The longer a species stays in the wildlife trade, the more dangerous it becomes. A new study explains why A study finds that 41% of traded mammal species share at least one pathogen with humans, compared with just 6.4% of species not involved in trade.

Nice coverage of our study in the LA Times! www.latimes.com/science/stor...

Current/Climate | Daniel Propp | Substack [placeholder]. Click to read Current/Climate, by Daniel Propp, a Substack publication. Launched 2 minutes ago.

For anyone looking to deepen their understanding of the energy-AI challenge (should be everyone!), there's an excellent new Substack worth subscribing to currentclimatedp.substack.com

Wildlife trade drives animal-to-human pathogen transmission over 40 years

New in @science.org ‼️ In the most comprehensive study to date, we show that wildlife trade is driving animal-to-human zoonotic spillover at a planetary scale, with +1 spillover per host every 10 years. Live animal markets and illegal trade pose even greater risks. 🔓 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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.

The Global Burden of Climate Change Study Working Group

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 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.

🚨 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...

Proud to have played a small role in moving this forward. Give our paper on a proposed Intergovernmental Panel on Pandemics a read!

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

🦠🌿🐦🧪 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!

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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 🧪 🏠

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🧬🦠🌍 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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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!

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

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:

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@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

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...

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...

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...

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.

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/...

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.

🔔🔨 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...

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

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...

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....

🧪😷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 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

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...

🚨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!

🧪😷 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

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.

🚨😷🧪 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

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

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! 🦠

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

There are no climate havens for our climate data — The Carlson Lab The world’s foremost source of weather and climate data went offline during Hurricanes Helene and Milton, exactly when it was needed most.

For my first Bluesky post...I wrote about what it’s like when the world’s foremost source of weather and climate data went offline during Hurricanes Helene and Milton, exactly when it was needed most www.carlsonlab.bio/thoughts/the...