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No More Scrambling Through Lectures, Group Meetings, and Interviews: MuchSci AI Transcription Turns Audio into Usable As

Have you ever had this experience: your advisor talks for 40 minutes straight at a group meeting while you bury your head in notes, only to miss the key conclusions; an online lecture is packed with information and the slides flip by quickly, and when you snap back to attention you've only captured

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interdisciplinary

Cross-disciplinary Talent Search: How to Find Someone Who Knows Both A and B

Some requests are obviously tricky the moment they come up: "We need someone who knows both materials and clinical work," "a doctor who has done machine learning and also understands clinical practice," "is there anyone with a social science background who has researched this area?" These requests a

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Expert database

Governing an Expert Reviewer Database: From a Pile of Names to a Long-Term Asset

Almost every research group, every department, and every editorial office has its own "expert list." It usually starts out casually: jotting down a few names in a meeting, getting a few recommendations from senior colleagues, saving a few entries while skimming papers. Only when you go to use it do

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AI retrieval papers

Personal Knowledge Base: Turning a Year's Worth of Four Types of Materials into a Queryable Library

Personal Knowledge Base: Turning a Year's Worth of Four Types of Materials into a Queryable Library. A year ago, my materials were scattered: courseware in the Downloads folder, translations on the desktop, notes in the notes app, and formatting requirements buried in group chats. When I needed to w

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Conversation + Agent

Conversation + Agent: A One-Sentence Research Task, Broken into Steps—and Where I Step In

Conversation + Agent: A One-Sentence Research Task, Broken into Steps—and Where I Step In. My old approach was: when I had a question, I asked it once, got a chunk of answer, and copied it into my notes. The result was answers that looked useful, but nothing actually got done. My approach now is dif

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AI office assistant agent

Office Assistant Agent: PPT, explanatory notes, and data tables for group meeting reports—delivered according to a deliv

Office Assistant Agent: PPT, explanatory notes, and data tables for group meeting reports—delivered according to a deliverables list. When preparing a group meeting report, I used to start with "open the PPT template" and end with "there's no time left." Now I start with a deliverables list. The fou

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