A number of communities use scheduled threads to help get discussion started, and I thought this community could benefit from something like that. It reduces the pressure on individual users to be the first one to post a discussion post, since this community is mostly news/research articles.

It could be to chat about how things are going professionally, to share stories from that week, to discuss a piece of news/research in depth, etc.

If this sounds good to you, how often should the threads be scheduled? Any other considerations?