock.