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Finding research gaps and crafting novel research questions takes a lot of time and labor.
That's why we built Research Kick.
It's an AI powered app that helps you craft compelling research questions and find research gaps in minutes.
Here's how to use it:
1. Go to…
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Don't use ChatGPT for academic research. It creates fake citations to papers that don't even exist.
Instead, use Consensus — an AI-powered search engine designed for academics.
Ask it a question and it'll give you a summary of top 5-10 (real) published papers.
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ChatGPT is everywhere and everyone is using it.
But most academics don't know how to use it *smartly.*
Here's how to use ChatGPT intelligently (and ethically) for academic purposes:
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Don't use ChatGPT for academic research. It creates fake citations to papers that don't even exist.
Instead, use Scite Assistant — an AI-powered app designed for researchers.
It answers your questions with citations to (real) published papers.
Here's how to use it:
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Don't use ChatGPT for academic writing.
Instead, use Paperpal — an AI-powered personal writing assistant.
Especially if your first language is not English:
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Sci Hub is a "pirate" website with 88M research papers freely available.
Using it is not advisable. We should all try to make billion-dollar acdemic publishers richer.
Here's a thread on integrating Zotero with Sci Hub to get free articles.
PLEASE DON'T DO THIS 😉
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Canva is one of the most powerful apps for academic work.
But many academics don't know about it.
Here's a latest Canva feature that will make your work simpler and
life easier...(way easier):
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How to use ChatGPT *smartly* as a personal writing assistant:
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ChatGPT generates fake citations to papers that don't exist.
But there is an AI-powered app that gives you real citations to actually published papers — Scite.
Here's how to use it:
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ChatPDF is an AI-powered app that will make reading journal articles easier and faster.
Simply upload a PDF and start asking it questions.
It's like ChatGPT, but for research papers.
Here's how to use it:
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Thanks to ChatGPT, prompt writing is now a highly valued skill. A tech company is offering $300,000/year to hire a prompt writer.
But most academics don't know much about prompt writing.
Prompt Writing 101: Incremental Prompts
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Nature rejected her paper for not being original,
University of Pennsylvania (her employer) demoted her,
and yesterday Katalin Karikó won the Noble Prize in physiology.
In mid-2000s, Karikó and her Drew Weismann submitted their paper on mRNA (messenger Ribonucleic Acid) to…
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The BEST reference and citation management software for academics: Zotero
But not many academics know how to use it.
Here's how to get started 👇
Zotero 101: A step-by-step guide with visuals 🧵
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Don't use ChatGPT for academic writing. It's not designed for academic purposes and generates fake citations.
Instead, install an AI-powered editor for academic writing inside your MS Word.
Here's how to do it:
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6 incredible resources developed by top universities to help you become a proficient academic writer — totally free:
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Don't ask ChatGPT for references. It generates fake citations to papers that don't exist.
Instead, use R Discovery to stay on top of your field.
It's an AI-powered app and totally free.
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How to use ChatGPT to become a better reader of academic texts:
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How to use ChatGPT ethically to write a perfect first draft (of your journal article, dissertation chapter, etc.):
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ChatGPT creates fake citations. Bing cites sources but not journal articles. So, you can't use them for literature review.
But there's an AI-powered app that will supercharge your literature review — Inciteful.
It's FREE and integrates with Zotero.
Here's how to set it up:
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Zotero is the best citation and reference management app.
It's totally free.
But many folks don't know how to use it.
Here's a tutorial on how to automate your citations and references with Zotero:
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Five dumb ways of using ChatGPT for academic purposes — and five smart:
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Everyone knows about Google Scholar, but very few know there are 90 other academic databases.
SearchSmart is an app that helps you choose the best database for your research. (It's free and was recently featured Nature.)
Here's how to use it:
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You think ChatGPT is impressive?
Wait till you see Microsoft's new Bing. It'll blow you mind away.
Here's a comparison of ChatGPT and Bing for:
• Outlining a research paper
• Brainstorming research questions
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Don't let ChatGPT distract you from other apps currently available for academic writing.
Here's an app especially designed to make academic writing faster and easier — ClioVis:
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ChatGPT will redefine the future of academic research.
But most academics don't know how to use it intelligently.
Here's how to use ChatGPT smartly to supercharge your research:
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ChatGPT generates fake citations to research papers that don't even exist.
But you can make ChatGPT give you references to (real) published papers.
Here's how to do it:
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You can use Canva to convert any document into a presentation.
This will save you a lot time and labor.
Here's how to do it:
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5 books that will help you build healthy academic writing habits (so you can write a lot and publish a lot):
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Five ChatGPT prompts to help you polish your academic writing:
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One of the MOST CHALLENGING parts of any research project: Literature Review
Here's how to fast-track your literature review process using two FREE tools - Zotero and Research Rabbit 👇
A step-by-step guide with visuals 🧵
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Recently, I wrote a bunch of Zotero tutorials that went (mildly) viral on
#AcademicTwitter
.
Thought I'd put them all together so folks can find them easily.
So, here goes 👇
Zotero 101: A meta-thread 🧵
Retweet to share it with your friends/colleagues.
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Literature review is one of the most time-consuming parts of any research project.
Here's a simple workflow that will make you literature review faster and easier.
You can master this workflow in 10min.
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Scholarcy is an AI-powered app that can convert any research paper into a PowerPoint presentation — instantly.
This will save you hours of work.
Here's how to use Scholarcy:
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How to build an academic writing habit (to write a lot and publish a lot):
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How to find out if a text has been written by a human or generated by ChatGPT:
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ResearchGPT is a custom GPT especially designed for researchers.
It has a database of 282 million research articles and it answers your questions with references to published articles.
No fake citations.
Here's how to use it:
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Jenni is an AI-powered app that will revolutionize your academic writing — think of it as ChatGPT x 10.
But most academics don't know about it.
Here's what Jenni is capable of (and how to use it):
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Tired of spending hours and hours on how to start your literature review?
You can make is FAST and EASY using an AI-powered tool called Elicit.
Here's how to do it 👇
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Doing a literature review takes time — a lot of time.
Here's a Zotero+Research Rabbit workflow that will your literature review FASTER and EASIER:
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ChatGPT's latest version, GPT-4, is now available and Microsoft is planning to put it *inside* MS Word.
But most academics still don't know how to use these apps smartly.
Here are five ways you can use ChatGPT intelligently for teaching and academic purposes (prompts included):
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Don't use ChatGPT for academic writing.
Instead, use Trinka — an AI-powered personal assistant designed for academic writing.
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Every academic knows that the BEST software for citation and reference management is Zotero.
BUT many folks don't know how to take notes and annotate PDFs in Zotero.
Here's how to get started 👇
Zotero Annotations 101: A step-by-step guide with visuals 🧵
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SciSpace is an AI-powered tool that will make reading research papers easier and faster. It's like ChatGPT for research papers.
Simply upload a paper and start asking it questions.
Best part: it's totally FREE!
Here's how to use it:
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5 dumb things I did during my PhD...and 5 smart:
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Zotero is the best citation management software — it's free and does not monetize your data
But many folks have a hard time starting out on it.
Here's how you can get started on Zotero in 15min:
Zotero for beginners: a step-by-step tutorial 🧵
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How to write a perfect first draft (of your journal article, dissertation chapter, etc.):
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Forget Google Scholar. Here are seven AI-powered apps to fast-track your literature review.
1. Research Rabbit
2. Connected Papers
3. Inciteful
4. Litmaps
5. Elicit
6. Iris
7. Scite
Below is a comparison to help you choose the best one for your work:
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A question that every academic asks: which journal should I submit my article to?
To help academics decide, Taylor & Francis has developed an amazing tool called "Journal Suggester."
Here's how to use it 👇
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Literature review is one of the most time-consuming parts of any research project.
Here's a new Zotero+SciSummary workflow to supercharge your literature review.
It'll help you collect, organize, and summarize papers in a fraction of a time.
You can learn it in 15 min:
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This photo of 52 books is circulating on Twitter.
I have a PhD in literature with a focus on literary genres.
Here's my take as a literary scholar:
Read any one of these and you'll have read them all.
They're all the same.
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How to MOVE your Mendeley library to Zotero:
A step-by-step guide with visuals 🧵
Why move, you ask?
Elsevier is SHUTTING DOWN Mendeley Desktop app on Sept. 1, 2022 😱
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☹️Google Scholar is a great tool. But it doesn't show how papers are connected with each other.
😀Here's how to fast-track your literature review with a "visual search."
And export your papers to Zotero, Mendeley, or EndNote.
You can learn this workflow in 15 min:
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If ChatGPT and Google Scholar got married, their child would be Consensus — an AI-powered search engine.
Here's how to use it:
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Don't let ChatGPT and Bing distract you from many other wonderful AI-powered apps.
Here's a FREE tool you can use to create summaries of journal articles — Casper:
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Free academic writing resources developed by the University of York (UK):
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Doing a literature review takes time — a lot of time.
Here's a new workflow that will supercharge your literature review.
You can learn this workflow in 15 min.
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GPTKit(dot)ai is a brilliant tool to detect if a text is generated by ChatGPT or written by a human.
Especially useful for teachers/educators:
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Here's how to supercharge your literature review using an AI-powered app called Litmaps:
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Thanks to ChatGPT, hundreds of AI apps are being released every week now.
But very few of them are meant for academic purposes.
Here are 15 AI-powered apps to supercharge your academic writing and reading — with free tutorials:
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How to use ChatGPT intelligently and ethically for academic purposes:
A collection of my 7 (viral) threads 👇
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ChatGPT prompts to help you with academic reading and writing:
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Two AI-powered apps that will make your literature review easier and faster — Consensus and Lateral.
Here's how to use them:
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1. Outline for a research/seminar paper
Example prompt:
Topic: Pakistan-US relations during last 20 years
Context: Graduate seminar at School of Advanced International Studies
Requirement: Outline for a seminar paper with research questions
Language: Academic
Tone: Formal
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Zero draft is a critical part of the academic writing process.
But a lot of folks ignore it and run into all sorts of problems including the writer's block.
Here's what a zero draft is and why you should write one:
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Here's a Zotero+Research Rabbit workflow that you can master in 25min to make your literature review process super-smooth:
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ChatGPT just introduced custom GPTs. Now you can make ChatGPT a reliable research assistant.
Here's how to create your personal AI-powered research assistant in less than 10 minutes:
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How to use ChatGPT smartly to supercharge your academic writing (complete prompts included):
[This process involves no cheating and no plagiarism.]
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Started following me recently?
Here are 8 AI-powered apps that will make your academic research easier and faster 👇
Combine
artificial intelligence
with your
natural intelligence
and you'll be unstoppable
🎵Porsche with no brakes🎵
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Reading research papers takes time — a lot of time.
Google Bard can summarize research papers for you in seconds. And you can ask Bard questions about them too.
Best part: Bard is totally free.
Here's how to use Bard to supercharge your academic reading:
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Don't ask ChatGPT any medical questions. It generates fake citations to papers that don't even exist. (These are ChatGPT's "hallucinations.")
Instead, use Evidence Hunt.
It's a free AI-powered app that answers your clinical questions with citations to real, published papers.
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Databases like Google Scholar have limited functionality. They let you use *only* keywords to search articles.
But what if you want to look up articles based on a whole paragraph, or your notes?
Sourcely is an AI-powered app that helps you do that.
Here's how to use it:
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The academic writing website that received more than 240 million visits last year: Purdue's Online Writing Lab (OWL).
The OWL hosts a wealth of FREE resources on:
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Looks like Google Scholar is going to die soon.
I just got access to Elicit beta, an AI-powered search engine for academic research.
It's like (ChatGPT + Google Scholar) x 10.
And totally FREE!
Here's how Elicit will revolutionize the way we search academic literature:
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Finding the right journal for your article can be tricky, especially for PhDs and early career researchers.
Here are 9 tools you can use to find the perfect home for your article:
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The model that helped me:
• Finish my dissertation in 12 months
• Publish 4 single-authored journal articles
• Gain 115k+ followers on Twitter in 10 months
is called the Bamboo Growth Model.
Here's how it works:
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Doing a literature review takes a lot of time and effort.
Here's a new AI-powered workflow that will supercharge your literature reivew.
You can learn it in less than 15 min:
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Everyone knows about ChatGPT but very few know about Typing Mind.
It will make your ChatGPT experience better, easier, faster.
Think of it as ChatGPT 2.0
Here's how to set it up:
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Microsoft in investing $10 billion in ChatGPT.
This will completely change the way we search the web.
What does it mean for the future of academia:
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How to use ChatGPT intelligently to prepare for an interview (for a scholarship, job, etc.):
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Don't use ChatGPT for scientific research. It generates fake citations to papers that don't even exist.
Instead, use System Pro — a AI-powered search engine designed for research.
Ask it a question and it'll give you a summary of relevant (published) papers with citations.
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Finding the right journal for your article is always tricky (especially for PhDs and early career researchers).
Here are 10 tools that will help you find the perfect home for your article:
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How I trained ChatGPT to think like a Stanford professor:
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ChatGPT's latest version GPT-4 is a great teaching and writing assistant.
If used properly, it can save you a lot of time and labor.
But most folks don't know much about it.
Here's how to use GPT-4 as a teaching/writing assistant:
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5 FREE tools to help you become a proficient academic researcher (plus FREE tutorials):
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Mind the Graph is a brilliant app for creating scientific illustrations.
Think of it as Canva for science teachers and students.
Here's how to use it:
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How I finished my PhD dissertation in 12 months:
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This is unbelievable!
Kurt Wüthrich, an 84-year-old, Swiss, male scientist, who won the Nobel Prize in 2002 claims that "as a male scientist" he has "a feeling of discrimination."
He said this during the 72nd Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting on a panel that had four old, male…
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Connected Papers will make your literature review process super-efficient.
Here's how to use it (to save your time and energy):
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Scholarcy is an AI-powered app to help you with academic reading — think of it as your personal reading assistant.
But most academics don't know much about it.
Here's how to supercharge your reading with Scholarcy:
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Every PhD student has to choose a supervisor. But few know how to.
Joan Bolker, EdD, counseled PhD students for 30+ years at Harvard, MIT, and Brandeis.
Here is her advice on how to choose a supervisor:
(Reposting for folks who started following me recently)
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One of the BEST (and most powerful) apps for note-taking for academics: OBSIDIAN
But most folks don't know how to use it.
Here's how to get started 👇
Obsidian 101: A step-by-step guide with visuals 🧵
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Two bad habits that held me back the most during my PhD...(and how I broke them):
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How to write a winning personal statement for a Master's/PhD scholarship:
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Jenni, the AI-powered assistant for academic writing, just got BETTER and SMARTER.
It'll make writing way easier for you because academic publishers now ACCEPT AI-generated text in journal articles.
Check out Jenni's new features below:
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A challenge that every graduate student faces: how to read difficult research articles.
Here's how to understand research articles better using an AI-powered app (no cheating although it may feel like it 😀):
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Do you spend hours formatting your citations and references manually?
You can automate them with an app called Zotero.
Best part: it's FREE!
Here's how to do it:
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One of the most efficient apps to kickstart your literature review: Inciteful
Here's how to use it 👇
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5 AI-powered apps to supercharge your literature review process in 2023 (with my free tutorials):
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