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Mushtaq Bilal, PhD

Aug 2, 2023 • 16 tweets • 6 min read • Read on X

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Literature reviews take a lot of time and effort.

Here's a new Consensus+Zotero workflow to supercharge your literature review.

You can learn this workflow in 15 min: twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

Go to consensus(dot)app and sign up for a free account.

This is how your Consensus homepage would like.

Type in your research question in the search bar and press enter.

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Consensus will give you a list of papers related to your research question. It will also give you short summaries of those research papers.

Consensus will also show you if a paper is highly cited or not, if it's a systematic review, or if it's a randomized controlled trial.

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If you think a paper is relevant to your project, click on it and Consensus will give you its abstract.

Read the abstract of the paper and then select "Save."

Consensus will open its List menu for you. Select "My Favorites" and then "Save."

If you ask a Yes/No question, Consensus can also give you a summary of the top ten papers and the consensus of the scientific community about the question.

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Want to learn how you can supercharge your academic writing with AI apps?

I have a complete tutorial of (250+ slides) for you.

It's being used by 3,100+ academics including those at Harvard, Princeton, Yale, and Stanford.

You can get it here:
https://t.co/zAnFeMAEgbefficientacademicwriter.carrd.co
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Save multiple papers to your favorite list.

You can also save papers directly from the search results.

Click on "Save" and then select "My Favorites" and "Save."

Once you have saved enough papers, click on the bookmark icon in the top-right corner and then click on "My Favorites."

Consensus will show you all the papers that you saved and the searches.

Next, open your Zotero.

Click on "File," then "New Collection," and choose a name for your collection.

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Go back to Consensus and open the list of papers that you saved.

Right click anywhere on the screen. Select "Zotero Connector," then "Save to Zotero" and then "Save to Zotero DOI."

Zotero will open its "Item Selector." Click on "Select All" and then "OK."

Now if you go to your… https://t.co/p05A9a4uXOtwitter.com/i/web/status/1…

Zotero will automatically retrieve open-access PDFs of papers and add them to your library.

To read a paper, simply double click on it and Zotero will open it for you.

You can add highlights and also take notes in Zotero.

Limitation of Consensus:

You can only search for topics related to supplements, economics, sleep, social policy, medicine, and mental health.

Consensus offers both free and paid plans. The paid plan costs $7.99 a month.

If you are a student, you can get 40% discount.

You can also get a 20% discount with the code "Mushtaq20."

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Mar 5

A lot of academics still think AI apps generate fake references to papers that don't exist.

They are living in 2023.

You can easily integrate a database of 280M research papers with Claude and ChatGPT to get answers with references to published papers.

Here's how to do it:

1. Go to scite[.]ai/mcp and select Claude ai

Copy the URL given in the second line. Then click on the blue "Add Scite" button.

This will open Claude Connectors. Type in the name Scite and paste the URL in the "Remote MCP" field.

Then click on "Add."

2. This will add a Scite Connector to your Claude.

Scroll down a little and you will see a Scite Connector. Click on "Connect" and log in to your Scite account.

Give Claude permission to access Scite. And that's it.

You will need a paid subscription for Scite to do this.

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Mushtaq Bilal, PhD

@MushtaqBilalPhD

Mar 4

Claude Code will fundamentally change the nature of academic research.

But most academics don't know how to use it.

Here's how to get started on Claude Code (even if you've never coded).

Claude Code for Academics 101:

Before getting started, we need to understand what Claude Code (CC) is.

It's not a simple chatbot.

Think of it as a general-purpose work enviroment that lets you create customized features for your own specific purposes.

It'll become clear by the end of this thread.

1. To get started, go to claude[.]com/download and download the Claude desktop app.

You will need a paid plan.

Select the $20/m one. That'll be enough to get you started.

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Mushtaq Bilal, PhD

@MushtaqBilalPhD

Mar 3

Academics are abandoning ChatGPT for Claude, and for good reason.

Claude is way better than ChatGPT for intellectual work.

But moving to Claude risks losing your work history and memory in ChatGPT.

Here's how to move all your work history and memory from ChatGPT to Claude:

1. Open Claude and click on your profile in the bottom-left corner.

Then click on "Settings" and select "Capabilities."

In Capabilities, look for the "Start Import" button.

Click it and then copy the prompt given on the top.

2. Open ChatGPT and put it on "Thinking."

Then run the prompt you just copied from Claude.

ChatGPT will give you an answer. Copy that.

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Mushtaq Bilal, PhD

@MushtaqBilalPhD

Mar 2

Claude Cowork is set to revolutionize intellectual and academic work.

But most academics don't know how to use it.

Here's how to set up Claude Cowork as your research assistant:

(This workflow will take you only 15 min.)

1. To use Claude Cowork, you'll need to download Claude desktop app.

Go to claude[.]com/download

and download the Claude desktop app.

You'll also need a paid plan for $20/m or $100/m.

Start with $20/m plan.

2. Once you've installed it, open Claude desktop app.

On the top, you will see three options: Chat, Cowork, Code.

Click on "Cowork."

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Mushtaq Bilal, PhD

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Jan 5

How to build an academic writing habit (to write a lot and publish a lot):

In his book "Atomic Habits," James Clear writes about habits that are so small we don’t even notice them, but the power they have over us is immense.

He calls them atomic habits.

Although they are small, building atomic habits is VERY DIFFICULT.

Why?

Clear calls the time between the point we start a habit to the point we start seeing its first results "the plateau of latent potential."

Most people remain stuck within this plateau.

To see the results of any habit, we must cross the plateau of latent potential.

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Mushtaq Bilal, PhD

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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."

In "Tools," click on "Plugins." This will open Zotero's Plugin Manager.

In the Plugin Manager, click on the gear-like icon and select "Install Plugin From File."

Navigate to the XPI file you downloaded and add it.