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@UoE_IAD is delighted to host #ResearcherRealities today. Many thanks to our Ops Team for all the support & to our chairs & tweeters. We're excited by this new initiative, led by @anna_pilz. Follow this 🧶 of the conversations.
Full programme: edin.ac/3o5pLni
Full programme: edin.ac/3o5pLni
@UoE_IAD @anna_pilz We start with a welcome from Fiona Phillipi @UoE_IAD. 🙏 for invitation to attendees to take time to listen, reflect & engage as they join our conversations on #ResearcherRealities.
Read why ‘Talking about #ResearcherRealities’ matters by @anna_pilz 👉edin.ac/44DmVGO
Read why ‘Talking about #ResearcherRealities’ matters by @anna_pilz 👉edin.ac/44DmVGO
In our 1st #ResearcherRealities conversation @Annie_Irvine @kcsamh, Andrew Schurer, @_CecileBM @GeosciencesEd & Dr Eilidh Garrett @SCADR_data will share insights into their “Researcher Career Journeys”.
👉accompanying blog series introduced by Cecile edin.ac/3N2qwYi
👉accompanying blog series introduced by Cecile edin.ac/3N2qwYi
How to enhance paleoscience research, collaboration & application in #GlobalSouth? In the latest @PAGES_IPO Magazine, we share the philosophy, functioning & future of @INQUA-funded #pSESYNTH project, building collaborative approaches & communities.
doi.org/10.22498/pages… (1/n)
doi.org/10.22498/pages… (1/n)
The INQUA-funded multi-year #pSESYNTH project envisions the first multi-disciplinary #Holocene paleo #database through a collective vision for past #SocialEcologicalSystems in the #GlobalSouth, and their future sustainability.
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We describe #pSESYNTH, an example of scientific community mobilization & collaboration focused on the #GlobalSouth, i.e. Latin America & the Caribbean, Africa, Asia, & parts of Oceania where researchers have been historically marginalized from international collaborations. (3/n)
Today we've announced our new Challenge Networks! This new cohort of #interdisciplinary research networks will launch in September, addressing global challenges around #ageing, #ThrivingCommunities, #time, and #BiosphereSensing.
Find out more here: medium.com/horizons-insti…
Find out more here: medium.com/horizons-insti…
Reimagining Ageing, led by Professor Anne Forster, @astillSL and Dr Maria Kapsali, aims to facilitate interdisciplinary collaboration to develop novel, imaginative solutions to the global challenge of healthy ageing, with a focus on reducing inequalities in later life.
Remaking Places, led by Dr Radhika Borde @PaulChatterton9, Dr Helen Wright, @gselim74 and @KatyJWright1, will support place-based coalitions to reimagine, rethink, learn, act upon, and make practical interventions to build thriving, hopeful, joyful, safe, resilient places.
Given the complexity of delivering clinical trials, they are a fertile ground to gain from #interdisciplinary thinking. For example, the field of trial #recruitment has already gained enormously from insights from other disciplinary approaches 1/7
#MethodologyMonday
#MethodologyMonday
A recent paper highlighted the use of #StatedPreference methods in this space. It showed aspects of trial design can affect recruitment 2/7
bmcmedresmethodol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…
bmcmedresmethodol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…
#StatedPreference methods eg discrete choice experiments are more commonly used by health economists to value and quantify aspects of health care but can be used to determine preference priorities in any domain 3/7
link.springer.com/article/10.216…
link.springer.com/article/10.216…
We present genomic evidence showing the West Antarctic Ice Sheet collapsed during the #LastInterglacialPeriod!🇦🇶🌊🚨#popgen #icesheet #interdisciplinary
...the tipping point of future #WestAntarcticIceSheet collapse could be reached even under the #ParisAgreement (+1.5-2.0°C)
...the tipping point of future #WestAntarcticIceSheet collapse could be reached even under the #ParisAgreement (+1.5-2.0°C)
We used found population connectivity between Ross Sea and Weddell Sea in an #Antarctic #octopus, and dated it back to #LastInterglacialPeriod. This is only possible if #WestAntarcticIceSheet completely collapsed and opened seaway connecting 2 basins biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… 🧵/9
This is my PhD work with @JanStrugnell @NeridaWilson @nick_golledge @naish_tim PhillWatts @Cataribio @iracooke @DrShmoo FelixMark, KatrinLinse. This work was only possible with their help+many hrs my advisors @JanStrugnell @NeridaWilson @Cataribio spent troubleshooting w me🧑🎓1/9
Do the strategic complexity of the decision environment and the participants’ cognitive ability affect their performance and neural response? You can find the answer in our new paper now (freely) available in @SciReports at nature.com/articles/s4159… 1/7
We explored the role of cognition and its inter-individual variability in social decision-making. First, we developed a new model of strategic #decisionmaking in repeated interactions to provide a precise measure of the environment’s complexity and participants’ performance. 2/7
Then we tested some empirical predictions of the model on both behavioral and neural data. We showed that deviations from optimal behavior are explained by a combination of higher complexity of the strategic environment and cognitive skills of the individuals. 3/7
Our paper (with @LeaGrie) on the functions of #bird #odour is out in Biological Reviews doi.org/10.1111/brv.12…
Don’t have time to read the full paper just yet? Here’s a summary thread 🧵 [1/14]
#olfactory #camouflage #communication #ornithology #avian #olfaction #crypsis
Don’t have time to read the full paper just yet? Here’s a summary thread 🧵 [1/14]
#olfactory #camouflage #communication #ornithology #avian #olfaction #crypsis
Preen oil is produced by the uropygial gland and birds use it to maintain and waterproof their plumage. But could it have other functions? 🤔 [2/14]
Over the past 20 years, researchers have explored whether preen oil plays a role in chemical defence & communication. Despite this growth in research, many functions of preen oil remain poorly understood 🧐 [3/14]
Below is a long-ish thread🧵for some context to this amazing meme from @DrArialShogren and @thats_me_del_p.
TL;DR -- Our words matter. They shape and bias our understanding of the systems we study.
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TL;DR -- Our words matter. They shape and bias our understanding of the systems we study.
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First -- I'm blessed to have great colleagues @UaDeptBSC who put up with my shenanigans.
This conversation started with me giving @thats_me_del_p a hard time about a small grant proposal. The title mentioned "drivers of intermittence."
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This conversation started with me giving @thats_me_del_p a hard time about a small grant proposal. The title mentioned "drivers of intermittence."
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I'm not a big fan of umbrella terms like #sustainability, #connectivity, and now #intermittence.
In #interdisciplinary teams, negotiating a common language is difficult. I actually think its often MORE difficult when we share common terms with slightly diverging definitions
In #interdisciplinary teams, negotiating a common language is difficult. I actually think its often MORE difficult when we share common terms with slightly diverging definitions
We’re off: #ECRday2021 is a go! I’d like to thank @QUBelfast & @UKRI_News for the financial support today. I’m hugely grateful to @SophcoCooper's technical support & @QUBPostdoc for wisdom + advice! The programme for today is here: alisongarden.com/ecrday2021-aca… 🧵 of the day below...
Thanks to @SophcoCooper for the tech assistance today! As well as being a whizz with tech, she's a scholar of the Irish diaspora. She writes on migration, gender, religion and space. See more here: sophiecooperhistory.wordpress.com She also runs: irishdiasporahistory.wordpress.com #IrishStudies
Our first panel of #ECRday2021 is on ‘Postdoctoral Fellowships on Projects’. We’ll hear from @comyn_scomyn & @AMFoster_ about the challenges, processes and joys of working on group projects as a #postdoc in the arts, humanities & social sciences. #ECRchat #PhDchat #Academia
Thrilled to participate in today’s @PMTC2021 conference and talk about meeting students where they are at (figuratively and literally). My research ranges from #bioarchaeology to #MedHist (bones to books) and I love bringing theatre to the classroom! #PandemicMethodologies
My greatest insecurity preparing for teaching in Fall 2020 was how to create a sense of community in the classroom for a course that had never before been delivered online. Summer 2020 reading: #MOOCs! #CourseDesign! #Tech! #UniversalDesign! #Stress! #PandemicMethodologies
Reimagining “Intro to Anthro of Health” required boldness. I looked to @DanielPaulOD’s unessay (tinyurl.com/4b2uezvv): to throw out the rules of essay writing and welcome speculative work. This semester was the right one to take a risk. #PandemicMethodologies
“Long-term commitment to supporting inter-& transdisciplinary research&to supporting capacity building for it,are needed…much collaboration starts from the bottom up, from curiosity,& supporting basic research is an essential foundation”Keyfindings @janeohlmeyer #shapeidtoolkit
“Inter- and transdisciplinary researchers need to be open, curious, willing to listen and learn, to leave their egos at the door when meeting with others, and to be motivated to collaborate.” @janeohlmeyer @TLRHub #shapeidtoolkit #interdisciplinary #transdisciplinary #AHSS #STEM
Dr. Widmar is currently a Professor in the Department of Agricultural Economics (@PurdueAgEcon) at Purdue University (@LifeAtPurdue) 2/n
She also serves as Associate Head and Graduate Program Chair in the Department of Agricultural Economics (@PurdueAgEcon) 3/n
Evidence online “#vaccine research” by @Illinois_Alma drives anti-#vaccine #SoMe
=prolong #pandemic
=mortality
@KateClancy’s study: periods in perimenopause “after” vaccine
by 15-minute survey
= bad #data = #misinformation
American feminism has a long history of harming WOC
=prolong #pandemic
=mortality
@KateClancy’s study: periods in perimenopause “after” vaccine
by 15-minute survey
= bad #data = #misinformation
American feminism has a long history of harming WOC
Best practices of #community engaged #research involves
LISTENING
to all important stakeholders
American feminism
frequently believes that it
✅box of the diversity
therefore
no need to listen to anybody else
Women & WOC deserve good, not bad #data.
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…
LISTENING
to all important stakeholders
American feminism
frequently believes that it
✅box of the diversity
therefore
no need to listen to anybody else
Women & WOC deserve good, not bad #data.
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…
Theories of infertility “by” vaccine
Draw upon past government sterilization programs
Fears are never unfounded
even if not the case now
Being out of touch with these realities + poor #studydesign
= research that adds harm without adding knowledge
ihpi.umich.edu/news/forced-st…
Draw upon past government sterilization programs
Fears are never unfounded
even if not the case now
Being out of touch with these realities + poor #studydesign
= research that adds harm without adding knowledge
ihpi.umich.edu/news/forced-st…
If you study #vaccine + #sideeffect... you automatically cross into #healthcare & #medicine regardless of what other label applied
I'm a #vaccineswork #vaccinessavelives #pediatrician & #tweetiatrician careful on #data #quality particularly for women, WOC, POC
This is my lane
I'm a #vaccineswork #vaccinessavelives #pediatrician & #tweetiatrician careful on #data #quality particularly for women, WOC, POC
This is my lane
Every seeming kind of "not a big deal" thing related to #vaccineswork blows up in our faces like death threats via online mobs against #pediatrician #SciComm
May seem extreme but take a look at the escalation of responses to my identifying "bad #data"
medpagetoday.com/special-report…
May seem extreme but take a look at the escalation of responses to my identifying "bad #data"
medpagetoday.com/special-report…
We can't wait for yet more false "vaccines affect (THEY DO NOT) fertility" trope to circulate
anyone who is generating data on #vaccine "#sideeffects" needs to think about clean, quality, meaningful data. Junk data: common, but this actually matters
healthline.com/health-news/no…
anyone who is generating data on #vaccine "#sideeffects" needs to think about clean, quality, meaningful data. Junk data: common, but this actually matters
healthline.com/health-news/no…
Experimenting with a slow burn, "cold takes" variant of @threadapalooza. I commit to starting now, and eventually getting to 100 findings/papers on #creativity in this thread. No promises on coherence or timeline, but I will aim for posts to be maximally useful. Here goes! 0/100
1/100 Currently thinking about why #interdisciplinary research is hard. One key concept is "scatter": how coherent is the literature for a field? If fairly well-defined and small, then it's low scatter; if not, it's high scatter. See Bates (1996) for an overview
2/100 Important study by Mote (1962): Scholars in fields of study with high degree of scatter (Grp III in Fig.) self-reported needing longer searches (> 30 mins) about 20x more frequently compared to scholars in low scatter fields (Grp I in Fig.)!
This week at SFI: "#Complexity and the Structure of #Music: Universal Features and Evolutionary Perspectives Across Cultures", an #interdisciplinary working group assembled to explore new frameworks for understanding music. Stay tuned for highlights!
santafe.edu/events/complex…
santafe.edu/events/complex…
"Every pitch class set is connected to every other pitch class set."
– @mbnUNT, co-organizer of this week's #musicology working group, presents on how to understand the #topology of #harmonic structures in music with #network diagrams (e.g. Pic 4 with #JSBach's BWV 66):
– @mbnUNT, co-organizer of this week's #musicology working group, presents on how to understand the #topology of #harmonic structures in music with #network diagrams (e.g. Pic 4 with #JSBach's BWV 66):
Once you represent a musical composition as a network, it is possible to examine the evolutionary dynamics of its harmonic content over time, as explained by @mbnUNT in his opening talk for this week's SFI #musicology working group.
(Ironically, this #Beethoven is #scalefree:)
(Ironically, this #Beethoven is #scalefree:)
Sharing knowledge in the spirit of #Humboldt: papers from last year's symposium @Macquarie_Uni now available in special issue open-access, Journal of Royal Society of NSW about challenges of #research #Communication @AvHStiftung
royalsoc.org.au/council-member…
royalsoc.org.au/council-member…
Ingrid Piller @MQLinguistics reflects on #Humboldt’s legacy as a #research communicator and identifies
contemporary #challenges of research #communication, #dissemination, and #impact
royalsoc.org.au/images/pdf/jou…
contemporary #challenges of research #communication, #dissemination, and #impact
royalsoc.org.au/images/pdf/jou…
Gabrielle McMullen explores #Humboldt's
achievements and impact as explorer, scientist and author, on the occasion of his 250th birthday
royalsoc.org.au/images/pdf/jou…
achievements and impact as explorer, scientist and author, on the occasion of his 250th birthday
royalsoc.org.au/images/pdf/jou…
Whilst interdisciplinary work is enjoyable & exciting, it is also challenging and difficult. It is, however, vital due to the unprecedented times we face e.g. due to climate change, pollutants, flooding, Covid-19, equality/equity... @NicolaBeaumon17 @ValuingN #interdisciplinarity
If we are going to be transformative in how we work then we HAVE to step outside of our comfort zones and bring these disciplines together to truly tackle some of these huge problems we face @NicolaBeaumon17 @ValuingN #interdisciplinarity #AcademicTwitter
For example, when valuing the contributions made by saltmarshes, you need geography, governance, economics, ecology and modelling, psychology, social sciences, and art! We also need to bring in stakeholders, they are also a key part of the puzzle @NicolaBeaumon17 @ValuingN
A fantastic thread on specific examples of breeding applicable interdisciplinarity.
In fact, I think we can go further, and designers can help.
In fact, I think we can go further, and designers can help.
There's a trend here.
In a lot of different environments, designers are realizing there's useful and powerful theories, insights, and communities from disciplines they never considered; and there happens to be a reactionary clash from the communities who live in that space.
In a lot of different environments, designers are realizing there's useful and powerful theories, insights, and communities from disciplines they never considered; and there happens to be a reactionary clash from the communities who live in that space.
We have an opportunity here.
Sometimes that clash is valuable, because it offers space for people to acknowledge, voice, and catalyze a community to make their knowledge known.
But sometimes, we can connect without friction, and towards a collective goal.
Sometimes that clash is valuable, because it offers space for people to acknowledge, voice, and catalyze a community to make their knowledge known.
But sometimes, we can connect without friction, and towards a collective goal.
Excited to sit in on the Innovation Lab “Law and Technology” Demos of the interdisciplinary collaboration of @NorthwesternLaw and @NorthwesternEng tonight! Follow #NLawCS for live tweets from the event!
@NLawBizTech @DanLinna
@NLawBizTech @DanLinna
@ProfDSchwartz is talking about @NorthwesternLaw's many law and technology offerings. "We're trying to be at the center of a really exciting time for innovation in law and technology."
@KJ_Hammond is up next, talking about @Northwestern's unique CS+X initiative. "Some of the things that [CS] is building . . . will have impact on the nature of the law." "For us, we're going to figure out a partnership" between #computerscience and #law.
Next panel on #nextgen of problem solvers and enabling #interdisciplinarity, bringing trainee voices to the table 👏 #CSPC2018 @sciencepolicy
Panelists Steven Cooke @Carleton_U, Shohini Ghose @Laurier, @vivmn @MitacsCanada #CSPF, and @andreajanereid @UBC @Carleton_U. #CSPC2018
Ghose leads the #womeninscience Centre at @Laurier and works in physics and computer science ncl #quantum, and #interdisciplinary is just a big word to her. There is no choice to cross disciplines in her research, which also bridges into #SocialSciences #CSPC2018
