tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1792896637814721350.post8094518161781380563..comments2024-03-20T05:02:37.916-05:00Comments on Synthetic Daisies: Loose Ends Tied, Interdisciplinarity, and ConsilienceBradly Aliceahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06482487682656113637noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1792896637814721350.post-89825771992770948362021-11-21T09:33:40.597-06:002021-11-21T09:33:40.597-06:00Ive always been interested in interdisciplinary re...Ive always been interested in interdisciplinary research. I believe we need more of it!MTFhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06829127771714997471noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1792896637814721350.post-24397782476257435992017-06-19T07:15:17.374-05:002017-06-19T07:15:17.374-05:00Interdisciplinarians
Dear Bradly,
As I've note...Interdisciplinarians<br />Dear Bradly,<br />As I've noted before, those of us who practice interdisciplinary research tend to be marginalized:<br /> http://syntheticdaisies.blogspot.com/2017/02/a-peripheral-darwin-day-post-but.html<br />A local attempt to organize us was made a few years ago, and might be worth following up:<br /> http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/lec/news-and-events/news/2013/lancasters-incredible-interdisciplinarians/<br />Your graphs suggest a curious way of pulling together interdisciplinarians: take one of these networks, and color the nodes representing disciplines for a given individual. That individual could then be ranked by various measures: number of disciplines, scatter over the network, creation of new links or enhancement of weak links between disciplines, etc. The ranks could be used to try to form a Society of Interdisciplinarians. Of course, such an effort might prove as fruitful as attempts to herd cats. But perhaps metagraphs, linking interdisciplinarians together by degree of overlap of their discipline sets, could identify those who might want to talk to each other.<br />Yours, -Dick Gordon Dick Gordonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15928227698528256439noreply@blogger.com