From The Washington Post to Channels TV in Nigeria, people were eager to talk about how the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and schools like Indiana University will assess the impact of technology on democracy and improve media literacy. The news of the Knight Foundation’s $50 million total commitment to IU and other… Read more »
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Filipi Silva Q&A: research scientist brings network visualization expertise to IUNI
Filipi N. Silva is the latest addition to the IUNI team, joining us last month as an assistant research scientist. Silva first came to Indiana University Bloomington back in 2017, when he visited IU as a visiting scholar for a week. At the time, Silva was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of São Paulo,… Read more »
IUNI continues OSoMe collaboration with new research center
It has been a long and lively ride with the Observatory on Social Media (OSoMe). That’s why IUNI is so excited to remain a crucial collaborator in OSoMe’s expansion into a research center at Indiana University Bloomington. OSoMe was awarded $6 million to create the research center, which expands on the current project and will… Read more »
NSF supports new cycle of funding for IU’s role in Midwest Big Data Hub
BLOOMINGTON—The National Science Foundation (NSF) announced earlier this month it would award nearly $4 million of support for the Midwest Big Data Hub, one of four regional Big Data Hubs across the U.S. This is NSF’s second round of funding for The Midwest Big Data Hub (MBDH), a network of cross-sector partnerships working to manage… Read more »
IU faculty find Mexican immigrants rely on networks for oral health issues, win award
A study by Indiana University that shows Mexican-American immigrants’ dependence on networks in the face of oral health issues won the 2019 Giddon Award for Distinguished Research. The Giddon Award, presented by The International Association for Dental Research, recognizes a single research publication annually from the social and behavioral sciences that contributes to the field… Read more »
IUNI Fellow Posting with IU Center for Neuroimaging and the Indiana Alzheimer Disease Center
Post-doctoral Research Fellow in Brain Imaging Genomics of Alzheimer’s Disease IU Center for Neuroimaging and the Indiana Alzheimer Disease Center Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN USA The Brain Imaging Genomics Laboratory of the Indiana University School of Medicine Center for Neuroimaging (CfN) and the Neuroimaging Core of the NIH-designated Indiana Alzheimer Disease Center… Read more »
Four new networks post-doctoral opportunities at IU: social network analysis, computational social science, and sociology
Update : all of these positions have been filled. Four postdoctoral fellowship positions are available at Indiana University, Bloomington in social network analysis, computational social science, and sociology. Candidates may apply for multiple positions. See postings below or here: https://indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/7162 https://indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/7158 https://indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/6810 1. POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIPS IN COMPUTATIONAL SOCIAL SCIENCE, INDIANA UNIVERSITY The Department of… Read more »
New and Enhanced Social Media Analytics Resources at IU
SAVE THE DATE! Please join us at the Social Science Research Commons (SSRC), Woodburn Hall 200, on Wednesday, January 17, 2018 at 4:00 p.m. for an information session of this new resource at our upcoming Open Science Meeting. Research scientist Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia will give a brief demonstration of how to use the tool, and… Read more »
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This is the site of the new Indiana University Network Science Institute (IUNI) blog, Connecting the Dots. This is a group blog authored by IUNI-affiliated faculty and staff about networks research. IUNI, a cross-campus institute at IU, aims to improve the theories, methods, analytic tools, and practice of network science, and to foster collaborative, interdisciplinary network science approaches to understanding… Read more »