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David Simons @davidsimons.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Excited to see the Enable 1.0 www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... study on #LassaFever published in @lancetgh.bsky.social. A massive effort enrolling 20,000+ participants across 4 countries. Yet, despite 2.5 year follow-up, just 39 symptomatic cases detected.

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David Simons @davidsimons.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Really excited to see this peer-reviewed and published and published in epidemiology and infection. This work was motivated by the observation that we do not see #LassaFever outbreaks in sense West African cities despite high predicted biological hazard. doi.org/10.1017/S095...

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The Socio-economic Shield Limits Lassa Virus Spillover in Urban West Africa | Epidemiology & Infection | Cambridge Core

The Socio-economic Shield Limits Lassa Virus Spillover in Urban West Africa

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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Our lab website is updated with a new postdoc opening! This is a 2-year, in-person position looking at the relationships between climate change, pandemic risk, and policy choices over the 21st century. Please reach out (not on here)! www.carlsonlab.bio/join

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Opportunities — The Carlson Lab

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London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine @lshtm.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

📝 LSHTM & @ukhsa.bsky.social have renewed & expanded #UKPHRST academic partnership. 🤝LSHTM will lead a consortium from UK & 6 countries across Africa & SE Asia to co-produce research to protect global health security. Funding: DHSC with UK ODA & NIHR 👉 www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/n...

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LSHTM to lead research partnership in £18m outbreak response initiative | LSHTM

The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) has been selected to lead the research arm of the UK Public Health Rapid Support Team (UK-PHRST) in an £18m initiative to continue to help

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David Simons @davidsimons.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Delighted to support @ricardoriveroh.bsky.social and team on this fantastic preprint. By integrating the macroecological findings from ArHa, he demonstrates that spatial overlap alone is insufficient for effective reassortment. Lineage-specific molecular permissiveness acts as the ultimate filter.

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Steph N. Seifert, PhD @stephseifertphd.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

We're very happy that our study found a home in the EcoHealth journal and we hope the disease ecology community, in particular, find applications of our model!

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David Simons @davidsimons.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

1/7 New #ecology preprint out. We’ve spent half a century searching for Arenavirus and Hantavirus reservoirs, but it turns out global surveillance is essentially just us looking under the nearest streetlight. It is decoupled from actual host biodiversity.🧵 doi.org/10.64898/202...

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David Simons @davidsimons.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

After a couple of failed applications, I am very excited that one panned out. I will be starting my first independently funded fellowship in September! My project will be hosted at the @animecol-uu.bsky.social Uppsala University #DiseaseEcology #Microbiome #SpatialEpidemiology #Hantavirus

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The Carlson Lab @ Yale @carlsonlab.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

🚨 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!

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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

NEW! 🎉 We need wildlife disease surveillance to predict epidemics, but data sharing is rare - we found that only 2-3% of studies share raw data. So, we spent three years developing a data standard and R package to help get wildlife disease data into FAIR repositories. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The title of the paper: "A minimum data standard for wildlife disease research and surveillance" - and an example data table

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James Hassell @jameshassell.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

📣 We’re hiring! 2-yr postdoc at Smithsonian’s NZCBI on an NSF-funded project with partners incl. Glasgow, RVC, Uganda MOH, Cary Institute. Focus: land use change, rodent movement, human-rodent contact, modeling disease risk, w/ plenty of fieldwork in Uganda. Details: tinyurl.com/SINSFR

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David Simons @davidsimons.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Are any #Russian speakers are able to assist with this. Translation is from Google Translate does the original Russian state the species name or are they describing them similarly?

Machine translation from original russian text.

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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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