Thread by @AshGosain

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Following last week’s #ASC2020 Panel on How to Master the Digital Age from @mkitano7 @LillianErdahlMD @heatheryeomd #SundeepKeswani and myself, I received many requests to share my tips/tricks on Digital Tools to Support Your Research Program.

@mkitano7 @LillianErdahlMD @heatheryeomd @UnivSurg @AcademicSurgery @AsianAcadSurg @SurgeryUTHSC @UTHSCResearch 2/13
Caveats: a) My first tweetorial, be gentle. b) Recognize that this is not comprehensive and only highlights the tools that are currently working for me & my team. If you have suggestions, I’m always looking for ways to improve.

@mkitano7 @LillianErdahlMD @heatheryeomd @UnivSurg @AcademicSurgery @AsianAcadSurg @SurgeryUTHSC @UTHSCResearch 3/13
Centralized task management 1. We are all super-busy and it is east to lose track of things or prioritize incorrectly. Pick a task management system, learn it, use it. I use GTD @gtdguy but others exist (MYN, Kanban, etc.)

@mkitano7 @LillianErdahlMD @heatheryeomd @UnivSurg @AcademicSurgery @AsianAcadSurg @SurgeryUTHSC @UTHSCResearch @gtdguy 4/13
Centralized task management 2. Find a cross-platform/platform-agnostic way to operationalize your task management system. I use @trello Others: @todoist @asana @anydo - Central tenets: platform-agnostic so you can use it anywhere, shareable with your team.

@mkitano7 @LillianErdahlMD @heatheryeomd @UnivSurg @AcademicSurgery @AsianAcadSurg @SurgeryUTHSC @UTHSCResearch @gtdguy @trello @todoist @asana @Anydo 5/13
Embrace digital 1. Send tasks that need to be done to your task management system (don’t use your inbox as a to-do list). Get rid of paper. Scan in paper documents that need to be saved with a scanner or app @ScanSnap @thegrizzlylabs

@mkitano7 @LillianErdahlMD @heatheryeomd @UnivSurg @AcademicSurgery @AsianAcadSurg @SurgeryUTHSC @UTHSCResearch @gtdguy @trello @todoist @asana @Anydo @ScanSnap @thegrizzlylabs 6/13
Embrace digital 2. Don’t let your location limit your productivity. Use your institutions’ cloud services to sync everything everywhere. @onedrive @box @dropbox @googledrive Make sure what you use is #HIPAA compliant if needed.

@mkitano7 @LillianErdahlMD @heatheryeomd @UnivSurg @AcademicSurgery @AsianAcadSurg @SurgeryUTHSC @UTHSCResearch @gtdguy @trello @todoist @asana @Anydo @ScanSnap @thegrizzlylabs @onedrive @Box @Dropbox @googledrive 7/13
Use #MyNCBI tools from @ncbi – MyBibliography to track your pubs; SciENcv to keep @NIH biosketches ready to go (with modular contribution to science sections) and Saved Searches to automate keeping up with the literature.

@mkitano7 @LillianErdahlMD @heatheryeomd @UnivSurg @AcademicSurgery @AsianAcadSurg @SurgeryUTHSC @UTHSCResearch @gtdguy @trello @todoist @asana @Anydo @ScanSnap @thegrizzlylabs @onedrive @Box @Dropbox @googledrive @NCBI @NIH 8/13
Check in on your science like you check in on your patients (remotely). Electronic Lab Notebooks. Centralized data, protocols, inventory. These improve data integrity as people come/go from the lab. Lots of choices, we use @LabArchives

@mkitano7 @LillianErdahlMD @heatheryeomd @UnivSurg @AcademicSurgery @AsianAcadSurg @SurgeryUTHSC @UTHSCResearch @gtdguy @trello @todoist @asana @Anydo @ScanSnap @thegrizzlylabs @onedrive @Box @Dropbox @googledrive @NCBI @NIH @LabArchives 9/13
Move to synchronous communication. Email is asynchronous, inefficient for small/short messages, & easy to miss people or include too many people (Reply All). For short/rapid communication w/ your team, using something like @SlackHQ @MicrosoftTeams

@mkitano7 @LillianErdahlMD @heatheryeomd @UnivSurg @AcademicSurgery @AsianAcadSurg @SurgeryUTHSC @UTHSCResearch @gtdguy @trello @todoist @asana @Anydo @ScanSnap @thegrizzlylabs @onedrive @Box @Dropbox @googledrive @NCBI @NIH @LabArchives @SlackHQ @MicrosoftTeams 10/13
Measure your success. Needed for P&T. Pick your journals wisely using Journal Citation Reports; track how often you are cited #hindex with @googlescholar @scopus ; Use @altmetric to generate buzz that may/not correlate with later citations (varies by field)

@mkitano7 @LillianErdahlMD @heatheryeomd @UnivSurg @AcademicSurgery @AsianAcadSurg @SurgeryUTHSC @UTHSCResearch @gtdguy @trello @todoist @asana @Anydo @ScanSnap @thegrizzlylabs @onedrive @Box @Dropbox @googledrive @NCBI @NIH @LabArchives @SlackHQ @MicrosoftTeams @GoogleScholar @Scopus @altmetric 11/13
Develop your Research Brand 1. Make it clear to others how they should define you. This is equal parts research focus and career vision. How? Get results, publish papers, & give talks that all map to your central theme. (your Biosketch also tells this story)

@mkitano7 @LillianErdahlMD @heatheryeomd @UnivSurg @AcademicSurgery @AsianAcadSurg @SurgeryUTHSC @UTHSCResearch @gtdguy @trello @todoist @asana @Anydo @ScanSnap @thegrizzlylabs @onedrive @Box @Dropbox @googledrive @NCBI @NIH @LabArchives @SlackHQ @MicrosoftTeams @GoogleScholar @Scopus @altmetric 12/13
Develop your Research Brand 2. Develop your online presence @twitter @facebook @google – Make and host a research website and use #QRCode to drive traffic where you want it. They can point to websites, PDFs of talks/papers, Twitter, etc.

@mkitano7 @LillianErdahlMD @heatheryeomd @UnivSurg @AcademicSurgery @AsianAcadSurg @SurgeryUTHSC @UTHSCResearch @gtdguy @trello @todoist @asana @Anydo @ScanSnap @thegrizzlylabs @onedrive @Box @Dropbox @googledrive @NCBI @NIH @LabArchives @SlackHQ @MicrosoftTeams @GoogleScholar @Scopus @altmetric @Twitter @Facebook @Google 13/13
I could go on for days, but really want to hear what others are doing and how I can do better.
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