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Associate Professor at Kellogg, Northwestern University
Apr 25 16 tweets 5 min read
🚨 Our latest paper is out today in Science!

We uncover stark and systematic partisan differences in the amount, content, and character of science used in policy, which mirror differences in political elites’ trust in science.

Four years in the making. Led by @zfurnas

1/nImage Science has long been regarded as essential to policymaking. Its role has become especially vital, as many pressing societal challenges today--from climate change to technological advancement--are intimately linked with the latest scientific progress. 2/
Jul 18, 2019 9 tweets 4 min read
special delivery for #IC2S2 - our latest in Nature Human Behavior: nature.com/articles/s4156…

Five years in the making. Accompanied by my essay in @HarvardBiz: hbr.org/2019/07/how-ne…

Findings may be relevant to a range of scholars, CSS, diffusion, #ScienceOfScience thread [1/n] Diffusion processes impact broad aspects of human society. our knowledge is mainly limited to spreading in non-substitutive systems. Yet, many ideas, products and behaviors spread by substitution-to adopt a new one, agents often need to give up an existing one 2/