Colin J. Carlson, Ph.D.
Biologist, assistant prof , PI of , IPCC & IPBES author. I write about viruses, healthcare, biodiversity, & climate adaptation.
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Improving rural health care reduces illegal logging and conserves carbon in a tropical forest
PNAS 130d 4 tweets
Here, we show how a conservation–health care exchange in rural Borneo preserved globally important forest carbon and simultaneously improved human health and well-being, in a region of historically intense environmental destruction, widespread...
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Colin J. Carlson, Ph.D. If you read one paper this week, read this one 129d
UC Berkeley is disavowing its eugenic research fund after bioethicist and other faculty call it out
Teresa Watanabe - Los Angeles Times 130d 10 tweets
UC Berkeley disavowed a research fund for eugenics it had kept for decades after a campus bioethicist and others protested. But eugenic ideology remains embedded in science today.
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Solar geoengineering could redistribute malaria risk in developing countries
medRxiv 131d 2 tweets
Solar geoengineering is often framed as a stopgap measure to decrease the magnitude, impacts, and injustice of climate change. However, the costs or benefits of geoengineering for human health are largely unknown. We project how geoengineering could...
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Colin J. Carlson, Ph.D. New preprint with , , and others: “Solar geoengineering could redistribute malaria risk in developing countries.” This one has a lot to pull apart: 131d
Assessing the interactions between COVID-19 and influenza in the United States
medRxiv 338d 2 tweets
The 2019-2020 influenza sentinel surveillance data exhibits unexpected trends. Typical influenza seasons have a small herald wave, followed by a decrease due to school closure during holidays, and then a main post-holiday peak that is significantly...
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Colin J. Carlson, Ph.D. I think there's been a legit reduction in flu - see also this great work from and - but I worry that the difference in risk perception this time around vs. last year will mean we don't get lucky this time 133d
Why COVID outbreaks look set to worsen this winter
Nature.com 133d 15 tweets
It’s too soon to say whether COVID is seasonal like the flu — but where clusters aren’t under control, infections will continue to swell.
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Colin J. Carlson, Ph.D. Some great nuance from & co. 133d
Warming temperatures could expose more than 1.3 billion new people to Zika virus risk by 2050
Wiley Online Library 135d 2 tweets
In the aftermath of the 2015 pandemic of Zika virus, concerns over links between climate change and emerging arboviruses have become more pressing. Given the potential that much of the world might re...
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Colin J. Carlson, Ph.D. In total, we project 1.3 billion people could face new exposure to the temperatures that facilitate a Zika virus epidemic. You can read more in our new study, a huge collaborative effort with and many others, now 135d
Warming temperatures could expose more than 1.3 billion new people to Zika virus risk by 2050
Onlinelibrary.wiley.com 135d 1 tweets
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Colin J. Carlson, Ph.D. In our new study, and I looked for new ways to visualize a difficult policy nuance: rising temperatures will push Zika risk to higher latitudes (left), but equally, huge exposures are projected in east Africa and China (right, in millions). 135d
Nature journals announce first open-access agreement
Nature.com 136d 49 tweets
The arrangement will allow some researchers in Germany to publish openly — but critics say it comes with a high price.
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U.S. Virus Cases Climb Toward a Third Peak
Nytimes.com 141d 46 tweets
Cases are surging again after falling from a summer peak. And the spread to new areas of the country suggests the outbreak is far from over.
John Snow Memorandum
JOHN SNOW MEMORANDUM 142d 63 tweets
John Snow Memorandum
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Colin J. Carlson, Ph.D. There’s no room for doomerism and defeatism in pandemic response - and no scientific support for a strategy that accepts millions more deaths. I’m proud to have been a signatory on this Lancet piece, and now, you can raise your voice too: 142d
Magnitude, demographics and dynamics of the effect of the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic on all-cause mortality in 21 industrialized countries
Nature Medicine 142d 18 tweets
Application of Bayesian models to vital statistics data from 21 industrialized countries shows that approximately 206,000 additional people died than if the COVID-19 pandemic had not occured. The heterogeneous distribution of excess deaths across...
One client in one spin studio that followed all the rules triggers a coronavirus outbreak with at least 61 cases
CNN 143d 10 tweets
A spin studio that public health officials say followed all Covid-19 protocols is now reporting 61 positive cases of Covid-19 and up to 100 staff, clients and family members may have been exposed.
Pragmatic animal welfare is independent of feelings
Science 143d 1 tweets
In their Policy Forum “Engage with animal welfare in conservation” (7 August, p.[629][1]), N. Sekar and D. Shiller state that the “overwhelming evidence that animals think and feel” is the basis for their call to include animal welfare in...
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Colin J. Carlson, Ph.D. Sometimes I think "I wonder what's going on over in conservation nowadays" so I go and look and there's an article called "Fish don't care about your feelings" and then I close the laptop and go back to staring at the wall 143d
A One Health Approach for Guinea Worm Disease Control: Scope and Opportunities
MDPI 143d 1 tweets
Guinea worm disease (GWD) is a neglected tropical disease that was targeted for eradication several decades ago because of its limited geographical distribution, predictable seasonality, straightforward diagnosis, and exclusive infection of humans....
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Colin J. Carlson, Ph.D. How are we supposed to deal with the zoonotic elements to Guinea worm disease disease? What do we try next for surveillance, control, and eradication? Great new insights from my colleagues down the hall: 143d
The role of environmental factors on transmission rates of the COVID-19 outbreak: an initial assessment in two spatial scales
Scientific Reports 144d 3 tweets
First identified in Wuhan, China, in December 2019, a novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) has affected over 16,800,000 people worldwide as of July 29, 2020 and was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization on March 11, 2020. Influenza studies...
A call for global monitoring of WASH in wet markets
The Lancet Planetary Health 149d 2 tweets
Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, wet markets have been described as potential hotspots for the transmission of novel respiratory illnesses. Over the past two decades, wet markets—defined as marketplaces where meat, seafood, produce, and...
Colin J. Carlson, Ph.D. A new take I haven't seen before in Lancet Planetary today, calling for "using monitoring data to target wet markets for hygiene and sanitation infrastructure upgrades, while protecting these marketplaces as vibrant, affordable, community spaces" 144d
The Unsung Heroine of Lichenology | JSTOR Daily
JSTOR Daily 157d 1 tweets
Elke Mackenzie’s moments of self-citation illuminate the hopes of someone who, against ease and tradition, did not wish to separate her identity from her research.
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Sciencedirect.com 145d 1 tweets
The “herd immunity strategy” isn’t part of a scientific debate about COVID-19.
Medium 145d 5 tweets
Abby Cartus, PhD candidate in epidemiology, University of Pittsburgh and Justin Feldman, ScD, Health & Human Rights Fellow at the Harvard…
COVID-19 cases in Arizona dropped 75% after mask mandates began, report says
The Arizona Republic 146d 8 tweets
COVID-19 cases in Arizona spiked 151% after a statewide stay-at-home order expired and dropped 75% following local mask mandates, a new report says.