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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 literary studies, and in this thread, we'll do a close reading of her abstract to understand her argument in simple English.

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:

Meta illegaly downloaded 80+ terabytes of books from LibGen, Anna's Archive, and Z-library to train their AI models. In 2010, Aaron Swartz downloaded only 70 GBs of articles from JSTOR (0.0875% of Meta). Faced $1 million in fine and 35 years in jail. Took his own life in 2013.

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:

Don't use ChatGPT for academic writing. Instead, use Paperpal — an AI-powered personal writing assistant. Especially if your first language is not English:

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 😉

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 a potentially award-winning dissertation. Happy and thrilled about her work. People on X/Twitter: She should've done something useful. Don't you see, betraying your true self drives you mad!

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):

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:

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:

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

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!

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 Nature. Nature desk rejected their paper for being "an incremental contribution" only. The paper was later published in another journal, Immunity. Earlier in her career at the University of Pennsylvania, Karikó was demoted because her applications for grants kept getting rejected. But Karikó persevered and kept on going. In 2013, she joined BioNTech, a German company founded by two scientists, Uğur Şahin and Özlem Türeci. In 2018, BioNTech partnered with Pfizer to develop mRNA vaccines against the influenza virus. When the COVID-19 hit the world, Karikó's research helped Pfizer to produce the first vaccine against the disease. I don't know how the Nature editors who desk rejected Karikó's paper and the Penn administration who demoted her feel about Karikó Nobel Prize. Takeaway: Many academics and scientists worry about getting published in "prestigious" journals. Instead of worrying about prestige, we should try to put our work out as quickly as possible like Karikó did. Once you put your work out without caring about prestige, two good things happen: 1. Your work will lead to newer opportunities. 2. You will start getting feedback from the scholarly community, which you can use to iterate and improve. Here's another interesting Nobel Prize story. Peter Higgs, a British physicist, joined the University of Edinburgh in 1956. By 1964, Higgs has published his groundbreaking work about subatomic particles. After 1964, Higgs published less than 10 papers. When his department would ask him how many papers, he published in a given year, he would reply "None." It happened so often that he stared feeling like an "embarrassment to the department." The University of Edinburgh, however, never fired Higgs because in 1980 he had been nominated for the Nobel Prize. Higgs retired in 1996 and stayed on as an emeritus professor at Edinburg. In 2012, experiments conducted at the CERN laboratory confirmed Higgs work and the existence of Higgs Particle. And in 2013, Higgs was awarded the Noble Prize in physics and the University of Edinburgh got rewarded for being patient.

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!

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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.

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 literary studies, and in this thread, we'll do a close reading of her abstract to understand her argument in simple English.

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:

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 😉

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

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 a potentially award-winning dissertation. Happy and thrilled about her work. People on X/Twitter: She should've done something useful. Don't you see, betraying your true self drives you mad!

Meta illegaly downloaded 80+ terabytes of books from LibGen, Anna's Archive, and Z-library to train their AI models. In 2010, Aaron Swartz downloaded only 70 GBs of articles from JSTOR (0.0875% of Meta). Faced $1 million in fine and 35 years in jail. Took his own life in 2013.

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.”

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):

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:

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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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:

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.