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[Nicholas A. Christakis @NAChristakis]

New #HNL paper out in @Nature

Educational Intervention Can Rewire Village Social Networks. 1/

[Steven Strogatz @stevenstrogatz]

I spoke with The Daily about what’s happening to math in the age of AI—and what it feels like to be a mathematician right now.

The conversation went places I hadn’t expected.

I’m grateful to @RachelAbramsNY, @annieminoff, and their team.

https://t.co/UwbytBe1Fk via @NYTimes

[Matthew Salganik | @msalganik.bsky.social @msalganik]

Happy to share new working paper: "Machine Learning Models Trained on a Longitudinal Survey Dataset Poorly Predict Hundreds of Life Outcomes" https://t.co/JmAaZV5sLT You can hear Emily Cantrell present it Thurs Oct 15 at Oxford seminar and online: https://t.co/4C20c0Ipcj

[Nicholas A. Christakis @NAChristakis]

Science often requires hard work and long hours, but a key joy is that this often prompts a psychological state of flow -- where time stands still and you are totally absorbed by the work you do.

New #FLOS vlog, #3 in a 6-part series on WORKING HARD.

https://t.co/p5mJCWMbFK

[Nicholas A. Christakis @NAChristakis]

For an early stage scientist:

How to:

Write an email

Ask for a letter of recommendation

Network

Get new ideas

Handle rejection

Talk to reporters

https://t.co/1fknEoKsbH

[Yale Data Science @yaledatascience]

Don’t mess with FDS Senior Admin Kayla Lindauer — she just took 3rd in the Women’s Black Belt Concrete Foot Stomp Division at the US Open USBA Karate Breaking Championships! We’re proudly rooting for her as she trains for the world games in Norway this November. Go Kayla!

[Amin Karbasi @aminkarbasi]

The first time my name appears on an executive order. Part of the research done in collaboration by @kass_paul and @yaronsinger at @robusthq

[Reed Orchinik @ROrchinik]

New WP!
The illusory truth effect (repetition -> belief) is core to psych of beliefs, & thought to be a deep bias impacting misinfo, persuasion & advertising

Why would cognition include such a flaw? We argue it is a rational adaptation to high-quality info environments 🧵1/

[Gustavo Ventura @King_ofSweden]

A depressing picture of the market for PhD economists.

Job postings down by more han 26% relative to 2019 (down by about 25% relative to 2022).

Via @cawley_john

[Nicholas A. Christakis @NAChristakis]

In work out in December 2024 in @SciReports, Matt Jones and I conduct experiments to study the role of leadership within factions of larger groups struggling to reach consensus on a contentious topic. 1/

[Nicholas A. Christakis @NAChristakis]

We can actually predict who your friends are based on whether you have similar bacteria in your poop! And that metric outperforms other more usual social features, such as how you resemble your friends on a host of traits like age, sex, wealth, etc. 7/

[Roger Highfield @RogerHighfield]

Your friends shape your microbiome — and so do their friends, reports @NAChristakis https://t.co/LDryROOEdW Analysis of nearly 2,000 people living in remote villages in Honduras reveals who’s spreading gut microorganisms to whom.

[MIT Media Lab @medialab]

The "Earth Intelligence Engine" creates realistic, simulated satellite imagery from the future, combining a physics-based model with generative AI to create realistic, simulated satellite imagery from the future. These images can help users see what their region might look like after a hurricane or other flooding event. Developed by researchers from @eapsMIT, @MITAeroAstro, @MIT_CSAIL, and the Media Lab, with collaborators from multiple other institutions, the tool has the potential to help policymakers and residents make better decisions about how to prepare in advance of a storm, and when to evacuate. https://t.co/b1UuA9Kf4l

[Nicholas A. Christakis @NAChristakis]

Clusters of microbiome species and strains occur within clusters of people in village social networks. It’s like clouds of microbes occurring within clusters of people. https://t.co/GWUvrPJUxa 11/

[Emma Zang 臧熙璐 @DrEmmaZang]

New Work in PNAS (https://t.co/bfEVZP3S2L): We find positive associations between long-term exposure to wildland smoke PM2.5 and nonaccidental, cardiovascular, ischemic heart disease, digestive, endocrine, diabetes, mental, and chronic kidney disease mortality rates.

[Yale Network Science @YINSedge]

YINS alum calculates the optimal, lowest-cost traffic flow for any kind of network – be it rail, road, water, or the internet. The algorithm performs these computations so fast that it can deliver the solution in real time. Bravo Rasmus Kyng. https://t.co/DrF6K7HWM0

[Yale Network Science @YINSedge]

There are several aspects of this that don’t strike us as quite right.

[Jiankui He @Jiankui_He]

I am willing to publish my two 2018 papers on the world first gene edited babies, however it must be published in either Nature or Science. It is one of the greatest medical breakthroughs in history, it deserves the honor to be published in Nature or Science.

[Emma Zang 臧熙璐 @DrEmmaZang]

My team is looking for a Postdoctoral Associate in Aging Studies and Data Science (https://t.co/nOXxiUR4Nx). Please help share!

[Emma Zang 臧熙璐 @DrEmmaZang]

Thrilled our paper examining sibling spillover effects is online at the American Journal of Sociology (https://t.co/v0qHJQCxl9). We argue the social process behind sibling correlations is a key understudied pathway for inter- and intragenerational transmission of advantages.

[Santo Fortunato @santo_fortunato]

Reweighting the edges of a network via graph embeddings makes the community structure more easily detectable! Check our paper, just out in Scientific Reports! Great collaboration with Bianka Kovacs, Gergely Palla and @skojaku @IULuddy @SciReports
https://t.co/Ogt02FJWxx