Can scientists be social?

Yesterday I wrote about my quest to find good ways of reading the articles and other content I need for my research, and talked about the two tools Flipboard and Pocket that can make this a bit easier.

The next thing I’m looking for is a way to discover the papers and articles that I should be reading but just don’t know about. At the moment I do this manually by subscribing to journals and news services that I then flip through with Flipboard to find something interesting.

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Keeping up with reading

One of the things I find hardest about being a scientist is keeping up-to-date with all the latest research. A number of times I’ve worked on some problem for days, weeks and even months before finding out that someone else has already solved the problem!

I’ve started looking to internet tools to help me keep up to date. My favourite two at the moment are Flipboard and Pocket.

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