Renata Rezende Miranda

15 bookmark-worthy tools for researchers that cost you nothing and will save you time (& nerves) when researching, writing and publishing. A thread. 🧵 #AcademicTwitter #AcWri #PostDoc — #1: Track your time with Toggl ⌛ toggl.com • Understand how you are spending your time • Track how long each task is taking you so you can plan accordingly • Be more focused on the task at hand I use Toggl daily. — #2: Proof-read your papers with Writefull 🔎 writefull.com • AI-powered proof-reading tool specifically for scientific texts • Integrates into Word and Overleaf Members of my program - the Researchers' Writing Academy - love this one! — #3: Organise your references with Zotero 🗃️ zotero.org • Open-source program • Saves references from your browser • Organises them in folders and using tags • Creates bibliographies for your article • Lets you co-create citation libraries with co-authors — #4: Stay focused with Forest 🌳 forestapp.cc • Start the app when you want to write or deep work • A virtual tree starts growing • When you leave the app to do something else, the tree dies • The larger your forest, the more deep work you got done! — #5: Discover papers with Research Rabbit 🐰 researchrabbit.ai • Build your own citation network • Label network entries • Download paper PDFs • Get alerts for new papers — #6: Visualise your thoughts with XMind 🧠 xmind.net • Intuitive mindmapping tool • Embed hyperlinks, images & attachments Excellent for organising references for review papers or brainstorming the story of your paper! — #7: Notion 🖥️ notion.so/product • Powerful all-rounder • Note-taking • Project management • Wikis & databases Some members of my program - the Researchers’ Writing Academy - swear by it! — #8: Listen to scientific papers with Audemic 🎧 audemic.io • Highlight text while listening • Take notes • Get summaries that go beyond the abstract — #9: Record training or feedback videos with Loom 🎥 loom.com • Record your screen, webcam and/or audio • Share the video link after recording • 25x 5-min videos included in free plan I use this one all the time! — #10: Project manage your papers with Trello 🗂️ trello.com • Use lists, cards & checklist to organise the tasks in each project • Collaborate with co-authors • Communicate via comment function PS: We provide you with several Trello templates inside our program! — #11: Choose your target journal with SciRev 📗 scirev.org • Compare publication speeds, peer review quality and journal statistics • Contribute your own publishing experiences • Made by researchers — #12: Compare journal policies with Transpose ↗️ transpose-publishing.github.io/#/ • Compare journal policies on open peer review, co-reviewing and preprint policies You might be surprised how vague some journals are on these topics! — #13: Share methods on Protocols 🧪 protocols.io • Publish your chemical synthesis protocols, clinical trial descriptions or computational workflows • Keep them updated • Receive a DOI • Run protocols as checklists • Free for open research — #14: Cite correctly with CiteAs 💬 citeas.org • Obtain the correct citation for preprints, software and datasets in one click • Open-source tool — #15: Understand your research landscape with Dimensions 🌆 dimensions.ai • Analyse all research-related data (grants, papers, patents, datasets, online mentions, clinical trials, policy documents) • Identify collaborators • Find who has cited and used your work — TL;DR - 15 free tools for researchers you should bookmark now #1: Toggl #2: Writefull #3: Zotero #4: Forest #5: ResearchRabbit #6: XMind #7: Notion #8: Audemic #9: Loom #10: Trello #11: SciRev #12: Transpose #13: Protocols #14: CiteAs #15: Dimensions — However, the best tools won’t make you more efficient at writing papers if you don’t have a streamlined writing process in place. 💻Therefore, if you liked this thread: Watch my free writing training 👇

We are recruiting our next colleague in the Hudson Lab (rit.edu/hudsonlab/) @RITscience. For more information and how to apply, visit tinyurl.com/3yh2b5z6 & search using 8140BR. Don't hesitate to contact me if you have any questions. Please RT.

We are so incredibly proud of all the young scholars that participated in the @RochesterPrepHS/@RITtigers Capstone Program. Huge thanks to my Hudson Lab Colleagues, Dr. Miranda, and UG scholars, and also to our fantastic partners in the K-12 University Center @RITK12UC.

@HudsonLabRIT @NIH Excited to unpack and starting using this!

It's here! @renatarezendem, let's rock and roll! Cheers to novel discoveries and fun science! Thank you @NIH.

@beforourspring Aconteceu comigo tbm!! Qual a explicação gente?!

Gente???? Meu Instagram foi suspenso por razão nenhuma??? Gente pelo amor de Deus

Chao Zhang & @renatarezendem discuss chemical-genetic strategies that use covalent inhibitors to target cysteine residues to dissect the cellular functions of individual protein kinases in this review as part of our covalent drug discovery collection ➡ pubs.rsc.org/en/content/art…

BREAKING NEWS: The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2022 #NobelPrize in Chemistry to Carolyn R. Bertozzi, Morten Meldal and K. Barry Sharpless “for the development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry.”

The COVID-19 pandemic generates ~7,200 tons of waste/day. Disposable masks pose a health risk if disposed of improperly in the environment. Pittsford Sutherland HS Scholar, Angie Mozrall published her senior capstone project on this topic. @renatarezendem @CristaWadsworth #RIT

Fun collab with Drs. Parthasarathy, @renatarezendem, @achristytyler, Eddingsaas & @RITGSOLS @RITscience students-Polystyrene Degradation by Exiguobacterium sp. RIT 594: Preliminary Evidence for a Pathway Containing an Atypical Oxygenase mdpi.com/1769736 via @Micro_MDPI

The Hudson Lab Scholars did great at the RIT UG research symposium. Congratulations on a successful summer and onward and upward into the next AY! Well Done! @renatarezendem @MaryVisingard

Check out the cover art I designed for the current issue of RSC Med Chem to illustrate our review on covalent chemical-genetic strategies to study protein kinases

Thank you @NIH for funding our lab. This funding will provide the resources for Dr. @renatarezendem and I to continue on our mission of training and mentoring UG/G students and will significantly enhance the various antibiotic prospecting projects in our lab. #ThankYou #Grateful

Welcome, @MaryVisingard :)

Check out this review in our Covalent Drug Discovery collection (rsc.li/md-covalent) by @renatarezendem and Chao Zhang at @USCChemistry on chemical-genetic strategies covalently targeting cysteine residues to study protein kinases ➡ pubs.rsc.org/en/content/art…

I wrote this while a 5th-year PhD candidate at @USCChemistry and I'm happy to finally be able to share our review on using reactivity-based (covalent) chemical-genetic strategies to study protein kinases and kinase inhibitors! @rsc_medchem pubs.rsc.org/en/content/art…

Structure-based design of a dual-warhead covalent inhibitor of FGFR4 dlvr.it/SM7VSB

Excited to share our most recent publication in the @HudsonLabRIT discussing chemical biology approaches to facilitate the discovery and development of novel antibiotics frontiersin.org/article/10.338…

Congratulations Drs. Miranda (@renatarezendem) and Parthasarathy. Exploration of Chemical Biology Approaches to Facilitate the Discovery and Development of Novel Antibiotics frontiersin.org/article/10.338…

Angie Mozrall, a high school student that @renatarezendem and I are mentoring screened bacteria for antibiotic resistance that she isolated from the environment. She identified 2 strains that are resistant to 5 out of the 7 antibiotics we tested. The next step to seq the genomes.

Please help me welcome Angie Mozrall to our research team. Angie is a senior at Pittsford Sutherland High School and is commencing her senior internship in lab and will be working on our antibiotic resistance project. Welcome Young Scholar! #ExperientialLearning