“Whenever you are pushing boundaries, there will be push-back from people. Embrace what you stand for and accept that there will be criticism.”
MONA EL-TAHAWY
Meghan Markle is amazing. This woman gets the worst internet bullying and we still have her Archetypes doing well with real people. I will forever admire her. #MeghanMarkle#ArchetypesWithMeghan#Archetypes
Try this formula first.
The gap: "We know X, but we do not yet know Y."
What you did: "This thesis shows Y by doing Z."
Why it matters: "This changes how we A, or who can now do B."
Three sentences. Plain. Direct. No refining.
10 RESEARCH WEBSITES THAT PHDS DO NOT WANT YOU TO FIND.
Bookmark this. Academia is gatekept by paywalls and you should not be paying.
1. https://t.co/X3NB1B5G0J
The largest open library on earth. Almost any textbook your professor assigned is here for free.
2. https://t.co/6PrA4Hu4py
The search engine for academic papers. Sort by citations to find the most influential research.
3. https://t.co/Dkd9aUkaPM
AI powered paper search built by the Allen Institute. Highlights every citation in context.
4. https://t.co/eDeHsCfyHJ
Plug in one paper, see every related study mapped as a graph. Reveals what experts actually read together.
5. https://t.co/5qJJorB7ny
An AI research assistant. Ask any question and get a structured table of papers with key findings.
6. https://t.co/XnSZ9WPRR1
Aggregates the conclusions of thousands of papers into one answer. Stops cherry picking.
7. https://t.co/wyQIVMApM3
The Spotify of papers. Recommends new research based on what you have already read.
8. https://t.co/LkdILeVnhD
Visualizes citation chains. Shows how an idea spread across decades of research.
9. https://t.co/1bu5BC44jU
Tells you which papers support, contradict, or mention any claim. Saves hours of fact checking.
10. https://t.co/7krhcpFEED
200 million open access papers in one searchable index. The world's largest free academic archive.
Most students pay $40,000 to access what these sites already make free.
Claude Code can now run an entire PhD-level research pipeline by itself.
it runs a 10-stage workflow from blank page to publication-ready PDF, replacing the work of a PhD advisor, three peer reviewers, and a copy editor in one repo.
→ Deep research with 13 agents (PRISMA + systematic review)
→ 12 agents write the paper section by section
→ 5-person peer review (Editor + 3 Reviewers + Devil's Advocate)
→ Integrity agent catches fabricated citations + stat errors
→ Final output: LaTeX → PDF, ready to submit
After the paper is finalized, it runs a Collaboration Quality Evaluation that scores YOU, across 6 dimensions, 1–100. Direction setting, intellectual contribution, quality gatekeeping.
It tells you exactly where you were the bottleneck.
Drop it into .claude/skills/ and the whole pipeline auto-loads. Works in Claude Code, Cowork, and as a Claude Project.
100% open source. CC-BY-NC 4.0.
Breaking: Your smart TV takes a screenshot of your screen twice every second and sells what it sees.
It is called ACR, and it has been running since you set the TV up.
Texas already sued over it. Here is how to turn it off in under 2 minutes:
After 3 years using Claude, I can say it’s the technology that has revolutionized my life.
Here are 18 prompts I use daily that have transformed my day to day; they could do the same for you:
(Save this 🔖)
In Black culture, the Afro is far more than a hairstyle. It represents resistance against Eurocentric beauty standards, a celebration of our natural Black features, & a symbol of Black pride, power, and self love.
🚨 The 48 Laws of Power has sold over 5.5M copies, dominated bestseller charts for years, and is banned in prisons across 18 U.S. states.
Why?
Because it teaches raw, unfiltered power — and yes, manipulation.
So I turned all 48 laws into 12 high-level Claude prompts.
Now you can drop in any social, corporate, or political scenario…
and instantly see: → which law you're breaking
→ what it’s costing you
→ the exact move to flip the situation in your favor
Bookmark this 🔖 — all 12 prompts below 👇
In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, banana leaves are a cornerstone of cooking. Wrapping foods like fish or meat in the leaves before steaming—a beloved dish known as liboke—seals in flavor and infuses the food with a subtle, earthy taste. Preparing liboke is no small undertaking, but on special days, the team at Panzi Hospital's community kitchen rises to the occasion to honor the many cultures and regions represented among those receiving care. This liboke was prepared in honor of patients from Équateur Province, where the dish originates.
It is exactly this kind of care and attention that defines WCK's and Panzi's approach: making sure that every person we serve feels seen, nourished, and connected to the food they know and love.
At Panzi Hospital in South Kivu, WCK is supporting a community-led kitchen program where local cooks are preparing traditional Congolese meals for patients and hospital staff using the same methods and flavors their communities have always known. Because when you’re healing, familiar food cooked the right way is an important ingredient of patient care. #ChefsForDRC
PowerHouse of Nutrients: Bowl of Desi Rajma also known as Deshwali Rajmahh (Motha) locally grown varieties of Red kidney beans from high-altitude Himalayan regions of Gai Dessa Doda UT J&K.
@DrJitendraSingh@ChouhanShivraj@AgriGoI@dcdodaofficial@ians_india
C_9596655257.
Rajma chawal is North India's legendary comfort food: red kidney beans slow-cooked in a spiced tomato-onion gravy (cumin, coriander, garam masala magic), served over fluffy steamed rice. Hearty, flavorful, often with raw onion slices on top like that epic leaf-bowl serving. Total soul food! 😋
Made with sweet potatoes, red peppers, kidney beans and sweetcorn, this Vegetable Mole is a simplified, vegetarian version of a traditional Mexican Mole. Ready in just 30 minutes, it makes a great weeknight dinner!
GET THE RECIPE >>> https://t.co/h7HoFWvjX5
#easypeasyfoodie
Your stew can do more. 😍
Add Sunripe Red Kidney Beans for a richer, more filling meal with extra protein and better texture.
Perfect with rice, plantain, yam, or even on its own when you want something hearty and satisfying.
Would you try this combo?
#Sunripeonthestreet
Sure! This is a classic Rajma Masala (spiced kidney bean curry) with jeera rice, cucumber, and green chilies.
Quick recipe (serves 4):
- Soak 1 cup red kidney beans overnight; pressure cook till soft.
- Heat 2 tbsp oil in cooker. Add 1 tsp cumin seeds, 1 bay leaf, 1 slit green chili.
- Pour in 2 cups tomato puree; sauté 5 min.
- Stir in 1 tsp turmeric, 1 tsp chili powder, 1 tsp coriander powder, salt. Cook 3 min.
- Add beans + 1 cup water; pressure cook 2 whistles.
- Garnish with chopped cilantro.
Serve hot with cumin rice. Addictive & healing! 😋
🌱 From a gap-filling crop to a global game changer
Mungbean is boosting soil health, farmer incomes & nutrition across Asia and beyond. With support from @ACIARAustralia, WorldVeg and partners have developed 150+ varieties now grown in 35 countries.
Small beans, big impact!
#Mungbean #FoodSecurity #WorldVeg #breeding
10 WEBSITES THAT FEEL TOO USEFUL TO BE FREE
Bookmark every single one. No account, no trial, no card. Things people sell for a monthly fee, given away for $0.
1. https://t.co/9cyeoKnX8i
Type any math, physics, chemistry, or engineering problem and it solves it step by step, showing the full working. A private tutor for every hard subject, available at 3am, that never gets tired of your questions.
2. https://t.co/H9kXt5PCWy
The entire Photoshop, running in a browser tab. Opens PSD files, handles layers, masks, and smart objects, and processes everything on your own machine so nothing uploads. Adobe charges around $55 a month for this. Photopea charges nothing.
3. https://t.co/pMoKsL8s49
64 million books and 95 million research papers in one search box. Publishers won a $322 million judgment against it and seized its main domains this year. It moved to a new one and kept growing. The largest library in human history, and it refuses to die.
4. https://t.co/q9HgaQ5tL2
An AI search engine across 200 million academic papers. Ask a question and it pulls the relevant studies, the citations, and a plain summary of each. Researchers used to pay for tools that did a fraction of this.
5. https://t.co/r1VQAr12Zt
Open a blank canvas and sketch diagrams, flowcharts, and wireframes that look hand-drawn. Real-time collaboration, no login, nothing saved to a server unless you want it. Whiteboard apps charge teams monthly for less.
6. https://t.co/x17FIF83h0
A search engine for 200,000+ free courses from Harvard, Stanford, MIT, and Yale. It finds the free version of almost any course and tells you which ones are actually worth your time. The catalog universities never hand you.
7. https://t.co/fUutjW9qEm
Drop in any photo and it erases the background in two seconds. Designers used to charge per image for this and agencies built whole workflows around it. Now it's a single upload.
8. https://t.co/U3XuyKNhPg
Build and test any regular expression with a live explanation of every piece as you type. The thing that makes grown engineers cry, turned into a tool that teaches you while you use it. Free forever.
9. https://t.co/4kHtgwM9V4
Tick the apps you want on a new Windows machine, download one installer, and it silently installs all of them with no toolbars and no next-next-finish. IT departments pay for software that does exactly this.
10. https://t.co/Ud9gPh3xn1
The entire history of the internet, plus millions of free books, films, concerts, and old software you can run in your browser. The Wayback Machine alone has saved over 900 billion web pages. A civilization's memory, open to anyone.
Free was always the default. You just got trained to pay.
Save this before your next Claude session:
(99 prompt commands nobody told you about)
1 - Download this infographic. Send it to your team.
2 - Type these at the very start of your prompt.
3 - Pro tip:
Use /TLDR for long articles.
/ELI10 for confusing concepts.
/STEPS for any task you're stuck on.
To (actually) learn how to prompt Claude properly.
Read my free guide here: https://t.co/Sw2tg2QkBK
To copy-paste all 99 of these commands:
Step 1. Go to https://t.co/psB7XxB2Y4.
Step 2. Subscribe for free. Don't pay anything.
Step 3. Open my welcome email (most skip this).
Step 4. Hit the automatic reply button inside.
Step 5. Go to the Notion link.
Step 6. Open the "Claude cowork" folder.
Step 7. Locate "PROMPT SHORTCUTS" toggle list.
♻️ Repost this to save your team 10 hours a week.
Most academic researchers are still living in 2023.
They use AI in their web browsers through a chat window. They open a browser tab, ask a question, and the AI gives them an answer to their question.
If they are smart, they use AI to brainstorm ideas or elicit critique on their work. If they are not smart, they copy the text AI gives them and paste it in their manuscripts.
Either way, this is NOT a smart use of AI for research purposes. Here’s why: our research processes are complex and involve various kinds of documents.
We have our primary and secondary sources in a folder on our computer. Then we have another folder for our drafts, which are mostly in MS Word. Datasets are in yet another format.
When we use AI in a web browser, it can only see one isolated part of our project at a time. For example, it can only look at your draft to give critical feedback, or it can only look at a given paper to summarize it for you.
Another problem with this kind of workflow is that every time you have to repeat your instructions and give the AI context about your project. If you use AI frequently, you will write a set of instructions and copy-paste them often.
The browser-based chat window has a huge limitation when it comes to serious academic research. If you add an article to chat to ask question, it can’t see any other related articles or your notes to give you a well-informed answer. In other words, the browser-based AI is blind to your project as a whole. It can only process an isolated part of your project at any given time.
Claude Code has completely changed the way we do academic research.
Instead of you bringing isolated pieces of your project to the AI, Claude Code puts the AI inside your project folder. You can ask Claude Code to read every single document, Excel sheet, interview transcripts, and dataset inside your project folder before it answers your questions.
Claude Code can also create new files in your folder and edit the existing ones. Furthermore, if you pause a conversation, it remembers the whole context, and you can pick up it later.
Let’s say, you have forty articles on a given topic (e.g. impact of social media on mental health) sitting in folder on your computer, and you want to find out which articles present evidence contrasting to a claim that posting actively on social media leads to a sense of better wellbeing.
You can, of course, do it manually. You read every single article and extract the relevant information and put in an Excel sheet or a Word file.
Or you can run all forty articles one-by-one in an app like ChatGPT and ask it to extract relevant information for you. Using ChatGPT is efficient than extracting information manually, but it’s still cumbersome.
Instead of ChatGPT, open the folder containing all your papers in Claude Code and ask it to extract relevant information. Claude Code will access all the papers in the folder.
It will then read the papers and extract required information and put it in a neatly organized table. You don’t need to run papers one by one in Claude Code. And if you need it to revise the table in any way, you can simply ask it to do so. Browser-based apps like ChatGPT were not built to do so.
The tricky part here is that you can’t really appreciate the kind of value Claude Code brings to your work unless you have tried it yourself.
But once you set it up with respect to your own research and the kind of standards you want it to meet, Claude Code become an incredibly powerful research assistant for you.
You must keep in mind that while Claude Code is an incredibly powerful tool, it can’t replace your expert judgement. It may overdo some aspects of a task while underperform on certain others.
You can delegate certain tasks to Claude Code, but you must keep in mind that it is your research assistant, and you must check its output just like you would check your human research assistant’s work.
You can outsource enormous amounts of academic labor to Claude Code while keeping the thinking process to yourself.
And now that you don’t have to spend your time and energies on laborious and cumbersome aspects of research, you will have much more time to do the actual thinking.
AI agents like Claude Code are on the verge of revolutionizing almost all aspects of knowledge work.
But many academics still feel intimidated to get started on a tool like Claude Code. They assume that they need advanced coding skill or computer programming knowledge to use Claude Code. That is simply not true.
You don’t any coding skills of programming knowledge to get started on Claude Code. If you can write sentences in English, you can use Claude Code.
That’s why I am running a webinar on 6 June to help academic colleagues get started on Claude Code.
I have designed it specifically for non-technical colleagues. You can find the registration details in the post below: