Discovery and research tools

PDF To Brainrot

PDF to Brainrot converts PDFs and text documents into TikTok-style short videos, on the theory that dense academic content sticks better in formats younger audiences actually watch.

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Preprint Watch

Preprint Watch, by KNOWDYN, analyses new preprints in real time and classifies them by epistemic role — reinforcing existing models, indicating anomalies, or proposing paradigm shifts — rather than waiting for citations to accumulate.

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Primo Research Assistant

Primo Research Assistant, from Clarivate, takes natural-language questions and answers them from the library’s own holdings: it pinpoints five articles, distils their abstracts into an overview with in-line references, and lists the sources beneath for verification and further…

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Prism

Prism is OpenAI’s free, LaTeX-native workspace for scientists, with GPT-5.2 built in to write, edit, reason about and collaborate on research papers. It works in the live document context, converts diagrams or handwritten sketches into LaTeX, and suggests…

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Scholar Labs

Google Scholar Labs, unveiled 18 November 2025, is Google Scholar’s AI-powered search for detailed research questions. It returns a short, curated list of papers with an AI-generated structured summary of how each paper addresses the query — no…

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