Jake Robinson

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#TheNatureOfPandemics is now out! It's packed with surprising new science and hopeful ideas for building a safer, healthier future.

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#OneHealth

Published today! The Nature of Pandemics by Jake Robinson 📖

This timely book reframes pandemics as ecological crises that require ecological solutions.

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Invisible Friends by Jake M. Robinson

If you do grab a copy, I’d genuinely love to hear what resonates most with you.

Here’s to building a safer, healthier, more connected world for humans and (the rest of) nature.

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#TheNatureOfPandemics #Microbiome #Biodiversity #PublicHealth #Environment #SystemsThinking 10/10

or just care about our shared future, this book is for you.

Publication date: Today (and the perfect Christmas present)!
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- What would a world look like if we designed for prevention, not damage control?

Writing this was one of the most fulfilling things I’ve done, but also one of the most necessary.

If you work in the environment sector, healthcare, governance/policy, biotech, psychology, planning, 8/

Sub-questions include:
- Why do pandemics emerge?
- How do our cognitive biases shape global health?
- Which pathogen/disease is most likely to cause the next pandemic?
- Should we be more interested in pandemics that occur in wildlife?
- How can we prevent future pandemics?
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psychology, social research, philosophy and systems science. I interviewed some of the world's top scientists to ask: What really is hashtag#OneHealth and why is the concept so important? Why should we take a more-than-human approach to health?
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during the Black Death plague outbreak of 1665. This gave it a strange full-circle quality, as if the past and present were folding in on each other. lnkd.in/gigtFFju

Over 3 years, I pulled together research across ecology, microbiology, epidemiology, 4/

To prevent future pandemics, we need to understand the systems that create them, not just respond to the symptoms.

I first started jotting down ideas for this book while being quarantined in my UK home village of Eyam (during peak COVID-19 days), a village famous for quarantining itself 3/

...despite clear evidence that pandemic risk continues to rise in a degrading, warming, hyper-connected world.

Pandemics are ecological stories. They're shaped by land-use change, biodiversity loss, globalised trade, cultural behaviours, and the invisible microbial worlds that bind us together. 2/

🎉 Today’s the day! My hashtag#OneHealth book, hashtag#TheNatureOfPandemics, is officially published. This book feels more urgent now than when I started writing it, as we slip into the seductive comfort of ‘back to normal’, a kind of societal amnesia, 1/

Ooh, good question... I suppose yes – and then – no! They're microscopic for most of their life cycle, but with a distinctive plasmodial stage that is often visible to the naked eye.

Thanks for reading #InvisibleFriends!

2 Days to go! ✨

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#GutFeelings
Tonight in Noarlunga, we explored one of my favourite topics: how healthy soils likely shape healthy guts and how healthy guts support mental health.

ONE WEEK away! 🎉 The Nature of Pandemics lands next week, and I'm very excited to share it with the world.

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#OneHealth #OnePlanet

#TheNatureOfPandemics

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Health is shared. It flows through species, landscapes and the environments that sustain us 🌏 🦉 🐦‍⬛ 🌳 🐬 🌵 🫏 🧬 🦠 🧑‍🦰 🪱 🌺 🐝 🍄

Just over two weeks to go! The Nature of Pandemics: youtu.be/BjHoNZ8F-kY

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Nice recent review of Treewilding: Our Past, Present and Future Relationship with Forests by Prof. Ian Rotherham in the International Journal of Urban Forestry:

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Our new paper shows #urban #soils often host more potential zoonotic pathogens than forests, with parks & residential areas the highest. Some, like Klebsiella pneumoniae, were several-fold higher.

We need a #OneHealth approach.

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Join me at Mount Barker Library (Adelaide) tonight at 6:30 pm for a talk on The Nature of Pandemics!

Cheese and wine provided 🧀 🍷

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Dr Feargal Ryan's awesome talk on decoding the #gut-#brain axis with big data is now on YouTube!

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#SoilYourselfSeptember

New paper!

Priority research questions in #microbiome-integrated #UrbanDesign.

We crowdsourced 40 Qs across 8 themes to fast-track multispecies, evidence-based cities—policy-ready comms, success metrics, interdisciplinarity, ethics/RRI, literacy.

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Prof. Ariane König's wonderful talk on a grounded approach to scenario design for regenerative governance is now on YouTube!

Watch to learn different ways of thinking to build a thriving future.

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#SoilYourselfSeptember

Rubén Fernández-Rodríguez's wonderful talk on Nurturing Human and Planetary Health through School Gardens, Farms, Meals and Microbes is now on YouTube:

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#SoilYourselfSeptember

Dr Jacoba Bromfield's wonderful talk on how soils shape skin #microbiomes and immune health is now on YouTube: youtu.be/AuIFbnV4JRg

#SoilYourselfSeptember

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A few weeks to go… So excited!

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Sarah Bassett's awesome talk on How to Communicate Science Effectively (and Inspire Change) is now on YouTube: youtube.com/watch?v=m9Si...

#SoilYourselfSeptember

Our #SoilYourselfSeptember yarn with Bruce Pascoe, acclaimed author of Dark Emu, is now on YouTube:

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Tomorrow, I will talk about brain waves, microbes, metabolites, geophagy, the gut-brain axis, neuro-aesthetics and more to show how #SoilsShapeMinds!

Book your free ticket for tomorrow's online #SoilYourselfSeptember talk with yours truly: www.eventbrite.com.au/e/1433251767...

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