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I think it's easy to assume more of this is riding on "access and cooperation" between China and the WHO / other countries than history would suggest is actually true

In our new study, @SadieRyan and I looked for new ways to visualize a difficult policy nuance: rising temperatures will push Zika risk to higher latitudes (left), but equally, huge

Rushed science and bad politics turned COVID-weather correlations into policy disasters. My latest, in Nature Comms w @anacrgomez @bansallab & @SadieRyan: the basic science, how ecologists derailed Indonesia's lockdown, and

Not to say that the emerging philosophy of compassion & ethics in climate adaptation is unimportant - it's not unimportant - but boy, the corresponding social safety nets and policy

In the last week, faculty have started publicly fighting reopening; U. Southern California already changed course. Your school could next.Change is possible. Use your voice now. It's health justice; it's

A quick thread about the evidence base for this claim about Ebola, which is perhaps troubling (1/4)https://twitter.com/OIEAnimalHealth/status/1265998821466742785 The 2014 outbreak in West Africa, the largest to date, was traced back

So I just said on a press call: I think the most productive thing we can do is remove a dichotomy where it was either this one specific market or

If you're wondering how you remove the scientific evidence base from a policy discussion, and turn it into narrative, here's a nice template in just four sentences from today's Economist

Today I'm pleased to announce the Viral Emergence Research Initiative (VERENA), a consortium of virologists, ecologists, and data scientists working to predict which viruses could infect humans, which animals host

A litmus test I use for "Why my X field of study is the way to prevent the next COVID-19" papers - and you can use it too! - is

This quote alone shows how myopic conservationists are about "pandemic preparedness", a decades-old field about so much more than respirators and tests. We've moved from asking for a seat at

Can I talk to the public as a modeler for a second?I've been training for something like this for 10 years. I've been doing outreach, posting, publishing and now I'm