Recent and Selected Press:
The findings of various research endeavours I have been involved in have received world-wide media coverage, appearing in (or on as the case may be) the New York Times, Reuters, Associated Press, the BBC, CNN, the London Times, etc. The coverage comprises four distinct truly global reporting events: Happiness (2009), Musiclab (2006), and Small Worlds (2003 and 2001). Other areas which have received international attention include Influence, River Networks, and Energy Metabolism. Please see my C.V. for a full list.- Nature News (April 26, 2013): Crowdsourcing in manhunts can work: Despite mistakes over the Boston bombers, social media can help to find people quickly by Philip Ball.
- Bloomberg News (September 25, 2012): How Social Dynamics Made You Successful by Cass R. Sunstein.
- New York Times (August 4, 2012): Luck vs. Skill: Seeking the Secret of Your Success by Robert H. Frank.
- The Atlantic (January, 2012): Study of the Day: English Is an Overwhelmingly Positive Language.
- Le Monde (January, 2012): 'anglais, une langue optimiste?
- National Geographic (December 2011): Measuring Happiness Tweet by Tweet.
- U.S. News and World Report (December 20, 2011): Twitter: World Is Getting More Miserable by Meg Handley.
- wired.com (December 13, 2011): The Design of Science: 10 Great Research Graphics by Brandon Keim.
- Science Magazine (September, 2011): Social Scientists Wade Into the Tweet Stream by Greg Miller.
- New York Times (September 29): Twitter Study Tracks When We Are :) by Benedict Carey.
- wired.com (August 31, 2011): Happy Words Trump Negativity in the English Language. by Brandon Keim.
- The Economist (February 11, 2010): Tree and Leaf.
- Scientific Blogging (February 9, 2010): Peter Sheridan Dodds, Theoretical Biology's Buzzkill by Mark Changizi.
- Physical Review Focus (February 4, 2010): Why leaves aren't trees by Don Monroe.
- University of Vermont Press Release (February 2, 2010): Spherical cows help to dump metabolism law by Joshua Brown.
- Science News (January 16, 2010): Stuides of human social networks go high-tech by Lisa Grossman.
- CNN Health (August 24, 2009): How do we find life’s benchmark? by Akash Goel.
- San Francisco Chronicle (August 17, 2009): Web offering more gauges about happiness by Alejandro Martínez-Cabrera.
- New York Times (August 12, 2009): Schott's Vocab: Hedonometer by Ben Schott. (Some enjoyable comments.)
- New York Times (August 11, 2009): Using Twitter as a Collective Mood Ring by Jenna Wortham.
- Science Magazine (Vol. 325, p. 659), Random Samples (August 7, 2009): Blogs: Happiness Barometers? interview by Michael Torrice, edited by Robert Coontz (subscription required).
- New York Times (August 3, 2009): Does a Nation’s Mood Lurk in Its Songs and Blogs? by Ben Carey.
- ScienceNOW Daily News (August 3, 2009): How Happy is the Internet? by Michael Torrice.
- London Times Online (August 3, 2009): Twittering your way to happiness by Anjana Ahuja.
- The Week (August 21, 2009): Measuring a nation's mood (requires subscription).
- Discovery News (July 31, 2009): 'Happiness Meter' Analyzes Blogs, Tweets by Eric Bland.
- Vermont Public Radio News (July 31, 2009): UVM professors measure happiness by Ross Sneyd.
- Reuters (July 29, 2009): Jackson's death was blogosphere's saddest day: study by Belinda Goldsmith.
- Chronicle of Higher Education (July 29, 2009): Think You're Happy? Song Lyrics May Have the Answer by Marc Beja.
- Scientific American: 60 Second Science (July 28, 2009): Measuring emotion in cyberspace: Jackson's death a sad day; Obama's election a very happy one : ) by Lynne Peeples.
- UVM Today (July 23, 2009): If You're Happy, Then We Know It: New Research Measures Mood by Joshua Brown.
- New Yorker (August 3, 2009) A New Page: Can the Kindle really improve on the book? by Nicholson Baker. This is a very gentle but amusing connection. I contributed to the edited volume "The Algorithmic Beauty of Seaweeds, Sponges and Corals", which here is a (mostly) random book chosen by Baker to demonstrate problems with current technology (and pricing) of the Kindle. Andrew Sullivan pointed straight to the relevant section here.
- Slashdot (December 1, 2008): Censorship by Glut by Bennett Haselton.
- The View (November 12, 2008): It's Complex by Joshua Brown.
- Russian Smart Money (February 11, 2008): Они не цепляют: В партизанском маркетинге от звезд никакого толку by Michael Popov.
- Science News (January 5, 2008): The Power of Being Influenced: Network theory reveals the best way to spread ideas by Julie J. Rehmeyer.
- Washington Post (December 31, 2007): "Vote Your Conscience. If You Can." by Shankar Vedantam.
- In Power, Sex, Suicide: Mitochondria and the Meaning of Life (2005), Nick Lane nicely covers our 2001 work on energy metabolism for mammals and birds: "As so often happens in science, the apparently solid foundations of a field turned to rubble on closer inspection." The relevant excerpt is here.
- The main press pages for past online sociological experiments are here (Music Lab) and here (Small World Project).
- Technology Research News (May 29, 2002): Groups key to network structures.
- New York Times (December 20, 2001): Using E-Mail to Count Connections.
- Nature (September 28, 2001) All creatures great and small.
- New York Times (November 23, 1999) Physicists invading geologists' turf.
- Science (June 4, 1999) New clues to why size equals destiny.
- Geotimes (June, 1999): What tangled networks they weave.
- MIT News (March 23, 1999): MIT researcher seeks to unravel the physics of landscape erosion.