Dear all,

I recently fin­ished my Ph.D on the phi­los­o­phy of per­cep­tion from Oxford. With a team of peo­ple from Stan­ford and Cam­bridge, I’ve just launched a website,

 www.academia.edu, which does two things:

- It shows aca­d­e­mics around the world struc­tured in a ‘tree’ for­mat, dis­played accord­ing to their depart­men­tal and insti­tu­tional affiliations.

- It enables aca­d­e­mics to see news on the lat­est research in their area — the lat­est peo­ple, papers and talks.

We are hop­ing that Academia.edu will even­tu­ally list every aca­d­e­mic in the world — Fac­ulty Mem­bers, Post-Docs, Grad­u­ate Stu­dents, and Inde­pen­dent Researchers. Aca­d­e­mics can add their depart­ments, and them­selves, to the tree by click­ing on the boxes.

Aca­d­e­mics are join­ing the tree rapidly. More than 15,000 aca­d­e­mics have added them­selves in the last two months. Some pro­fes­sors on the site include:

 - 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

 We’re try­ing to spread the word about Academia.edu as much as pos­si­ble. It would be ter­rific if you could visit the site, and add your­self to your depart­ment on the tree. If your uni­ver­sity is not there, you can add it by click­ing on the arrows com­ing out of the uni­ver­sity boxes.

Inde­pen­dent researchers — if you are a researcher that is not asso­ci­ated with a uni­ver­sity, I encour­age you to add your­self to the “Inde­pen­dent Researchers”

por­tion of the tree at  http://independent.academia.edu

And do spread the word to your friends and col­leagues if you can.

Many thanks,

Richard  http://oxford.academia.edu/RichardPrice

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