Thread by @sfiscience

On #InternationalWomensDay we'd like to pause and celebrate just a small slice of the enormous contributions to science women have made here at SFI.

Read the thread below for links to some of their own favorite research papers, and a few nominated by other SFI faculty members:

First off, these papers on #FoodWebs led by our VP for #Science, Jennifer Dunne:

[@royalsociety Proceedings B]
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…

[@PLOSBiology]
doi.org/10.1371/journa…

...and this interview she did for @QuantaMagazine:
quantamagazine.org/with-food-webs…

#Ecology #Ecologist

Next, two papers on how humans navigate and process #information co-authored by SFI External Prof @DaniSBassett (@Penn):

[@NatureHumBehav]
nature.com/articles/s4156…
+ summary:
blog.seas.upenn.edu/studying-hunte…

[@nature]
nature.com/articles/s4156…
+ summary:
penntoday.upenn.edu/news/what-do-b…

Co-authored by SFI External Prof Karen Willcox, Director @OdenInstitute:

"Lift & Learn: #Physics-informed #MachineLearning for large-scale #Nonlinear #DynamicalSystems"

kiwi.oden.utexas.edu/papers/lift-le…
in Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena

And her 2020 SFI Seminar:

SFI Prof @C4Computation studies collective behavior as a form of computation:

"#CoarseGraining as a downward causation mechanism"
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…
@RSocPublishing

"The #InformationTheory of individuality"
doi.org/10.1007/s12064…
+ @QuantaMagazine:
quantamagazine.org/what-is-an-ind…

SFI External Prof @WendyCarlinEcon (@ucl, @cepr_org) is working to transform the #economics curriculum:

What Students Learn in #Economics101: Time for a Change
aeaweb.org/articles?id=10…

300K #women are missing from economics
theconversation.com/300-000-women-…
@ConversationUS @coreeconteam

On #InternationalWomensDay let's not forget this paper by SFI External Prof Paula Sabloff, analyzing the role of women in royal courts:

The Political Agency of Royal Women: A Comparative Analysis of 8 Premodern States According to Societal Rules and Roles
link.springer.com/article/10.100…

SFI External Professor Mercedes Pascual (@UMICHCS) on quantifying asymptomatic #COVID19 cases:
pnas.org/content/118/9/…
@PNASNews
...and on the co-evolutionary dynamics of microbial hosts and viruses due to immune memory in the microbes:
nature.com/articles/s4155…
@NatureEcoEvo

SFI Fellow @StefaniCrabtree's research found that #Martu women are key to keeping the ecological networks of Western #Australia functioning by hunting large lizards & snakes, animals without many other predators:
link.springer.com/article/10.100…

@NYtimes coverage: nytimes.com/2019/02/08/sci…

From SFI External Prof @Sara_Imari (@Beyond_ASU):

The algorithmic #OriginsOfLife
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…

#UniversalScaling across biochemical networks on Earth
advances.sciencemag.org/content/5/1/ea…
 
@freethinkmedia video:
What Alien Life Could Teach Us About Humanity

SFI External Prof @GirvanMichelle (@UofMaryland)'s historic 2002 paper, "Community structure in social & biological networks":
pnas.org/content/99/12/…
@PNASNews

...and 2018 SFI Community Lecture, "Harnessing Chaos & Predicting the Unpredictable with #AI":
santafe.edu/news-center/ne…

We're not done celebrating #InternationalWomensDay — just fell asleep before we could get to all of the great faculty submissions of woman-authored #ComplexSystems research yesterday.

The thread continues below:

In 1994 (!) now-SFI Professors @MelMitchell1 & Stephanie Forrest (@ASUBiodesign) published this review at @MIT on the history and future of #GeneticAlgorithms in #ArtificialLife research:

mitpressjournals.org/doi/pdfplus/10…

#Computing #ComplexSystems

From SFI Fellow @HelenaMiton:

"The predictable #evolution of letter shapes: An emergent script of West Africa recapitulates historical change in #WritingSystems"
osf.io/preprints/soca…

"How material constraints affect the #CulturalEvolution of #rhythm"
psyarxiv.com/dp2kj/

From SFI's @profjennabednar:

"#Order Affects #Performance: Culture, Behavioral Spillovers, and Institutional #PathDependence”
cambridge.org/core/journals/…
(@apsrjournal with @Scott_E_Page, also at @UMich)

The Robust #Federation: Principles of #Design [book]
cambridge.org/core/books/rob…

Another classic #ComplexSystems paper from SFI history is this 2000 piece by @laurenmeyers (then at @stanford, now SFI External Prof & Director of @meyerslab) & Walter Fontana (then SFI & @Princeton):

"#Plasticity, #Evolvability, and #Modularity in #RNA"

scholar.harvard.edu/walterfontana/…

SFI External Prof @svscarpino
nominates another @meyerslab piece for this thread:

https://twitter.com/svscarpino/status/1369373795153305605?s=19

Two landmark @IEEEorg papers led by SFI External Professor Stephanie Forrest (@ASU @CIDSEASU) that set the stage for modern #cybersecurity:

Self-Nonself Discrimination in a Computer
cs.unm.edu/~immsec/public…
1994

A Sense of Self for #Unix Processes
wenke.gtisc.gatech.edu/ids-readings/u…
1996

SFI External Professor @oritpeleg at @CUBoulder's @BioFrontiers studies #CollectiveBehavior in #Insects — including the mechanics of #Honeybee #Swarms and #Firefly synchronization:

in @PhysicsToday:
physicstoday.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/PT…

in @RSocPublishing:
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…

#HiveMind

SFI Postdoc @Ashley_Teufel studies #gene interaction:

The Many Nuanced Evolutionary Consequences of Duplicated #Genes
academic.oup.com/mbe/article/36…

Models for gene duplication when dosage
balance works as a transition state to...neo- or sub-functionalization
link.springer.com/article/10.118…

SFI Postdoc @VickyCYang's recent work includes modeling #PoliticalPolarization and the origin of #UrbanScaling:

Why are U.S. Parties So Polarized?
A “#Satisficing” Dynamical Model
arxiv.org/pdf/2008.05661…

Modeling the origin of urban output #ScalingLaws
arxiv.org/pdf/1712.00476