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*New* Workshop Series by the Open Scholarship Commons

The eScience Institute is pleased to announce the Fellows selected for the inaugural Open Scholarship Commons Community Fellows Workshop Series, along with their workshops! The Open Scholarship Commons Community Fellows Workshop Series is a paid fellowship opportunity for  graduate students underrepresented in the field of open scholarship. The goal of this Fellowship is to lift up students as experts and create opportunities for peer to peer learning by offering student-led workshops. This Fellowship, funded by the UW Diversity Council, aims to support the expertise and leadership of underrepresented students in the field of open scholarship. See the full schedule of workshops here!

Vitaliano and Co-authors Study the Impact of Informal Caregiving on Depressive Symptoms of Men

CSDE Affiliate Peter P. Vitaliano (Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences) published an article with co-authors in the Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health, entitled “Impact of informal caregiving on depressive symptoms among a national cohort of men“. There is evidence that unpaid caregiving can have negative effects on the mental health of female caregivers; however, evidence of impacts on male caregivers is limited. This study addressed this gap by using a prospective population study to examine associations between becoming a caregiver and depressive symptoms in 12,000 Australian men.

*New* Participate in UW’s Resilience Hackathon (4/26/24)

UW’s Department of Urban Design & Planning invites you to participate in the Resilience Hackathon on April 26th from 9:00am to 5:00pm. The hackathon focuses on designing adaptable cities capable of responding flexibly to a range of disruptions – from pandemics to earthquakes to heat waves – affecting our natural and urban environments, mobility and accessibility, infrastructure, technology, and public health. Register here!

Join us as we bring together stakeholders from the City of Seattle, the University of Washington, and community partners, each contributing their unique expertise to developing new and groundbreaking approaches to pressing urban problems. Together, we aim to strengthen the efficiency and resilience of our city to better prepare for future disruptions.

Swanson Provides a Geometric Expression of Taylor’s Law in New Research Brief

CSDE Affiliate David Swanson (Sociology, UC Riverside) published a brief research note in Communications in Applied Geometry, entitled “A Geometric Expression of Taylor’s Law“. In this brief research note, Swanson provides a geometric expression of Taylor’s Law, which is a widely observed empirical pattern that relates variance to the mean in sets of non-negative measurements via an approximate power function.