Want to know where Richard Dawkins, Stephen Hawking, Paul Krugman, Noam Chomsky and Steven Pinker are hanging out these days? Virtually, that is.
Richard Price who recently finished his Ph.D at Oxford on the philosophy of perception teamed with partners from Stanford and Cambridge to launch Academia.edu which is a “virtual genealogy tree” listing of the world’s academics along with their departmental and institutional affiliation and recent research and presentations.
Academia.edu is set up to list the world’s academic community—Faculty members, Post-Doctoral and Graduate students and Independent Researchers. All are invited to add their institutional affiliation to the tree by clicking on the boxes or adding a box. The tree is filling up rapidly with more than 25,000 academics added in the last three months. See some of the world’s greatest minds listed:
- Richard Dawkins – http://oxford.academia.edu/RichardDawkins
- Stephen Hawking – http://cambridge.academia.edu/StephenHawking
- Paul Krugman – http://princeton.academia.edu/PaulKrugman
- Noam Chomsky – http://mit.academia.edu/NoamChomsky
- Steven Pinker – http://harvard.academia.edu/StevenPinker
So what are you waiting for?! Sign on today at at http://www.academia.edu/signup?H-SOYUZ.
If you don’t see your university there, you can add it. If you are an Independent researchers Sign on to “Independent Researchers” portion of the tree at
http://independent.academia.edu/signup?H-SOYUZ.
Spread the word!
Founder: Dr. Richard Price, http://oxford.academia.edu/RichardPrice
