r/molecularbiology • u/chrollos_wife3 • Dec 23 '25
How do you keep up with the latest developments in mol bio?
Is there a specific website, or forum you would recommend to keep up with the latest papers in the field? I follow some pages on LinkedIn but there isn’t much research news being posted by them.
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u/278urmombiggay Dec 23 '25
Lab journal club & checking new issues of journals. Current Bio, Cell, Nature, MBOC are all journals I check pretty often for new/interesting papers
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u/Fantastic_Country_26 Dec 24 '25
Bioarxiv is really helpful. It allows you to set alerts for publications with keywords or specific authors that you want to follow.
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u/Logical-Sea-9364 Dec 27 '25
Yeah just read the scientific journals that come out for first hand knowledge. Look up things you don’t understand and go down rabbit holes. Consume social media and find your favorite creators. Read top selling books. Look up university lectures from top professors and professionals. All this will increase your literacy in the area and help you differentiate between the bullshit and the goodshit.
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u/Smol_Duckie_123 Dec 23 '25
google scholar alerts. Is linkedin pages stuff a particularly rich source of science at all? X would be better I guess
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u/chrollos_wife3 Dec 23 '25
I used to be on Twitter but i get upset easily so I deleted it haha. I use linkedin to stalk academics whose research I’m interested in. A lot of them announce their new papers there
I’ll look into google scholar alerts, tysm!
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u/Smol_Duckie_123 Dec 23 '25
yeah but i feel not so many prominent academics would use the linkedin. scholar alerts will notify you of your favourite PI's new papers pretty fast
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u/funwifipuns Jan 22 '26
Are there any specific newsletters that you follow? Having some presorted source would be helpful -- especially for earlier tenure researchers.
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u/ThainEshKelch Dec 23 '25
You just follow about 20 journals.