Rookery is a discovery platform built by Roman Slack that brings a social-media-style feed to academic research. Its premise is simple: just as platforms like X are good at surfacing interesting content, Rookery does the same for scholarly papers, so genuinely valuable research stops slipping through the cracks. The product is framed around following research discoveries and receiving notifications about important breakthroughs that a reader would otherwise miss.
Rather than another general-purpose feed cluttered with ads and low-quality content, Rookery is positioned as a focused stream of papers, code, and ideas. Roman Slack designed it to cut out the noise and keep the experience centered on substantive academic work.
At the stage shown, Rookery is in early development, offering a waitlist signup for early access while the core experience takes shape. The project lives at rookery.network.
Key Features
- Social-style feed for discovering research papers
- Follow research topics and discoveries
- Notifications for important new work
- Ad-free, low-noise reading experience
- Surfaces papers, code, and ideas together
- Early-access waitlist signup
Designed and built by Roman Slack, Lead AI Platform Engineer. See more of Roman Slack's work on the projects page or get in touch via the contact page.