I’ve got a @semble.so Collection of #AI tools I’ve come across specifically for academic research. Most of these Ive tried and found them user-friendly-ish. If you use something not on the list, please share it :) semble.so/profile/rafmbatista.bsky.soci…
AI Tools for Academic Research (by Rafael M Batista) — Semble
semble.soSep 13, 2026 at 5:02 PM
AI Research Assistant Claude Scholar: Open Source, Free, and Citation-Verified | João Cláudio Nunes Carvalho posted on the topic | LinkedIn
🚨 Professors are going to hate this. Someone just open sourced an AI that writes research papers from idea to publication. Conference-ready. Citation-verified. Free. It's called Claude Scholar. An AI-powered research system that handles every step of the academic workflow. Idea to publication. Fully automated. No advisor at 2am. No staring at blank LaTeX files. No crying during rebuttal season. Here's what's inside this thing: → AI brainstorms research topics, reviews literature, and finds gaps nobody has explored → Runs statistical analysis on your experiments. t-tests, ANOVA, ablation studies. Publication-ready figures. → Writes your paper section by section. Abstract to conclusion. Conference-formatted. → Verifies every citation through multi-layer validation so AI never hallucinates a reference → Strips robotic AI language and adds human voice so reviewers can't tell → Self-reviews your draft with a 6-point quality checklist before you submit → Parses reviewer comments, classifies each one, and drafts your entire rebuttal Here's the wildest part: It supports NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, ACL, AAAI, Nature, Science, Cell, and PNAS. Downloads the conference template, strips sample content, and gives you a clean LaTeX structure ready to write into. The creator says it covers 90% of the academic research lifecycle. Research assistants charge $30 to $60/hour. Conference paper consultants charge $5,000+. Graduate programs cost $50K/year. This is free. All of it. 100% Open Source.
Shahan Ali Memon (@shahanmemon.bsky.social)
Researching {science of AI-mediated science, metascience #SciSci, #AI4Science, #GenAI, LLMs, agents, alignment, AI governance, misinformation in science} PhD @ UW. Visiting @ NYU & MSR Alum @ Carnegie Mellon Academic webpage: https://samemon.github.io
trycua/acu
A curated list of resources about AI agents for Computer Use, including research papers, projects, frameworks, and tools.
Semble (@semble.so)
Social knowledge network for your research trails by @cosmik.network 🌐 https://semble.so/
Elicit: AI for scientific research
Use AI to search, summarize, extract data from, and chat with over 125 million papers. Used by over 2 million researchers in academia and industry.
Elicit: AI for scientific research
Use AI to search, summarize, extract data from, and chat with over 125 million papers. Used by over 2 million researchers in academia and industry.
AI for Research | Scite
Scite searches 280M+ scholarly articles to give you citation-backed answers and show you how every claim is supported or disputed.
Moltbook is the most interesting place on the internet right now
The hottest project in AI right now is Clawdbot, renamed to Moltbot, renamed to OpenClaw. It’s an open source implementation of the digital personal assistant pattern, built by Peter Steinberger …
Digital Science on Twitter / X
An AI-native workspace that already knows your project?The new Papers AI from Digital Science keeps your drafts, data & references together, so the AI assistant has full context of your work - instead of starting fresh each time. 👉 Available now: https://t.co/DNcG173GDk… pic.twitter.com/FQWxdfKfS4— Digital Science (@digitalsci) August 4, 2026
Would you like an easy personal research website generator backed by @sifa.id and other atmosphere apps/data? ( @semble.so for library, @standard.site for blog, etc ) Inspired by the academicpages.github.io template all of us researchers use 😅
Sifa ID
Here's an early POC for a "personal website" run entirely on Sifa (and more atproto) data: sifa.id/p/gui.do/site (just append /site to your own profile to see it in action) You can also self-host it: github.com/singi-labs/sifa-academicpages
I'm only JUST starting to explore @semble.so as a potential research tool but if anyone is curious to follow (I will be making many missteps, just to warn you 😉), you can find my Collections at semble.so/profile/debbieohi.com/collect…
Debbie Ridpath Ohi's collections — Semble
semble.soAI Tools for Academic Research
Research tools 🔬
Interesting tools that assist with the research process.
Quit Big Tech
Includes articles about getting off US tech, although personally I’m fine with US tech as long as I think they have good privacy/principles. Mostly excluding specifically AI-related articles, which will go in AI-related collections: semble.so/profile/aiueo.ooo/collections… See also collections for specific companies
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Ronen Tamari (@ronentk.me)
Crossmark - Crossref
Crossmark - Crossref
Plaudit · Open endorsements from the academic community
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RegCheck
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Link Jar: Your links. Your jar. Forever.
vec.blue
Sez Where? — Ask questions about your documents
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