Ilya Shabanov
@Artifexx • 27,752 subscribers
Tweets on how to use novel tools, note-taking and AI to accelerate your academic work & productivity. Ecology Blog & Courses in link below
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Obsidian Bases are better than Notion databases. Most people never use them because they're too technical. This Claude skill changes this: Bases automatically aggregate notes from your vault into a structured table. I have dozens of bases; the one in the video replaces the reference manager, for instance. Problem: Most struggle with setting them up. There's now a skill built by one of the Obsidian developers that runs inside Claude. The skill scans your vault and automatically generates the base. The hardest Obsidian feature to learn. Solved with one sentence.
Ilya Shabanov34,010 Aufrufe • vor 1 Monat
One AI skill that changes how you read academic papers. It turns every reference into a reusable writing block. I call this method: Atomic sentences. Atomic sentence = One sentence. One claim. One source. You can extract them directly from a peer-reviewed paper, vetted by authors and reviewers before it ever reaches you. It is a form of summarising the content, but the output can be reused and recombined in your writing. Here's how it works 👇 1. Upload any paper to Claude and trigger the /ea-atomic-sentences skill. It breaks down every cited reference into a single compressed claim. (Repeat on as many papers as needed) 2. Pick 5–6 sentences relevant to an argument and arrange them coherently, so it makes sense. Add your own ideas/findings as well. 3. Ask Claude to combine them into a coherent paragraph. What you get is surprisingly well-written paragraphs. Use the skill /ea-academic-writer for even better results. ✅ Every reference in that paragraph is real. ✅ Every claim was made by a human researcher. ✅ You control the narrative of what is being said in your paper, but build on the findings of others. Disclaimer: Don't skip reading, as you need to understand your domain to use this and don't rely 100% on AI, as it can make mistakes.
Ilya Shabanov15,769 Aufrufe • vor 1 Monat
Overwhelmed with 100s of papers for your research and literature review, #AcademicTwitter ? Here is my solution: A Visual Reference Manager made with Obsidian brand new canvas feature. Your 🧠 is not a database - it's a network. #Academicchatter Follow the 🧵 to learn how.
Ilya Shabanov93,905 Aufrufe • vor 3 Jahren
DeepSeek allegedly beat ChatGPT. So should we all switch? Here's a comparison for academics: 👇 The prompt: 🎯 I asked a fairly complicated question on how to analyze my data collection to gain novel ecological insights and for references to similar papers for each suggestion. Here are the results: 1️⃣ Content: - DeepSeek provided deeper, shorter replies that I perceived as more creative. - ChatGPT played it safe and gave me slightly more obvious solutions 2️⃣ Hallucinations: - DeepSeek found 40+ search results and each cited paper had a link attached. No hallucinations. - ChatGPT hallucinated 2 out of 7 papers. 3️⃣ Speed: - DeepSeek (free version) was many times slower and often didn't reply due to server overload 4️⃣ Customizability: - ChatGPT's replies are much more customisable. By using "Custom Instructions" you can vary the length and include more or less formulae. 5️⃣ Length: - ChatGPT generally gave much longer and more detailed replies. 5️⃣ Guidance: - ChatGPT created a 4-step plan on using my data, which made sense but was quite vague on implementation topics. - DeepSeek gave me links to the coding packages I should be using, which was very helpful. 🤔 My 2 cents If you're a premium subscriber to ChatGPT, keep using it - the results are very similar and can be fine-tuned. Keep an eye out DeepSeek, as it is much more efficient (~10x cheaper under the hood), it might produce more impressive models later on.
Ilya Shabanov38,452 Aufrufe • vor 1 Jahr
PhD Planning 101 Before my PhD I worked as CEO of a software company for years. I did *a lot* of planning. Here is what 90% of people get wrong: ❌Planning is not: WHAT and WHEN ✅Planning is the HOW to achieve goals Learn how to plan the HOW: 🧵⬇️ #AcademicChatter
Ilya Shabanov67,079 Aufrufe • vor 3 Jahren
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