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Ariel Greiner (she/her) @arielgreiner.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Coral restoration has become a popular reef management method, but it is widely acknowledged to be only a 🩹 solution. Using a mathematical model, @colebrookson.bsky.social and I clearly delineate the conditions under which restoration may or may not be helpful. 🔗: journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

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Alison Robey @alisonrobey.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Thrilled to share that my first dissertation chapter is now published at Ecology! dx.doi.org/10.1002/ecy.... We embed TPCs into population dynamics to show how changing temperatures' ordering — not just its distribution — increases extinction risk (i.e. heatwaves matter!) @esajournals.bsky.social

Figure demonstrating how the ordering of temperatures through time determines whether an ectothermic population experiencing those temperatures will go extinct

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Cole Brookson @colebrookson.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

Come work with us!! Great group and super cool work 😎

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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

🚨 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 👉

Pathways to an Intergovernmental Panel on Pandemics: lessons from the IPCC and IPBES

Colin J Carlson, Christopher H Trisos, Ben Oppenheim, Shweta Bansal, Sara E Davies, Aïda Diongue-Niang, Victoria Y Fan, John D Kraemer,
Rachel Golden Kroner, Lawrence O Gostin, David T S Hayman, Marion Koopmans, Torre E Lavelle, Carlos G das Neves, Zoe O’Donoghue,
Laura M Pereira, Benjamin Roche, Matiangai Sirleaf, Kayla Zamanian, Carlos Zambrana-Torrelio, Alexandra L Phelan

Pandemics pose a global threat to human wellbeing, justice, economies, and ecosystems and are comparable with other planetary crises such as climate change and biodiversity loss in terms of urgency and impact. The global community would benefit from a dedicated scientific synthesis body to assess pandemic risks and solutions. In this Personal View, we explore proposals for an Intergovernmental Panel on Pandemics and assess potential pathways to its creation. Learning lessons from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) might help national governments and international organisations to chart a course through important decisions about format, governance, operations, scientific scope and process, and ability to recommend policies that make the world safer.

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Cole Brookson @colebrookson.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

It's hard to overstate how devastating these cuts will be for our incredible group of people working on these important questions.

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Verena @viralemergence.org · 02/06/2025

An update from the team on the uncertain future of our program and the impact of NSF budget cuts. Please share and reach out 🦠

Some difficult news from the team:

In NSF's FY25-26 Budget Request to Congress, we learned that our program will take a whopping 50% cut - meaning that in September, we'll be $1.25m short of an operating budget that currently supports a cohort of seven PhD students, four postdocs, and three full-time staff.

Verena is one of the largest and last pandemic prevention-focused programs in the United States: since 2020, we've supported the training of over 60 postdocs, graduate students, and undergraduates. Our researchers have established unique laboratory resources for studying animal immune systems, and discovered new antiviral immune adaptations in bats; developed risk assessment algorithms for wildlife and livestock viruses, and diagnostic algorithms for viruses like dengue, Ebola, and Zika; and quantified the effects of climate change, deforestation, and factory farming on spillover risk. Everything we develop is 100% open source, and our data has supported the research of nearly 150 external researchers in 21 countries to date.

We have three months to make up our budget shortfall. Every dollar spent on Verena supports not just our team, but the community of researchers who use our data, code, and resources. You can help us by sharing this post, and reaching out if you're able to support a unique and vulnerable program. Or just head over to viralemergence.org, and take a look at what we do. 🦟 🦇 🦠

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Cole Brookson @colebrookson.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

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...

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Resources for Reviewing Code | Ecological Forecasting Initiative

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zeynep tufekci @zey.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Little known, recently discovered fact: Measles wipes out immune protections OTHER diseases: many who recover actually face big future risk. Earlier measles may be implicated in HALF OF ALL LATER CHILDHOOD DEATHS from ALL infectious diseases before vaccines. Gift🔗👉 www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/o...

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 24/02/2025

FWIW, the reason "academia had it coming" is usually some thinly veiled version of (1) my colleagues keep making fun of my shitty race science, (2) people called me an asshole for saying false things about COVID, or (3) mommy says I'm a very clever boy but my professors didn't appreciate my genius.

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Rafa Lopes @rafalpx.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

This a summary of last part o my Ph.D. We investigated how temperature can affect the outcome of dengue infection. The study covers a 10y period in all five regions of Brasil and all sub-climates of the country We conclude that higher temperature makes risk of hospitalizations due dengue bigger!

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Timothée Poisot @ctrlalttim.com · 04/02/2025

The Data Life Cycle is a useful narrative device to understand how data flow within a project. But understanding how it fits with complex model pipelines has been awkward. So we wrote a thing! It's called the Model Life Cycle, and it's now out in PLOS Comp Biol: 🧪 journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...

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Ten quick tips to build a Model Life Cycle

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APDU @apduorg.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

NEW: Census Bureau working papers on poverty measurement--research the public paid for and has a right to access--have been removed. Example analysis of "Alternative School Lunch Valuation in the 2022 Supplemental Poverty Measure" is missing www.census.gov/content/dam/...

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Eric Holthaus @ericholthaus.com · 31/01/2025

Just got a story approved to run on Monday on the crisis happening at the NSF. If you are an NSF-funded scientist and have been personally impacted by the funding pause this week, I'd love to hear from you. Reach me securely on Signal: 3162958947

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Ardem Patapoutian @ardemp.bskyverified.social · 31/01/2025

Agree! The NIH and academic institutions are rushing to implement changes and freezes in response to executive orders that could be illegal or rescinded in days. Maybe we should push back a little, yeah?🧪

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Catherine Sheard @sheardcat.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

If you're a non-UK scientist who wants to come to the UK for a postdoc, this year's Newton Fellowships are now open. You'll need a lab to host you (which could be me, but truly, could be any PI, so get in touch with someone you'd like to work with!) royalsociety.org/grants/newto...

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Newton International Fellowships | Royal Society

This fellowship is for non-UK scientists who are at an early stage of their research career and wish to conduct research in the UK.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 28/01/2025

Who is Russell Vought? “We want the bureaucrats to be traumatically affected,” he said. “When they wake up in the morning, we want them to not want to go to work because they are increasingly viewed as the villains....We want to put them in trauma.” www.propublica.org/article/vide...

Another priority, according to Vought, was to “defund” certain independent federal agencies and demonize career civil servants, which include scientists and subject matter experts. Project 2025’s plan to revive Schedule F, an attempt to make it easier to fire a large swath of government workers who currently have civil service protections, aligns with Vought’s vision.

“We want the bureaucrats to be traumatically affected,” he said. “When they wake up in the morning, we want them to not want to go to work because they are increasingly viewed as the villains. We want their funding to be shut down so that the EPA can't do all of the rules against our energy industry because they have no bandwidth financially to do so.

“We want to put them in trauma.”

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Ben Stone @benstemon.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

NSF PRFB POSTDOCS: Pull the remainder of this funding cycle’s stipend, all remaining research funds, and all remaining travel funds (if you have them). Do it before 5PM today. Per instructions from multiple NSF POs. If you’re not already on the PRFB slack, DM me and I’ll send you an invite

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Douglas Main @dmain.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

If you are an environmental researcher and have been negatively affected by the pause / suspension of federal funds (for research or programs) — please LET ME KNOW. I am writing a story about this ASAP for The New Lede / The Guardian.

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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 28/01/2025

"where are all the protests?" read our series showing the legacy of both the Trump and Biden admins—from BLM in the 2010s, to Standing Rock, to George Floyd, to the Palestine encampments—as protest suppression and criminalization. politicians want to call blocking traffic and masking "terrorism."

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Welcome to the United States of Suppression

Our new series documents the recent crackdown on dissent and protests in the U.S.

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Cole Brookson @colebrookson.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

While all this insane grant freezing is going on, Kansas currently has the largest TB outbreak in US *history* going on right now. www.cidrap.umn.edu/tuberculosis...

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Kansas tuberculosis outbreak now largest in US

Sixty-seven active TB cases and 79 latent TB cases have been reported in 2 Kansas counties since the beginning of 2024.

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Cole Brookson @colebrookson.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

This is truly insane to see happening. Not all that surprising, but definitely insane — cannot imagine how folks are supposed to deal with this

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David Fisman. @dfisman.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Canadian (or any) epidemiologists and biostatisticians: the @cseb-sceb.bsky.social annual meeting is in Montreal (aka the best city in North America, don't @ me) summer 2025. Abstract submissions here: cseb.ca/fr/evenement...

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Conférence 2025 - CSEB-SCEB

SCEB 2025: Épidémiologie et biostatistique : Innover ensemble pour une meilleure santé\n\n La Société canadienne d'épidémiologie et de biostatistique a ...

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a grassland chase 🌾🌾🌾🌾 @chasesolidago.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

The world has been through anti-science cycles before, to disastrous results On a detour on my lit review, a mosey through the history of our familiar friend, the standard onion (Allium cepa) brought me right to one of botany's greatest cautionary tales of what happens when ideology overrides data

a illustration of our standard kitchen onion, Allium cepa, from 1586. Handcolored engraving

a black and white photograph of a white man in a suit, holding stalks of some plant, possibly corn or some sort of grain. Photo depicts Nikolai Vavilov (1887 - 1943)

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David Fisman. @dfisman.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Hey everyone…had a conversation with the @uoftpandemics.bsky.social SM manager about why they should get off twitter A plea: their bsky account is a shell right now, but if we could get them some followers here I bet we could get them to switch Please consider following 🙏🙏🙏

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Cole Brookson @colebrookson.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Ecologists (or similar)!!! Apply for the @asn-amnat.bsky.social Student Research Awards by March 14!! Ten awards of $2K each will be given to research that advances the the conceptual unification of ecology, evolution, or behavior. More here: bit.ly/asn_grant_25

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Student Research Award

<p>The ASN Student Research Awards support research by student members that advances the goals of the society: the conceptual unification of ecology, evolution, and behavior. Each award consists of a ...

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Tabatha Southey🇨🇦 @tabathasouthey.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Back 2017 I wrote about a just-leaked style guide for a popular neo-Nazi publication. I call it “Strunk and White Power” and “The ‘half-joking’ advice and much else in the guide is: ‘Don the Magic Cloak of Plausible Deniability and come with us!’”

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Neo-Nazis are no joke—they just want you to think they are - Macleans.ca

A style guide for a neo-Nazi publication reveals what should be obvious, writes Tabatha Southey: darkness lurks behind their self-parodying 'humour'

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 23/01/2025

Today the Trump admin abruptly and indefinitely terminated many of the activities of the National Institutes of Health, the $50B/year collection of agencies that power the US biotech and health ecosystems. Even if these orders were lifted tomorrow, the disruption would be enormous. Why care? 🧵

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Yale School of Public Health @yalesph.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

As we honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. today, we reflect on his legacy of advancing equity, dismantling systemic injustice, and serving those in need. 1/10

Photo of MLK with quote, “Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health is the most shocking and inhuman.” - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Ed Hawkins @edhawkins.org · 15/01/2025

In 2018, @blkahn.bsky.social said that the warming stripes graphic 'belongs in a damn museum', even suggesting that it was 'fit for the Museum of Modern Art' (see gizmodo.com/this-climate...). Well... Later this month, they will appear in the Museum of Modern Art: press.moma.org/exhibition/p...

This Climate Visualization Belongs in a Damn Museum

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Hailey Robertson @haileyrobertson.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Couldn't ask for a better first Bluesky post! Our new paper, "Pathogens and planetary change," is out now in @natrevbiodiv.bsky.social. We discuss the linkages between biodiversity loss + pandemics and how we can address these interconnected crises 🧪😷 Give it a read: www.nature.com/articles/s44...

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Pathogens and planetary change - Nature Reviews Biodiversity

This Review explores the relationship between emerging infectious diseases and biodiversity loss, and how both are connected to global environmental changes in the Anthropocene.

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Cole Brookson @colebrookson.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

🦠 NEW REVIEW 🌡️ What does health have to do with environmental change? Well, a lot, but the way that pop-sci describes these relationships isn't always the case: www.nature.com/articles/s44.... So, what does it all mean? We try to answer this in our new review "Pathogens and planetary change" 🧵

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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

🚨😷🧪 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

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.

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Meta is deleting links to Pixelfed, a decentralized, open source Instagram competitor that has had skyrocketing signups in recent days: www.404media.co/meta-is-bloc...

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Meta Is Blocking Links to Decentralized Instagram Competitor Pixelfed

Pixelfed said it is "seeing unprecedented levels of traffic."

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Cole Brookson @colebrookson.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Happy this is finally pre-printed! A fun piece to work on with @arielgreiner.bsky.social where we show that coral restoration needs to be complimented by other, more fundamental sustainability measures to be useful ! 🪸

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Jokes on them, I’m going to use AI to come up with 8000 businesses for dipshits

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Elena Litchman @elenalitchman.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

I am looking for a PhD student to start in fall of 2025 at MSU. Potential topics include trait-based approaches to plankton community resilience, temperature effects on communities, harmful algal blooms and many others. Please get in touch if interested. More info: www.kl-lab.group.

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Klausmeier-Litchman Lab

Welcome to the Klausmeier-Litchman lab! We study empirical and theoretical community ecology, biodiversity and climate change, focusing on phytoplankton, other microbes and general theory. We use obse...

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Torre Lavelle @torrelavelle.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

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...

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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.

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The Ferrari Lab @theferrarilab.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

I've been calculating these numbers for over 10 years. While there are individual bright spots in any given year, the global numbers are unfortunately sobering.

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Steph N. Seifert, PhD @stephseifertphd.bsky.social · 29/10/2023

New preprint up! Really happy to have this study come together. We delve into predicting reservoirs of orthopoxviruses, including mpox virus, using ML models that integrate ecology and viral genomics 🦠🧬🐭 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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