Christakis & Fowler

Connected: The Surprising Power of Our Social Networks and How They Shape Our Lives -- by Nicholas Christakis & James Fowler. Active at: @NAChristakis

[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

[Nature Portfolio @NaturePortfolio]

A study in @Nature of people living in isolated Honduras villages shows gut microbiome strain sharing between many relationship types, including non-familial and non-household connections. Strain-sharing also extends to second-degree social connections. https://t.co/TRHdDpqkwr

[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/

[Science Friday @scifri]

A new study found that we share parts of our microbiome with people in our social networks, beyond family members.

Dr. @NAChristakis joins us to discuss the research and how scientists can identify your friends—just by looking at your poop.

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[Nicholas A. Christakis @NAChristakis]

Seven Books That Demystify Human Behavior. A cool list to have ⁦@connected_book⁩ appear. ;-) https://t.co/myj1Nnp5Yk

[Nicholas A. Christakis @NAChristakis]

In new work from #HNL in @NatureComms, we explore the ability of simple AI to affect the capacity of creativity of human groups. This work continues a stream of work we inaugurated in 2017, studying “hybrid systems” of humans and machines. 1/ https://t.co/7wS3FSiveP

[Nicholas A. Christakis @NAChristakis]

Human beings have both friends and enemies, and they can track such connections. Why? It’s not hard to see why we evolved the capacity for friendship, but why do we have a capacity for animosity, and how might it shape our social networks, potentially for the better? 1/

[Nicholas A. Christakis @NAChristakis]

In 2010, #HNL proposed a novel SISa model in @PLOSCompBiol that took into account both social contagion and spontaneous emergence when modeling spreading processes within populations. Using @FraminghamStudy data, we forecast that the long-term USA obesity prevalence would reach 42%. https://t.co/UJ5fxmNrxz

This has been reached, and even earlier, too: https://t.co/pZySytK3Jr

Of course, unforeseen, novel GLP-1 agonists may reverse this altogether.

[Nicholas A. Christakis @NAChristakis]

In the first hour after an earthquake, who you call reveals something important about your social network ties. An earthquake is a natural experiment in stressing one's network. https://t.co/KNGtlUsrJB #HNL work via @PNASNexus

[The Economist @TheEconomist]

“Not enough attention is being paid to how humans will treat each other in the presence of AI,” warns sociologist @NAChristakis. In a guest essay, he explains how the technology has the potential to undermine everyday interactions https://t.co/Yr9Q8ZwBMm

[Nicholas A. Christakis @NAChristakis]

In this new paper in @SciReports, @Amir_Ghasemian and I introduce the ENMITY PARADOX, namely, that for real social networks:

Your enemies have more enemies than you do.

https://t.co/v4r1ezBfOt #EnmityParadox #FriendshipParadox 1/

[Nicholas A. Christakis @NAChristakis]

Nobel Symposium on Social Networks will be held in Lund, Sweden, August 23-24, 2023. It will bring together scientists from the social sciences and beyond, and one session, a discussion of the future of SNA, will be live-streamed @YouTube on August 24: https://t.co/M3MQ54B9Lx

[Esteban Moro @estebanmoro]

New preprint! More central nodes in online social media detect early contagious outbreaks offline. We use the "friendship paradox" online to identify people who talk earlier about flu symptoms and build early warnings of ILI outbreaks.

https://t.co/iTty4w4TgK

[Christakis & Fowler @connected_book]

A tough challenge in network science, too. How can we say that the networks of two different villages (or firms or schools, etc) have the same structure?

[Michael Levin @drmichaellevin]

Anyone have suggestions for some dimensionality reduction here - in images like this, what should be measured to quantify and compare such patterns? Is there a good formalism for capturing the shape, branching pattern, what else?

[Nicholas A. Christakis @NAChristakis]

Is it possible to easily identify people who wield influence within online or offline social networks, by virtue of how they are connected, without actually mapping networks? Do large-scale field experiments show how to use this to change behavior of whole populations? Yes! 1/

[Nicholas A. Christakis @NAChristakis]

This month, February 2022, the eBook of

Connected: The Surprising Power of Our Social Networks and How They Shape our Lives

is available for just $2.99. https://t.co/EzyiC7xgeO via @littlebrown @lbsparkbooks

"Brilliant" -- @nytimesbooks

"Mind-blowing" -- @ELLEmagazine

[Christakis & Fowler @connected_book]

@brianportnoy @NAChristakis @littlebrown I hope you like @connected_book :-)

[Cotton Court @CottonCourt]

This week's Book of the Week is Connected by Nicholas Christakis & James Fowler, recommended by Georgie Rainford of Invoke Media.

Georgie recommends this book as it shows how others affect our emotions, health, weight & creativity through Social Networks

https://t.co/yd4QANiaDW

[Nicholas A. Christakis @NAChristakis]

Still haven’t read Apollo’s Arrow? You can download the eBook for just $4.99 today! https://t.co/t5XucGHm6A

@littlebrown @lbsparkbooks

[Little, Brown Spark @lbsparkbooks]

Happy #BookBirthday to @NAChristakis. #APOLLOSARROW is out today!

Find out more about the book that @DanTGilbert calls this year's "must-must-read." https://t.co/Stqf1s8lnD