I just want to know what kind of AI you guys have used recently?
I see GPT has Rosalind model, and there are so many AI tools coming out for healthcare and the medical domain. I was curious about whether there are some AI designed for medical/ therapy research? And what's your feeling about it?
Hello everyone, I’m doing a PhD in basic neuroscience, and lately I feel like I’m completely spiraling.
I’ve been reading a ton of papers and trying to write more recently. I used to follow my interests and then try really hard to do things well once I care about them. Now my PI has really high expectations for me, and recently the pressure has been intense. I know, on some level, he wants me to produce more because it would help my career too. Rationally, I get that. Emotionally, though? I’m cooked.
The most obvious problem is I’ve been reading papers, but I can’t retain anything anymore. That makes me even more anxious, because it feels like I’m endlessly skimming and forgetting.
Then I started seeing all these people on YouTube and X talking about tools that help you discover links between papers, build knowledge graphs, organize evidence, and “revolutionize” your research workflow.
I tried NotebookLM because everyone and their dog was hyping it up. It was okay for organizing documents and making mind maps, but the summaries felt way too shallow for the kind of deep reading I need. Then I tried GPT. It could give me some brief summaries with citations, but again, not enough depth. Then I asked it to recommend research tools for neuroscience, and it suggested NoahAI. I actually tried it, and to be fair, it was pretty good at giving me more detailed reports from a med research angle, and it even helped me make mechanism diagrams for free. It saved me a lot of time. But the reports still weren’t quite in proper academic language, so I had to keep refining prompts and stitching things together myself. So I tried to use Claude plus skills for writing.
Now I’ve gotten so used to the speed and instant output from AI tools that I barely want to do anything manually anymore. Intellectually, I know this is bad. AI is supposed to be a tool for researchers, but somehow I became the tool. I’m lowkey ashamed of myself. If I keep going like this, I’m genuinely scared I’m going to end up accomplishing nothing.
BUT I don’t wanna do anything now. My brain just wants to Alt+F4 out of reality.
Has anyone else gone through something like this? How did you get out of it?
Hello everyone, I’m doing a PhD in basic neuroscience, and lately I feel like I’m completely spiraling.
I’ve been reading a ton of papers and trying to write more recently. I used to follow my interests and then try really hard to do things well once I care about them. Now my PI has really high expectations for me, and recently the pressure has been intense. I know, on some level, he wants me to produce more because it would help my career too. Rationally, I get that. Emotionally, though? I’m cooked.
The pressure has been building for a while, and I think I’ve finally hit full burnout.
The most obvious problem is I’ve been reading papers, but I can’t retain anything anymore. I already use Zotero to organize everything, and my library is actually pretty neat. But somehow I still only remember the last paper I looked at. If I want to recall anything, I have to go back into Zotero, click through my tags, reopen the papers, and basically re-read them. And if I spend more than like 30 minutes reading, it feels like all the information just slides through my brain like it’s on a water slide. Nothing sticks. RIP.
That makes me even more anxious, because it feels like I’m endlessly skimming and forgetting.
Then I started seeing all these people on YouTube and X talking about tools that help you discover links between papers, build knowledge graphs, organize evidence, and “revolutionize” your research workflow. So naturally, instead of calmly doing my work like a normal person, I launched myself into a whole new side quest.
At this point, I honestly don’t even know whether using tools to help with research was the beginning of my downfall.
I tried NotebookLM because everyone and their dog was hyping it up. It was okay for organizing documents and making mind maps, but the summaries felt way too shallow for the kind of deep reading I need. Then I tried GPT. It could give me some brief summaries with citations, but again, not enough depth. Then I asked it to recommend research tools for neuroscience, and it suggested NoahAI. I actually tried it, and to be fair, it was pretty good at giving me more detailed reports from a med research angle, and it even helped me make mechanism diagrams for free. It saved me a lot of time. But the reports still weren’t quite in proper academic language, so I had to keep refining prompts and stitching things together myself.
So I tried to use Claude plus skills for writing.
And here’s the most cursed part of this whole saga: after all of that, I realized I completely lost the plot.
I spent way more time exploring tools and “optimizing my workflow” than actually thinking about my research. My ADHD absolutely went feral here. I got addicted to the feeling of being efficient instead of actually being effective.
Now I’ve gotten so used to the speed and instant output from AI tools that I barely want to do anything manually anymore. Intellectually, I know this is bad. AI is supposed to be a tool for researchers, but somehow I became the tool. I’m lowkey ashamed of myself. If I keep going like this, I’m genuinely scared I’m going to end up accomplishing nothing.
BUT I don’t wanna do anything now. My brain just wants to alt+F4 out of reality.
Has anyone else gone through something like this? How did you get out of it?
Honestly, I still want the PhD. I do want to finish. But right now I feel stuck and I don’t know what to do. My friend keeps telling me I should talk to my PI, and they’re probably right, but I’ve been procrastinating that too.
I know GPT has upgraded its ad platform and added cpc to their ad. I can't wait to tried ai ads for its precise context and high customer intent. But yesterday, I go to gpt platform and want to sign up an account, but it shows i can't get an account unless i find someone/ Agency? to recommend.
I just curious about the truth about the ads. All i know about it just from GPT, but I want to hear more about the experience from the brand company. Could you guys tell me what do you think about gpt?
Actually, I want to promote our product on Reddit, but after several efforts, I found it difficult to achieve the target.
First, I launched reddit ads for two weeks and almost spent me 1.4k dollars, but I only get one sign-up, but my ctr is above industry level. And I'm kinda frustrated about Reddit ads.
I scroll all the posts about Reddit ads subreddits, and almost all people say it is a bad performance platform cause people here only want to have fun and knowledge; few people would want to go to a website and sign up.
I completely understand that, so I give it up and try to cultivate a community and post some questions/content to let more audience know our brand. But on Reddit, if your content concludes a little bit of advertising, your post will be deleted by the platform or mod.
So how could i continue to promote on this platform or I just need to find a new channel?
I’m an M3 on rotations right now, and I’m trying not to spiral over research because I really want a first-author paper. But lately it’s been feeling almost impossible. If I join someone else’s project, I can usually help with the boring parts like literature review, background work, and data cleanup. That’s annoying, but manageable, because I don’t have to lead the whole thing. The hard part is usually just finding someone willing to let me join.
Trying to start my own project feels completely different. Coming up with a topic and designing the study feels brutal. Most of the ideas I think of have already been done, and the things nobody has solved yet feel way above my level. I’m not about to solve some huge research problem while trying to survive rotations.
I’ve tried using NoahAI to make the searching and analysis parts less painful, and it has helped me generate ideas. But the rest still feels like too much. Writing everything up and doing the analysis while on rotations feels insane. So I really need honest advice. Has any M3 here actually managed to get a first-author paper while on rotations? And does that kind of paper really matter that much for residency or better hospital opportunities? I’m trying my best, but I’m already feeling kind of fried.