Chamil Rathnayake

Vice Chancellors taking home millions while staff are offered just 1.4%. The hypocrisy at the top of higher education has never been clearer. Join us live as we expose it and talk about what comes next. Thursday. 7 PM. youtube.com/live/rZRbCP0YJ… #WeAreTheUniversity

Lifestyle is a stronger predictor of aging and mortality than genetics. A new Nature study of ~500,000 people found: 🎯 17% of mortality variation was linked to lifestyle (exposome). 🧬 <2% of was explained by genetics. Here’s what you need to know 👇🧵 1/10

Nat. Hum. Behav.: Using human mobility data to quantify experienced urban inequalities nature.com/articles/s4156…

Handbook of Culture and Social Networks e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/handb…

PLOS ONE: Detectability constraints on meso-scale structure in complex networks journals.plos.org/plosone/articl…

Appl. Netw. Sci.: Detection of dynamic communities in temporal networks with sparse data appliednetsci.springeropen.com/articles/10.10…

Nat. Hum. Behav.: Behaviour-based dependency networks between places shape urban economic resilience nature.com/articles/s4156…

No kidding! journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

Super interesting work! nature.com/articles/s4146…

Very nice to see my research featured in today's @ScotNational, with a discussion of my recently published chapter "The missing voices of #indyref' 😊🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Give it a read, if you want to know more..

Periodic reminder that finding communities in networks using modularity maximization is not a serious methodology. skewed.de/lab/posts/modu…

Now that @NobelPrize has awarded two of the fathers of neural networks, it is a perfect time to remember the original work that started everything. This was done in 1943 by neurophysiologist Warren McCulloch and Walter Pitts, a homeless child prodigy informatics.indiana.edu/jbollen/I501F1…

PLOS ONE: How strong is strong? The challenge of interpreting network edge weights journals.plos.org/plosone/articl…

🚨Out in Nature!🚨 Many (eg Trump JimJordan @elonmusk) have accused social media of anti-conservative bias Is this accurate? We test empirically - and it's more complicated than you might think: conservatives ARE suspended more, but also share more misinfo nature.com/articles/s4158…

I do a bit of artwork on the side. Anyone willing to give me a commissioned project? ☺️

Please share, folks. One of the most detailed, raw, vulnerable interviews I've done. Thanks @GlasgowRevBooks & interviewer Lindsay Johnstone for a sensitive, supportive response to how my new @PressTaproot book Joshua in the Sky came to be. 🤍🌈🖤

Really interesting work on multiplez networks!

📢✨New paper > Quali-Quanti Visual Methods and Political Bots, co-authored with @thais_lobo @gtucci @eliasbitencourt @edekeulenaar @FranciscoKerche @jasontchao @marius_liedtke Mengying Li, Maria Luiza Paschoal & Ilya Lavrov jdsr.se/ojs/index.php/… #digitalmethods #botstudies

‼️JOB‼️ We're hiring a part-time teaching associate in journalism, media and comm on fixed-term contract. Specialisms in any area of media/comm welcome, but esp those who can teach on gender & media, plus core media & comm theories Deadline: 22/09 strathvacancies.engageats.co.uk/Vacancies/W/49…

Can tumours be described as complex ecological systems? What is the mathematical description of their dynamics and treatments? Check our @iScience_CP paper with @AguadeGuim and @ara_anderson in cell.com/iscience/fullt…