Colin Carlson
@colincarlson.bsky.social
Climate change, global health security, science diplomacy, and good futures • Yale and elsewhere • carlsonlab.bio • viralemergence.org • he/they
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NEW‼️ For the forthcoming Pandemic Agreement travaux préparatoires edited by @alexandraphelan.bsky.social, we did a deep dive on how experts and evidence shaped the negotiations. What we found is a microcosm of global health: limited time, high stakes, and familiar shady actors like Big Pharma. (1/3)
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Genuinely cool tech that could make a difference in low-resource settings. Congrats @nathangrubaugh.bsky.social and team!
Something very different and cool for my lab. Sequencing a 4.4mb TB genome using the Artic-style PCR amplicon method with >5128 primers in two reactions 🤯
Enables culture-free WGS for TB!
journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
Enables culture-free WGS for TB!
journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
February 16, 2026 at 3:40 PM
Genuinely cool tech that could make a difference in low-resource settings. Congrats @nathangrubaugh.bsky.social and team!
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This paper is a good example of how to carefully analyze tipping systems. (That many phenomena often lumped together as singular tipping systems are actually composites is probably a common characteristic.)
Track carefully the extent to which this precision gets flattened in mass and social media.
Track carefully the extent to which this precision gets flattened in mass and social media.
🔔🚨 New Publication Alert!
Research has shown that the Antarctic Ice Sheet is a climate tipping element.
We found: it’s not one — it’s many.
📄 Paper (open access): www.nature.com/articles/s41...
📢 Press release: www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/late...
Tread below 🧵👇
Research has shown that the Antarctic Ice Sheet is a climate tipping element.
We found: it’s not one — it’s many.
📄 Paper (open access): www.nature.com/articles/s41...
📢 Press release: www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/late...
Tread below 🧵👇
February 16, 2026 at 2:06 PM
This paper is a good example of how to carefully analyze tipping systems. (That many phenomena often lumped together as singular tipping systems are actually composites is probably a common characteristic.)
Track carefully the extent to which this precision gets flattened in mass and social media.
Track carefully the extent to which this precision gets flattened in mass and social media.
I’ve had enough of this guy
February 16, 2026 at 2:02 PM
I’ve had enough of this guy
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Was curious about the rules on this. NIH mentions some PI submitting 40 grants in one year. Imagine what they are doing to the peer review system for journals.
NOT-OD-25-132: Supporting Fairness and Originality in NIH Research Applications share.google/2OLzVsqEXcx1...
NOT-OD-25-132: Supporting Fairness and Originality in NIH Research Applications share.google/2OLzVsqEXcx1...
One thing that sucks very bad is that everyone, and I do mean everyone, people you like, are using Claude to write their NSF and NIH grants even when it's against the rules, and also, the process is no longer reliable or merit based, and like no I'm not going to do it, but fuck!! FUCK!!
February 16, 2026 at 2:46 AM
Was curious about the rules on this. NIH mentions some PI submitting 40 grants in one year. Imagine what they are doing to the peer review system for journals.
NOT-OD-25-132: Supporting Fairness and Originality in NIH Research Applications share.google/2OLzVsqEXcx1...
NOT-OD-25-132: Supporting Fairness and Originality in NIH Research Applications share.google/2OLzVsqEXcx1...
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mom they’re roasting the US economy on mastodon again
February 16, 2026 at 7:37 AM
mom they’re roasting the US economy on mastodon again
Unfortunately I think one of the defining questions of the decade will be how much of a PEPFAR we can get Mr. Beast to pay for
February 16, 2026 at 5:57 AM
Unfortunately I think one of the defining questions of the decade will be how much of a PEPFAR we can get Mr. Beast to pay for
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Via Geneva Solutions: genevasolutions.news/global-healt...
Wide gaps on pandemic treaty annex cast doubt on May deadline, says health expert Suerie Moon - Geneva Solutions
As a deadline looms to complete the pandemic treaty, public health expert Suerie Moon says WHO negotiators need to battle out divides even if it means extending talks.
genevasolutions.news
February 16, 2026 at 4:53 AM
Via Geneva Solutions: genevasolutions.news/global-healt...
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ai will never be able to replicate a friend telling you that something sucks ass and that you should keep it to yourself
February 16, 2026 at 4:55 AM
ai will never be able to replicate a friend telling you that something sucks ass and that you should keep it to yourself
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One thing that sucks very bad is that everyone, and I do mean everyone, people you like, are using Claude to write their NSF and NIH grants even when it's against the rules, and also, the process is no longer reliable or merit based, and like no I'm not going to do it, but fuck!! FUCK!!
February 16, 2026 at 2:30 AM
One thing that sucks very bad is that everyone, and I do mean everyone, people you like, are using Claude to write their NSF and NIH grants even when it's against the rules, and also, the process is no longer reliable or merit based, and like no I'm not going to do it, but fuck!! FUCK!!
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NEW: The Trump administration's argument that masks "are for officer safety reasons" is actually an admission.
Tom Homan highlights how secrecy aims to block accountability, the immoral lawlessness at the core of the Trump administration.
Tonight, at Law Dork:
Tom Homan highlights how secrecy aims to block accountability, the immoral lawlessness at the core of the Trump administration.
Tonight, at Law Dork:
The Trump admin argument that masks "are for officer safety reasons" is actually an admission
Tom Homan highlights how secrecy aims to block accountability, the immoral lawlessness at the core of the Trump administration. And, for paid subscribers: Closing my tabs.
www.lawdork.com
February 16, 2026 at 2:00 AM
NEW: The Trump administration's argument that masks "are for officer safety reasons" is actually an admission.
Tom Homan highlights how secrecy aims to block accountability, the immoral lawlessness at the core of the Trump administration.
Tonight, at Law Dork:
Tom Homan highlights how secrecy aims to block accountability, the immoral lawlessness at the core of the Trump administration.
Tonight, at Law Dork:
watching D(e)ad like the Vic Michaelis completionist I am
February 16, 2026 at 1:51 AM
watching D(e)ad like the Vic Michaelis completionist I am
is this filed on the free press site under "sex and gender" literally just because brianna wu is trans
February 16, 2026 at 1:48 AM
is this filed on the free press site under "sex and gender" literally just because brianna wu is trans
Here’s how AI is disrupting that first bite of pad see ew when it comes out still steaming a little and you notice some white pepper on the top and smile
February 15, 2026 at 11:57 PM
Here’s how AI is disrupting that first bite of pad see ew when it comes out still steaming a little and you notice some white pepper on the top and smile
Just saw Jonathan Bailey wearing a jeans shirt over a thick turtleneck and jeans. Don’t call. Please don’t call or text. Need to be alone. Don’t call
February 15, 2026 at 11:26 PM
Just saw Jonathan Bailey wearing a jeans shirt over a thick turtleneck and jeans. Don’t call. Please don’t call or text. Need to be alone. Don’t call
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We’ve been trying to hire a full stack developer for months and haven’t gotten a single viable candidate. I posted three sentences about a writing gig with no further information on LinkedIn and have gotten no joke 100+ notifications in 24 hours including from someone with five Emmy’s. What?
February 15, 2026 at 11:19 PM
We’ve been trying to hire a full stack developer for months and haven’t gotten a single viable candidate. I posted three sentences about a writing gig with no further information on LinkedIn and have gotten no joke 100+ notifications in 24 hours including from someone with five Emmy’s. What?
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a lot of ppl in the USA would’ve said this exact thing less than a decade ago, and a lot of ppl who live in countries with large far-right political movements rapidly gaining ground (often helped by the same tech billionaire players as here) seem too busy looking askance at the States to notice
It's great to live in a country (Canada, Japan, UK, France, Germany, Sweden, Italy, etc.) where citizens don't worry about if the next election will be canceled, if they will be allowed to register to vote, if they will have to stand in line for hours to vote, or if their vote will be counted.
February 15, 2026 at 11:11 PM
a lot of ppl in the USA would’ve said this exact thing less than a decade ago, and a lot of ppl who live in countries with large far-right political movements rapidly gaining ground (often helped by the same tech billionaire players as here) seem too busy looking askance at the States to notice
ay yo???
February 15, 2026 at 8:30 PM
ay yo???
bella’s again? no problem
February 15, 2026 at 8:18 PM
bella’s again? no problem
Kim Kitsuragi Robinson is that anything
February 15, 2026 at 7:57 PM
Kim Kitsuragi Robinson is that anything
Donald Trump this Adolf Hitler that. You want to talk about real evil, who the fuck has been taking so many speakerphone calls in Bella’s they had to put a warning on the menu
February 15, 2026 at 7:23 PM
Donald Trump this Adolf Hitler that. You want to talk about real evil, who the fuck has been taking so many speakerphone calls in Bella’s they had to put a warning on the menu