Colin Carlson

Markwayne Mullin Reportedly Fingered Nostrils of Colleagues and Their Spouses During Visit to Israel

what fresh hell

absolutely unbelievable

me (sweating, out of breath): Sir, it happened. They found one.

the president of Kay Jeweler's: You don't mean--

me: They've found a Chiss

I truly do think all of the "Noem out, Mullin in" posts and stories are failing American democracy right now!

Trump is announcing his nominee.

That's it.

If the Senate majority wants to confirm him, they're a part of this—even after knowing what they know now.

And that matters come November.

And yes, I turned off interactions on this, because I'm not interested in having an argument about this. Be serious.

The institutions you think are working on this problem aren't; they're fundraising off your anger. No one is really, actually trying to get him fired right now. Not in a serious way. The people who were said their piece and gave up. Weak stuff.

Someday he'll fire RFK Jr. too, because he's a savvy politician, and RFK Jr. is viscerally disgusting to the human sensibility. When he does - and he will - public health will have to grapple with the fact that it was doable, and we could have tried harder, sooner

this worked and i love you

Fiji fights to keep climate change related text in the treaty

There's a lot here that will be of interest to climate policy / global health / international relations readers, but probably my favorite story here is about Fiji: they showed up to get the Small Island Developing State agenda on the docket, and won. We need stories like that right now.

Climate change in the WHO Pandemic Agreement negotiations: a qualitative study. Graph shows the evolution of different topics over different articles.

NEW PREPRINT! 🦠⚖️🌡️ The Pandemic Agreement is the first global health treaty to name climate change, and behind the scenes, the UNFCCC was a source of both inspiration and conflict. Cristina Arnés-Sanz and team tracked climate issues through three years of negotiations: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Photo of measuring bat. Text: Forecasting the Next Pandemic Led by scientists from Yale and the University of Oklahoma, the Verena research initiative is using AI and team science to predict viral threats Yale School of Public Health

The Viral Emergence Research Initiative (Verena), headquartered in our Public Health Modeling Unit, is one of the largest pandemic prevention research and training programs in the United States.

Read more: m.yale.edu/dgf8 @colincarlson.bsky.social

This was the starter pack I got Fio when I got him as a kitten!!!! His favorite is his wasabi, and he also used to do fetch with the black sushi

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Strange men sitting in court surreptitiously dispensing advice is no way to run a Justice Department

i think of this tweet so often lol

scanned page of a poem: “to the young who want to die” by Gwendolyn Brooks

by Gwendolyn Brooks
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The Jim Spanfeller of science bsky.app/profile/coli...

Unionbuster Jay… certified herb behavior

Grammarly's presentation of something they call Expert Review, including my name (plus Stephen King's, plus Mary Norris's), though to be sure I've never been contacted by Grammarly, much less compensated.

What in the absolute fuck is this.

One Iran war can buy many USAIDs

it's Keep Your Cool Wednesday. It's where you keep your cool midweek instead of losing your fucking shit and crashing the fuck out.

Quantifying the spatiotemporal dynamics of the first two epidemic waves of SARS-CoV-2 infections in the United States Author summary In this work, we developed a set of tools and methods designed to produce high-resolution visualizations, as well as to quantify the complex and intricate patterns associated with the s...

We are published! We quantifying the spatiotemporal dynamics of the first two major waves of SARS-CoV-2 in the USA is online now!

By mapping the infections we were able to quantify the spread of SARS-CoV-2 over the contiguous US and we also estimated the speed of spread! tinyurl.com/y87tjnmd

Sitting in an armchair drinking Foxon park cream soda from a 1L bottle and watching the sunset. Life is sweet if just for a moment

knock on wood, but finally some good news :)

now this is a post

the babaganoush

that’s the bingus

w ha t

Dannagal you simply must find the time in this crazy modern life to enjoy the classic television program, “Gilmore Girl”