Un-Academic Guide to Researching

This is how you stay up to date.

Alrighty everyone, I’ll make this quick.

In class, our Professors tell us to only look at these journals or sites.

As a young & inexperienced person, if you want to stay up to date with let’s say

• AI
• Biotech
• FinTech
• Neuroscience Research

You have to use social media and/or be persistent as heck.

The only if & or but is if you can peruse JAMA, PubMed, ArXiv, or whatever else like the Flash

Here’s a list of tangible tips.

Go on X.com

• Look up [subject interest]
• Scroll and spam follow everyone who seems remotely credible or interesting or works at a company you like

Go on Linkedin.com

• Look up research labs or schools that do research you like
• Scroll and spam connect researchers and institutions you find interesting
• Send a ton of messages out
• Comment on every post you like

That’s a learner’s ratio

Visit top Universities’ websites/blogs every week

• If you see something interesting
• Immediately email the professor/PI or even try to find the student researcher who helped
• Say you love their work and would love to contribute in any shape or form.

Pick up a dang book you like

• Look up every single person referenced in the book
• If the person is of interest to you
• Email the person, say you saw their name in the book, got curious, stumbled upon some lectures, and would love to have a chat

If you need help with any of this:

Email me @ the + ethan + [my last name] @ gmail.com.

Merge all the words in this form theirjohnstamos (but with the words I put).

Love you all.