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Mushtaq Bilal, PhD

May 5, 2023 • 14 tweets • 4 min read • Read on X

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Keenious is an AI-powered app that will supercharge your academic reading and writing.

It's your personal research assistant inside MS Word and will save you a lot of time and labor.

But most academics don't know much about it.

Here's how to get started on Keenious:

Go to keenious(dot)com and sign up for a free account by clicking on "Get Keenious!" in the top-right corner.

This is how the your Keenious homepage would look like.

You can look up research articles using complete text of a paper.

This option is not available in Google Scholar and many other AI-powered apps.

Here I am uploading a PDF of a journal article.

Keenious has suggested papers based on the whole text of the article I uploaded.

Keenious lets you filter these article by citation count.

For example, here I am filtering articles that have more than 10 citations.

You can also filter articles by time period.

Here I am filtering articles that were published between 2020 and 2023.

Keenious does not just work with published articles.

You can upload your own unpublished draft and Keenious will help you find relevant articles.

Here I am uploading the draft of an article.

Keenious doesn't have any word limits.

Simply click on the title of a suggested article and Keenious will open its abstract for you.

Want to learn about more AI-powered apps to supercharge your your academic writing?

I have a complete tutorial for you. It has 14 modules and 250+ slides.

It's being used by academics at Harvard, Stanford, and Columbia.

You can get it here:
efficientacademicwriter.carrd.co

Best thing about Keenious: You can put in inside your MS Word.

To do so, open your MS Word and click on "Insert" and then "Get Add-ins."

Type in "Keenious" in the search bar and click on "Add."

Keenious will open its "Research Explorer" inside your MS Word.

Now you can look up papers relevant to your draft from within MS Word.

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Don't use Sci-Hub — it's a "controversial" website with 84M+ research papers freely available.

We should all try to make billion-dollar academic publishers richer.

Anyway, here's a thread on how to integrate Sci-Hub with Zotero to get free papers.

🚨DO NOT DO IT!

1. Don't go to this link:
github(dot)com/syt2/zotero-scipdf

But if you do, replace the word "dot" with an actual [.]

Don't scroll down and click on "latest release xpi file."

This will download an "xpi" file to your computer.

2. Don't open your Zotero. But if you do, click on "Tools."

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10 books to help you become a better academic writer so you can write a lot and publish a lot:

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Practical tips on how to make your academic writing more engaging and readable. Examples from the arts and sciences.

2. The Clockwork Muse by Eviatar Zerubavel

Helpful advice on how to organize your writing process in terms of time.

A-Time: for writing new material (deep work)
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3. Write Your Dissertation in Fifteen Minutes a Day by Joan Bolker

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Teaches you how to understand different stages of the writing process from ideation to drafting to revision.

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Dr Ally Louks's viral PhD thesis (130M views) on the politics of smell redefined the way people talk about smell.

Everyone wants to read her thesis, but it's unavailable until 2028

Here are 10 books on the politics of smell that you can read right now:

1. The Smell of Slavery

1. The Smell of Slavery by Andrew Kettler

Shows how white slave owners defined Black, African bodies as noxious and deserving of enslavement.

Smell was used to dehumanize Black folks who were equated with animals by white slave owners.

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Stanford researchers recently launched a free AI-powered Agentic Review that can help you with it.

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Check it out 👇

1. Go to paperreview[.]ai and upload your manuscript.

Enter your email and specify your target venue (conference or journal).

You may also want to copy the "Review Token" in case you don't receive an email.

2. A few minutes later you will receive an email with a link to the review report.

Go through the review report and revise your paper according to the suggestions you think are most relevant.

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So, they were shut down. We shouldn't use them anyway.

We should help billion-dollar academic publishers get richer.

Anyway, here's how to access these libraries:

Don't do this!

1. Don't go to open-slum[.]org.

Because there you will see links to LibGen, Anna's Archive, Z-Library, and Sci-Hub.

2. Don't click any link because that will open your desired library.

Don't type the title of a book you want to read because it might show up.

Look at this, someone has pirated my own book. I'm livid!