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Dashun Wang
@dashunwang
Kellogg Chair of Technology at Kellogg, Founding director, Center for Science of Science and Innovation, Northwestern University
Evanston, IL
Joined September 2008
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    🔥Download the Science of Science book for FREE🔥 We're VERY excited to make the whole book freely available: dashunwang.com/book/the-scien… Please help us RT & let everyone know of this resource! #ScienceOfScience
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    Steven Weinberg, one of the most preeminent physicists in history, passed away. Here's his four lessons, published in Nature back to 2003: ☑️ No one knows everything, and you don't have to ☑️ Aim for rough water ☑️ Forgive yourself for wasting time ☑️ learn history of science
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    What happens before and after tenure? Check out our latest paper in PNAS @PNASNews: Tenure and Research Trajectories Led by Giorgio Tripodi, postdoc in my lab. Fun collaboration with Xiangzheng, @qian_yifan, Dakota Murray, @bfjo & @ChaoqunNi 1/n
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    🔥 New Book - The Science of Science 🔥 Forthcoming mid-Nov. Five years in the making. Very grateful for the very generous endorsements by those whose work I truly admire. I can't tell you how excited I am to finally be able to share this work with you all!!
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    Great news to start the decade-- I'm thrilled to announce that I've been granted tenure at @KelloggSchool. Years of hard work by all my students, collaborators, mentors, friends, and most importantly, my family. I’m so grateful, humbled, and honored!!
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    🚨 Our latest paper is out today in Science! We uncover stark and systematic partisan differences in the amount, content, and character of science used in policy, which mirror differences in political elites’ trust in science. Four years in the making. Led by @zfurnas 1/n
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    Excited to share the simultaneous release of two papers within the Nature family journals: 1/ Review paper on the #ScienceOfScience rdcu.be/ddxxb 2/ Data paper, introducing SciSciNet, an open data lake for researchers in the field: rdcu.be/ddxwo 🧵1/n
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    Our latest on the cover of Nature- Large teams develop science and technology; small teams disrupt it. This means, with large-team science on the rise, both small and large teams are essential for a flourishing ecology of S&T. #scienceofscience nature.com/articles/s4158…
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    Winning Streaks Can Happen Across Creative Careers - Check out our latest paper in Nature. Hot streaks may emerge randomly in a career, is temporally localized and not associated with productivity change. May the hot streak be with you #scienceofscience nature.com/articles/s4158…
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    Today is the day!! Kellogg launches its first research institute, Ryan Institute on Complexity, thanks to a transformative $25M gift! I am deeply honored & humbled to have the opportunity to help found and direct this new institute! kellogg.northwestern.edu/news/blog/2023… 🚀🚀🚀
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    Does an early-career setback augment or hamper an individual’s future career success? Check out our latest in @NatureComms offering empirical evidence consistent w “what doesn’t kill me makes me stronger” nature.com/articles/s4146… #ScienceOfScience #CCS2019 #NatureOfFailure
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    An absolutely must-read paper just published in @ScienceMagazine by @k__rajkumar, @gsaintja, @IavorBojinov, @erikbryn, & @sinanaral provides the first causal test for the strength of weak ties. It confirms Granovetter's thesis but adds further nuances: science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… 1/
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    The highly-anticipated "LinkedIn" paper led by @yy is finally out nature.com/articles/s4146… - Results are as beautiful as the figures - thank you for setting the bar so high, my friend! Congrats!!
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    🚨Thrilled to announce🚨: The inaugural International Conference on Science of Science and Innovation (@ICSSI2022), to be held in the National Academy of Sciences IN PERSON in DC, June 7-9 2022: icssi.org Pls RT!! Join us!! w. @profjamesevans Heidi Williams NAS
    ICSSI 2022: PC Co-chairs: Dan Larremore, Danielle Li, Cassidy Sugimoto, Jevin West. Publicity Chair: YY Ahn. Admin Chair: Krisztina Eleki. Partnership between Kellogg CSSI and NAS.