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Don't use ChatGPT to just summarise text - It can do so much more!

This mindblowing prompt will turn your text into a DIAGRAM!

Here's a tutorial how to do it for FREE:
(It even works inside your Obsidian notes)
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There is a little known technology called MERMAID.JS

Mermaid represents graphs as text.

ChatGTP is good at text - Exactly what we need!

Prompt ChatGPT to create a mermaid diagram.

(click "ALT" on the bottom left of the image to copy paste the prompt) Given the text below, break...
ChatGPT will output a (mermaid) code that you can use.

Copy it with one click, using the button on the top right. Image
Open @drawio (a free tool for diagrams) or use @obsdmd (a note taking tool, described next tweet).

Click Arrange > Insert > Advanced > Mermaid...

Paste the Mermaid Code into the dialog. ImageImage
@drawio @obsdmd Your diagram will look something like this:

I love using diagrams to help myself understand complex topics.

You can use this trick on multiple abstracts and join them together in one big diagram. Image
@drawio @obsdmd Visual planning was one of the things that helped me the most with my PhD

@drawio @obsdmd If you use @obsdmd for your notes you can integrate these diagrams directly into your notes.

Type in
```mermaid
{paste mermaid code}
```

Obsidian renders it as a diagram. ImageImage
@drawio @obsdmd In Obsidian you can use PROMPT TEMPLATES.

Create a template with this prompt.

Then you can use it on YOUR OWN NOTES directly in Obsidian.

Here is how:
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May 24
This tool improves academic writing better than ChatGPT.

Paperpal is trained on millions of academic papers.

Here is how and when to use it:
(with nuanced examples especially ecologists will appreciate)
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1. Go to Paperpal(dot)com

Sign up for @teampaperpal - it's FREE to get started.

You will be able to work on roughly one decently sized academic paper per month on the free account. (more info on pricing in 8. and 9.)

Click the button on the top right to get started
@teampaperpal 2. Get AI suggestions

- Select "Paperpal Web" in the left menu
- Copy & Paste your draft manuscript
- Paperpal will generate suggestions on the right

Click on any of the suggestions Image
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May 23
Need to find a paper but don’t remember title or author?

This happened to me last journal club.

Here’s how I found it in just 20 seconds:
(using 3 simple strategies)
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1. The paper we discussed deals with fragmentation of wildlife habitats.

One figure particulalry reminded me of a paper I read 6 months ago.

But how do you find something based on an image!? You can't just search for it.

Luckily this paper also mentions BIODIVERSITY. ImageImage
2. Biodiversity is a CENTRAL concept in my notes.

So I opened the note on Biodiversity,
This led me to β-diversity (a related concept)
here I found Mori 2018 (an important/central paper for me)

Naturally, the paper I am looking for might be tied in here as well

~10 seconds
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May 22
This has been a long time coming.

A panel discussion between Elsevier's Editor-In-Chief and an AI Ethicist.

What is the role of ChatGPT in academic publishing?

More details & how to register for FREE in this thread:
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Every publisher and scientist this year is asking the same question:

How to deal with ChatGPT in publications?

Recently, Elsevier issued guidelines on this.

But as AI gets smarter, what will the FUTURE of publication look like? And how will publishers deal with it? Image
The key points of this event's agenda for me are:

- Uses/limitations of AI in academia
- Bias, accuracy and privacy issues
- Potential for loss of creativity/critical thinking
- Plagiarism
- Issues of accountability/ownership
- Impact on peer review and journal reputation
Read 5 tweets
May 17
There are currently 4,278 AI tools available.

As an academic I use only 5 regularly for my research.

Here's why I use them and their tutorials:
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Training a Large Langauge Model like ChatGPT is EXTREMELY expensive (upper estimate: ~$200M).

Why are there so many tools?

Because they mostly just talk to (the same) ChatGPT model.

Very few tools have their own fine-tuned models.

These tend to be the remarkable ones.
1. @perplexity_ai for searching

As a computer scientist doing ecology, I can ask plain-text ecological questions:
- it points me to the right papers and
- uses the right terminology (that I am not yet used to).

Read 10 tweets
May 16
This AI tool helps students prepare for exams.

Studywand turns notes, PDFs or PPTs into flashcards.

Here is how it works:
(and improves test scores by 19%)
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1. Go to studywand(dot)com

Create a free account. You can try it out for free without paying.

Studywand will ask you to upload a Powerpoint or PDF.

I uploaded some old slides on DNA sequencing. ImageImage
2. Quiz generation

It takes a few minutes - but eventualy studywand generated a quiz with 21 questions.

Mostly multiple choice and fill in the blanks type of questions.

Here are a few examples: ImageImageImage
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May 14
3 Strategies for better academic note taking.

Read the full article, or the short version in the thread below:
(Also an explanation on frying eggs!)
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Strategy 1: Conceptual notes

Imagine 3 groups of scientists publish three articles:

"On Frying the Perfect Egg" - Scrambleworth 2022
"How to Boil Potatoes" - McPeeler 1999
"A Novel Protocol to Bake Pizza" - Calzone et al 2010

You are intrigued and start taking notes...
❌ Most common way:
Take 3 notes on the 3 papers - these notes are SEQUENTIAL.

What you now have is a RECIPE book.

You can quickly look up the results, but it is not novel.

Your notes don't help your creativity.
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