Social Networking fail

<Mailing list of 835 people, out of ~3000 in the collaboration>,

I'd like to add you to my professional network on LinkedIn.

- <Post-doc>



<Mailing list of 204 people, out of ~3000 in the collaboration>,

I'd like to add you to my professional network on LinkedIn.

- <Same Post-doc>

<Mailing list of 380 people, out of ~3000 in the collaboration>,

I'd like to add you to my professional network on LinkedIn.

- <Still the Same Post-doc>

<Mailing list of 72 people, out of ~3000 in the collaboration>,

I'd like to add you to my professional network on LinkedIn.

- <Guess who?>


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Later, on Facebook:

<Mailing list of 835 people, out of ~3000 in the collaboration>,

I'd like to add you to my professional network on LinkedIn.

P.S. sorry, but this wasn't my idea : clearly the privacy setting in
linkedin is screwed up; my apologies anyway!

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And later still, someone sets up an easypoll:


How many linkedin invitations did you get from <Post-doc>?

0 3%

1-5 26%

6-10 30%

11-15 15%

16-20 12%

21-25 4%

more than 25 11%

Total votes: 74

You mean this mailing list has 3000 people on it? My bad.

"Sorry, I should really stop spamming the collaboration while listening to the <redacted> workshop. I am REALLY sorry."

Blog objective

I am a member of one of the largest scientific collaborations in history.  Within this collaboration, we communicate primarily via mass email and scheduled meetings or workshops.  Sometimes hilarity ensues, which I document here.  Any names are redacted, quotes may be slightly altered to preserve anonymity, and no sensitive information will be leaked.  Also, I will not quote from: private emails, private conversations/meetings.  The idea is to capture the humor behind scientific collaboration/communication on a large scale, not to embarrass anyone!