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Intellectual lineages: the backbone of scientific social networks

Started by tharris · 9 months ago

There’s been a lot of talk recently about social networks geared for life scientists. This includes the rise of sites like Epernicus, a blog post on network portability on Nascent, and discussion of topics like shared author IDs in the Science Apps room on FriendFeed.
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  • Alethea

    10 months ago

    We see the exact same thing with the "French school of embryology" whose lineage begins perhaps with Etienne Wolff and continues through the brilliant Nicole Le Douarin and then branches suddenly out into generations of highly successful experimental embryologists around the world. Cf. http://www.ijdb.ehu.es/web/contents.php?vol=49&...
    - and of course there are myriad other examples. You are quite right that in real life, this works as a social network - both for finding postdocs and recommendations, and for reagents, and for collaborations.
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  • tharris

    10 months ago

    Alethea -

    Thanks for the link! Great stuff, such a rich intellectual tradition in embryology. The question is, how can we couple these detailed lineages with modern networking tools to best effect?
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  • Shiran Pasternak

    10 months ago

    In the sentence:
    I have no idea if there is supposed to be a space between those words, ala the logo for AmericanAirlines


    there should be a space between a and la, a la "a la."
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  • maria

    10 months ago

    there is also the Mathematics Genealogy Project, with Personalized genealogy posters to display your academic heritage. They are not as colourful as the one you show, but go back in time for centuries.
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