Journal Club is a premium daily newsletter and podcast. Each episode is a breakdown of a recent academic research paper from a peer-reviewed journal. We try to pick the most interesting/impactful articles, while maintaining a breadth of subjects and topics. We create a new episode every day, and email it to all of our members. We also make it available to stream on our site on-demand.
New episodes get emailed to all our members around 6am Pacific time every day. They become available to stream on-demand on our website at the same time. Some members look for the daily email, others just come back to our site to see what's new. Whatever works for you.
Anywhere from 5-15 minutes from beginning to end. Or 750-2500 words for the written version. It depends on the article.
We routlinely browse DOAJ and other article databases for new manuscripts. We manually sift through them until we find something interesting. If an article makes it to the "interesting" pile, then we'll read and scrutinize it, and try to determine if it's the kind of paper that would make a good episode. Some are good candidates, but most aren't. Eventually we'll find a winner, and manually write, record and edit the episode.
A very wide variety. Click on "All Episodes", browse through the rows, and use the search bar to explore the platform.
Your membership includes full access to our on-demand streaming platform. Pick whatever episodes you want to listen to, whenever you want to listen to them. There's no need to listen to things that don't interest you. And if you'd rather not receive the daily email, you don't need to.
Yes. Right now the social features are invite-only. If you'd like to be added to the beta please email us!
Every issue provides the direct link to the download page for the article being discussed (the DOI url).
Nope, everything is made the hard way: manually, by hand. By the nature of our content, you can probably guess that we're not opposed to AI or technological advancements. But, they're not good at everything. As of this writing, it's our position that Large Language Models (LLMs), CNNs and all other Expert Systems are still really bad at making sense of novel information (information that doesn't comport with the system's prior understanding of the world). By its nature, academic research is always novel. So its exactly the kind of content that LLMs (and others) would have trouble grappling with. Generally speaking, we believe in using AI when it can do a job objectively better than a human can. But at this point that's still not the case. A human expert reviewing a research paper and delving into the nuance and implications of that research still (in our opinion) vastly outperforms AI at the same task. Maybe that will change, but until it does, we'll be making these episodes the old fashioned way.
Also, AI voice synthesis (text-to-speech) is almost there, but still not quite. The voices sound nice for demos, but when you're explaining a complex topic we've found that a human narrator will naturally emphasize certain words in a way that TTS can't do yet.
As a Journal Club member, you'll get all the new episodes delivered via email, and you'll also get unlimited access to stream all of our previous episodes on demand.
We're happy to take a look at it, but we can't guarantee we'll make an episode out of it. Just email: authors@journalclub.io and please include the DOI. Please note: we're not making episodes about pre-prints or whitepapers at this time. And we can only make episodes about Open-Access (cc-by) papers published in peer-reviewed journals.
Yes! We're looking for more adjunct professors to help us present other topics. Our jobs page is here.
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Login to your account (click the login button in the upper right corner of this page), and start listening to some episodes. The next episode we release will be delivered to your inbox around 6am Pacific time.
Nah, you're fine. Login to your account in the upper-right corner of this page to start listening to episodes The next episode we release will be delivered to your inbox around 6am Pacific time.
