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Re: Intellectual lineages: the backbone of scientific social networks

maria — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 11:03:49 -0000

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.

Re: Intellectual lineages: the backbone of scientific social networks

Shiran Pasternak — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 13:52:12 -0000

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."

Re: Intellectual lineages: the backbone of scientific social networks

tharris — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 11:24:25 -0000

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?

Re: Intellectual lineages: the backbone of scientific social networks

Alethea — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 17:05:51 -0000

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.