Comments on: bims: Biomed News

By: Lucas Zeiger

Lucas Zeiger — Fri, 04 Apr 2025 22:28:39 +0000

I’ve been taking part as a machine teacher using Biomed News to filter relevant newly published papers in my field. The true power is to share the selected papers with other researchers, and seeing which papers they selected. I gain valuable insight into what others have found important, and can close gaps to other related domains of interest. The dissemination of the reports happens on twitter at the moment – this seems to work well. The more people use the system, the better it will get, and to include preprints would include more articles that are not circulated by subject-specific journals.

By: Giovanny Rodriguez Blanco

Giovanny Rodriguez Blanco — Fri, 04 Apr 2025 22:28:39 +0000

Hi there,
I have been using using Bims for a while now and it just works perfect for me as it allows me to keep up to date in the scientific literature I am interested in. I tried email and/or news feed subscriptions from the journals but I ended up with thousands of papers a week with no real application to my research. So I thing the approach from Bims is good, quick and reliable. Besides, I am now following other bims reports so every week I’m getting a better picture of what is published and where. Dissemination is OK, but it is difficult sometimes to convince colleagues to open reports, although I’ve seen an increase in the last couple of months.

By: Viktor Korolchuk

Viktor Korolchuk — Fri, 04 Apr 2025 22:28:39 +0000

Biomed.news is an excellent resource which makes it extremely easy to keep up with the literature of relevance. Once trained, the engine returns reports in the order that requires very little manual curation. There is a growing number of users covering different areas of science. Typically the regular users are highly enthusiastic scientists who are active on social media. However I personally found it difficult to persuade colleagues to open new accounts.

By: Gavin McStay

Gavin McStay — Fri, 04 Apr 2025 22:28:39 +0000

To update, I am now based at Liverpool John Moores University https://www.ljmu.ac.uk/about-us/staff-profiles/faculty-of-science/pharmacy-and-biomolecular-sciences/gavin-mcstay.

We have over 100 active reports at the moment https://biomed.news/reports (9th October 2024).