Updates to The 3 Core Tools For Literature Search Dear Scholar, If you have been following me for a while, you might have heard of the "AI search loop." Given a question, this method is a thorough yet rapid way to find relevant scientific literature. Today's newsletter covers recent updates to all involved tools. Most interestingly, Google Scholar is now becoming an alternative to pricy AI tools. (See below what it means for the big picture.) Here's how the search loop works: Based on a...

Dear Reader, Last week, I made a post on using AI for academic writing, which enraged the community like nothing I have ever written. 4 Million views & about 400 hate comments. A dozen people even took the time to reach out to the dean of my university & my supervisors (yet none to me personally). I don't think even 1% read past the hook ("I wrote 4000 words for my thesis with AI") and ignored that the basis for the entire process were my own papers, the workflow included deep-reading &...

Obsidian Bases for Idea Generation Dear Reader, Generating new ideas is the currency in academia: The more impactful your ideas, the more impactful your research, and the better your chances of success. But what are ideas? Ideas are connections between two related concepts. For instance, if someone finds a link between a vegetarian diet and hip fracture rates, that's novel and vital research that could improve people's lives. But these two concepts are not necessarily related. Nutritionists...