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Feb 24, 2023 14 tweets 4 min read Read on X
Don't use ChatGPT for academic writing.

Instead, use Paperpal — an AI-powered personal writing assistant.

Especially if your first language is not English:
Go to paperpal.com and sign up.
Now you can either start writing in Paperpal or paste a text you have already written.

Paperpal will evaluate your writing and give you detailed suggestions to improve it.
If English is not your first language, you can write in your own language and Paperpal will translate it for you.

Here I am using Paperpal to translate a passage written in Danish.
You can also install a Paperpal add-in in MS Word.

Click on "Insert" and then "Get Add-ins." A yellow arrow points to th...
Search for the Paperpal add-in, and press "Add." A yellow arrow points to th...
And you will have Paperpal inside MS Word. Paperpal add-in in MS Word.
Paperpal will give you helpful suggestion as you write.

You can write in your own language and get Paperpal to translate it into English.

Paperpal supports following languages:
Bulgarian, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian.
Please note Paperpal's first 500 suggestions are free after which you will have to buy a subscription.
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I just realized Paperpal gives you 500 free suggestions every month.

So, if you use it judiciously, you won't have to pay any money.
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Mapping connections between research topics and publications is a time-consuming task.

NextNet is an AI app that can help you with it. It lets you run visual searches for topics related to life sciences.

It's free and very easy to use: A graph generated by NextNet.
1. Go to getnextnet[.]com and click on "Get NextNet free."

Sign up for a free account.
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Finding research gaps takes a lot of time and labor.

Research Kick can help you with it.

It analyzes millions of papers in Google Scholar, Semantic Scholar, and PubMed to help you find research gaps — in minutes.

Here's how to use it: A screenshot of Research Kick showing that a research question has not been adequately answered in published literature.
1. Go to and click on "Get started."

Sign up with your email or Google account.

To use the app, you will need to buy a subscription plan:

10,000 credits for $9/month
120,000 credits for $99/year researchkick.com
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Select a model you want to use.
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Most AI apps for research need paid subscriptions, but Bohrium is free.

• Integrates Deep Seek with databases containing 160M+ papers.

• Answers questions with references to published papers.

Here's how to use Bohrium to supercharge your literature discovery:
1. Go to bohrium(dot)com and click on "Log in" in the bottom-left corner.

Enter your email to sign up for a free account.
2. In the bottom of the chat box, you will see options for AI models and databases.

Bohrium has integrated databases for natural sciences, engineering, life sciences, and the humanities.

Select "DeepThink" for detailed answers.
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Apps like ChatGPT are unsuitable for scientific research. They generate fake references to papers that don't exist.

So, researchers at Future House built an AI scientist.

It generates detailed literature reviews with references to state-of-the-art research. And it's free.🧵
1. Go to futurehouse[.]org.

Click on "Platform" in the top-right corner. Sign up for a free account.

Future House has four AI agents:

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It'll look up relevant sources, gather evidence, and compose an answer. Click on "Results" to read it.

Hover your cursor over an endnote and it will show you the abstract of the paper cited.

A Crow search takes ~5 min.
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NotebookLM was already one of the best AI apps for academic work.
Now it supports 50+ languages.

• Summarize papers
• Generate audio overviews of papers
• Ask question about papers
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All this in your own language and that too for free.
1. Go to notebooklm[.]google[.]com.

Click on "Create new notebook" and upload a paper.

NotebookLM will give you its summary.
2. Click on "Settings" in the top-right corner and select "Output Language."

From the dropdown menu, select your language and click on "Save."
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This will make the app much more affordable. You can use it to integrate 5 academic databases with ChatGPT.

Here's how to set your OpenAI API key in Chat Academia:
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2. Once you've logged in, click on "Start building" in the top-right corner.

Enter your name and select the level of your technical proficiency. Select "Create organization" and skip the next step.

Then click on "Generate API Key" and your API key will be generated.
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