I invited Jonathan Pruitt to SFI to give a Colloquium talk. This is SFI’s premier talk series, and Jonathan wowed and amazed us with his recent work on social spiders. While at SFI, he also led a Research Jam, an unstructured brainstorming session for early-stage ideas, that has since become a big collaborative review paper involving several SFI researchers.… [Read full details]
Clay-eating parrots, Altmetrics
I was really excited to get news from the Ibis journal that my paper with Don Brightsmith and Gustavo Martinez was the journal’s top-scoring paper in 2017, according to the Almetric score.
A lot of the credit for getting the news out about this paper goes to Jenna Marshall and Katie Mast of the Santa Fe Institute’s Communications department.… [Read full details]