The Carlson Lab @ Yale
We work on planetary problems. Currently: counting climate change-related deaths; pandemic risk assessment in a changing biosphere; data, science, and vaccine access during public health emergencies. 👉 carlsonlab.bio
- Reposted by The Carlson Lab @ YaleA long-term dream of mine has been to bridge @viralemergence.org's work on AI/ML-driven viral risk assessment with AI/ML-driven work on drug discovery. This would make a great topic for this fellowship here at Yale! If you're interested in applying, reach out. medicine.yale.edu/biomedical-d...
- Reposted by The Carlson Lab @ YaleWe're looking for a full-stack developer! Help us build the best open data platforms for pandemic prediction in the world. Probably a short-term contract, but if you're looking for a full-time gig, let's talk. Inquire within: www.viralemergence.org/blog/were-hi...
- Reposted by The Carlson Lab @ YaleExciting news to start 2026: for the first time ever, the PHAROS repository for wildlife disease surveillance is a journal-recommended home for your archived data! Thanks to Integrative and Comparative Biology for taking the leap with us 🦠🔢➡️🌎💻💫 academic.oup.com/icb/pages/Ge...
- Reposted by The Carlson Lab @ YaleNEW!🦠🌡️ : What makes a "dengue year" like 2023-24? It's hard to pin down an answer unless you can homogenize out all the spatial variation and temporal trends. But once you do, the answer is pretty clean: dengue years are hot years. Last one of the year (unless...?) 👉 www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...
- 🚨 We're about to start reviewing applications, but there's still time to reach out for our postdoc position on climate change impact attribution! If you have experience with attribution science or climate epidemiology, and want to help us launch the Global Burden of Climate Change Study, reach out!
- Reposted by The Carlson Lab @ YaleReally interesting new paper on the rising health effects of our warming world with some great data visualizations. Full paper here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Reposted by The Carlson Lab @ YaleBelieve it or not, @alexandraphelan.bsky.social and I started talking about the concept for this workshop 5? 6? years ago, so it was absolutely amazing to finally pull this off with exactly the right people, especially in a year when it feels like we're taking a lot of L's on actionable science 🥰
- Reposted by The Carlson Lab @ Yale🦇🦠 New preprint - in a long-term effort led by the amazing @mayajuman.bsky.social, we've shown that the ML tools developed by @viralemergence.org let us efficiently screen museum collections for pathogens with pandemic potential 🎉🔓 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- Last week, we were lucky to host an international workshop on Pandemic Risk Scenarios for the 21st Century, with generous support from PAX sapiens and @viralemergence.org. Lots of lessons learned from climate and biodiversity science on how to design useful models and imagine better futures!
- Last week's workshop on scenario development for pandemic risk assessment was a critical step forward for our broader effort on the establishment of an "IPCC for pandemics," with the UN Foundation and the National Academy of Medicine. Thank you to all of our amazing speakers and participants!
- Reposted by The Carlson Lab @ YaleCheck 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.
- 🚨 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...
- Reposted by The Carlson Lab @ Yale🚨 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...
- Reposted by The Carlson Lab @ Yale3️⃣ During the pandemic & at baseline, younger adults, men, & Hispanic & Black individuals have more contacts & are at greater disease risk These geographic & social differences in risk can help target public health resources & surveillance 📢 /11
- Reposted by The Carlson Lab @ Yale2️⃣ Contact patterns vary across US counties regardless of disease 🌎 Based on population density, we expected urban counties 🏙️ to have higher contact rates than rural ones 🚜 This is true at baseline, but not during the pandemic, when urban areas were more responsive to gathering restrictions /10
- Reposted by The Carlson Lab @ Yale1️⃣ Early in the pandemic, contact varied over time 📆 However, contact and COVID-19 incidence were anti-correlated during this period (when disease went ⬆️, contacts went ⬇️) Thus, after controlling for disease, there was no longer any systematic variation in contact over time /8
- Reposted by The Carlson Lab @ YaleOur paper on US contact patterns is now published in The Lancet Digital Health! doi.org/10.1016/j.la... Thanks to my brilliant coauthors @zsusswein.bsky.social, @vcolizza.bsky.social, & @bansallab.bsky.social for their help with this project. Read on for an overview of our findings... 🧵
- Want to do a postdoc with our group on something related to biodiversity conservation, policy, and the environment? Reach out - applications are open for the Donnelley fellowship! yibs.yale.edu/donnelley-fe...
- Reposted by The Carlson Lab @ YaleNew preprint! 🥳🎉 We looked at viral coinfection patterns at the largest scale ever in wildlife. We found a strong association among CoVs, PMVs, and influenza A, and higher coinfection rates in wildlife trade; plus, evidence that bats accumulate persistent infections. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- Reposted by The Carlson Lab @ YaleWe're hiring! We have funding for a 1-year (to start with, but hopefully longer) postdoc working on climate change impacts on health broadly, and helping us launch gbcc.study. Strong skills in epi methods or attribution science needed. Can potentially be remote. Please share!
- 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.
- Up to date information for prospective fellows and students: www.carlsonlab.bio/join
- Reposted by The Carlson Lab @ YaleOur "Joshua tree is CAM" paper is finally out: nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Data collection started back in 2021, when we saw weird results in some RNAseq that made me stop and wonder if Joshua trees, long thought to be C3, were actually...CAM!
- We had a great time at #ESA2025! Disclaimer: Ekiben sandwich not included in conference registration or ESA membership
- Reposted by The Carlson Lab @ Yale"Conditional cash transfer could substantially contribute towards reducing AIDS-related inequalities and achieving the AIDS-related Sustainable Development Goal."
- Reposted by The Carlson Lab @ YaleI am really excited to be a part of this team. We took our time writing this, putting a lot of thought into how our journeys as #NativesInSTEM were affected by different aspects of Universities and looking for commonalities across the world. I hope folks in academia appreciate this work.
- New article led by Tara McAllister & co-authored by Lelani Walker, @niiyokamigaabaw.bsky.social, myself, Bradley Moggridge, Serena Naepi, Brittany Kamai and @napaaqtuk.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/d41...
- Reposted by The Carlson Lab @ Yale“We find that all pathways may experience global shortages of up to 12 minerals by 2100 under the moderate scenario.” www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Reposted by The Carlson Lab @ YaleThis was just a fun side quest, but if our lab thought about this more in the future, I'd want to revisit some of the ideas from this 2020 preprint - rare or unique clinical presentations can improve syndromic surveillance for emerging diseases among endemic ones www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
- Reposted by The Carlson Lab @ YaleLike I said: a small part of a much bigger project, which I'll let @faustobustos.bsky.social tell you about - including a much longer-term effort to figure out how to improve WHO and PAHO case definitions / syndromic surveillance / clinical treatment for very hard to distinguish endemic arboviruses.
- Reposted by The Carlson Lab @ YaleNEW! 🚨🦠 We trained ML algorithms to identify the clinical presentations that best distinguish pediatric dengue, chikungunya, and Zika. One notable finding: afebrile dengue may be being missed. A small part of a big project led by @faustobustos.bsky.social, out now 🔓 www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
- Reposted by The Carlson Lab @ Yale🌍 Green gains, blue losses From 2003–2021, plants on land grew more, but ocean productivity declined, likely due to climate warming. Land is boosting Earth’s carbon uptake, but oceans are showing signs of stress. 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41... #ClimateCrisis #SciComm 🧪
- Reposted by The Carlson Lab @ YaleIn summer, Phoenix faces dual crises: extreme heat and drug overdoses. Our latest #HealthTalks examines how those two are connected. 💻 Hear from physicians Pope Moseley and David Sklar and substance-use researcher Raminta Daniulaityte, all @asuhealthsolutions.bsky.social faculty: ow.ly/F4RF50WyOOx
- Reposted by The Carlson Lab @ YaleA little holiday news: Evolution of antifungal resistance in the environment www.nature.com/articles/s41... This started out as a little thought way back in early 2024 between @normanvanrhijn.bsky.social and I, and turned into a full on review! We hope it proves useful to the community.
- Alright stop, collaborate and
- LISTEN! bsky.app/profile/coli...
- Reposted by The Carlson Lab @ YaleNew workshop paper out today with 60 of our closest friends, providing guidance on how to design a study attributing health impacts to climate change. Hopefully this helps expand the field and start closing the representation gaps we discuss in our forthcoming work link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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- Reposted by The Carlson Lab @ YaleA new paper in The Lancet Microbe lays the groundwork for a global science-policy body to tackle pandemic threats — modeled after the IPCC for climate change 🧪🧵
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View full threadReposted by The Carlson Lab @ YaleKa rawe Dave and team! 👏 This is visionary work that could reshape how the world prepares for future health crises → www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
- Reposted by The Carlson Lab @ YaleWe're launching a Global Burden of Climate Change Study with support from @yalesph.bsky.social! It's been 20 years since the last one, and at least 4 million people have died. Stay tuned for preliminary results and a more formal announcement in a month or so. #CountEveryClimateDeath
- A big announcement today! A huge round of thanks to @yalesph.bsky.social for the support to launch a Global Burden of Climate Change Study. There's nowhere in the world that's better positioned to do this kind of cross-cutting work than @yaleemd.bsky.social and YCCCH. ysph.yale.edu/news-article...
- A big announcement today! A huge round of thanks to @yalesph.bsky.social for the support to launch a Global Burden of Climate Change Study. There's nowhere in the world that's better positioned to do this kind of cross-cutting work than @yaleemd.bsky.social and YCCCH. ysph.yale.edu/news-article...
- In a few weeks, we'll be publishing the finding that [redacted] people die every year because of climate change, equivalent to a loss of $[redacted]T USD, every year. Here's what it costs us to open that publication to you. We have no federal grants for that work, and can't apply for them.
- What you can do to help: 1. Make it worth our while to pay for this by sharing the publication when we get it out in the world 2. Donations of any size to @yalesph.bsky.social - hell, a few hundred bucks - go a long way.
- Reposted by The Carlson Lab @ YaleNew paper out modelling how the nutritional content of wild bird foods could affect disease transmission - a nice follow-up application of our Molecular Ecology study showing that food quality can affect immune function and disease tolerance. doi.org/10.1093/icb/... @durantlab.bsky.social
- Reposted by The Carlson Lab @ Yale3️⃣ An "IPCC for pandemics" would let scientists develop consensus on key issues where the evidence is complex and sometimes contradictory - think airborne transmission, social distancing, herd immunity, school closures, pathogen origins, and most importantly, future risks - BEFORE the next pandemic.
- Reposted by The Carlson Lab @ Yale🚨 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 👉
- Reposted by The Carlson Lab @ YaleEstimating the reproductive number from wastewater. It is much easier than some would suggest, and can be done without high-powered computing. A review and comparison of different methods from our team over here. 🧪 #EpiSky www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
- Reposted by The Carlson Lab @ Yale👋 We’re still collecting responses!! We’d love your input if you’re in an adjacent field — already seeing some super cool questions that make me so excited for the workshop.
- Viral -ologists of all kinds - molecular, ecological, evolutionary - if you haven't yet, consider joining our horizon scan study and help us identify 100 questions that are guiding where your field is going! Fill in the survey and get an invite to a workshop: 📝 airtable.com/appTW4ZoSFjR...
- Viral -ologists of all kinds - molecular, ecological, evolutionary - if you haven't yet, consider joining our horizon scan study and help us identify 100 questions that are guiding where your field is going! Fill in the survey and get an invite to a workshop: 📝 airtable.com/appTW4ZoSFjR...
- Reposted by The Carlson Lab @ Yale🚨 Our team just released a reproducible Docker pipeline for RNAseq assembly and annotation designed for nonmodel organisms! We're using it to explore how bats manage viral infections, but it's built for broad utility in wildlife transcriptomics. @viralemergence.org www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- Reposted by The Carlson Lab @ YaleNew article alert! Interested in crisis narratives in public health? (Including in AMR...?) Find our work HERE: journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/jc...
- Reposted by The Carlson Lab @ Yaleone signature of human impacts on the planet (esp climate change) is ecosystems becoming less unique—a process called "biotic homogenization". it turns out that isn't happening in the global oceans! colossal new synthesis led by @zoejean88.bsky.social on marine fishes: doi.org/10.1371/jour...
- Open call: If you are a researcher working on a project estimating a cause-specific burden of disease attributable to climate change at regional to global scales, please reach out! We're looking for researchers who might be interested in joining a new collaborative network / workshop series.
- A quick update on healthattribution.org: We're going to make a forward-looking decision for now not to include rapid attribution studies until they're preprints or peer-reviewed articles. This week's study on last week's heatwave in Europe is first of a kind, but likely to be the first of many (1/3)
- We're making this decision so we can keep a standardized approach, and not ultimately duplicate the efforts of programs like www.worldweatherattribution.org (2/3)
- However, if you want to keep an eye on that space, the best way to do it is to follow climate scientists like @frediotto.bsky.social who are doing this important work! (3/3) www.imperial.ac.uk/grantham/pub...
- Okay, we've been using a logo we ... may or may not have stolen from @grist.org for too long. Are you a graphic designer who wants to do a new lab logo for us? We will give you money in exchange for goods and services! Please link us your work below, and we'll reach out
- Reposted by The Carlson Lab @ Yale✨ The Bernhardt Lab at the University of Guelph is recruiting graduate students for 2026! Join us! We have several fully funded grad positions available ✨ Please spread the word! www.bernhardtlab.org/join-us #CSEE2025
- Reposted by The Carlson Lab @ Yale🧪 New paper: how can we turn decades of work to quantify the structure of species interaction networks into something relevant for biodiversity monitoring and management? @gabdans.bsky.social lays out the roadmap in a new paper in @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
- Reposted by The Carlson Lab @ Yale🚨 Hot off the press! We show that species loss from key habitats (like wetlands) accelerates secondary extinction in regional multi-habitat food webs. Also, we show the importance of common species to regional food web robustness. doi.org/10.1038/s420... #Ecology #FoodWebs #Biodiversity #Metaweb
- Reposted by The Carlson Lab @ YaleThis week, we unveiled PopHIVE, a bold new platform that puts reliable health data directly into the hands of the public. For anyone spending their summer watching #LoveIsland, the data broadcasts in near real-time, just like the show. Get the first look now at PopHIVE.org 🔥 1/5
- Some exciting new work at Pandemic Sciences in Oxford!
- Reposted by The Carlson Lab @ YaleInfectious disease researcher Hailey Robertson writes home to Kansas, where bird flu reached four dairy cattle herds in 2024, to urge support for American science 🧪 🏠
- 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...
- Reposted by The Carlson Lab @ Yale🚨 New comment! We need a global One Health weather system for pandemic threats, but it's going to take decades to build. But! 💡 The biodiversity monitoring infrastructure already collects trillions of workable data points in real-time. Three practical ideas for how we harness it 👇 #episky
- 🦠🌿🐦🧪 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...
- Reposted by The Carlson Lab @ YaleNew paper. I wish this wasn't the case, but most progress on reducing US greenhouse gas emissions is likely spurious. Why? EPA underestimates methane emissions from oil and gas. Relevant today as Repubs vote to gut IRA's methane monitoring/mitigation program. 🧵 authors.elsevier.com/a/1lL4K_6se4...
- Reposted by The Carlson Lab @ Yale🌀 Take-home - the fields are fellow travellers! Biodiversity monitoring & biosurveillance are using similar concepts to achieve similar objectives. In the next years, it will be more important than ever to try and build complementary tools and practices. Read on, and reach out if inspired! (/end)
- Reposted by The Carlson Lab @ Yale🌏 Lesson 3 - global actions don't mean ignoring local specificities Global efforts are easier to establish when they work by federating local initiatives. The idea of biodiversity observation networks is a powerful one, that is partially replicated by One Health networks. (4/)
- Reposted by The Carlson Lab @ Yale📂 Lesson 2 - data clearinghouse are key to capacity building Initiatives like @gbif.org do FAR more than storing and distributing data; they help establish best practices for curation, analysis, and citation. But they also encourage the use of data standards. (3/)
- Reposted by The Carlson Lab @ Yale📈 Lesson 1 - essential variables matter! Agreeing on what should be measured and reported accomplishes two important goals at once: it helps standardize the work of data collection, and it provides a common language around which we can build a science/policy interface. (2/)
