Anshuman Swain
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Loves everything with networks, ecology & fossils || works as a Junior Fellow @Harvard & @JSMF fellow || Else can be found cooking or reading || Odia 🇮🇳
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Thrilled to announce that I will be starting as an Assistant Professor and Curator at the University of Michigan in Jan 2025. My time will be split between
@UMichEEB
and
@UMichPaleo
I will soon be looking for graduate students and postdocs. Please spread the word! 📣📣
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Successfully defended my dissertation yesterday😊! Now I am Dr. Swain. Cannot believe it yet!
I will start jointly as a Junior Fellow at Harvard Society of Fellows and a JSMF Fellow starting June 2022! Quite thrilled about it! 😇
(Here: ME awkwardly posing with my committee 🤓)
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🚨Paper alert🚨
Our work on late Cenozoic climate structuring foram communities is out in
@Nature
Was a wholesome experience working with
@foradamifera
(who explains the paper beautifully in thread below)
@macromicropaleo
@OrbulinasDad
& BillFagan
@UMDscience
#networks
#climate
🔔🔔NEW PAPER ALERT 🔔🔔
Late Cenozoic cooling restructured global marine plankton communities
Anshuman Swain
@anshuswain
and myself (co-lead authors) have just published an awesome study involving forams and networks! (1/)
@UTGeophysics
@HarvardOEB
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🚨New paper 🚨 on Cenozoic Foram Biogeography led by me and
@foradamifera
is out today in
@Nature
. We describe five major patterns in latitudinal specialization in foram functional groups and show early warning signals before abrupt richness changes.
Great thread by Adam here!
🔔📷NEW PAPER ALERT 📷📷
Biogeographic response of marine plankton to Cenozoic environmental changes
@anshuswain
and myself (co-leads) follow-up plankton network applications to the entire Cenozoic record (1/)
@BristolUni
@txgeosciences
@HarvardOEB
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Thrilled that our work on understanding the origin and maintenance of microbial diversity with Levi Fussell
@EdinburghUni
and Bill Fagan
@UMDscience
is out today in
@PNASNews
. Thanks to
@sfiscience
, where these ideas started out!
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New paper out in
@FrontEcolEvol
with
@tyler_hoff1
, Kirtus Leyba and Bill Fagan!
We look at environmental and biological factors affecting the evolution of perception using an agent based model.
Thanks to
@sfiscience
CSSS for helping initiate the idea.
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My research group will focus on ecological and paleontological informatics and complex systems. If you're interested, please reach out to me over email with a brief description of your interests and a CV.
Keep watching this space for more information!
#GoBlue
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New paper 🚨! w/
@amitava_physics
and Bill Fagan
@UMDscience
in JGR Solid Earth
We use a Reservoir computing approach to predict interdependencies of geyser interactions at the Yellowstone NP.
Some key results below (1/6):
#geyser
#Yellowstone
#networks
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Our new preprint on modeling origin and maintenance of diversity in microbial ecosystems using an ABM incorporating emergent higher-order interactions among microbes, a continuous species space, and an evolution-via-mutation regime
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NEW PAPER ALERT🚨!!
Out today in
@PNASNews
with
@DiRappaport
& others from
@UMDscience
@NASAGoddard
!
We use thousands of hours of
#soundscapes
data from
#Amazon
🌿to explore the acoustic fingerprints of repeated fire and logging.
#networks
#conservation
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Our work on predicting interactions through network models from fossil record in the Cambrian period is out in Cell iScience!
We use a high resolution fossil abundance dataset and network methods to estimate trophic interactions with 83% accuracy.
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Our new preprint out! Working with these awesome people -
@mmjohnEEB
@jkbren
@aprilkleppe
@kesm_ith
@lholmerx
@Ashley_Teufel
@laura_stolp
- to explore effects of novelty in PPI networks😁. Special thanks to
@sfiscience
for making this happen 🤓
#goProteam
Exciting! Preprint of our computational inference of how evolutionary novelty may be integrated into existing PPI networks. Interdisciplinary work started at SantaFeInstitute last summer
@mmjohnEEB
@Ashley_Teufel
@laura_stolp
@anshuman2111
@lholmerx
@jkbren
@kesm_ith
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It was a wonderful experience to be a part of
#WWCS2020
@winter_complex
. A mix of amazing people, awesome topics and great cheese 🧀 - well, looking forward to seeing you guys sometime soon and also stay busy keeping up with your cool work!
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Check out our new article w/
@jkbren
@svscarpino
T Byrum and B Fagan
@UMDscience
on understanding how determinism and degeneracy can help us understand higher order information in networks ☺️
Our article, “Exploring noise, degeneracy, and determinism in biological networks with the einet package” came out in
@MethodsEcolEvol
! Casual emergence, effective information, available in R and Python
w/
@anshuman2111
Travis Byrum
@svscarpino
Bill Fagan
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Amazing timessssss!
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I would like to thank everyone who has played a major part in making me who I am today and specifically, standing by me throughout my Ph.D.: my mentors from over the years, collaborators, grad school community, my friends, and above all, my family!! Thank you all for being there!
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New preprint out
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Newest paper is out! Please do read...it was a result of an amazing workshop with
@mtn_science
@isabella_oleksy
@Periphytonico
and Ze Ren at
@FLBSUM
. Thank you
@DrLimnology
and all our mentors for the help.
Love waking up to an announcement that our paper is live 🤩 Everything you've ever wanted to know about nutrient stoich. in the mtn cryosphere . A
@Woodstoich2019
collab. Ze Ren,
@Periphytonico
,
@anshuman2111
, and
@mtn_science
!
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Our new paper is out in
@CommsBio
, which resulted from a
@sfiscience
working grp. with
@jkbren
@mmjohnEEB
@aprilkleppe
@Ashley_Teufel
et al.
It was an amazing experience - learned a lot, had loads of fun, and did good science! 😊
#GoProteam
Our paper on emergence and retainment of evolutionary novelty in a protein-protein interaction network is finally out. ❤️
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#Deforestation
and
#logging
aren't just decimating the
#Amazon
's forests. They're making them quieter.
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Northern Cardinals are pretty common in Maryland, but every time I see them, I feel awed by the suddenness of their red. While taking a stroll, their unmistakable short, sweet call always soothes my mind.
#cardinals
#birdwatching
#natureart
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New Paper out with
@JackOliverShaw
@cocilyemco
K Wootton
@DriesDaems
@AndrewwBrown
and Jenn Dunne on how biases in fossil record affect ancient food web reconstruction
Special thanks to
@sfiscience
Below: our method & retweet thread from
@JackOliverShaw
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New paper🚨
Out in Journal of Sc Edu & Tech. We use peer-interaction networks to understand relationships between interactions, group formation & learning in an online course that I TAed over six semesters.
Thanks to
@TLTC_UMD
UTLP for the support. (1/4)
#networks
#education
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New preprint out in collaboration with
@Eliz_Hobson
@SaraDWms
and
@louisadifelice
, all thanks to
@CNWWs
for bringing us together (and all the great memories in Quebec city)! 😊
We use 🐜 colony interactions to look at task allocation and information flows.
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2021 was a year of lows & highs for me. One thing that stayed with me throughout was my promise to read 1 book a week. I was excited that not only did I do that-I doubled my goal of 52 books.
(PS: I would also love more book recommendations from whoever reads this. Thanks!)
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Paper with
@Gussie_Mac
, Bill Fagan
@UMDscience
& Conrad Labandeira
@NMNH
is now out in Paleobiology!
Here, we explore ecological patterns in fossil plant-insect interactions using insect damage on fossil leaves through bipartite network representations.
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New paper alert! Now out in Animal Behaviour.
It was an amazing collaboration! Enjoyed working with
@SaraDWms
@louisadifelice
and
@Eliz_Hobson
😁😁
We studied 🐜 interaction networks and how these interactions influence task allocations and vice versa.
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Hi everyone! I have started a podcast about evolution (and nature in general) and it's on Spotify. Please please do listen and follow!
I'll come up with two new episodes every week.
#evolution
#nature
#podcast
#sciencetwitter
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Grateful that our work
@Eliz_Hobson
@SaraDWms
@louisadifelice
in
@asab_tweets
animal behaviour was selected as an editor's choice article! 🎉😁
Animal Behaviour, July 2022 📰 Editors’ Choice ✨
@anshuswain
@SaraDWms
@louisadifelice
@Eliz_Hobson
analysed the interaction networks of six C. fellah colonies. Node metrics and effective information explained functional group differences 🐜🐜🐜
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Our new paper on higher order information in PPI networks across the tree of life is out!! 😁
Happy to see this out! We quantify higher info. scales in PPI networks, incl. a new interesting method for randomizing nodes' edge weights to be tunably heavy-tailed
Part of one line of research for
@templeton_fdn
grant on emergence & agency in networks
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I saw a Hooded Merganser closely for the first time this winter and was awestruck by their unique crests. Today, I thought of making an illustration of the same...hope you like 😊
#birds
#illustration
#hoodedmerganser
#ducks
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Latest paper out with
@L_AzSchmidt
,
@Gussie_Mac
and Ellen Currano, where we review major patterns of fossil plant-insect interactions in angiosperm dominated flora 🌸! Had a great time learning and collaborating with these amazing folks!
Do check it out!!! 😀
The full paper can now be found here! I can't believe how fast this came out and by far the most fun I've had writing a paper thanks to
@Gussie_Mac
@anshuman2111
and Ellen D. Currano
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Some cool people and cooler networks 🤓 was fun working on something so different!
Network analysis of musical scores at
#wwcs2020
. Music-complexity project at
@winter_complex
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Excited about our new preprint where we use interactions among microbial guilds to predict methane oscillations (methane hazes) ~2.5 billion years ago.
Major find: Complex interplay between oxygen and resource input levels might have caused these hazes!
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This week in
#MathOnco
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<novelty in science, dose dependence, higher-order spatial interactions, spatial transcriptomics, predictive modeling>
Cover art:
@anshuman2111
&
@HwTheFrondsFold
💯
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It was a great experience presenting and listening to people at
#NetSciEd2020
Anshuman Swain studies a very current, important issue: the importance of peer-to-peer interactions in online learning
#NetSciEd2020
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Now the books: I had many favorites this year.
For fiction, I am glad I explored a lot of new Indian and non-Anglo writers. I really loved 'Homegoing' by Yaa Gyasi, and 'Rumours of Spring' by
@FarahBashir
. Among graphic novels, 'Blankets' by Craig Thomson was my favorite. (2/5)
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My first book of this year was My Husband & Other Animals
@JanakiLenin
I loved it! It was a set of free-flowing,well-written recollections interspersed with adventures and animals-things I adore! What I loved more, was it introduced me to 'Watchers at the Pond' by F Russell (1/n)
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And yes, forgot to mention the dazzling visuals that came out of our simulations! 😁😸 Thanks to the mastermind Levi Fussell
@HwTheFrondsFold
We designed a model with a continuous domain representation that generalized the speciation and the interactions of microbial systems to incorporate evolutionary dynamics. Colouring the microbes according to species leads to some dazzling visuals:
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"Quite interesting" is the nicest thing anyone has ever said to me. Love you too!
P.S. The study is not quite as dumb as it sounds, see with
@svscarpino
&
@_jgyou
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In this work, we primarily look at antagonistic interactions among microbes through an agent-based model, which incorporates higher-order interactions, a variety of mutational regimes and a continuous species space.
We then track the spatiotemporal dynamics of these populations.
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@albert_kao
@DriesDaems
@rebekahoomen
@sfiscience
@JSMF
@AmandaHund
@fernandopsantos
@_jgyou
@JoshuaGarland
@HelenMcCreery
Hi
@albert_kao
, a group of students at last year's SFI CSSS (which included me and
@DriesDaems
) wanted to explore how availability of resources can affect emergence of cooperation in biological and social systems. Maybe we can chat about it sometime if you want :)
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It was thrilling to chat with Kirk Johnson, the director of Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History today at GSA2019!
#fossilsrock
#GSA2019
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🚨New paper🚨 on landscape level variation in plant-insect interactions! 🌿
It was wonderful working with the crew, especially
@L_AzSchmidt
!
Please check out the thread by her on our new paper in
@SciReports
!
Thoughts and feedback welcome! 🤗
I'm very excited to share that we have a new paper out on plant-insect interactions! We found some pretty interesting patterns using modern leaves collected using paleobotanical methods.
@anshuswain
@LG_Shoemaker
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Using this novel representation, we can understand interdependencies and intricacies of insect damage and quantitatively compare them at various scales (taxa and assemblage) in a more holistic way.
Please do check it out!
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It was a wonderful experience working with these amazing people!
#cryostoich
#woodstoich4
@FLBSUM
and met a lot of amazing people who do amazing science 😀
Bittersweet departure from
@FLBSUM
. We accomplished so much but I’ll miss this field station and these wonderful new collaborators. Will reiterate what
@DrLimnology
emphasized in his talk last night— it’s the people that make the science so great! Til next time.
#woodstoich4
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@louisadifelice
@jackiebrownTO
@PLOSONE
@dakotasmurray
@krfurlong
@cocilyemco
@fdabl
@sfiscience
Hahaha! I am honored - although I must admit I really really enjoyed being a part of every group at SFI - however sleep-draining the experience might have been 😅 It was one of the best times doing science and also having fun!
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We find that community formation time (CFT: time to stability) can delineate different spaces of spatial heterogeneity and diversity dynamics in model runs, but itself is not predictable using model parameters - making it an important emergent property of the system.
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This work was done in collaboration with Levi Fussell from University of Edinburgh, and was possible only because we met through
@sfiscience
CSSS'19 (Many thanks!)
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Our new preprint on how animal soundscapes tell about Amazon forest degradation from fire & logging through methods from network science & eco-acoustics is out.
A great learning experience working w
@DiRappaport
& others
Do check it out:
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Biology Professor Bill Fagan and
@BISIumd
student
@anshuman2111
developed the first mathematical simulations of bacterial communities that incorporate the evolution and interactions b/t bacteria.
Published today in
@PNASNews
, read about their paper here:
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It was a great experience being a part of this! Great thanks to Michelle Girvan, Daniel Serrano and Glynis Smith!
Comments from the attendees were very warm, fulfilling! We had over 160 graduate student and postdoc registrations from across the campus
@UMDGradSchool
@UMDscience
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@jackiebrownTO
@E73HS
@missseliss
My favourites are the ones where people don't know they're posing for a photo...😅
It's an year already..OMG...miss ya all guys! And I support your use of favourite. Will post some here!
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So pleased to see this paper out in the world. It's been an amazing team effort, with co-first-authors
@mkawakatsu
and
@NicoleEikmeier
and senior pun-maker
@DanLarremore
.
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Through the lens of non-cyclic dominance (i.e., where a single species is not dominant in any specific ecological trait), we link the trajectory of community assembly to both spatial heterogeneity and diversity dynamics, thereby providing new perspective on eco-evo dynamics.
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@jackiebrownTO
@E73HS
@missseliss
I guess there are too many! 😅😅😅😅 I miss you all! We should have another call
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I thought for a moment it was a movie special effects scene 😲
The Gulf of Mexico is literally on fire because a pipeline ruptured
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The acoustic fingerprints of degradation history were conserved across replicate recording locations, indicating that
#soundscapes
may offer a robust, taxonomically
#inclusive
solution for digitally tracking changes in acoustic community composition over time!
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Please do read. Comments welcome 😊
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@jackiebrownTO
@E73HS
@missseliss
Haha
@jackiebrownTO
😅 I am humbled!
(Well, not all of them are alive anymore though ☹️ but I had a very very nice time with all the groups!)
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We find that the emergent 24-h patterns of acoustic activity differed between logged and burned forests and that large and sustained shifts in acoustic community assembly after multiple fires.
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Fun times
@FLBSUM
and with the amazing Cryosphere team
#Woodstoich4
#Cryostoich
#saveglaciers
And yes...our paper has been officially accepted by Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution! So excited..😁
Such a great experience! Wrote a cool paper, made new friends/colleagues, hung out at
@FLBSUM
-- 10/10, would definitely do it again.
Thanks
@NSF_BIO
for funding
#woodstoich4
,
@DrLimnology
and Michelle Evans-White for making it happen, and our 3x thoughtful reviewers. 🍻🍻
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We propose a new way to look at possible bias in these assemblages.
We show that clustering analyses of these interactions reveal possible ecological categories, and use Agent-based models to map these categories to known ecological patterns.
#paleo
#networks
@UMDscience
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@MassimoSt
@sfiscience
@jackiebrownTO
and co. did an amazing job with this paper!
(Same here- first work where I am a days point 😅😊)
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Higher number of interactions on a given topic created increased levels of interest and more engagement among the students, resulting in more term-end projects on that specific topic. (4/4)
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Time lags over which geysers influence each other's activity vary from hours to weeks, and the lags at which the strongest pairwise impacts occur are substantially longer during winter, perhaps due to slower recharge during that season. (4/6)
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Geyser separation distance matters! Nearby geysers had stronger effects on focal geysers than did geysers located farther away. These effects were stronger on short (5–10 min) and long (5–10 days) timescales compared to intermediate scales. (3/6)
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Our findings also contradict expectations from Acoustic Niche Hypothesis that animal communities in more degraded habitats necessarily occupy fewer acoustic niches. Instead, we found that aboveground biomass was not a consistent proxy for acoustic
#biodiversity
.
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@StefaniCrabtree
@Nature
@foradamifera
@macromicropaleo
@OrbulinasDad
@UMDscience
Thank you! Please let me know what you think!
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Happy to chat about books anytime!!! And looking forward to recommendations
If you wanted to have a detailed look at my books for 2021 year, here is the link:
(5/5)
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Interactions with more people have the potential to raise one’s performance, even though interactions with fewer people did not mean lower performance, which may be more individually driven. Also more interaction with the same people didn't cause any differences.
(3/4)
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@KevinFPBennett
@PNASNews
@DiRappaport
@UMDscience
@NASAGoddard
This was a long drawn out one 😂. One of my most directly socially relevant network research for sure.
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For science/nat.his., I loved 'Braiding Sweetgrass' by Robin W Kimmerer, 'How the Earth Turned Green' by Joseph Armstrong, 'Beasts before us' by
@gsciencelady
, 'Of Birds and Birdsong' by M. Krishnan, 'The Bird Way' by
@JenGAckerman
, and 'Entangled Life' by
@MerlinSheldrake
. (3/5)
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We found that over the timeline of the semester, the average number of people that one individual interacted with (average degree) first increased and then decreased but they interact more (sum of edge weights increases) with a specific set of people towards the end.
(2/4).
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Focusing on the ratio of self-effects to outside effects allows characterization of the degree of insulation experienced by each geyser, and identification of those geysers whose reservoir complexes appear to be more strongly connected to the groundwater flow system. (5/6)
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@mmjohnEEB
@sfiscience
@aprilkleppe
@Ashley_Teufel
@kesm_ith
@jkbren
@lholmerx
@laura_stolp
Definitely!
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@XuanCindyLi
@Sanjusinha7
For me personally, the two major things that aided my reading were: (1) reading regularly (I try to read non about 40 minutes every day or more); (2) buying a large screen e-ink tablet (especially during COVID when libraries shut down)😊
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@Gussie_Mac
@L_AzSchmidt
Same here. I loved working with you folks and learnt a lot! So, I would do whatever it takes to keep the fun collab going 😀- ready to work on any project 😅 or even be the field cook 👨🍳
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