Another 'This is a marathon!' papers - happy to see this out! 🤗💥🎺With brilliant co-authors @kieranmepham.bsky.social & @cstadtfeld.bsky.social, we propose a set of measures to quantify polarization in society and study how our entrenched beliefs may lead to entrenched social networks and vice versa.

Was great to get a chance to talk about our recent paper on social networks and malaria prevention: this is the extended podcast with @Elisabel76 and I discussing the background of the study.

The paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

(Have you seen the 42-page stats appendix?😊)

Teacher collaboration to elevate student achievement? Previous research on the relationship between teacher collaboration and student achievement yielded ambiguous results. From a theoretical perspective,…

Our new paper shows the effects of teacher collaboration networks on math achievement in Swiss schools. Collaboration ties help improve teaching quality and thus boost achievement. Another reason for facilitating quality collaborations in teaching teams!

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For those in a rush: a 1:24-second summary of our paper about social networks and malaria prevention behaviours on the Johns Hopkins Malaria Podcast! 🙂🥳 Thankful for the space. Hope the paper leads to more exciting research in the area!

The paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A multilevel social network approach to studying multiple disease-prevention behaviors - Scientific Reports Scientific Reports - A multilevel social network approach to studying multiple disease-prevention behaviors

Excited that our paper on social networks and multiple disease prevention behaviours appeared in Scientific Reports! Studying malaria in Northeast India, we find that social ties explain prevention behaviours more than individual factors and health experts do. To be considered in interventions?