Kate Eddens

Our final presentation, @zpneal making a powerful point about the limitations of bipartite networks and presents his backbone network alternative as an important methodological fix #WTGBrokers2019 (and you can use install.packages("backbone") to get it on R now!

And bridging the gap between policy and health, Rosalyn Negron from @UMassBoston is now taking us into communities to understand diversity and inequality - and taking us deep into the impact of culture as complex systems #WTGBrokers2019

As we delve deeper into health contexts @kayladelahaye is sharing her work on health eating habits and the impact of your network #wtgbrokers2019 using ecological models of eating & network methodology

Adding that @Ognyanova has an amazing website (kateto.net) where you can find tutorials and code to work through visualizing your data in R #WTGBrokers2019

We're still talking about education, but now we're pulling in learnings from Great Lakes water management: important insight about how knowledge brokers balance external and internal relationships @kenfrank20 #WTGBrokers2019 great to see the common ties!

Continuing our discussion of education networks, @CappellaElise highlights work on mental health education and advocacy in schools; key individuals (brokers) impact advice giving - descriptive work important to add context #WTGBrokers2019

Kicking off #WTGBrokers2019 with remarks from ⁦Kim DuMont @wtgrantfdn⁩ and ⁦@ECohen_UMN⁩ looking forward to the next two days #networks #socialnetworkanakysis

And wrapping things up today, @keddens talking about iuni.iu.edu/projects/enso and highlighting how we can collect ego network data #WTGBrokers2019

@FarleyRipple getting our brains going after lunch and sharing impressive research in progress on individual capacity to access and obtain research as part of decision-making in school #WTGBrokers2019 - thanks for a candid & refreshing take on the challenges we face in this space

Focusing on the implementation of common core and analyzing state level efforts and resources, @theemilyhodge shows the diversity in states have implemented common core and the variety of resources used #WTGBrokers2019

One of the best unpackings of mixed-methods network research that I've seen; this is a fantastic example of using quantitative networks with interviews and observation to advance networks research #WTGBrokers2019

We've asked @michellebirkett and @keddens to give tool demonstrations this afternoon to bring network data collection to life. Michelle kicked things off with Network Canvas, and hey... @noshir made a cameo (and so did @blurky) via video! #WTGBrokers2019

Kicking off our Saturday morning at #WTGBrokers2019 Joe Fararre from @UWBothell talking about evidence used in policymaking at the state level and the balance between peer and non-peer reviewed research use (and the lack of use of peer reviewed research!)