This is why I enjoy going to random talks advertised by your department&#x2F;other departments - you are exposed to ideas outside of your specialization, you have a chance to meet other researchers etc. Sadly most universities (in my experience) don&#x27;t have a central newsletter for these, usually only for generic talks that are more designed around a &quot;science is interesting!&quot; theme for the public layman.<p>Some people at the the University of Queensland used to run the COMBIO seminars, small seminars with sponsored pizza &amp; beers afterwards. Two scientists would present anything related to computational biology, didn&#x27;t matter what exactly, or what their specialization was. These were a great starting point for networking.<p>If you&#x27;re working at a university and would like to see something similar I strongly suggest you set it up yourself, it&#x27;s a lot of unpaid work but &quot;if you build it, they will come&quot;.