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2020-11-08 Following science journals via RSS

Working in academia means having to follow the current state of the research. The “usual” way to do it is downloading PDFs from websites of conferences and journals. It is needless to say that this is terribly inefficient: it requires us to remember when something new is expected to appear, manually navigating through the website etc. Even worse, recently there is a trend to increasingly rely on social media (Twitter, ResearchGate) and bloated, proprietary, data-mining “bibliography managers” (like Mendeley) to get suggestions on what to read. In this post, I describe an efficient, distraction-free and privacy-protecting workflow for keeping up with the latest research.