Going Viral, Getting Passionate

Getting the audience ’ s attention by going viral

Career Progression: Getting-On, Getting-By and Going Nowhere

This research examines factors that help or hinder the ‘career progress’ of individuals in NCDS through the labour market. We employ different measures of an individual’s status based on earnings. To a large extent this paper is an empirical implementation of the Sicherman and Galor model of Career Mobility (Journal of Political Economy 1990) in that this paper attempts to chart exactly how peo...

Invited: "Going viral" with biological sequence analysis

Viruses have been implicated as the causative agents for a variety of cancers as well as diseases of the major physiological systems (e.g., nervous, respiratory, immune, reproductive, etc.), and viral infections have consistently ranked among the leading causes of death worldwide. Although viruses exhibit extreme biological diversity, plainly evidenced by the Baltimore classification of their g...

Going Viral ? Comparing Parties on Social Media

While research has provided useful insights into political party use of Twitter, comparably few efforts have focused on the arguably more popular Facebook service. This paper takes both platforms into account, detailing similar functionalities and providing analyses of the social media activities undertaken by Swedish political parties during the 2014 elections. Moreover, the types of feedback ...

Going Retro: Ancient Viral Origins of Cognition

In this issue of Neuron, Zhang et al. (2015) provide the first crystal structure of a domain Arc. These results confirm prior computational approaches that suggested Arc, a master regulator of vertebrate synaptic plasticity, was "domesticated" from Ty3/Gypsy retrotransposons.