Research Signals

Research Signals surfaces curated RSS headlines on the home dashboard ticker and in /feeds.

Use it as an inbox, not as a bibliography by itself: scan the headline, open the publisher page, save only the items relevant to your question, and move the resulting source into Library before citing it in Writer.

Features

• Home ticker — marquee of curated headlines with Summarize and Save actions
• Reader — /feeds lists subscribed and curated items
• Subscriptions — add your own feed URL on /feeds
• Research topics — follow a topic query to poll latest papers from OpenAlex into your reader; filter the home ticker by topic or publications
• Morning briefing — generate a markdown digest of unread headlines (requires LLM)

Operator

Poll feeds on a schedule (every 30 minutes recommended):

bash scripts/writer_poll_research_feeds.sh
# or: python3 scripts/writer/poll_research_feeds.py

GoCron template: deploy/aabeds-infra/gocron/jemah-research-signals-poll.job.json (copy into aabeds-infra configs/gocron/jobs.yml).

Curated sources live in services/writer/feeds/curated_feeds.yaml.

A repeatable signal-to-source workflow

1. Subscribe to a publisher RSS feed or follow a focused OpenAlex topic.
2. Read the headline and publisher link in /feeds; do not treat the RSS summary as the full paper.
3. Use Save for a promising item and confirm the metadata source appears in Library.
4. Open the source, check title, author, and date, and replace the news URL with the paper or DOI when available.
5. Attach the ready source to a paper and record why it belongs in the review.

For a daily review, clear irrelevant headlines first, save a small shortlist, then write the morning briefing. This keeps the briefing useful and avoids turning every feed item into an unreviewed source.

Notes

• Google News wrapper URLs are rejected — subscribe to publisher RSS feeds instead.
• Save creates a library metadata source linked to the headline URL.
• Personal subscription limits: Starter 10, Pro 50, Team 200 feeds.
• Summarize and briefing use daily quotas by plan; briefing requires Pro or Team.
• Import subscriptions from OPML on /feeds (Starter+).

Troubleshooting

• Feed is empty: validate the publisher RSS URL and wait for the next poll; Google News wrapper URLs are not accepted.
• A save is missing from Library: check the destination account, then search by the canonical paper title or DOI.
• Briefing is unavailable: confirm an LLM is configured and that the plan quota is available; headline reading and saving do not require briefing generation.

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