Redish Lab<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://biologists.social/@dozenoaks" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>dozenoaks</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@BorisBarbour" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>BorisBarbour</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/@albertcardona" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>albertcardona</span></a></span> </p><p>I think part of the problem is that we need to see journal club like sfn --- you're swimming in a vast ocean of papers. Go find some fun ones to read. </p><p>Instead of "we must do journal club on all of the relevant papers", make it about "we use journal club to practice peer review on papers together". </p><p>Each person is going to have to construct their own canon of literature that is most relevant to their individual project/interests. Like <a href="https://neuromatch.social/tags/sfn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sfn</span></a>, we are passing each other in our respective scientific journeys, running along side each other for a while. So use journal club as practice to learn how to read papers. (Remember, reading papers is a skill. It takes practice, and becomes easier with that practice.)</p><p>One of the key lessons of journal club is that not only should one do one's own peer review on preprints, but also on published papers, since you can't assume that the other peers reviewed it properly. </p><p>Journal club teaches that lesson well because the discussion brings out issues (or resolves them) that you might have missed.</p><p><a href="https://neuromatch.social/tags/academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>academia</span></a></p>