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Mushtaq Bilal, PhD

Jun 7, 2025 • 11 tweets • 4 min read • Read on X

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Finding papers for literature review, downloading them, and organizing them takes time, a lot of time.

Genspark's Download Agent automates this whole process.

It searches relevant papers, downloads, and organize them in folders with a single prompt.

Here's how to use it:

1. Go to and sign up for a free account. genspark.ai

2. In the search bar, type in your research topic and ask Genspark Super Agent to download relevant papers. That's it.

It will search the web and download the papers.

3. Once it's done, it will give you a link "Download Collection."

Click on it and it will open the collection in its "AI Drive."

Click on a paper and Genspark will open it in a new window. Now you can read it and take notes.

4. You can also ask questions about a given paper.

Hover your cursor in front of a paper and click on "Super Agent."

It will answer your questions with reference to the content of the paper.

5. You can also run a search in Google Scholar and give its link to Genspark Super Agent.

Simply paste the link in the search bar and ask it to download available papers.

It'll do the needful. Please note, it can only download unpaywalled papers.

6. It will download the papers and give you a list to the collection.

Click the link and it will open the collection for you.

To read a paper, simply click on it and Genspark will open it in a new window.

7. Genspark can also convert any papers into a presentation with single prompt.

Click on "AI Slides," upload a paper, and ask it to generate a presentation with the required number of slides.

8. Once it's done, click on "View & Export."

It will open the presentation in new window. You can present from within the app.

You can also export it as a PowerPoint. To do so, click on "Export" in the top-right corner and select "PPTX."

9. Genspark also offers a general purpose "AI Chat."

It has web search and several AI models including ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and DeepSeek.

Select the model you want to and type in your question.

Here it gave me a detailed list of all of my publications and a graph.

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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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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.

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Dec 24, 2025

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

1. Academic Writing as if the Reader Matters by Leonard Cassuto

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)
B-Time: for shallow work like compiling bibliography, etc.
C-Time: for house chores

3. Write Your Dissertation in Fifteen Minutes a Day by Joan Bolker

Excellent tips on how and why you should write zero drafts.

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

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Dec 15, 2025

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.

2. The Foul and the Fragrant by Alain Corbin

Considered a foundational text in smell studies.

Shows how the bourgeois nose associated bad smells with the poor and how deodorization became a tool for state control in 18th and 19th century France.

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Dec 2, 2025

Getting past peer review is a challenge every researcher faces.

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

It gives you a human-level mock peer review so you can polish your paper before submitting it.

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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Libgen, Sci-Hub, and Z-library had millions of pirated academic books and papers.

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!