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Contrasting biological production trends over land and ocean - Nature Climate Change The authors jointly assess the changes in land and ocean net primary production from 2003 to 2021. They show contrasting trends, with overall planetary increases (0.11 ± 0.13 PgC yr−1) driven by terre...

🌍 Green gains, blue losses

From 2003–2021, plants on land grew more, but ocean productivity declined, likely due to climate warming.

Land is boosting Earth’s carbon uptake, but oceans are showing signs of stress.

🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#ClimateCrisis #SciComm 🧪

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In summer, Phoenix faces dual crises: extreme heat and drug overdoses. Our latest #HealthTalks examines how those two are connected.

💻 Hear from physicians Pope Moseley and David Sklar and substance-use researcher Raminta Daniulaityte, all @asuhealthsolutions.bsky.social faculty: ow.ly/F4RF50WyOOx

Evolution of antifungal resistance in the environment - Nature Microbiology This Review discusses the evolution, emergence and expansion of environmental fungicide and antifungal drug resistance.

A little holiday news:

Evolution of antifungal resistance in the environment www.nature.com/articles/s41...

This started out as a little thought way back in early 2024 between @normanvanrhijn.bsky.social and I, and turned into a full on review! We hope it proves useful to the community.

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The attribution of human health outcomes to climate change: transdisciplinary practical guidance - Climatic Change For over 30 years, detection and attribution (D&A) studies have informed key conclusions in international and national assessments of climate science, providing compelling evidence for the reality and...

New workshop paper out today with 60 of our closest friends, providing guidance on how to design a study attributing health impacts to climate change. Hopefully this helps expand the field and start closing the representation gaps we discuss in our forthcoming work link.springer.com/article/10.1...

A new paper in The Lancet Microbe lays the groundwork for a global science-policy body to tackle pandemic threats — modeled after the IPCC for climate change 🧪🧵

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

Ka rawe Dave and team! 👏 This is visionary work that could reshape how the world prepares for future health crises → www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

We're launching a Global Burden of Climate Change Study with support from @yalesph.bsky.social! It's been 20 years since the last one, and at least 4 million people have died. Stay tuned for preliminary results and a more formal announcement in a month or so. #CountEveryClimateDeath

New YSPH Pilot Grants Support Innovative Interdisciplinary Research The Yale School of Public Health recently launched its inaugural Transformational Pilot Funding grants, providing internal seed money to empower faculty to

A big announcement today! A huge round of thanks to @yalesph.bsky.social for the support to launch a Global Burden of Climate Change Study. There's nowhere in the world that's better positioned to do this kind of cross-cutting work than @yaleemd.bsky.social and YCCCH.

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1. Make it worth our while to pay for this by sharing the publication when we get it out in the world

2. Donations of any size to @yalesph.bsky.social - hell, a few hundred bucks - go a long way.

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In a few weeks, we'll be publishing the finding that [redacted] people die every year because of climate change, equivalent to a loss of $[redacted]T USD, every year.

Here's what it costs us to open that publication to you. We have no federal grants for that work, and can't apply for them.

The nutritional content of anthropogenic resources affects wildlife disease dynamics Synopsis. Wildlife have become increasingly reliant on human-supplemented food, affecting interactions between individuals and subsequently pathogen transm

New paper out modelling how the nutritional content of wild bird foods could affect disease transmission - a nice follow-up application of our Molecular Ecology study showing that food quality can affect immune function and disease tolerance.
doi.org/10.1093/icb/... @durantlab.bsky.social

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A live animal market

A school being decontaminated

A chicken biosecurity area

3️⃣ An "IPCC for pandemics" would let scientists develop consensus on key issues where the evidence is complex and sometimes contradictory - think airborne transmission, social distancing, herd immunity, school closures, pathogen origins, and most importantly, future risks - BEFORE the next pandemic.

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.

🚨 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...
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Estimating the effective reproduction number from wastewater (Rt): A methods comparison The effective reproduction number (Rt) is a dynamic indicator of current disease spread risk. Wastewater measurements of viral concentrations are know…

Estimating the reproductive number from wastewater. It is much easier than some would suggest, and can be done without high-powered computing. A review and comparison of different methods from our team over here. 🧪 #EpiSky www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

👋 We’re still collecting responses!! We’d love your input if you’re in an adjacent field — already seeing some super cool questions that make me so excited for the workshop.

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Viral -ologists of all kinds - molecular, ecological, evolutionary - if you haven't yet, consider joining our horizon scan study and help us identify 100 questions that are guiding where your field is going! Fill in the survey and get an invite to a workshop:

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TATAT: a containerized software for generating annotated coding transcriptomes from raw RNA-seq data Motivation: Many transcriptome creation workflows are not standardized, are difficult to install or share, prone to breaking as dependencies update or cease to be maintained and are resource intensive...

🚨 Our team just released a reproducible Docker pipeline for RNAseq assembly and annotation designed for nonmodel organisms!

We're using it to explore how bats manage viral infections, but it's built for broad utility in wildlife transcriptomics. @viralemergence.org

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

New article alert! Interested in crisis narratives in public health? (Including in AMR...?)

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Most marine communities around the world do not have any change in beta-diversity. Some are becoming more homogenous, but some are also becoming more differentiated. Fig. 1 from Kitchel et al. 2025 PLOS Climate.

one signature of human impacts on the planet (esp climate change) is ecosystems becoming less unique—a process called "biotic homogenization".

it turns out that isn't happening in the global oceans!

colossal new synthesis led by @zoejean88.bsky.social on marine fishes:

doi.org/10.1371/jour...

Open call: If you are a researcher working on a project estimating a cause-specific burden of disease attributable to climate change at regional to global scales, please reach out! We're looking for researchers who might be interested in joining a new collaborative network / workshop series.

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However, if you want to keep an eye on that space, the best way to do it is to follow climate scientists like @frediotto.bsky.social who are doing this important work! (3/3) www.imperial.ac.uk/grantham/pub...

We're making this decision so we can keep a standardized approach, and not ultimately duplicate the efforts of programs like www.worldweatherattribution.org (2/3)

The Health Attribution Library

A quick update on healthattribution.org: We're going to make a forward-looking decision for now not to include rapid attribution studies until they're preprints or peer-reviewed articles. This week's study on last week's heatwave in Europe is first of a kind, but likely to be the first of many (1/3)

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✨ The Bernhardt Lab at the University of Guelph is recruiting graduate students for 2026! Join us! We have several fully funded grad positions available ✨

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Overcoming the disconnect between species interaction networks and biodiversity conservation Decision-makers need to act now to halt biodiversity loss, and ecologists must provide them with relevant species interaction indicators to inform abo…

🧪 New paper: how can we turn decades of work to quantify the structure of species interaction networks into something relevant for biodiversity monitoring and management? @gabdans.bsky.social lays out the roadmap in a new paper in @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social

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Species loss in key habitats accelerates regional food web disruption - Communications Biology Simulating extinctions across regional food webs reveals that losing species from one habitat— especially wetlands—can cascade to others, accelerating multi-habitat food web collapse, highlighting the...

🚨 Hot off the press! We show that species loss from key habitats (like wetlands) accelerates secondary extinction in regional multi-habitat food webs. Also, we show the importance of common species to regional food web robustness. doi.org/10.1038/s420...
#Ecology #FoodWebs #Biodiversity #Metaweb