Mushtaq Bilal, PhD
@MushtaqBilalPhD
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I simplify the process of academic writing | Helped 5,000+ become efficient academic writers with AI | 2,000+ using https://t.co/SKfrXx2V5q | Work @SyddanskUni
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Joined April 2022
We recently launched a new version Research Kick Chat. It lets you integrate ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Deep Seek with academic databases. With just a couple of clicks. No other app gives you this flexibility and versatility. Here's how to use it:.
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Dr. Ally Louks's PhD thesis is set to be one of the most influential theses of 21st century. Puts forward an original argument with remarkable clarity. Already has 85M+ views on X/Twitter. Most people criticizing her don't understand her argument at all. I have a PhD in
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Don't use ChatGPT for academic research. It creates fake citations to papers that don't even exist. Instead, use Consensus — an AI-powered search engine designed for academics. Ask it a question and it'll give you a summary of top 5-10 (real) published papers.
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ChatGPT is everywhere and everyone is using it. But most academics don't know how to use it *smartly.*. Here's how to use ChatGPT intelligently (and ethically) for academic purposes:.
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Don't use ChatGPT for academic research. It creates fake citations to papers that don't even exist. Instead, use Scite Assistant — an AI-powered app designed for researchers. It answers your questions with citations to (real) published papers. Here's how to use it:.
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Don't use ChatGPT for academic writing. Instead, use Paperpal — an AI-powered personal writing assistant. Especially if your first language is not English:.
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Sci Hub is a "pirate" website with 88M research papers freely available. Using it is not advisable. We should all try to make billion-dollar acdemic publishers richer. Here's a thread on integrating Zotero with Sci Hub to get free articles. PLEASE DON'T DO THIS 😉.
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Left: Dude wanted to study poetry and philosophy. Betrayed his true self and went to MIT, became a neurosurgeon, made a lot of money. Bought cars and played video games to feel fulfilled. Nothing worked. Became an alcoholic. Right: Woman earned a PhD in English literature, wrote
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Canva is one of the most powerful apps for academic work. But many academics don't know about it. Here's a latest Canva feature that will make your work simpler and. life easier. (way easier):.
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How to use ChatGPT *smartly* as a personal writing assistant:.
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ChatGPT generates fake citations to papers that don't exist. But there is an AI-powered app that gives you real citations to actually published papers — Scite. Here's how to use it:.
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ChatPDF is an AI-powered app that will make reading journal articles easier and faster. Simply upload a PDF and start asking it questions. It's like ChatGPT, but for research papers. Here's how to use it:.
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Thanks to ChatGPT, prompt writing is now a highly valued skill. A tech company is offering $300,000/year to hire a prompt writer. But most academics don't know much about prompt writing. Prompt Writing 101: Incremental Prompts.
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Nature rejected her paper for not being original,. University of Pennsylvania (her employer) demoted her,. and yesterday Katalin Karikó won the Noble Prize in physiology. In mid-2000s, Karikó and her Drew Weismann submitted their paper on mRNA (messenger Ribonucleic Acid) to
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The BEST reference and citation management software for academics: Zotero. But not many academics know how to use it. Here's how to get started 👇. Zotero 101: A step-by-step guide with visuals 🧵.
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I lived in the US 🇺🇸 for several years and now I live in Denmark 🇩🇰. Here's a comparison of the two countries (based on my experiences):. 1. Entering the country. 🇺🇸 If you are a brown man like me, chances are you will be selected for "random screening.”.
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Don't use ChatGPT for academic writing. It's not designed for academic purposes and generates fake citations. Instead, install an AI-powered editor for academic writing inside your MS Word. Here's how to do it:.
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6 incredible resources developed by top universities to help you become a proficient academic writer — totally free:.
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Don't ask ChatGPT for references. It generates fake citations to papers that don't exist. Instead, use R Discovery to stay on top of your field. It's an AI-powered app and totally free.
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Academic writing tips by Harvard instructors:.
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How to use ChatGPT to become a better reader of academic texts:.
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How to use ChatGPT ethically to write a perfect first draft (of your journal article, dissertation chapter, etc.):.
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Don't use Sci-Hub — it's a "controversial" website with 84M+ research papers freely available. We should try to make billion-dollar academic publishers richer. Here's an updated thread on integrating Sci-Hub with Zotero to get free papers. Please don't do this😉.
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ChatGPT creates fake citations. Bing cites sources but not journal articles. So, you can't use them for literature review. But there's an AI-powered app that will supercharge your literature review — Inciteful. It's FREE and integrates with Zotero. Here's how to set it up:.
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Zotero is the best citation and reference management app. It's totally free. But many folks don't know how to use it. Here's a tutorial on how to automate your citations and references with Zotero:.
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Five dumb ways of using ChatGPT for academic purposes — and five smart:.
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Everyone knows about Google Scholar, but very few know there are 90 other academic databases. SearchSmart is an app that helps you choose the best database for your research. (It's free and was recently featured Nature.). Here's how to use it:.
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You think ChatGPT is impressive? . Wait till you see Microsoft's new Bing. It'll blow you mind away. Here's a comparison of ChatGPT and Bing for:. • Outlining a research paper.• Brainstorming research questions.
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Don't let ChatGPT distract you from other apps currently available for academic writing. Here's an app especially designed to make academic writing faster and easier — ClioVis:.
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ChatGPT will redefine the future of academic research. But most academics don't know how to use it intelligently. Here's how to use ChatGPT smartly to supercharge your research:.
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Before we jump in, we need to keep in mind that a PhD thesis is written for a small group of 3-5 scholars. These scholars serve as a candidate's supervisor and examiners. They are the only audience of a PhD thesis. If you think you can't understand a PhD thesis, it's because.
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ChatGPT generates fake citations to research papers that don't even exist. But you can make ChatGPT give you references to (real) published papers. Here's how to do it:.
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You can use Canva to convert any document into a presentation. This will save you a lot time and labor. Here's how to do it:.
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5 books that will help you build healthy academic writing habits (so you can write a lot and publish a lot):.
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Five ChatGPT prompts to help you polish your academic writing:.
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One of the MOST CHALLENGING parts of any research project: Literature Review. Here's how to fast-track your literature review process using two FREE tools - Zotero and Research Rabbit 👇. A step-by-step guide with visuals 🧵.
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Recently, I wrote a bunch of Zotero tutorials that went (mildly) viral on #AcademicTwitter. Thought I'd put them all together so folks can find them easily. So, here goes 👇. Zotero 101: A meta-thread 🧵. Retweet to share it with your friends/colleagues.
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Literature review is one of the most time-consuming parts of any research project. Here's a simple workflow that will make you literature review faster and easier. You can master this workflow in 10min.
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Scholarcy is an AI-powered app that can convert any research paper into a PowerPoint presentation — instantly. This will save you hours of work. Here's how to use Scholarcy:.
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ChatGPT generates fake references to papers that don't exist. So, researchers at Stanford built Storm. It's an AI-powered app that generates well-researched articles with references to published sources. Here's how to use it:.
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How to build an academic writing habit (to write a lot and publish a lot):.
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How to find out if a text has been written by a human or generated by ChatGPT:.
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ResearchGPT is a custom GPT especially designed for researchers. It has a database of 282 million research articles and it answers your questions with references to published articles. No fake citations. Here's how to use it:.
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Jenni is an AI-powered app that will revolutionize your academic writing — think of it as ChatGPT x 10. But most academics don't know about it. Here's what Jenni is capable of (and how to use it):.
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This Nature article shows that most Nobel Prize winners are part of one big, incestuous academic network. Out of 736 Nobel Prize winners in science and economics, 702 are "part of the same academic family.". Only 32 researchers out of this network have won the Nobel Prize.
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Tired of spending hours and hours on how to start your literature review?. You can make is FAST and EASY using an AI-powered tool called Elicit. Here's how to do it 👇.
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Doing a literature review takes time — a lot of time. Here's a Zotero+Research Rabbit workflow that will your literature review FASTER and EASIER:.
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ChatGPT's latest version, GPT-4, is now available and Microsoft is planning to put it *inside* MS Word. But most academics still don't know how to use these apps smartly. Here are five ways you can use ChatGPT intelligently for teaching and academic purposes (prompts included):.
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Don't use ChatGPT for academic writing. Instead, use Trinka — an AI-powered personal assistant designed for academic writing.
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Every academic knows that the BEST software for citation and reference management is Zotero. BUT many folks don't know how to take notes and annotate PDFs in Zotero. Here's how to get started 👇. Zotero Annotations 101: A step-by-step guide with visuals 🧵.
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SciSpace is an AI-powered tool that will make reading research papers easier and faster. It's like ChatGPT for research papers. Simply upload a paper and start asking it questions. Best part: it's totally FREE!. Here's how to use it:.
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Zotero is the best citation management software — it's free and does not monetize your data. But many folks have a hard time starting out on it. Here's how you can get started on Zotero in 15min: . Zotero for beginners: a step-by-step tutorial 🧵.
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5 dumb things I did during my PhD. and 5 smart:.
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How to write a perfect first draft (of your journal article, dissertation chapter, etc.):.
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A question that every academic asks: which journal should I submit my article to?. To help academics decide, Taylor & Francis has developed an amazing tool called "Journal Suggester.". Here's how to use it 👇.
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Forget Google Scholar. Here are seven AI-powered apps to fast-track your literature review. 1. Research Rabbit.2. Connected Papers.3. Inciteful.4. Litmaps.5. Elicit.6. Iris.7. Scite. Below is a comparison to help you choose the best one for your work:.
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Let's start with the title:. "Olfactory Ethics: The Politics of Smell in Modern and Contemporary Prose.". There are three important here: ethics, politics, and smell. Politics here is not used in the sense of running the political affairs of a country. Here, politics means.
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Literature review is one of the most time-consuming parts of any research project. Here's a new Zotero+SciSummary workflow to supercharge your literature review. It'll help you collect, organize, and summarize papers in a fraction of a time. You can learn it in 15 min:.
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☹️Google Scholar is a great tool. But it doesn't show how papers are connected with each other. 😀Here's how to fast-track your literature review with a "visual search.". And export your papers to Zotero, Mendeley, or EndNote. You can learn this workflow in 15 min:
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This photo of 52 books is circulating on Twitter. I have a PhD in literature with a focus on literary genres. Here's my take as a literary scholar:. Read any one of these and you'll have read them all. They're all the same.
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How to MOVE your Mendeley library to Zotero:. A step-by-step guide with visuals 🧵. Why move, you ask? . Elsevier is SHUTTING DOWN Mendeley Desktop app on Sept. 1, 2022 😱.
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If ChatGPT and Google Scholar got married, their child would be Consensus — an AI-powered search engine. Here's how to use it:.
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ChatGPT still generates fake references to papers that don't even exist. And Google just launched Gemini Deep Research. It generates well-researched articles with references to published sources. This will change the way we do literature reviews. Here's how to use it:.
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Don't let ChatGPT and Bing distract you from many other wonderful AI-powered apps. Here's a FREE tool you can use to create summaries of journal articles — Casper:.
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Free academic writing resources developed by the University of York (UK):.
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Major academic publishers' revenue and what they pay authors and reviewers:. Revenue:.Elsevier: $3.9 billion.Springer Nature: $2 billion.Taylor & Francis: $800M.Wiley: $1.8 billion. They pay:.Academic authors: $0.Peer reviewers: $0.
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How to win a scholarship for your Master's/PhD:.
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Doing a literature review takes time — a lot of time. Here's a new workflow that will supercharge your literature review. You can learn this workflow in 15 min.
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Academic publisher Elsevier's profit margin compared to Apple, Google, and Microsoft. Apple: 28%.Google: 25%.Microsoft: 34%. Elsevier: 37% with a revenue of $3.9 billion. Elsevier's payment to academic authors and reviewers: $0.
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ChatGPT prompts to help you with academic reading and writing:.
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GPTKit(dot)ai is a brilliant tool to detect if a text is generated by ChatGPT or written by a human. Especially useful for teachers/educators:
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How to use ChatGPT intelligently and ethically for academic purposes:. A collection of my 7 (viral) threads 👇.
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Here's how to supercharge your literature review using an AI-powered app called Litmaps:.
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Thanks to ChatGPT, hundreds of AI apps are being released every week now. But very few of them are meant for academic purposes. Here are 15 AI-powered apps to supercharge your academic writing and reading — with free tutorials:.
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Two AI-powered apps that will make your literature review easier and faster — Consensus and Lateral. Here's how to use them:.
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Here's a Zotero+Research Rabbit workflow that you can master in 25min to make your literature review process super-smooth:.
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Zero draft is a critical part of the academic writing process. But a lot of folks ignore it and run into all sorts of problems including the writer's block. Here's what a zero draft is and why you should write one:.
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1. Outline for a research/seminar paper. Example prompt:. Topic: Pakistan-US relations during last 20 years.Context: Graduate seminar at School of Advanced International Studies.Requirement: Outline for a seminar paper with research questions.Language: Academic.Tone: Formal
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☹️Google Scholar is a great tool. But it doesn't show you how papers are connected with each other. 😀Here's how to fast-track your literature review with visual search using Google Scholar's database:. (And export papers to Zotero, Mendeley, or EndNote.)
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ChatGPT just introduced custom GPTs. Now you can make ChatGPT a reliable research assistant. Here's how to create your personal AI-powered research assistant in less than 10 minutes:.
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Started following me recently? . Here are 8 AI-powered apps that will make your academic research easier and faster 👇. Combine.artificial intelligence.with your.natural intelligence. and you'll be unstoppable .🎵Porsche with no brakes🎵.
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How to use ChatGPT smartly to supercharge your academic writing (complete prompts included):. [This process involves no cheating and no plagiarism.].
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Don't ask ChatGPT any medical questions. It generates fake citations to papers that don't even exist. (These are ChatGPT's "hallucinations."). Instead, use Evidence Hunt. It's a free AI-powered app that answers your clinical questions with citations to real, published papers.
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The academic writing website that received more than 240 million visits last year: Purdue's Online Writing Lab (OWL). The OWL hosts a wealth of FREE resources on:.
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Reading research papers takes time — a lot of time. Google Bard can summarize research papers for you in seconds. And you can ask Bard questions about them too. Best part: Bard is totally free. Here's how to use Bard to supercharge your academic reading:.
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Databases like Google Scholar have limited functionality. They let you use *only* keywords to search articles. But what if you want to look up articles based on a whole paragraph, or your notes?. Sourcely is an AI-powered app that helps you do that. Here's how to use it:
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The model that helped me:. • Finish my dissertation in 12 months .• Publish 4 single-authored journal articles.• Gain 115k+ followers on Twitter in 10 months. is called the Bamboo Growth Model. Here's how it works:.
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Looks like Google Scholar is going to die soon. I just got access to Elicit beta, an AI-powered search engine for academic research. It's like (ChatGPT + Google Scholar) x 10. And totally FREE!. Here's how Elicit will revolutionize the way we search academic literature:.
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Finding the right journal for your article can be tricky, especially for PhDs and early career researchers. Here are 9 tools you can use to find the perfect home for your article:.
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Doing a literature review takes a lot of time and effort. Here's a new AI-powered workflow that will supercharge your literature reivew. You can learn it in less than 15 min:.
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Finding the right journal for your article is always tricky (especially for PhDs and early career researchers). Here are 10 tools that will help you find the perfect home for your article:.
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Everyone knows about ChatGPT but very few know about Typing Mind. It will make your ChatGPT experience better, easier, faster. Think of it as ChatGPT 2.0. Here's how to set it up:.
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How to use ChatGPT intelligently to prepare for an interview (for a scholarship, job, etc.):.
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Microsoft in investing $10 billion in ChatGPT. This will completely change the way we search the web. What does it mean for the future of academia:.
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Don't use ChatGPT for scientific research. It generates fake citations to papers that don't even exist. Instead, use System Pro — a AI-powered search engine designed for research. Ask it a question and it'll give you a summary of relevant (published) papers with citations.
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How I trained ChatGPT to think like a Stanford professor:.
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5 FREE tools to help you become a proficient academic researcher (plus FREE tutorials):.
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ChatGPT's latest version GPT-4 is a great teaching and writing assistant. If used properly, it can save you a lot of time and labor. But most folks don't know much about it. Here's how to use GPT-4 as a teaching/writing assistant:.
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Finding relevant papers for literature review takes a lot of time. So, MIT researchers built Undermind, an AI-powered search engine. It can generate well-researched overviews on any topic and is 10-50 times better than Google Scholar. Here's how to use it:.
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Scholarcy is an AI-powered app to help you with academic reading — think of it as your personal reading assistant. But most academics don't know much about it. Here's how to supercharge your reading with Scholarcy:.
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