David P. Adams

MPA Director @csuf | Public admin prof | Governance, equity, energy policy | I converty messy word docs into beautiful LaTeX—so you don't have to. | Tux nerd

[David P. Adams @dadamsAU]

Last year I typeset an 8-chapter book for Cambridge University Press.

My two co-authors never opened a LaTeX file. Not once.

Here is how we did it — and why it matters for any academic who thinks LaTeX is “not for them.”

[Tom Dörr @tom_doerr]

Rewrites Obsidian vault pages using AI agents

https://t.co/tWem59TciH

[David P. Adams @dadamsAU]

If you are a researcher, grad student, or faculty member who needs professional typesetting but does not want to learn LaTeX:

I get it. I built an entire pipeline, so my co-authors would not have to.

DM me or visit https://t.co/pZjVS8RqSr for a free quote.

[David P. Adams @dadamsAU]

Last year I typeset an 8-chapter book for Cambridge University Press.

My two co-authors never opened a LaTeX file. Not once.

Here is how we did it — and why it matters for any academic who thinks LaTeX is “not for them.”

[David P. Adams @dadamsAU]

You do not need to learn LaTeX to get LaTeX-quality output. You need someone who understands both worlds — Word and LaTeX — and can bridge them.

That is what I do at https://t.co/pZjVS8RqSr.

[David P. Adams @dadamsAU]

Auto-captioning lecture videos with OpenAI Whisper is a game-changer for accessibility. Better accuracy than YouTube on academic content, runs locally, batch processes a whole semester in an hour.

Quick walkthrough: https://t.co/UQ09rJnIx3

[David P. Adams @dadamsAU]

Most formatting services give you a PDF and a black box of code you can't read.

My LaTeX deliverables are fully commented. I explain what the code does and why, so you can update the manuscript, CV, or syllabus yourself next semester. Keep control of your work.

https://t.co/Hb6WIY35wn

[David P. Adams @dadamsAU]

The fight for the heart of the US Environmental Protection Agency https://t.co/fWMd2bvBeY

[David P. Adams @dadamsAU]

Spending six hours fighting an Elsevier LaTeX template is six hours you aren’t spending on your next paper.

I convert Word/Google Docs into clean, submission-ready LaTeX. No AI hallucinations, no broken figure placements. Just code that compiles.

🔗 https://t.co/pZjVS8RqSr

[All day Astronomy @forallcurious]

🚨: The most important sky events of this decade is occurring on February 28th. 🌌 ✨

Six planets will align and put on a show of our lifetime. Mercury, Venus, Jupiter and Saturn will be visible to the naked eye from almost anywhere.

Uranus and Neptune will be visible to naked eye if seen from dark places.

MARK YOUR CALENDERS; February 28th. 📅✨

[Saganism @Saganismm]

On Valentine’s Day 36 years ago, at the request of Carl Sagan, NASA turned Voyager 1's camera back toward home for one last look.

From 3.7 billion miles away, it captured this: a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.

Here is how Carl Sagan beautifully described it:

“Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it, everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor, and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every 'superstar,' every 'supreme leader,' every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there — on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.

The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand. It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.”

[Matt Shumer @mattshumer_]

https://t.co/ivXRKXJvQg

[David P. Adams @dadamsAU]

Everyone asking “Will AI take my job?” is really asking “Will we build institutions fast enough to manage the shock?” Economists shrug; politicians nap. Meanwhile firms sprint. Worth reading. https://t.co/H7SJ5otjeO

[David P. Adams @dadamsAU]

You have better things to do than fight LaTeX.
I convert Word/Google Docs → clean, submission-ready LaTeX (commented, understandable, editable). No black box. No vendor lock-in.
Typical turnaround: 5–7 days.
https://t.co/6ewYeFWC5O
Email: [email protected]

[David P. Adams @dadamsAU]

I'm all about good illustrations and figures to explain work. The scientific process of thinking through those processes to articulate them graphically helps to ensure their robust longevity because the scientist realizes the challenge inherent.

[Stephen Turner 🦋 @stephenturner.us @strnr]

I don't love this.

PaperBanana: Automating Academic Illustration for AI Scientists https://t.co/LYm6AtaKnQ

[The Obama Foundation @ObamaFoundation]

Love this reminder from President Obama: “We can argue about how to best achieve these goals. But we can't be complacent about the goals themselves. For if we don't create opportunity for all people, the disaffection and division that has stalled our progress will only sharpen in years to come.” Together, we will take on this work 💙

[Etan Thomas @etanthomas36]

#MichelleObama