Torre Lavelle
@torrelavelle.bsky.social
PhDing sph.yale.edu & viralemergence.org. Climate change, emerging infectious diseases, biodiversity loss. Probably thinking about dogs
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.
🚨 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...
September 17, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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.
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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.
August 19, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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.
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🚨 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...
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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.
www.nature.com
July 28, 2025 at 1:03 PM
🚨 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...
🔗 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!
🚨 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 👉
🔓 www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
🧵 Five things to know 👉
July 21, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Proud to have played a small role in moving this forward. Give our paper on a proposed Intergovernmental Panel on Pandemics a read!
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🦠🌿🐦🧪 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...
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...
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
academic.oup.com
June 30, 2025 at 1:07 PM
🦠🌿🐦🧪 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...
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...
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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 🧪 🏠
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...
🌻 www.cjonline.com/story/opinio...
Topeka scientist says NSF funds critical to infectious disease forecasting | Opinion
Planned budget cuts for 2026 would deepen damage to STEM education, jobs, and public access to taxpayer-funded data.
www.cjonline.com
June 29, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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!
🔗 airtable.com/appTW4ZoSFjR...
@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!
🔗 airtable.com/appTW4ZoSFjR...
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June 17, 2025 at 1:41 PM
🧬🦠🌍 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!
🔗 airtable.com/appTW4ZoSFjR...
@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!
🔗 airtable.com/appTW4ZoSFjR...
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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!
@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
June 7, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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!
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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:
June 16, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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:
@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
June 6, 2025 at 7:30 PM
@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
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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...
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...
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...
www.simonsfoundation.org
June 2, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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...
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...
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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...
Resources for Reviewing Code | Ecological Forecasting Initiative
ecoforecast.org
March 11, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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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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/...
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.
www.science.org
February 27, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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/...
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🔔🔨 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...
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
February 27, 2025 at 7:17 PM
🔔🔨 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...
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
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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...
January 30, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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...
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🧪😷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 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....
journals.plos.org
January 27, 2025 at 10:20 PM
🧪😷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...
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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...
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
medicine.yale.edu
January 17, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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!
🚨😷🧪 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
January 15, 2025 at 8:08 PM
🚨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!
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🧪😷 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
If you take one thing away from our paper, I hope it's this: there's no safe path through the Pandemicene without action on environmental protection, sustainable development, and health system strengthening. Single-issue advocacy and siloed solutions put the world at greater risk from pandemics.
January 15, 2025 at 4:00 PM
🧪😷 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
Reposted by Torre Lavelle
🚨😷🧪 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
January 15, 2025 at 2:16 PM
🚨😷🧪 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!
@insideclimatenews.org!
Commercial Development Co. bills itself as North America’s leading redeveloper of industrial brownfields, but many of the properties currently or previously in the company’s portfolio remain untouched.
How North America’s Leading Brownfield Redeveloper Makes Millions by Not Redeveloping Brownfields - Inside Climate News
Although Commercial Development Co. and its affiliates have pledged to revive the former industrial sites they purchase, residents are often stuck looking at undeveloped acreage for years.
insideclimatenews.org
January 13, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Check out Daniel Propp's incredible investigative piece for
@insideclimatenews.org!
@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! 🦠
NEW 🦠‼️ Several countries and reports have called for the creation of an Intergovernmental Panel on Pandemics. Over the last two years, we brought global health law experts together with IPCC and IPBES members, and mapped out a blueprint for its scope and governance. 🔓 papers.ssrn.com/abstract=508...
The scientific mission and governance of an Intergovernmental Panel on Pandemics: lessons from the IPCC and IPBES
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<p><span>Pandemics pose a global threat to human-wellbeing, justice, economies, and ecosystems, comparable in urgency and impact to other planetary cris
papers.ssrn.com
January 8, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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! 🦠
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...
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.
www.carlsonlab.bio
November 22, 2024 at 4:02 PM
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...