AI free tutorials

 Here are 13 AI-powered apps that will supercharge your academic writing and reading — with free tutorials:

For Writing:

1. Jenni AI
A personal writing assistant that will make sure you never face the writer's block
https://lnkd.in/e7uS3nRQ

2. Paperpal
An editor to help you polish your academic writing. Also has an MS Word plugin so you can edit from within MS Word.
https://lnkd.in/eY5hjj-h

For Reading:

3. Schoarlcy
A persona reading assistant that creates summaries of research papers with unfamiliar terms hyperlinked to Wikipedia entries.
https://lnkd.in/epjnwYSX

4. ChatPDF
ChatGPT for research papers. Upload a paper and start asking it questions.
https://lnkd.in/eSpuX2YC

5. Casper
A Chrome extension that summarizes research papers within your browser. Also helps you brainstorm ideas.
https://lnkd.in/eiVBWsNE

6. SciSpace
One of the most powerful and versatile tools currently available for reading journal articles.
You can ask your reading Copilot to explain difficult passages.
https://lnkd.in/eygXPZ-Z

For taking notes:

7. Lateral
A unique app that helps you find common themes across multiple research papers — in minutes.
https://lnkd.in/e4R_-JtB

8. ClioVis
Not an AI-powered app but still much better than many available tools. I am using it for my current research project.
Helps you visualize connections between different ideas and concepts. Also lets you export your notes to an MS Word file.
https://lnkd.in/eeurkKKh

9. Glasp
Think of it as Twitter but for note-takers.
Take notes on research papers and share them with likeminded people across the world
https://lnkd.in/eNBusmvk

10. Audiopen
Converts your voice notes into coherent and cohesive prose.
https://lnkd.in/eZrfP2zj

Search engines:

11. Consensus
Unlike ChatGPT that gives you fake citations, Consensus answers your questions with references to actually published papers.
https://lnkd.in/e-Q9Uu24

12. Evidence Hunt
Answers your clinical questions with citations to published papers.
https://lnkd.in/eDsVVqEZ

13. Search Smart
A search engine to help you find the most suitable database for your research.
https://lnkd.in/eFQgrbYb

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Open science: Where to learn ?

 Summer Schools

TOPST summer schools will increase the adoption of open science practices by teaching introductory curriculum and increasing opportunities for collaboration. The selected institutions, their projects, and principal investigators (PIs) are:

• National Louis University, Chicago, Illinois
  Ensuring Culturally Responsive Practices and Community Building in Open Science
  PI: Robyn Moncrief
   
• Neuromatch Inc., Los Angeles, California
  An Open, Community Supported, Accessible Summer School for Climate Science   
  PI: Nicholas Halper 
   
• University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
  Bringing Together Open Science and Research Software
  PI: Madicken Munk 

Virtual Cohorts

Virtual cohorts will offer remote learning and community building around open science principles and practices. The selected institutions, projects, and PIs are:

• Code for Science and Society Inc., Portland, Oregon
  TOPS OpenCore by Embedding Community Values
  PI: Yo Yehudi
  
  Ciencia Abierta Accesible: Community-Based Teaching of the TOPS OpenCore Online in Spanish 
  PI: Laura Acion
   
• Don’t Use This Code, New York
  Virtual Cohorts: Developing Lifelong Committed Interaction with Open Science
  PI: Cameron Riddell

ScienceCore

ScienceCore curriculum will complement existing training materials and provide information about open science tools and technology for NASA Earth and space science research. The selected institutions, projects, and PIs are:

• University of Montana, Missoula
  Satellite observations and models informing agriculture: Training for open science under climate change
  PI: Arthur Endsley
   
• North Carolina State University, Raleigh
  Building a framework for ScienceCore Carpentry from a Marine Sciences Lab
  PI: Lisa Lowe
   
• NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland
  ETHOS: ExoplaneTs in the epocH of Open Science
  PI: Richard Barry 
   
• Million Concepts LLC, Louisville, Kentucky
  Knowing the Sky: Building Open Science Skills through Native Knowledge Practices
  PI: Sierra Brown 
   
• University of California, Berkeley
  Examining Environmental Justice through Open Source, Cloud-Native Tools
  PI: Carl Boettiger 
   
• Code for Science and Society Inc., Portland, Oregon
  Reproducibly Analyzing Wildfire, Drought, and Flood Risk with NASA Earthdata Cloud
  PI: James Munroe 
   
• Washington University in St. Louis
  ExoCore: An open science curriculum for enhanced reproducibility and equity in exoplanet research
  PI: Tansu Daylan 
   
• NASA’s Ames Research Center, Silicon Valley, California
  Training in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for Space Biological Sciences Using NASA Cloud-Based Data
  PI: Lauren Sanders 
   
• Columbia University, New York
  Science Core Heuristics for Open Science Outcomes in Learning (SCHOOL)
  PI: Kytt MacManus
   
• Polyneme LLC, New York
  Heliophysics ScienceCore curriculum development with emphasis on knowledge representation techniques to increase usability of NASA cloud-based datasets
  PI: Donald Winston 

As part of the Year of Open Science, NASA is awarding $2.7 million across these different projects this year, with a total of $6.5 million over three years. Read more about the projects.

For information about open science at NASA, visit:

References

https://www.nasa.gov/centers/marshall/news/releases/2023/nasa-boosts-open-science-through-innovative-training