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Alethea · 1 year 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.

tharris · 1 year 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?

Shiran Pasternak · 1 year 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."

maria · 1 year 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.