Academic discussion lists, often known as listservs, are email-based communities that are used to exchange news, information and ideas. If you find one that is well-moderated and closely related to your research interests it can be a very useful means of keeping in touch with your international community and finding out about conferences, grants and jobs as well as keeping up with the latest thinking in your field.
Catalist is a very extensive catalogue of discussion lists and is worth searching to see if there are any in your area. Be warned that many of the lists you find may be quite small or localised.
JISCmail is a UK-based collection of academic mailing lists, many of which are international in scope.
In the humanities and social sciences H-Net is a US-based collection of several hundred lists.
Many learned societies also operate discussion lists which can be an excellent source of news and views. You should check the websites of the scholarly societies in your discipline.
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