Colin J. Carlson

A personal note: If you care about / are suffering from #LongCovid and feel left behind by the scientific community, goverments, and the WHO, I genuinely think this will matter. Scientific consensus can help legitimize the diagnosis, capture the impacts, and direct funds towards more research.

As promised, in light of the WaPo report of Everglades camp detainees being swarmed by mosquitoes in the shower and unable to sleep at night due to being bitten, I want to briefly address concentration camp history and mosquitoes. I won't be comprehensive but will give a few examples. [1/17]

@aywarhiannon.bsky.social has this ever happened to you

PD: so now you check-
COP: every mattress, that's right. even mine
PD: even yours?
COP: every night
PD: every night? how many times has there been a person?
COP: my wife sometimes
PD: sometimes your wife is in the mattress?
COP: no, only ever on top
JUDGE (suddenly looking up): only sometimes?

PUBLIC DEFENDER: so when you say reasonable suspicion-
COP: it's happened before
PD: it's happened before?
COP: yeah one time there was a guy
PD: one time there was... a person in the mattress?
COP: yeah and it could happen again
PD: it could happen again?
COP: yeah it still works like that
PD: it-

the thing about cops is they love to look around. it's essential to them like giving a cheetah enough habitat. it could hurt a cop if you don't let them turn stuff over and kinda kick it

it would honestly be really funny if scotus ended plain view next term

You have to be kind of shameless right now, unfortunately!

As an extremely heavy handed reminder one of the easiest things you can do to support scientists facing funding cuts is share their work!

pretty incredible indictment of NYT’s news judgement that Wyden just comes out and says the real news, while the NYT story is framed all about the posturing and buries the lede

Brilliant

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.

So today, we're sharing two years of research on the path to an "IPCC for pandemics." It's an unflinching look at multilateralism, scientific complexity, and why global health doesn't quite work. But it's also a blueprint for the future.

👉 Please read and share!
🔓 www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

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.

So today, we're sharing two years of research on the path to an "IPCC for pandemics." It's an unflinching look at multilateralism, scientific complexity, and why global health doesn't quite work. But it's also a blueprint for the future.

👉 Please read and share!
🔓 www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

The Imperative of a Global Pandemic Risk Assessment Framework - NAM In just two decades, the world has faced a relentless barrage of deadly infectious disease outbreaks— SARS in 2002, H1N1 in 2009, Ebola in 2014, Zika in 2016,

Don't just take my word for it: here's my colleague and collaborator Dr. Victor Dzau, President of the National Academy of Medicine and host of our most recent workshop, writing about the need to solve this problem before the next pandemic and the path ahead: nam.edu/perspectives...

World Health Assembly

5️⃣ Since 2023, discussions about creating an "IPCC for Pandemics" have been taken up by the UN Foundation, the National Academy of Medicine, and academic orgs like Fiocruz and Verena. Now the fight heads to Geneva. If the ball doesn't start rolling at World Health Assembly 2026, expect it in 2027.

nations come together to establish new intergovernmental science-policy panel on chemicals, waste, and pollution

4️⃣ Creating a new IPCC-like body is possible, even now: last month, @unep.org established a new Panel on pollution. (Take that, microplastics!) We found several paths to establishing an Intergovernmental Panel on Pandemics, e.g., through the UN, WHO, or fully independently - with or without the U.S.

Two women social distancing on a park bench, wearing masks

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.

Panel 2 of the paper which describes how WHO engages experts, a well as the Global Preparedness Monitoring Board, the Independent Panel on Pandemic Preparedness and Response, the International Pandemic Preparedness Secretariat, and the G20 High Level Independent Panel on financing the global commons for pandemic preparedness and response.

2️⃣ The IPCC works because hundreds of scientists spend years reading, thinking, arguing, synthesizing, editing, and getting government approval. We've never tried this in global health: our expert bodies are smaller and include politicians; their reports are short, and often repeat the same advice.

Applause at an IPCC meeting in 2018.

1️⃣ The IPCC changed the world: the first IPCC report was essential to establishing the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. Without the reports since, there would be no scientific consensus that "it's us," no Paris Agreement, no Greta Thunberg; the planet would probably be +1°C warmer by 2100.

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...
🧵 Five things to know 👉

Unfortunately this is literally why NSF is pouring so much money into digital twins

I'm only a little bit into the game so far but it maintains the cognitive dissonance of the first one perfectly. The entire plot grinds to a halt because of scary monsters that are preventing peace talks and then you go and it's three bison trapped in a cave who literally explode and die

In presidential precedents, Nixon went down over Watergate, not the genocidal carpet bombing of Cambodia.

jeffrey epstein? the new york financier?

frankenfurter? the transylvanian financier?

i think it was mostly harvard law professors who were going to the i- (my earpiece throws out a cloud of sparks)

the worst thing that jeffrey epstein could do is drown out my p- (i put my finger to my ear) uh huh. uh huh. yeah. yeah. no i mean i get that i just

another sunrise....... the creator designed our universe perfectly........

900 lawyers have never agreed on anything.

i haven't said much about it recently but, in case you were wondering, the experience of being an nsf center director right now is still an unspeakable horror beyond anything i could have possibly imagined 👍

ted lossie. is that anything