Home feed and Discover

Posting, threads, media and sharing

The feed works like the networks you know, kept for research. A post can carry text, up to four images or short videos (paste or attach), and a paper card. Like it, comment on it — comments have their own likes and replies — or open the thread to reply with a full post of your own. Share with a repost or a quote, save it for later, or copy the link. Every card has a Report action; reports and automatic flags reach the moderators.

• Tabs — For you is every public post; Following adds your projects' activity and the publications the people you follow claim; Saved holds what you bookmarked. Announcements stay pinned above all three.
• @mentions — type @ and pick a colleague; their name becomes a link to their profile and they are notified. Renaming an account never breaks the link, because the person, not the text, is stored.
• #hashtags — write #hypertension anywhere in a post and it becomes a link to every post carrying that tag. Trending this week beside the feed lists the tags used most in the last seven days.
• Save — the bookmark icon keeps a post in the Saved tab; saving is private to you.
• Edit and delete — rewrite or remove your own posts and comments at any time; an edited item is marked “edited” with the time. Moderators can delete anything that breaks the guidelines.
• Media — click an image to open it full screen (arrow keys move between images, Escape closes); videos play in place with full controls. Add alternative text in the composer so people using a screen reader know what you shared.
• Who to follow — suggestions beside the feed from your institution, your research interests and the people your own network follows.
• Followers-only posts stay with your followers. Media is stored privately on the platform and served only to signed-in members.
• A post held for review by an automatic rule is visible to you with a “held for review” note until a moderator restores it; editing a post runs the same rules again.

What appears in the home feed

• Posts from people you follow — a thought, a question, a paper with your commentary (attach one from your library or by DOI).
• Publications your colleagues claim on their profiles.
• Activity in your projects: manuscripts created, members joining, submissions moving, analyses finishing.
• Administrator announcements, pinned above the stream.
• Switch between For you, Following and Saved at the top, or filter any of them to one hashtag. The feed loads more as you scroll, and a Load more button does the same by hand.

Posting and engaging

• New post: text with @mentions and #hashtags, up to four images or short videos with alternative text, and an optional attached paper.
• Like, comment (threaded), repost, quote and save. The author is notified of likes, comments, replies and shares, and anyone you mention is notified too — repeats are folded into one notification (“Ada and 3 others liked your post”).
• Edit or delete your own posts and comments; edits are marked and go through the moderation rules again.
• Administrators can hide or delete reported content and the author is told why.

Discover

• Researchers — search by name, institution, interests or methods; filter by open to collaboration, mentoring or reviewing; follow from the card.
• Publications — search the literature across the backbone sources (OpenAlex, PubMed, Semantic Scholar, Crossref) without opening a project; save any result to your library or open its publication page to recommend it, discuss it or ask an author for the PDF.
• Projects — public projects looking for members, with a join request.
• Teams — public teams to join or request to join.
• Claim publications — type your name as it appears on papers, pick your author record (OpenAlex), tick the papers that are yours and claim them in one go; they join your profile, portfolio, metrics and CV. Link your ORCID under Settings → Publications to import everything at once.
• Global search (the header box or ⌘K) reaches the same people, papers, projects, manuscripts, notes, teams and courses you can see — see the Search guide.

Following and public pages

Follow a researcher from their profile or a Discover card: their posts and claimed publications join your feed and they are notified, with no access to anything private. Your own public page shows what you allow under Settings → Profile (see Public profile).

Feed versus notifications

The feed is for ambient awareness. Anything addressed to you — mentions, comments on your work, requests, assignments, deadlines — arrives in Notifications with a badge, so nothing that needs action can be missed in the stream.