Thread by @PeterDaszak

Here's a fascinating paper (preprint) that analyzes relative influence of international scientific experts (purple) vs. other groups on discourse re. COVID. You can see how rapidly politically-motivated communities (green) took over the conversation in Feb 2020 (fig. 3d, e).

Relative size of political community (blue) vs. others on Twitter discussion of COVID-19. Nice visualization! Thanks to @MarionKoopmans for sending the link. Great analysis from @FraDurazzi & colleagues! Part of the @EuropeVeo that I'm now on Sci. Advisory Board of.

Full reprint available here. arxiv.org/abs/2011.06845

Here's a tweet & link to thread courtesy of paper's 1st author:

https://twitter.com/FraDurazzi/status/1328319198955712512?s=20