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<h1>TXproducts LinkedIn Follower Study</h1>
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<p class="sub">A full manual audit of all 150 Page followers — who they are, where they sit in the network, and what it says about who TXproducts content is actually reaching.</p>
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<p class="sub">A full manual audit of all 151 Page followers — who they are, where they sit in the network, and what it says about who TXproducts content is actually reaching.</p>
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<div class="meta">Source: manual_followers_list_2026-07-22.xlsx — 98 followers confirmed against growth_history.json as of the original 2026-07-22 snapshot (not a sample), plus 13 followers added manually since (Marc Thiry, Orkun Aydin, Rajkumar Rengaraj, Branislav Fabik, Muhammad Yousaf, Milena Petković, Paul Evans, Sabine E. Herlitschka, Simone Vadilonga, Hitesh Dudhagara, Alexander Rack, Tina Schmidt, Sinan Bubik), plus two rounds of profile re-screenshotting to close data gaps on existing followers · Compiled/updated 2026-08-03</div>
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<div class="stat-tile"><div class="val">150</div><div class="lbl">total followers audited</div></div>
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<div class="stat-tile"><div class="val">87%</div><div class="lbl">have a company listed (20 of 150 show no company)</div></div>
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<div class="stat-tile"><div class="val">5%<span class="info-tip" tabindex="0">?<span class="tip-bubble"><span class="tb-item"><strong>1</strong> = a direct, mutual LinkedIn connection with the Page admin.</span><span class="tb-item"><strong>2</strong> = connected to one of the admin's connections, but not directly to them.</span><span class="tb-item"><strong>3</strong> = one more step removed — connected to a 2nd-degree connection. Higher degree = more separation from TXproducts' direct network.</span></span></span></div><div class="lbl">are 1st-degree connections (8 of 150) — the rest are 2nd/3rd degree</div></div>
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<div class="stat-tile"><div class="val">151</div><div class="lbl">total followers audited</div></div>
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<div class="stat-tile"><div class="val">87%</div><div class="lbl">have a company listed (20 of 151 show no company)</div></div>
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<div class="stat-tile"><div class="val">5%<span class="info-tip" tabindex="0">?<span class="tip-bubble"><span class="tb-item"><strong>1</strong> = a direct, mutual LinkedIn connection with the Page admin.</span><span class="tb-item"><strong>2</strong> = connected to one of the admin's connections, but not directly to them.</span><span class="tb-item"><strong>3</strong> = one more step removed — connected to a 2nd-degree connection. Higher degree = more separation from TXproducts' direct network.</span></span></span></div><div class="lbl">are 1st-degree connections (8 of 151) — the rest are 2nd/3rd degree</div></div>
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<div class="stat-tile"><div class="val">26<span class="info-tip" tabindex="0">?<span class="tip-bubble"><span class="tb-item"><strong>H1</strong> = first half of the year, January–June.</span><span class="tb-item"><strong>H2</strong> = second half, July–December.</span><span class="tb-item">E.g. "2026 H2" means July–December 2026 (currently only the first few weeks in).</span></span></span></div><div class="lbl">new followers in the first weeks of H2 2026 alone — already ahead of all of H1</div></div>
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<li><strong>Growth has two distinct eras.</strong> 42 of 150 followers (28%) arrived in a single burst in H1 2023 — almost certainly the page's early launch/network-invite window. Growth then went nearly dormant for two years (H2 2023–H2 2024: 8 followers combined across 18 months) before reaccelerating sharply from H1 2025 onward (7 → 12 → 16 → 65-and-counting per half-year). The current growth phase is real and recent, not a continuation of the 2023 launch spike.</li>
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<li><strong>Growth has two distinct eras.</strong> 42 of 151 followers (28%) arrived in a single burst in H1 2023 — almost certainly the page's early launch/network-invite window. Growth then went nearly dormant for two years (H2 2023–H2 2024: 8 followers combined across 18 months) before reaccelerating sharply from H1 2025 onward (7 → 12 → 16 → 66-and-counting per half-year). The current growth phase is real and recent, not a continuation of the 2023 launch spike.</li>
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<li><strong>The audience is shallow-network, not core-network.</strong> Only 8 followers (5%) are 1st-degree connections. 95% are 2nd or 3rd degree — people who found the page through shares, group overlap, or algorithmic surfacing rather than a direct personal tie. This matters for messaging: most of the audience doesn't already know TXproducts and needs context, not insider shorthand.</li>
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<li><strong>Where a sector is identifiable, it clusters hard around synchrotron/photonics research.</strong> Of the 130 followers with an identifiable employer, 58 (45%) sit inside academic/national-research institutes (DESY-affiliated orgs, Leibniz-Institut für Kristallzüchtung, Max Planck Institute, Fraunhofer, Max Born Institute, several universities, a Harvard Business School MBA candidate, a Technical University of Chemnitz student, and now a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor, four Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin researchers (a postdoc, a doctoral researcher in advanced ceramics/2D materials, an experimental materials scientist, and a professor), an ESRF synchrotron scientist, a Synchrotron SOLEIL detector scientist, a Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf innovation manager, a DESY student research assistant, a DESY/University of Kiel Group Leader, a DESY dep. CTO, a DESY communications & marketing professional, a TUHH/DASHH Ph.D. candidate, a Hannover optical-technologies research assistant, an Inha University professor, a Università di Trento Ph.D. student, two University of Hamburg Master's students, another DESY research assistant, a DESY Projektträger science manager, a DESY physicist, and an Istanbul Technical University business development partner) and another 9 (7%) work at dedicated photonics/laser companies (Class 5 Photonics, Coherent, WiredSense, Living Optics, Lace Lithography, X-Spectrum, Cycle GmbH, LANO Photonics, and now a second X-Spectrum detector engineer), plus a new semiconductor-reliability startup founder (XDefine) and a Bharat Electronics Limited defense-electronics general manager. Together that's 52% of everyone with a known employer — the follower base looks like TXproducts' actual customer/partner ecosystem, not a generic marketing audience.</li>
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<li><strong>A visible Hamburg/DESY micro-cluster — spanning nine external institutions.</strong> Two rounds of profile enrichment nearly doubled this signal: DESY (any form) now has 14 linked entries, University of Hamburg 5, Leibniz-Institut für Kristallzüchtung 4, and five more institutions cross the 2-follower threshold — Class 5 Photonics (2), Impossible Founders (2), Start-Up Labs Hamburg (2), WAIV-FTIR (2), X-Spectrum GmbH (2, newly crossing the threshold), and Hamburg University of Technology/TUHH (3). <strong>35 distinct followers</strong> (27% of the 130 named-company followers) now trace to this local ecosystem, up from 12 before this round of detective work. Separately, a non-Hamburg research cluster is forming at Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (now 4 followers), tracked in the Notable Clusters exclusion note below since it's Berlin-based, not part of the Hamburg/DESY ecosystem. (TXproducts itself now has 5 followers — our own CEO, our Marketing & Sales Manager, and three internal team members (a Software Developer, a Data Governance Consultant, and a Product Engineer) — but that's an expected internal signal, not part of the external-ecosystem story, so it's tracked separately below.) This reads like real-world event/conference overlap, not organic reach.</li>
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<li><strong>Where a sector is identifiable, it clusters hard around synchrotron/photonics research.</strong> Of the 131 followers with an identifiable employer, 58 (44%) sit inside academic/national-research institutes (DESY-affiliated orgs, Leibniz-Institut für Kristallzüchtung, Max Planck Institute, Fraunhofer, Max Born Institute, several universities, a Harvard Business School MBA candidate, a Technical University of Chemnitz student, and now a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor, four Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin researchers (a postdoc, a doctoral researcher in advanced ceramics/2D materials, an experimental materials scientist, and a professor), an ESRF synchrotron scientist, a Synchrotron SOLEIL detector scientist, a Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf innovation manager, a DESY student research assistant, a DESY/University of Kiel Group Leader, a DESY dep. CTO, a DESY communications & marketing professional, a TUHH/DASHH Ph.D. candidate, a Hannover optical-technologies research assistant, an Inha University professor, a Università di Trento Ph.D. student, two University of Hamburg Master's students, another DESY research assistant, a DESY Projektträger science manager, a DESY physicist, and an Istanbul Technical University business development partner) and another 9 (7%) work at dedicated photonics/laser companies (Class 5 Photonics, Coherent, WiredSense, Living Optics, Lace Lithography, X-Spectrum, Cycle GmbH, LANO Photonics, and now a second X-Spectrum detector engineer), plus a new semiconductor-reliability startup founder (XDefine) and a Bharat Electronics Limited defense-electronics general manager. Together that's 51% of everyone with a known employer — the follower base looks like TXproducts' actual customer/partner ecosystem, not a generic marketing audience.</li>
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<li><strong>A visible Hamburg/DESY micro-cluster — spanning nine external institutions.</strong> Two rounds of profile enrichment nearly doubled this signal: DESY (any form) now has 14 linked entries, University of Hamburg 5, Leibniz-Institut für Kristallzüchtung 4, and five more institutions cross the 2-follower threshold — Class 5 Photonics (2), Impossible Founders (2), Start-Up Labs Hamburg (2), WAIV-FTIR (2), X-Spectrum GmbH (2, newly crossing the threshold), and Hamburg University of Technology/TUHH (3). <strong>35 distinct followers</strong> (27% of the 131 named-company followers) now trace to this local ecosystem, up from 12 before this round of detective work. Separately, a non-Hamburg research cluster is forming at Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (now 4 followers), tracked in the Notable Clusters exclusion note below since it's Berlin-based, not part of the Hamburg/DESY ecosystem. (TXproducts itself now has 5 followers — our own CEO, our Marketing & Sales Manager, and three internal team members (a Software Developer, a Data Governance Consultant, and a Product Engineer) — but that's an expected internal signal, not part of the external-ecosystem story, so it's tracked separately below.) This reads like real-world event/conference overlap, not organic reach.</li>
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<li><strong>Seniority is bimodal, not junior-heavy.</strong> 35 followers (23%) hold C-level/Founder, Director/Head/Principal, or Senior IC/Lead titles — a notably senior slice for an organic Page audience, including an Infineon Austria CEO, a US professor, a Turkey-based university Partner, a DESY/University of Kiel Group Leader, a DESY dep. CTO, an Inha University professor, a semiconductor-startup founder, a Bharat Electronics Limited general manager, and a Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin professor — while 22 (15%) are students/trainees or postdoc/PhD researchers. The middle (managers, individual-contributor engineers and researchers) makes up the bulk. Content aimed only at practitioners will miss around a quarter of the audience that's decision-making seniority.</li>
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<div class="limitation"><span class="tag">Limitation:</span> data completeness is the real limiting factor here. 20 of 150 followers (13%) list no company at all, and 20 (13%) have no usable title (tagline-only or blank LinkedIn profiles). Every breakdown in this report is a share <em>of what's knowable</em>, not of all 150 — treat every percentage as directional, not exhaustive.</div>
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<div class="limitation"><span class="tag">Limitation:</span> data completeness is the real limiting factor here. 20 of 151 followers (13%) list no company at all, and 20 (13%) have no usable title (tagline-only or blank LinkedIn profiles). Every breakdown in this report is a share <em>of what's knowable</em>, not of all 151 — treat every percentage as directional, not exhaustive.</div>
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<h3>This is a Hamburg audience, not a global one.</h3>
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<p>Location detective work on all 130 named companies confirms it: <strong>65% are based in Germany, and 36% are specifically Hamburg-based</strong> (DESY in its various forms, Uni Hamburg, TUHH, Class 5 Photonics, WiredSense, WAIV-FTIR, Impossible Founders, Cycle GmbH, Start-Up Labs Hamburg). Content should assume a local, ecosystem-aware reader by default — not write for a generic global LinkedIn audience.</p>
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<p>Location detective work on all 131 named companies confirms it: <strong>65% are based in Germany, and 36% are specifically Hamburg-based</strong> (DESY in its various forms, Uni Hamburg, TUHH, Class 5 Photonics, WiredSense, WAIV-FTIR, Impossible Founders, Cycle GmbH, Start-Up Labs Hamburg). Content should assume a local, ecosystem-aware reader by default — not write for a generic global LinkedIn audience.</p>
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<h3>Today's audience is not the 2023 launch cohort.</h3>
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<h2>Sector — of the 130 followers with an identifiable employer</h2>
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<p class="note">The other 20 of 150 list no company at all and are excluded from this chart entirely (see completeness note above) — this is a breakdown of the knowable share only.</p>
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<h2>Sector — of the 131 followers with an identifiable employer</h2>
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<p class="note">The other 20 of 151 list no company at all and are excluded from this chart entirely (see completeness note above) — this is a breakdown of the knowable share only.</p>
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<div class="limitation"><span class="tag">Limitation:</span> this chart only covers the 130 followers with an identifiable employer — the other 20 of 150 (13%) list no company at all and are excluded entirely, not folded into any bar above.</div>
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<div class="msg-take"><span class="tag">Messaging takeaway:</span> Academia/Research (58) and Photonics/Laser/Optics industry (9) together are 52% of everyone with a known employer — this reads as TXproducts' actual customer and partner ecosystem following along, not a generic marketing audience. Messaging can speak directly to beamtime, instrumentation, and measurement pain points without translating for a lay audience.</div>
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<div class="limitation"><span class="tag">Limitation:</span> this chart only covers the 131 followers with an identifiable employer — the other 20 of 151 (13%) list no company at all and are excluded entirely, not folded into any bar above.</div>
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<div class="msg-take"><span class="tag">Messaging takeaway:</span> Academia/Research (58) and Photonics/Laser/Optics industry (9) together are 51% of everyone with a known employer — this reads as TXproducts' actual customer and partner ecosystem following along, not a generic marketing audience. Messaging can speak directly to beamtime, instrumentation, and measurement pain points without translating for a lay audience.</div>
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<h2>Geography — of the 130 followers with a company (fully resolved)</h2>
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<p class="note">Follow-up detective work: every one of the original 14 "unverified" companies was individually researched (web lookups) and located, and subsequent rounds of profile re-screenshotting have now identified an employer for 35 more previously-blank followers. Every one of the 130 named companies now has a country assigned — 111 at High confidence, 19 at Medium (including "Aqua Group," resolved via a screenshot showing the exact legal name "AQUA GROUP GmbH" plus the follower's own location in Greater Munich, matching a real Holzkirchen-based German company). Full results (country, city/site, confidence) are written back into the source spreadsheet as three columns, plus a fourth "Personal Location (from profile)" column now filled for 117 of 150 followers.</p>
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<h2>Geography — of the 131 followers with a company (fully resolved)</h2>
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<p class="note">Follow-up detective work: every one of the original 14 "unverified" companies was individually researched (web lookups) and located, and subsequent rounds of profile re-screenshotting have now identified an employer for 35 more previously-blank followers. Every one of the 131 named companies now has a country assigned — 112 at High confidence, 19 at Medium (including "Aqua Group," resolved via a screenshot showing the exact legal name "AQUA GROUP GmbH" plus the follower's own location in Greater Munich, matching a real Holzkirchen-based German company). Full results (country, city/site, confidence) are written back into the source spreadsheet as three columns, plus a fourth "Personal Location (from profile)" column now filled for 118 of 151 followers.</p>
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<div class="panel">
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<div class="hbar-chart" id="geography-chart"></div>
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<div class="limitation"><span class="tag">Limitation:</span> "Company Country" reflects the employer's HQ, not the individual's personal location, and the two can differ — e.g. Rajkumar Rengaraj is personally Germany-based (Aachen) but his employer is Swiss; conversely several followers here work for Germany/Hamburg-HQ organizations while personally based in the UK, Norway, India, or Sweden, Hitesh Dudhagara is personally in Surat, Gujarat while his listed university affiliation resolves to Rajkot, and Sinan Bubik is personally in Munich, Germany while his employer (ITU) is Turkey-based. Maximilian F. is personally in the Zürich Metropolitan Area while his employer's Swiss site is in Baden, Aargau, Antonio Cillis is personally in Berlin while his employer (INFOMOTION GmbH) is headquartered in Frankfurt am Main, and Svenja Hövelmann is personally in Wedel while her employer (X-Spectrum GmbH) is headquartered in Hamburg. The 65% Germany / 36% Hamburg figures describe where employers are headquartered, not necessarily where the 130 people physically are — treat this chart as an ecosystem-affiliation signal, not a literal map of the audience.</div>
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<div class="limitation"><span class="tag">Limitation:</span> "Company Country" reflects the employer's HQ, not the individual's personal location, and the two can differ — e.g. Rajkumar Rengaraj is personally Germany-based (Aachen) but his employer is Swiss; conversely several followers here work for Germany/Hamburg-HQ organizations while personally based in the UK, Norway, India, or Sweden, Hitesh Dudhagara is personally in Surat, Gujarat while his listed university affiliation resolves to Rajkot, and Sinan Bubik is personally in Munich, Germany while his employer (ITU) is Turkey-based. Maximilian F. is personally in the Zürich Metropolitan Area while his employer's Swiss site is in Baden, Aargau, Antonio Cillis is personally in Berlin while his employer (INFOMOTION GmbH) is headquartered in Frankfurt am Main, and Svenja Hövelmann is personally in Wedel while her employer (X-Spectrum GmbH) is headquartered in Hamburg. The 65% Germany / 36% Hamburg figures describe where employers are headquartered, not necessarily where the 131 people physically are — treat this chart as an ecosystem-affiliation signal, not a literal map of the audience.</div>
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<div class="msg-take"><span class="tag">Messaging takeaway:</span> <strong>65% of named-company followers are affiliated with a Germany-headquartered organization, and 36% specifically with a Hamburg one</strong> (DESY in its various forms, Uni Hamburg, TUHH, Class 5 Photonics, WiredSense, WAIV-FTIR, Impossible Founders, Cycle GmbH, Start-Up Labs Hamburg). This is fundamentally a regional-ecosystem audience, not a global one — local events, DESY-adjacent news, and Hamburg startup-scene references will resonate far more than internationally-generic content, even for the followers who don't personally live there.</div>
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</section>
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@@ -306,7 +306,7 @@ ul.findings li strong { color: var(--text-primary); }
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<section>
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<h2>Notable organizational clusters</h2>
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<p class="note">Named organizations appearing more than once in the 130 followers with company data — the strongest evidence of a real-world ecosystem effect rather than coincidence. This table nearly doubled after the latest rounds of profile re-screenshotting: from 5 institutions/12 distinct people to 8 institutions/22 distinct people. (Umicore also now has 2 followers, but it's a Belgian materials company with no Hamburg/DESY tie, so it's excluded from this specific table — coincidental multinational overlap, not local-ecosystem clustering. ITCareerHub.de, a German IT-retraining bootcamp, now has 3 followers (Almira Tolstova, Anna Maksakova, added 2026-08-10; Helena Krutošíková, added 2026-10-21) — excluded for the same reason: a real 2-follower cluster, but a career-training platform unrelated to the Hamburg/DESY photonics ecosystem this table specifically tracks. Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin now has 4 followers (a postdoc, a doctoral researcher, an experimental materials scientist, and a professor) — a genuine, growing research-institute cluster, but excluded for the same reason as Umicore/ITCareerHub: it's Berlin-based, not part of the Hamburg/DESY local ecosystem this table specifically tracks. ESRF, HZDR, and ITU, all added 2026-08-03, are each single-follower institutions so far — not yet part of this table, though ESRF in particular is another major synchrotron facility peer to DESY, reinforcing the sector-clustering pattern even as a standalone entry.)</p>
|
||||
<p class="note">Named organizations appearing more than once in the 131 followers with company data — the strongest evidence of a real-world ecosystem effect rather than coincidence. This table nearly doubled after the latest rounds of profile re-screenshotting: from 5 institutions/12 distinct people to 8 institutions/22 distinct people. (Umicore also now has 2 followers, but it's a Belgian materials company with no Hamburg/DESY tie, so it's excluded from this specific table — coincidental multinational overlap, not local-ecosystem clustering. ITCareerHub.de, a German IT-retraining bootcamp, now has 3 followers (Almira Tolstova, Anna Maksakova, added 2026-08-10; Helena Krutošíková, added 2026-10-21) — excluded for the same reason: a real 2-follower cluster, but a career-training platform unrelated to the Hamburg/DESY photonics ecosystem this table specifically tracks. Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin now has 4 followers (a postdoc, a doctoral researcher, an experimental materials scientist, and a professor) — a genuine, growing research-institute cluster, but excluded for the same reason as Umicore/ITCareerHub: it's Berlin-based, not part of the Hamburg/DESY local ecosystem this table specifically tracks. ESRF, HZDR, and ITU, all added 2026-08-03, are each single-follower institutions so far — not yet part of this table, though ESRF in particular is another major synchrotron facility peer to DESY, reinforcing the sector-clustering pattern even as a standalone entry.)</p>
|
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<div class="panel">
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<table class="data-table">
|
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<tr><th>Organization</th><th>Followers</th><th>Note</th></tr>
|
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@@ -378,6 +378,7 @@ ul.findings li strong { color: var(--text-primary); }
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<br><br><strong>Incremental update (2026-10-21, 149→150):</strong> one more new follower, Ajit Seth (2nd degree, He/Him, "Postdoctoral Researcher @ Kiel University and Deutsches-Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY)," Germany, mutual connections with Peter and Daniel). Kiel University is the only logo shown on the card, but his own tagline explicitly names DESY as a joint affiliation — per the established own-words-over-logo precedent (Vishnu Narayan Manoj Kumar, Artem Zaidman), Company is set to DESY rather than Kiel University, City/Country set to Hamburg/Germany to match, with Personal Location kept as the card's plain "Germany." Classifies as Postdoc/PhD Researcher, Research/Science, Academia/Research Institute, Industry: Research & Collaborations. This makes him a 14th DESY-linked entry (13→14) and pushes the Hamburg/DESY cluster's distinct headcount from 34 to 35 (still 27% of named-company followers, now of 130 rather than 128). Also corrected in this same pass: the "students/trainees or postdoc/PhD researchers" combined figure in the Key Findings and messaging-takeaway sections had drifted to a stale "20" sometime after the 2026-10-01 Mike Jin fix that first established the Student/Trainee + Postdoc/PhD Researcher formula — recomputed directly from the live chart data (13 + 9) to the correct 22 (15%). No explicit follow date was shown, so <strong>October 2026</strong> is assumed, unconfirmed. All totals, percentages, and charts in this report now reflect the full 150-follower set.
|
||||
<br><br><strong>Correction (2026-10-21, 150→149, later reversed):</strong> the End of Month Report session (track #6, shares this codebase) stated that Mckinley had confirmed Alice Autuori does not actually follow the Page, despite an existing Directory entry (followedSort 2023-04) claiming otherwise. She was moved out of the Directory into <code>outreach_contacts.py</code> with her engagement history preserved, and this report was recomputed to 149. While doing that recompute directly from live Directory data (not decremented by hand) rather than just patching numbers, a separate, pre-existing drift unrelated to Alice was also caught and fixed: the Geography chart's Germany/United States/India counts and its "No company listed" bucket had gone stale (Germany 88→85, US 8→7, India 3→2, No-company-listed 16→20) — that fix is retained below even though the Alice removal itself was not (see next entry).
|
||||
<br><br><strong>Reversal (2026-10-23, 149→150):</strong> Mckinley confirmed directly, independent of the above, that Alice Autuori does follow the Page — contradicting the confirmation track #6's commit attributed to Mckinley on 2026-10-21. Given the conflict, Mckinley checked her LinkedIn profile directly and confirmed her as a genuine follower; she has been restored to the Directory with her original record (Unknown seniority, Unknown function, Other named company — Cycle GmbH, 2nd degree, Germany/Hamburg DESY-campus/Start-Up Labs Bahrenfeld, followed since the 2023 H1 launch burst) and removed from <code>outreach_contacts.py</code>. Cycle GmbH is restored to the sector/geography messaging-takeaway company lists. While re-verifying every figure against live data for this reversal, one more pre-existing drift (unrelated to Alice either way) was caught: the "no usable title (tagline-only)" count had been stale at 19 for some time — the live data puts it at 20 (13%), which is what's reflected now. The Geography-chart drift fix from the correction above (Germany/US/India/no-company) remains in place since it was independently verified against source data, not tied to Alice's status either way. All six charts, the stat tiles, and every count/percentage above now reflect the verified 150-follower / 130-named-company state. Also restored: Alice's Twenty CRM record (pending — the Twenty connector was unavailable at the time of this reversal, see next session).
|
||||
<br><br><strong>Incremental update (2026-10-26, 150→151):</strong> one more new follower, Nikesh Rajput (3rd degree, He/Him, "Stamp 4 | Printed Circuit Board | Electronics | Supply Chain Manager | Procurement | Sales & Marketing" at ECS Circuits Limited, Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland). ECS Circuits Limited is the first-listed, verified-link logo on his profile (a secondary "IOB" logo shown but not used, unclear affiliation); classifies as Manager/Coordinator, Other, Other named company — "Supply Chain Manager / Procurement" doesn't cleanly match any Function keyword, the same honest mechanical-limitation case as Anna Maksakova's "Data Analyst" (Industry: Other, industryOther "Printed circuit board (PCB) manufacturing, electronics supply chain and procurement"). Ireland becomes a new country in this dataset (previously absent), folding into the "Other (1 each)" bucket, now 13 countries. Not Hamburg/DESY-cluster-linked. No explicit follow date was shown, so <strong>October 2026</strong> is assumed, unconfirmed. All totals, percentages, and charts in this report now reflect the full 151-follower set.
|
||||
</div>
|
||||
</section>
|
||||
|
||||
@@ -410,7 +411,7 @@ ul.findings li strong { color: var(--text-primary); }
|
||||
hbar('seniority-chart', [
|
||||
{label:'Other individual contributor', value:21},
|
||||
{label:'Unknown', value:14},
|
||||
{label:'Manager / Coordinator', value:20},
|
||||
{label:'Manager / Coordinator', value:21},
|
||||
{label:'Engineer / Developer', value:19},
|
||||
{label:'Researcher / Scientist', value:17},
|
||||
{label:'Senior IC / Lead', value:8},
|
||||
@@ -426,7 +427,7 @@ ul.findings li strong { color: var(--text-primary); }
|
||||
{label:'Engineering / Technical', value:24},
|
||||
{label:'Unknown', value:14},
|
||||
{label:'Business Development / Sales', value:16},
|
||||
{label:'Other', value:15},
|
||||
{label:'Other', value:16},
|
||||
{label:'Executive / Management', value:14},
|
||||
{label:'Student / Academic track', value:13},
|
||||
{label:'Marketing / Comms / Ops', value:7},
|
||||
@@ -438,7 +439,7 @@ ul.findings li strong { color: var(--text-primary); }
|
||||
|
||||
hbar('sector-chart', [
|
||||
{label:'Academia / Research institute', value:58, color:'var(--series-1)'},
|
||||
{label:'Other named company', value:42, color:'var(--series-2)'},
|
||||
{label:'Other named company', value:43, color:'var(--series-2)'},
|
||||
{label:'Photonics / Laser / Optics industry', value:9, color:'var(--series-3)'},
|
||||
{label:'Semiconductor / Aerospace / Defense', value:11, color:'var(--series-4)'},
|
||||
{label:'Medical / Life sciences', value:5, color:'var(--series-5)'},
|
||||
@@ -457,12 +458,12 @@ ul.findings li strong { color: var(--text-primary); }
|
||||
{label:'Netherlands', value:2, color:'var(--series-3)'},
|
||||
{label:'India', value:2, color:'var(--series-6)'},
|
||||
{label:'Italy', value:2, color:'var(--series-7)'},
|
||||
{label:'Other (12 more, 1 each)', value:12, color:'var(--series-5)'},
|
||||
{label:'Other (13 more, 1 each)', value:13, color:'var(--series-5)'},
|
||||
{label:'No company listed', value:20},
|
||||
]);
|
||||
|
||||
hbar('connection-chart', [
|
||||
{label:'3rd degree', value:60},
|
||||
{label:'3rd degree', value:61},
|
||||
{label:'2nd degree', value:74},
|
||||
{label:'1st degree', value:8},
|
||||
{label:'Unlisted / self', value:8},
|
||||
@@ -477,7 +478,7 @@ ul.findings li strong { color: var(--text-primary); }
|
||||
{label:'2025 H1', value:7},
|
||||
{label:'2025 H2', value:12},
|
||||
{label:'2026 H1', value:16},
|
||||
{label:'2026 H2*', value:65},
|
||||
{label:'2026 H2*', value:66},
|
||||
];
|
||||
const gEl = document.getElementById('growth-chart');
|
||||
const gLabels = document.getElementById('growth-labels');
|
||||
|
||||
Reference in new issue
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