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Hand off of the goods in a drug deal

Peer-Brokered Sales Central to Illegal Drug Trade

Mathematician and assistant professor of biology Nicholas Landry, an expert in the study of contagion, is exploring how the structure of human-interaction networks affect the spread of both illness and information. Photo credit: Shari Landry, Illustration by Avery Wagner

The Contagion of Ideas

“Ambiguity in All Directions,” acrylic on canvas, 2018, by Jan Gerrit

How a city is organized can create less-biased citizens

network links illustration

Social networks structure to blame for massive spread of fake news

Rhesus macaques on Cayo Santiago

Female monkeys ‘actively reduce’ social network as they age

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