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 how do you gather with your community to discuss papers? 
 I’m less active on non-Nostr social media (Twitter) in general so I may not be the best representative. For me:

- SMS, Email, and LinkedIn DMs are how I talk one v one, and that’s still how I share most papers I come across
- OpenReview is a great system for actual reviewing of papers that is in the public domain, although a more formal process
- lots of folks like subreddits like r/machinelearning
- ResearchGate is one of the best platforms to directly request a paper from an author that is otherwise behind a paywall you don’t have access to. When you publish behind paywalls (less common but sometimes still requires) authors maintain the ability to share 1 v 1 with anyone, they just can’t post publicly
- Twitter is where most casual short form discussions happen

I started a moderated community called AI-papers and posted a paper review but then didn’t really pursue sharing that - one issue was someone had a pending post but I didn’t have a way to get notified so I saw it super late 
 It’s nice to have communities based around sub areas because many academic don’t care too much about a paper unless it’s related enough to their focus areas 
 do you do it today on chat/email/listserv/reddit/twitter or IRL? 
 never mind so you answered already 🙏

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 If you are asking about just platforms:
- slack
- linkedin 
- SMS
- virtual meetings / IRL
- twitter 

I will say of the academics I know, most find twitter a necessary evil and don’t really enjoy using it.