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Two upcoming AI events you shouldn't miss

Published 2 months ago • 2 min read

Dear Scholar,

This week, I would like to invite you to two events that might interest you and ask you what topics you are most curious about so that I can explore them next. Starting next week, the newsletter is going to give you a deep-dive every week on the topics you vote for:

Mushtaq Bilal's Academic Writing Webinar

Registration for Mushtaq Bilal's 1 March webinar on how to Supercharge Your Academic Writing with AI is now open. I have personally worked with Mushtaq, his explanations are clear, easy to follow and he has a breadth of AI knowledge. He also uses many tools I don't, and is thus a great addition even if you visited my previous webinar on writing with AI.

More than 2,200 academics from across the world have attended this webinar. It will be a 4-hour webinar and it will cover the following topics:

  • How to develop the right mindset for using AI for academic purposes
  • How to craft compelling research questions with Research Kick
  • How to use AI apps for literature review (Scite, Elicit, Consensus)
  • How to find relevant papers with visual search (Research Rabbit, Inciteful)
  • How to read papers efficiently with AI apps (Scholarcy)
  • How to find common themes in papers (Lateral)
  • How to write zero drafts and clean them up with ChatGPT/Claude
  • How to edit your first draft with Paperpal
  • How to make ChatGPT your academic writing assistant with custom instructions
  • How to use Claude for creating custom Projects
  • How to use Google Gemini for creating custom Gems
  • How to use Deep Seek reasoning model for academic work

The webinar will start at 5 pm GMT on 1 March 2025. Registration: You can register for the webinar by clicking the link below: ​

The registration fee is $107.48.
You can get a 25% discount with the code "ILYA25"

Video recording: All those who register will have access to a video recording of the webinar. Please note that Mushtaq will send you the video recording on March 2nd, a day after the webinar. Please email him about the recording only if you haven't received it by 5 pm GMT on March 2nd.

Future Ready Scholar Conference

Join a free AI conference, where I will be talking about note-taking, knowledge management and AI. The attendance is free. It is organized by one of my favourite tools for academics, Litmaps.

Wishing you my very best,

Ilya Shabanov,
The Effortless Academic

ps: I finished annotating the recording for my webinar last week. It was one of my most visited webinars and received great testimonials. Recording is available for download.

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