Is There an Astrobites Equivalent for Physics?

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Astrobites serves as a valuable resource for undergraduate astronomy students, aiding their understanding of current research literature and benefiting graduate students who contribute articles. The discussion raises the need for a similar resource in physics, acknowledging the complexity and breadth of the subject compared to astronomy. While physics lacks a unified arXiv category like astro-ph, participants express interest in exploring options for specific categories such as gr-qc, hep-th, and hep-ph. The conversation highlights the perceived challenges in explaining theoretical physics papers, suggesting a potential gap in accessible resources. There is a collective interest in finding or creating a similar platform for physics to enhance comprehension and engagement with research literature.
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Astrobites provides an interesting, and in my opinion, important service of helping undergraduate astronomy students become better acquainted with current research literature. Beyond helping these students, it's also nice for the graduate students who produce the articles.

Does anyone know of a similar resource for physics? Granted, physics is a much larger subject, and we don't have a single unified arXiv category like astro-ph to draw from, but nevertheless something seems possible. Or if there is nothing unified, perhaps something just for gr-qc, hep-th, hep-ph, or any of the specific physics categories? It also seems that the barrier towards explaining these (theoretical) papers is higher than that for astrophysics, but this could just be a failure of my own understanding.

At any rate I'd like to open a discussion on this, since if nothing like this exists I think it would be excellent to create something!

(I don't know where this topic fits, so feel free to move as is necessary.)
 
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