Excited to be sharing emerging work on educators’ networks for accessing research based information at #WTGBrokers2019 meeting. Stay tuned for more on this!

Kicking off #WTGBrokers2019 with remarks from ⁦Kim DuMont WT Grant Foundation⁩ and ⁦Dr. Elisia Cohen⁩ looking forward to the next two days #networks #socialnetworkanakysis

All-star panel of current & former MSU researchers talking about networks & brokerage: Jim Dearing from MSU Department of Communication, @jennawneal@🐘.social from MSU Psychology, and Doug Luke from CPHSS. #WTGBrokers2019

Dr. Farley-Ripple 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

Continuing our discussion of education networks, Elise Cappella highlights work on mental health education and advocacy in schools; key individuals (brokers) impact advice giving - descriptive work important to add context #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'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 kenneth Frank #WTGBrokers2019 great to see the common ties!

Grateful to attend the Hubbard SJMC #WTGBrokers2019 workshop this morning hosted by Matthew Weber Dr. Elisia Cohen & WT Grant Foundation. Groundbreaking research being done by scholars to answer important ?’s about #knowledgebrokers, policy entrepreneurs, nodes & edges! @sarahkwiley #sna

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

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

And bridging the gap between policy and health, Rosalyn Negron from UMass Boston 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 Kayla de la Haye is sharing her work on health eating habits and the impact of your network #wtgbrokers2019 using ecological models of eating & network methodology

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

Our final presentation, Zachary Neal 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!

Love this! Such a fabulous group to work with and learn from the past two days. #wtgbrokers2019