Study finds a stronger correlation for women between success and being central to a network
Being well connected is more important for women who want to get ahead in science than men, a study suggests.
By analyzing how patterns of research collaboration relate to scientific outcomes, US statisticians found that highly cited female scientists at top US universities tended to be very prominent within their research networks.… Read the rest
On February 13, 2017 Noshir Contractor presented on Bridging the Boundary, while Minding the Seams: Boundary Propensities in Multiteam Systems in a colloquium held at the Center for Work, Technology, and Organization, Management Science & Engineering, Stanford University, CA.… Read the rest
Friendship isn’t always as serendipitous as it might feel. Are you a “tight-knitter”, a “compartmentalizer,” or a “sampler”? According to Dartmouth sociology professor Janice McCabe, whose study of the effects of social connections on academic performance was published this month in the journal Contexts, when forming new friendships, people tend to follow one of these three patterns.… Read the rest
SONIC and ATLAS members: eight graduate students, one undergraduate researcher, and two post-doctoral researchers will be attending the NASA Human Research Program Investigators’ Workshop in Galveston, TX from January 23rd – January 26th.
Our team is presenting six posters.
Patrick Park: Understanding Elective Task Switching
Ashley Niler: Impact of Social Connectedness, Communication Delay, and Sleep Deprivation on Cognitive Network Similarity in Analog Teams
Zach Gibson: Building Extreme Teams: Simulating team Composition Effects in Isolated and Confined Environments
Ilya Gokhman: Leadership Networks in Space Crews
Igor Zakhlebin Influence of Interpersonal Perceptions on Team Structure in Long-Duration Space Exploration Missions
Gabe Plummer: The Costs of Switching Between Team and Multiteam Tasks and The Role of Shared Cognition
On Sunday, December 4th, a SONIC PhD candidate Aaron Schecter and Professor Noshir Contractor presented at a workshop titled “The Network Science of Squads“, held in Denton, TX on December 3rd – 5th.
Abstract
A fundamental assumption in the study of groups is that they are constituted by various interaction processes that are critical to survival, success, and failure.… Read the rest
On December 1st, 2016, Noshir Contractor presented on Leveraging Computational Social Science to Address Grand Societal Challenges. The symposium, titled “Understanding social systems via computational approaches and new kinds of data”, took place from November 30 – December 1, 2016 at KOMED im MediaPark, Cologne, Germany
The complete schedule of presentations and Noshir’s talk abstract can be viewed following the link below:
http://www.gesis.org/css-wintersymposium/program/schedule/… Read the rest
As the electoral map turned crimson this evening, everyone exclaimed that the data and polls had not seen this coming. They were only partly right. At least one overlooked data source had made a very strong suggestion that Donald Trump enjoyed an unquantified current of popular support.… Read the rest
Please join us in celebrating the 10th birthday of Web Science at Northwestern University – the final stop of a 10-hour web-a-thon that will have spanned the globe from Singapore, Bangalore, Berlin, and London before landing in Evanston.
Nearly 20 percent of all election-related tweets come from an army of influential robots.
Read the full article here.
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