Using AI tools for reading, literature search, analysis and writing in academic practice.
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Guides Framework
A web application presenting a framework for improving academic reading productivity. Readers choose a framework point on the landing page to open its full description, and an interactive diagram shows the cognitive processes involved…
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Structured review of academic papers, with templates and scoring rubrics you can adapt.
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Converts academic PDFs, including scans, into Markdown with figures, tables and page images as separate files.
Teaching Workshop
A hands-on workshop designed to move researchers from basic principles to practical application of Large Language Models. This session covers the cognitive baseline of LLMs, the nuances of context management, and the creation of custom…
Websites Newsletter
Practical notes on how AI affects academic practice.
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Searches, quotes and counts words in your own writing and reading highlights with the local scout tool, and writes cited reports with a JSON evidence file.
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Checks every factual claim in a report against its sources, one isolated checker per claim, and writes findings and a fix plan.
Teaching Activity
Understanding the shift from conversational AI to agentic research.
Apps Desktop apps
Fast, local search across all your reading highlights: Readwise, Zotero, Kindle and more.
Teaching Activity
Select a query.
Agent skills Agent skill
Imports a paper from Zotero, extracts its text, figures and tables, and writes structured reviews.
Guides Notion guide
A set of pragmatic guides to using AI day to day in research, writing and teaching.
Teaching Activity
Why we need reflection To stop assuming answers are obvious and investigate gaps in knowledge regarding AI in academia.
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Runs auditable translation and back-translation of participant-facing research documents such as consent forms.
Teaching Activity
Test cutoff date.
Teaching Activity
Use a specialized tool.
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Transcribes audio locally on Apple Silicon (Qwen3-ASR, Parakeet, Whisper) into time-coded transcripts, with optional speaker labels.
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Describes, summarises or answers questions about a video on your own machine with a local model.
Apps Plugins and research tools
VS Code extension that pulls PDFs and notes from Zotero into a local folder with metadata for agents.
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Manages Zotero imports, linked notes, evidence-backed tags and scoped native full-text discovery.
Apps Plugins and research tools
LLM-powered summarization and Q&A for your Zotero library.
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