Biomedical grad here doing research into lab documentation. How much time do you actually spend per week on write ups, progress reports and admin stuff? Genuinely curious whether it's as painful as I think.
reddit.comu/Babaman444 — 1 hour ago
r/PhdProductivity
How do you stay informed as an academic?
I've been immersed in the cutting edge of CS because of my field and the direction it's moving, but I'm not an academic. Triaging through research papers can feel overly burdensome, and while a lot of podcasts exist across various topics, I've sometimes wished I could just turn a research paper into a podcast or interrogate it without the risk of hallucination.
I've been playing around with two separate projects that do exactly that. The first surfaces top papers published across various journals and converts them into a podcast-like format you can listen to. The second lets you search topics or papers across journals, select the ones you care about, and literally talk to them without the risk of hallucinations. Hallucinations here take the form of incorrect chunks blended into or cut off from the larger context, not the LLM making things up wholesale like you'd almost certainly get if you just fed the paper into ChatGPT.
I've been seriously considering improving both of these and putting them under one umbrella as a free, publicly accessible service.
You all are academics thus have built processes that im sure dwarf my own so im turning to you all for advice.
Is it worth my time?
u/OnyxProyectoUno — 18 hours ago
What I wish I knew before applying to grad school in the USA… :/ (Application process)
I went through the whole grad school application process in the US (as an international student), and honestly there were a lot of things I wish someone had explained clearly beforehand, especially I would’ve appreciate some tips about the process and to increase my chances to get accepted in my dream program…
Things like the timeline and main deadlines, when to start reaching out to professors and how to approach them in your first email, how to find a good professor that would help you with your goals and to graduate, the whole interview process…
So, as I couldn’t find a video with all this information and secret tips, I ended up putting together a step-by-step breakdown of everything I did, mostly because I kept getting asked about it by friends who are applying now to different grad school programs.
If it’s helpful, I can share more details about any part of the process, or elaborate more on all the tips I give in the video!! Happy to answer questions and good luck with the application process (I know it’s exhausting)!
Video here:
u/iamC6 — 19 hours ago
Finding old research is the hard part
Maybe this is more of a me problem, but I’m much worse at finding old research material than saving it.
Saving is easy.
Later on I remember I read something useful and then waste time trying to get back to the exact passage.
That’s basically why I built Sigilla.
u/Eastern-Height2451 — 11 hours ago
Week