Re: How to keep up with the latest literature?

Posted by Rusty Nicovich on
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"It's for keeping up with the literature" is what I tell myself to justify
browsing Twitter.  It is only like 60% a lie.

Kidding aside, Twitter is actually a useful tool for catching new papers
that are cool + interesting.

Thanks,
Rusty

On Tue, Oct 2, 2018 at 12:50 PM Boehm, Ulrike (NIH/NCI) [F] <
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> Hi everyone,
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> I use the application Feedly (https://feedly.com ). It compiles news
> feeds from a variety of online sources (Pubmed and journal RSS feeds etc.).
>
> Within a few seconds I usually browsed over 20 journals with specific
> keyword (usually: superresolution, nanoscopy, 4Pi) and specific authors.
>
> It’s a great application for various web browsers and mobile devices 😊
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> Best regards,
>
> Ulrike
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> From: Andrew York <[hidden email]>
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> Subject: Re: How to keep up with the latest literature?
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> A year ago, I would have said Google Scholar alerts, but since then I've
> had a much better experience with Twitter. You have to follow a
> sufficiently diverse group to get good coverage, of course.
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> On Tue, Oct 2, 2018 at 11:22 AM, S Ram <[hidden email]> wrote:
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> > A few things that work for me:
> > 1. Setting up weekly alerts on pubmed
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> > 2. (Very old fashioned way): Regularly browse TOCs of journals - this
> > is time consuming but it helps to gain breadth and learn what else is
> > happening.
> >
> > 3, Go through proceedings and abstracts of relevant conferences (FoM,
> > M&M, ISBI, MICCAI, QBI, etc).
> >
> > 4. Check the lab websites of research groups that work in the areas of
> > interest to you (Again time consuming, can't be done regularly)
> >
> > Hope this helps.
> >
> > Sripad
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> > On Tue, Oct 2, 2018 at 12:04 AM Kai Schleicher
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> > > Dear confocal list,
> > >
> > > How do you keep up with the latest publications on microscopy,
> > > imaging, new fluoresecent proteins, new techniques etc?
> > >
> > > Are there maybe a few blogs you would suggest?
> > >
> > > This topic is cross-posted on twitter here:
> > > https://twitter.com/imcf_basel/status/1046703274886397952
> > >
> > > Cheers, Kai
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