
Mushtaq Bilal, PhD
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Sci-Hub is an evil website that pirated 85M+ research papers and made them freely available And now they've added AI to their database to make Sci-Bot. It answers your questions using latest, full-text articles. But DO NOT use it. We should all try to make billion-dollar academic publishers richer. I'm putting the link below so you know how to avoid it.
Mushtaq Bilal, PhD5,003,550 просмотров • 2 месяцев назад

Some colleagues are reporting very long wait times (90-120 min). Not sure what's going on, because I just ran a search and it gave me a decent response in less than 8 minutes. Keep in mind that it's probably using full-text papers and not abstracts like most AI apps.
Mushtaq Bilal, PhD156,352 просмотров • 2 месяцев назад

This is unbelievable! Kurt Wüthrich, an 84-year-old, Swiss, male scientist, who won the Nobel Prize in 2002 claims that "as a male scientist" he has "a feeling of discrimination." He said this during the 72nd Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting on a panel that had four old, male scientists including him and an old, male moderator. (It was literally a susage fest!) When Science Magazine asked him to elaborate on the kind of discrimnation he faced, "Wüthrich said he did not feel personally discriminated against as an individual at the event but thought that all men attendees faced discrimination while women were tokenized." Here's an example of the discrimination Kurt Wüthrich, a Nobel Prize winner, gave: In group photos of laureates, women laureates were asked to stand in front while male scientists like him were told to stand behind them 🤦😂😭 This makes him feel "horrible" because asking women laureates to stand in front is "ridiculous, fully ridiculuous." A young scholar countered Wüthrich's childish tantrum and the moderator tried to shut her up. For reference, here's a comparison: Nobel Prizes won: By men: 892 By women: 60 Speakers invited to this year's Lindau meeting: Men: 34 Women: 5 ------ A couple of observations: 1. The feeling among men that gender equality is somehow a form of discrimination against them is not limited to incels (involuntary celibates) on the internet. Male Nobel Prize winners can feel the same way too. 2. Many young scholars and scientists are still playing the "prestige" game: do a PhD in a "prestigious" university, do a postdoc in a "prestigious" lab, go to "prestigious" meetings like Lindau. Playing the prestige game takes a lot of toll on one's mental health and personal relationships. The worst part is make you feel extremely insecure. No amount of external validation, not even a Nobel Prize, will help you overcome your insecurities.
Mushtaq Bilal, PhD1,561,591 просмотров • 3 лет назад

📢 Breaking news that will send shivers of panic across academia: Microsoft just announced it's putting a ChatGPT-like took *inside* MS Word 🤯 They're calling it Copilot. According to Microsoft, "Copilot gives you a first draft to edit and iterate on — saving hours in writing, sourcing, and editing time." Imagine having a first draft of a journal article or a dissertation to which you will only need to add citations and section headings. Microsoft is absolutely right that "Copilot will fundamentally change how people work with AI and how AI works with people." As an academic, what do you think of it?
Mushtaq Bilal, PhD1,497,030 просмотров • 3 лет назад

Reading papers and taking notes for literature review takes a lot of time. You can install ChatGPT in your Zotero to supercharge your literature review. It will answer your questions based on papers in your library, so no fake citations or references. Here's how to do it:
Mushtaq Bilal, PhD352,597 просмотров • 2 лет назад

Here's an MS Word feature that nobody is talking about and that just blew my mind. Open an blank document in MS Word and click on the "Dicatate" button. Select "Transcribe." Next upload an audio file you want to transcribe. I uploaded recording of one my webinars. It's 3 hours and 17 minutes long. And MS Word will transcribe the whole thing for you in a few minutes. Once it's done transcribing, Word gives you four options: Just text, With speakers, With timestamps, With speakers and timestamps. Choose the one according to your preference and you will have the whole transcript.
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Don't use ChatGPT for academic writing. It may get flagged as AI-generated text. Instead, use Paperpal — an AI-powered personal writing assistant. Especially if your first language is not English. Think of Paperl as the elder brother of Grammarly, especially designed for academic writing. Go to and sign up. You can either start writing in Paperpal or paste a text you have already written. Paperpal will evaluate your writing and give you detailed suggestions to improve it. If English is not your first language, you can write in your own language and Paperpal will translate it for you. You can also install a Paperpal add-in in MS Word. Click on "Insert" and then "Get Add-ins." Search for the Paperpal add-in, and press "Add." And you will have Paperpal inside MS Word. Paperpal will give you helpful suggestion as you write. You can write in your own language and get Paperpal to translate it into English. Paperpal supports following languages: Bulgarian, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian. Please note Paperpal's give you 500 free suggestions a month after which you will have to buy a subscription. If you use it judiciously, you won't have to pay any money. ----- Found this post helpful? 1. Retweet to share it with your friends. 2. Bookmark it so you can come back to it later. 3. Follow me for regular posts on how to supercharge your academic writing with AI-powered apps.
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Systematic literature reviews take 12-18 months to complete. Looks like AI is going to fully automate systematic reviews sooner than later. SciSpace ( SciSpace) just launched an autonomous AI agent that conducts a systematic literature review with a single prompt. Go to scispace[.]com and run the following prompt: "Conduct a systematic literature review on [your topic]" SciSpace agent will generate research questions based on the PICO framework. You can review these questions and edit them according to your specific requirements. The agent will also draft screening criteria that you can edit according to your needs. Then the agent asks you to select the databases you want to use and the date range for paper. After this step, everything is fully automated. The agent will search for papers in the relevant databases, it will combine and rerank the papers. Then it will start the title and abstract screening and include the papers that meet the include criteria. In the next step, it will download the full text of included papers and screen them followed by data extraction. Based on the extracted data, it generates a complete systematic literature review and also a PRISMA diagram. It will also give you a table of papers included along with the rational for including them. The only thing that is keeping AI agents to fully automate systematic literature reviews fields is the papers behind paywalls. Check out the agent at scispace[.]com and see if you find its review useful.
Mushtaq Bilal, PhD41,791 просмотров • 3 месяцев назад

Every month thousands of research papers are published with AI-generated citations to fake papers. So, we've built a Hallucination Checker. Just paste a bibliography and it'll which paper is real and which fake. Check it out at We're offering lifetime deals.
Mushtaq Bilal, PhD22,391 просмотров • 2 месяцев назад

Finding relevant papers for your literature review takes a lot of time and labor. Consensus app will help you find relevant papers in minutes. Ask a question and Consensus will give you a list of relevant papers. It will also give you a "Study Snapshot" with details about: • Population • Sample size • Methods • Outcome
Mushtaq Bilal, PhD196,854 просмотров • 2 лет назад

Groq is the world's fastest LLM (Large Language Model). Faster than ChatGPT, Claude, and Google Gemini. And you can use it for free! Here's Groq answering a megaprompt of 300+ words instantly. In less than a second, it created a preliminary outline for a journal article and a writing schedule. It's unbelievable!
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OpenAI just released "custom versions of ChatGPT" and this is going to change the future of education and academic research. You won't need any coding skills to create a custom ChatGPT. You will be able to build them simply by talking to ChatGPT in natural language. Here Sam Altman builds a custom GPT in just 4 minutes that gives startup founders advice. He simply tells GPT Builder to create a GPT and it does that. You can upload your documents to it, enable its access to the internet, Code Interpreter for data analysis, even create images. Prompting is going to become one of the most valuable skills in the near future.
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Log in to your JSTOR account and type in a few keywords. JSTOR will tell you they're working on a new kind of search. Click on "Try it with your search." You will see a list of papers. Click on anyone and you will see an AI-powered reading assistant to the right of your screen.
Mushtaq Bilal, PhD78,912 просмотров • 1 год назад

Creating teaching materials needs a lot of time and labor. Diffit is an AI app that will help you create teaching resources in minutes. All you need to do is type in your topic and choose an approximate reading level. And Diffit will give you: ✨ A brief intro 🔑 Keywords and terms 📝 Multiple choice questions 💡 Short questions and answeres 📣 Open-ended prompts
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4. Don't go to an acdemic publisher's website with a billion-dollar annual revenue. But if you do, copy the DOI of the article you want to read. Next, go to Zotero and click on the magic wand-like button on the top. This will let you enter an article's DOI. Don't paste the DOI of the article you just copied because Sci Hub will go and retrieve that article and add it to your library. If you have downloaded this article, don't open it because then you will be able to read it.
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Researchers are using ChatGPT to generate content for their papers...and are getting caught. Want to avoid this kind of embarrassement? Use Consensus, it has an AI-powered Copilot integrated with academic databses. Ask it to generate an outline for a literature review. It will give you an outline with citations to published research. No nonsense like "As an AI language model..."
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Consensus in an AI-powered search engine that answers your questions with reference to published papers. No hallucinations. No fake citations to papers that don't exist. Here is a new Consensus feature that will make your literature review faster and easier. Ask a question and Consensus will give you a list of relevant papers. You can filter papers by: • Year • Study Type (Meta Analysis, Literature Review, Systematic Review, Case Report, etc.) • Study Details (Controlled Study, Human Study, Sample Size) Here I am asking a question about how people self manage lower back pain. I am filtering papers so I only see meta analyses and systematic reviews published in 2020.
Mushtaq Bilal, PhD115,743 просмотров • 2 лет назад