Kate Eddens

Research Scientist, networks are everything, health comm, technology, promoting health equity, musician, mom. Crushing the patriarchy. Opinions are mine alone.

[Kate Eddens @keddens]

@1a I have just under $50,000 in student loan debt. It was $100k when I finished graduate school in 2012. I pay $886 per month. I'm a single parent single income home, w/ 2 kids. I want to save to pay for them to go to college but I won't be able to in time with my own debt.

[Kate Eddens @keddens]

@constanceboyer @KateRaworth @colmmacc @rethinkecon @PluralEcon @Revkin @EricBeinhocker Yes! And it's true, systems thinking, network thinking, etc, makes sense to kids because it intuitively reflects reality! Unfortunately, we spend so much time being taught about individual level behaviors and outcomes that adults have to relearn how to think interconnectedly.

[Kate Eddens @keddens]

@KitBoyer @AlisonStine Hahahaa it's the TRUTH

[Matthew Weber @docmattweber]

Our final presentation, @zpneal making a powerful point about the limitations of bipartite networks and presents his backbone network alternative as an important methodological fix #WTGBrokers2019 (and you can use install.packages("backbone") to get it on R now!

[Matthew Weber @docmattweber]

And bridging the gap between policy and health, Rosalyn Negron from @UMassBoston is now taking us into communities to understand diversity and inequality - and taking us deep into the impact of culture as complex systems #WTGBrokers2019

[Matthew Weber @docmattweber]

As we delve deeper into health contexts @kayladelahaye is sharing her work on health eating habits and the impact of your network #wtgbrokers2019 using ecological models of eating & network methodology

[Matthew Weber @docmattweber]

Adding that @Ognyanova has an amazing website (https://t.co/MLsJI3xbtG) where you can find tutorials and code to work through visualizing your data in R #WTGBrokers2019

[Kate Eddens @keddens]

Love this! Such a fabulous group to work with and learn from the past two days. #wtgbrokers2019

[Elise Cappella @CappellaElise]

Informative, invigorating meeting #WTGBrokers2019 with one great result (so far): a new social network!

[Matthew Weber @docmattweber]

We're still talking about education, but now we're pulling in learnings from Great Lakes water management: important insight about how knowledge brokers balance external and internal relationships @kenfrank20 #WTGBrokers2019 great to see the common ties!

[Matthew Weber @docmattweber]

Continuing our discussion of education networks, @CappellaElise highlights work on mental health education and advocacy in schools; key individuals (brokers) impact advice giving - descriptive work important to add context #WTGBrokers2019

[Matthew Weber @docmattweber]

Kicking off #WTGBrokers2019 with remarks from ⁦Kim DuMont @wtgrantfdn⁩ and ⁦@ECohen_UMN⁩ looking forward to the next two days #networks #socialnetworkanakysis

[Center for Research Use in Education @UDCRUE]

Excited to be sharing emerging work on educators’ networks for accessing research based information at #WTGBrokers2019 meeting. Stay tuned for more on this!

[Matthew Weber @docmattweber]

And wrapping things up today, @keddens talking about https://t.co/Z4E5nwawtd and highlighting how we can collect ego network data #WTGBrokers2019

[Matthew Weber @docmattweber]

@FarleyRipple getting our brains going after lunch and sharing impressive research in progress on individual capacity to access and obtain research as part of decision-making in school #WTGBrokers2019 - thanks for a candid & refreshing take on the challenges we face in this space

[Zachary Neal @zpneal]

All-star panel of current & former @michiganstateu researchers talking about networks & brokerage: Jim Dearing from @CommDeptMSU, @jennawneal from @MsuPsychology, and Doug Luke from @cphsswustl. #WTGBrokers2019