Professor Adam G. Dunn

Professor of Biomedical Informatics
The University of Sydney

Spreading, Influencing and Cascading

The NetSci2011 satellite workshop on spreading, influencing and cascading in social and information networks.

Here is Brian Uzzi, whose discussion of the adoption of scientific ideas provided some good laughs, and set some brains ticking over how they might improve the likelihood of increased citation rates for themselves. If only it were as simple as citing the right papers and collaborating across wide distances.

  • On the value of deplatforming, and seeing online misinformation as an opportunity to counter misinformed beliefs in front of a key audience
  • Do Twitter bots spread vaccine misinformation?
  • trial2rev: seeing the forest for the trees in the systematic review ecosystem
  • How articles from financially conflicted authors are amplified, why it matters, and how to fix it.
  • Thinking outside the cylinder: on the use of clinical trial registries in evidence synthesis communities
  • Differences in exposure to negative news media are associated with lower levels of HPV vaccine coverage