FYI: 'Tree' of Academics Launches: Academia.edu

Author:	Richard Price
Linguistic Field(s):	Not Applicable
FYI Body:	Hi all, I'm a Fellow at All Souls College Oxford, where I recently finished my PhD on the philosophy of perception. I've just launched a website, www.academia.edu, which does two things: - It displays academics around the world in a 'tree' format, according to what university/department they are affiliated with. - It enables researchers to keep track of the latest developments in their field, people and papers. My hope for the site is that it will list every academic - Faculty members, Post-Docs, and Graduate Students - in the world. It's gaining some traction - Noam Chomsky is on there (http://mit.academia.edu/NoamChomsky) and also some other professors are such as Richard Dawkins (http://oxford.academia.edu/RichardDawkins) and Stephen Hawking (http://cambridge.academia.edu/StephenHawking). I'm trying to spread the word about www.academia.edu, so, if you have a minute, please visit the site, and add yourself to your department on the tree. If your department/university is not there, you can add it/them by clicking on the arrows coming out of the department/university boxes. And do spread the word to your friends and colleagues if you can. Many thanks, Richard Dr. Richard Price, Prize Fellow, All Souls College, Oxford, OX1 4AL richard.price@all-souls.ox.ac.uk http://oxford.academia.edu/RichardPrice