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Jan 8 12 tweets 19 min read
This is what AI can do today, #ScienceTwitter:

⏵ Discover new literature
⏵ Understand and summarise, even math
⏵ Write your papers

The game is changing – fast.

Here's my list of the 9 essential AI tools in research:
(With prices and use-cases)
👇
🧭 | @LitmapsApp

Discover similar papers from one ore more publications.
Will often display fewer (more relevant?) papers, compared to other apps.
Intuitively guides through the discovery process.

✔︎ Effortless Literature Discovery
💲Free for small maps, then 10$/mo
@LitmapsApp 🧭 | @RsrchRabbit

Upload your research library and ask to find similar papers.
Very thorough and fast but results in huge amounts of results.
The software takes some time to get used to.

✔︎ Thorough literature review
💲Free
@LitmapsApp @RsrchRabbit 🧭 | @ConnectedPapers

Select a paper and display similar ones in a graph.
Close papers in the graph are similar. (Closeness is based on co-citation and similar bibliographies).

✔︎ Initial discovery of literature
💲Free for graphs built from 1 paper, 3$/mo
@LitmapsApp @RsrchRabbit @ConnectedPapers 🤓 | @paper_digest

Upload your paper and get a 3-min overview consisting of:

- Summary
- What I can learn
- Discussion

✔︎ Quickly get the idea of what a paper is about
💲Free
@LitmapsApp @RsrchRabbit @ConnectedPapers @paper_digest 🤓 | @scispace_

Upload a PDF.
Highlight passages and let an AI summarise them.
Use natural language to ask detailed questions about the content.

✔︎ Understand details of complicated papers (even math)
💲Free (with caps on usage), 8$/mo
@LitmapsApp @RsrchRabbit @ConnectedPapers @paper_digest @scispace_ 🤓 | @ConsensusNLP

Type in a question about a topic (in natural language).
An AI will find snippets from research papers related to your query.
Learn about controversial opinions and their sources.

✔︎ Gather papers for debated questions
💲Free
@LitmapsApp @RsrchRabbit @ConnectedPapers @paper_digest @scispace_ @ConsensusNLP ✍️ | @openai

Give the AI some context (your notes), describe the text you want to have e.g. "100 words" and ask it to write.

The results will blow your mind.
But: Double check facts.

✔︎ First drafts, shortening and paraphrasing, non-native speakers.
💲Free
@LitmapsApp @RsrchRabbit @ConnectedPapers @paper_digest @scispace_ @ConsensusNLP @OpenAI ✍️ | @Writefullapp

Uses AI to paraphrase and write parts of your research paper.
Integrates with MS Word & Overleaf.
Feels like a writing companion.

✔︎ Polishing manuscripts
💲free for a limited number of uses, 6-16$ monthly
@LitmapsApp @RsrchRabbit @ConnectedPapers @paper_digest @scispace_ @ConsensusNLP @OpenAI @Writefullapp ✍️ | @penelopedotai

Upload a manuscript to quickly check if it fulfils journal requirements.
Automatically checks for common mistakes and generates a report.

✔ ︎Pre submission check of your manuscript
💲high setup costs + 1-2$ per check
@LitmapsApp @RsrchRabbit @ConnectedPapers @paper_digest @scispace_ @ConsensusNLP @OpenAI @Writefullapp @penelopedotai All the tools:

⏵ Literature discovery: @RsrchRabbit, @LitmapsApp, @ConnectedPapers

⏵ Understanding: @paper_digest, @scispace_, @ConsensusNLP

⏵ Writing: @Writefullapp, @OpenAI, @penelopedotai

Give a ♥ ︎in the thread to the tools, you'd like to see a tutorial on!
@LitmapsApp @RsrchRabbit @ConnectedPapers @paper_digest @scispace_ @ConsensusNLP @OpenAI @Writefullapp @penelopedotai Doesn't it feel like "the future" to see all these new tools?

Use AI to eliminate tedium and make time for exciting research.

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Jan 7
Finding 200 papers for your research is easy.

What is NOT easy:
• Make sense of it 🤔
• Finding holes in the literature 🕳️
• Making a novel contribution 😵

I just learned about "Discourse Graphs".
A super powerful, visual technique, that helps.

Here's how I use it:
👇
Chefs use recipes to get from ingredients to dinner.

Your ingredients: papers & books,

Your dinner: the publication.

How do we prepare, marinate, cook and arrange our ingredients to get a great publication?

That's what we need the Discourse Graph for!
1. What is it?

A visual way of thinking, developed by @joelchan86

We represent information as: a statement, claim, question or context.

We connect information e.g. "a statement can inform a question"

Just these simple rules.

Visually it looks something like this:
Read 19 tweets
Jan 6
Declining Disruption.

#ScienceTwitter is abuzz with this recently published nature article.

I read into the study and 100s of comments.
Consensus: Grants and journals are to blame.

But the authors give a much better, more personal insights.

Here's what I learned:
👇
💡Define Disruption:

Suppose I publish a study S that cites X,Y,Z.

If disruptive:
Subsequent work will cite S primarily, as X,Y,Z are "obsolete".

Consolidating:
S,X,Y and Z will be cited. As all are still relevant.

They validate it using many studies from 20th century.
Reason 1: Decline in Diversity

We become "super nerds".
It makes our steps safer, but smaller.

Read "The Age of Insight" to learn how artists, psychologists and doctors all mingled in salons more than a century ago.

Maybe it's time to rediscover the connection to the arts?
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Jan 5
Tired of the same old bar graphs and line plots, #ScienceTwitter?

Here are 5 lesser-known but powerful graphical methods for visualizing your next publication.

👇 Image
1 – SANKEY DIAGRAM

Great for displaying dynamic processes or flows in a graph.

Example: Flow of immigrants and emigrants to and from a country.

The favourite diagram of marketers optimizing conversion rates of their customers. Image
2 – TERNARY DIAGRAM

Measured 3 components of something and they sum up to a constant (e.g. 100%)?

Then display this three dimensional data in a two dimensional triangle, without loosing any information.

Example: Soil Composition or relative sources of Income Image
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Jan 4
PhD Planning Masterclass:

Have you heard of a Kanban Board?

✅ 90% of companies use this visual Japanese planning tool.
❌ Most academics, never heard of it.

Here's my project-manager-turned-phd guide.
Merge pdfs, notes & planning into a single system:
🧵⬇️

#AcademicChatter
This is part 2️⃣ of the tutorial.

In the first part we made a coarse strategic plan.

In this part we are going into more detail to the level of tasks.

Here is the first "high-level" planning tutorial:
⚡️ Break Down your tasks

To get from strategy to action, we break down our tasks.

Subdivide until they are small & actionable.

Ideal size per task: 2-4 hrs.

An example from my PhD.

We break down the big, strategic task:
"Predicting the Future of a New Zealand Forest" 🌳
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Jan 2
I made a poll in #AcademicTwitter.

❌ More than 80% don't know this tool yet (p < 0.05).

So here is a beginners guide to @authorea,
an online tool to write your papers.

If you haven't heard of it, you will love it.

⬇️ 🎥 🏞️

#AcademicChatter #ScienceTwitter Image
@authorea @authorea makes writing a paper with multiple authors easy.

No more emailing files back and forth.

Make an account on Authorea . com

Price:
• Free for <10 documents
• 10$ / mo for unlimited
• 100$ / mo to publish and get a DOI

Once logged in, hit the + button at the top. Image
@authorea 2. EDITING

As simple as Word or Google Docs,
with all your academic needs taken care of.

Hit the "insert" button at the top to add:

☑︎ Citations
☑︎ Formulae (Latex)
☑︎ Figures
☑︎ Tables Image
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Jan 1
Hey #AcademicTwitter

Collaborating on your paper/thesis/manuscript 🧑‍🤝‍🧑.

How do you do it?

Asking for a friend.

#AcademicChatter #ScienceTwitter
Wow so much participation, thank you everyone one.

I made a small tutorial on the "other" section. Coming in a tiny bit.

Also curious to hear the experiences, what annoys you about the current workflow.
Google Docs won!

You are then ready for the "Google Docs for Academics"

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