Ushnik Das

Striving to be a scientist, artiste and everything in between. 📖Neuroscience @ZNZNeuroscience || @IISERMohali 🏠Kolkata

[Ushnik Das @yooshnick]

@sanatmishra7 Congrats brooooooooo

[Ushnik Das @yooshnick]

Link to the website: https://t.co/DuVpM9iU8E

[Ushnik Das @yooshnick]

1000 researchers. 400+ weekly.

I thought people would use this to organise papers.

Instead, they’re mapping entire research workflows on Canvas.

Hypotheses. Experiments. Evidence. Decisions.

If you’re still just bookmarking papers… you’re missing the fun part :P

#academic

[Ushnik Das @yooshnick]

New features on PaperScope:

A canvas where you can place papers, connect them, and slowly make sense of a topic. Think FigJam, but for research.

Also added a citation network view.

~500 researchers in 3 months. Grateful and slightly surprised 😄

https://t.co/DuVpM9iU8E

[Ushnik Das @yooshnick]

Still improving it — if anything feels confusing or could be better, I’d really appreciate the feedback :D

#AcademicTwitter #PhDLife

[Ushnik Das @yooshnick]

I got tired of noisy Google Scholar/PubMed alerts, so I built a small free tool that learns what you actually care about and sends a clean weekly digest — split into highly relevant, worth reading, and out-of-the-box papers.

https://t.co/vdPLs2mIaA

[Ushnik Das @yooshnick]

It not only lets you follow specific researchers so you don't miss their new work but also gives you short 2 line summary on why the paper could be interesting for you.

Built it mainly for scientists/PhDs who just want signal, not noise :)

Here’s how the dashboard looks:

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

Thread of hilarious maps you've (probably) never seen before 🧵

1. World map according to fish

[Academic Chatter™ @AcademicChatter]

Is the paper you need stuck behind a paywall? Here is a list of useful websites to help you access the research you need.

* https://t.co/LNo6dEUv8X
* https://t.co/Anfsq2ONxq
* https://t.co/QwVvkzET2M
* https://t.co/Z2ZUG247no
* https://t.co/bPGp5rPm96

[Ushnik Das @yooshnick]

I mean… he’s got a point…

[Kenneth Hayworth @KennethHayworth]

I’m sorry, but it is still really bugging me that we could ALL likely get to the future together (via quality brain preservation and far future mind uploading) if only the neuroscience community would start taking its own findings seriously and consider the implications. 1/6

[Achuthan Raja Venkatesh @achuthan_rv]

Ever wondered how viscous regions in bulk milieu affect particle mobility? Using simulations, we show that non-uniform viscosity can lead to particle trajectories being "lensed" into viscous zones - we term this phenomenon "diffusive lensing". (1/n)

[Ushnik Das @yooshnick]

Anyone else feel that @warikoo and @Akshat_World are becoming those typical Gen Z finance gurus?
It's like they went from being insightful market analysts to being toxic positivity experts to now being the "cool" Fin-Fluencers...
#FinanceTwitterJa

[Ushnik Das @yooshnick]

@rpokolkata, sincerely requesting you to please check the status of my PCC as my VISA appointment is very close. It's been almost 4 weeks since my PCC appointment. Local police station has cleared my address but nothing has been updated on the official website.
CA2086694703322

[Samrat Mukhopadhyay @SamratLabMohali]

25 years ago: June 1997. I was selected for the highly competitive & coveted integrated PhD (MS + PhD) program at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bangalore. My life changed forever. Whatever little I have done, I owe it to IISc. I narrate a fascinating story. Read on (1/n)

[Ricardo Diaz-Rincon @rdiazrincon]

The amount of villains in the Spider-Man franchise with a PhD is concerning.

[Ushnik Das @yooshnick]

@achuthan_rv

[Ushnik Das @yooshnick]

I sometimes wonder if academia expects way too much from a PI.
They not only have to be the smartest brains in their fields but also have to be a teacher, writer, orator, salesperson, recruiter, event organiser etc.

Let alone the burden of administrative work!

#AcademicChatter

[Santosh Satbhai @santosh7bhai]

An uncut grass keeps the ground at 19.5°c
A grass cut at 10 cm keeps the ground temperature at 24.5°c
A bare ground in the middle of the summer rises to more than 40°c
It's up to you to learn from it..... (Credit - Le Potager De Steph, France)