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Next meeting: Tuesday 2019-12-10 10:00am PST / 12:00pm CST

Reading for 2020-02-07[edit]

 Monge, Peter, and Marshall Scott Poole. “The Evolution of Organizational Communication.” Journal of Communication 58, no. 4 (December 1, 2008): 679–92. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1460-2466.2008.00408.x.

Reading for 2020-01-31[edit]

Margolin, D. B., Shen, C., Lee, S., Weber, M. S., Fulk, J., &

                    Monge, P. (2015). Normative Influences on Network Structure in the
                    Evolution of the Children’s Rights NGO Network, 1977-2004. Communication
                    Research, 42(1), 30–59. https://doi.org/10.1177/0093650212463731

Readings for 2019-12-10[edit]

Carroll, G. R., & Swaminathan, A. (2000). Why the microbrewery movement? Organizational dynamics of resource partitioning in the U.S. brewing industry. American Journal of Sociology, 106(3), 715–762. [1]

Also at [2]


Odling-Smee, F. J., Erwin, D. H., Palkovacs, E. P., Feldman, M. W., & Laland, K. N. (2013). Niche construction theory: A practical guide for ecologists. The Quarterly Review of Biology,88(1), 3–28. [3]

Also at [4]


Ecology grant meeting: 2019-11-18[edit]

Attendees: Regina, Nate, Jeremy, Jim, Charlie, Mako, Aaron

Meeting agenda/items[edit]

  • Jmads (Zooniverse Update)
    • Jim will take a few weeks to try to wrap up this project
    • Next step is creating revised analysis w expanded data. Jmads aims to do this in the coming week.
    • With revised analysis, goal will be to set a timeline/agenda for revision/submission.
  • Jeremy (ABM)
    • See: https://wiki.communitydata.science/CommunityData:Exposure_and_Participation_Processes
      • Some discussion posted to the talk page...
    • How to resolve questions posed on that page as we prepare this for submission?
    • How to deal with the free parameters fitting elephant critique?
    • Comments
      • Moving toward something like gini coefficient (or a parametric model)?
      • It may be better to look at just one level (community size distribution)
  • Blogpost draft (everyone make a pass by Wednesday mid-day)

Setting an agenda for next time[edit]

Next meeting is the Tuesday the 26th

  • Let's read Hannan and Freeman '77. Make sure it's in zotero.
  • Create a new collection for ecology stuff (Nate).
    • See Zotero.
  • Email the notes to everyone (Aaron).


Next steps for the grant as a whole:[edit]

  1. Collect/share/check-in on in-progress work related to this grant
  2. Collect projects or project ideas that are good and that fall in here.
  • E.g. Production functions
  • Other projects in Nate's diss proposal that aren't in the grant.
  1. Brainstorm, discuss project ideas that aren't in the grant (esp folks not involved in writing the proposal)
  2. Identify next projects to pursue, assign/volunteer responsibilities

TODO list[edit]

[X] Share the grant proposal with everyone (Mako): mako.cc/academic [grants section]

[X] Read the grant proposal and prepare to discuss (everyone)

[X] Create a wiki page w link to git, grant proposal, brief description, etc.(Nate)

[ ] Put all the dates on the calendar (Nate)

[X] Draft a blogpost about the grant (Nate and Mako and Aaron and Jeremy)

[ ] Discuss project plans, opportunities for collaboration w adjacent folks (Mako and Aaron)

[X] Circulate notes and plan for next meeting (Aaron and Nate)

[ ] Add personnel and project descriptions to the wiki pages.

[ ] Circulate Change.org draft (Nate)

[ ] Create cdsc-ecology mailing list (Mako)

Agenda for next meeting[edit]

  • Discuss Hannan and Freeman, 1977 (see Zotero for link)