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The Pocket Card Monthly QR Exclusive - January 2025
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A guide to our January Deal:
Did you just get a shiny new STEM Pocket tool from us for Christmas? Get ready to save time!
But January is also a great time to slow down and tap into your creativity. To help with that, we designed STEM-themed Word Magnet sets in Engineering, Chemistry, Physics, Academia, and more.
Secretly leave rants to your office mates, funny messages to your lab mates, or use them for a creative break during your routine. It’s up to you!
January Resource: The lit review tool I wish I had in grad school
Imagine the best features of Zotero, Mendeley, and Google Docs all rolled into one with an embedded AI engine. SciSpace (formerly called Typeset) is a new platform that makes it so much easier to keep track of papers, summarize them, compare them, and keep them linked within your notes while you prepare your manuscript. My favorite features so far let you:
- Extra data and tables from PDF papers to make them editable.
- Search papers by open-ended question rather than topic like “What compounds react most strongly with H2S gas in air?” rather than “H2S gas reactivity ZnO, SnO2, oxide”
- Find that paper you want to cite but can’t remember the author. When you write the main takeaways you remember, a little “cite” button pulls up suggestions for the papers the takeaway came from.
While I still don’t recommend any AI tool for writing papers for you, using SciSpace for finding papers and organizing your thoughts will definitely save you hours and hours of headaches.
Since I loved this tool so much, we signed up as an ambassador for it and they gave us a code to share for our audience to get 40% off an annual subscription. Use “GENIUS40” and let me know your favorite thing about it when you start using it!
Here’s a search I did for “Which materials are most promising as high temperature superconductors?” See how it instantly pulls out the insights and conclusions in a neat table format!
Just for fun: Science Cartoon
Do you also say “Please” and “Thank you” when using AI tools? Just in case…
Science cartoons by Tom Gauld.
January behind-the-scenes news:
We’ve started work on our BLACK lab coat
You all voted, and we listened. An all-black version of our Louis and Curie lab coats will be available this summer. We’ve already received color samples (they are black…) and the fabric is under production now!
We’re also working on an FR lab coat in navy blue that should be ready in early 2026.
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December 2024 - A free BioRender alternative from NIH
November 2024 - Beat the Lab Coat Price Increase!
October 2024 - Free Einstein Political Quote Sticker
September 2024 - Grab a pocket card for your classmate or colleague
August 2024 - Get the High School Edition for a young scientist!
July 2024 - Buy 3 Word Magnet sets, get 1 free!
June 2024 - Don't Miss Upcoming PhD Fellowship Opportunities
May 2024 - Prompting in Google Docs
April 2024 - Google Drive hacks
March 2024 - Mastering Lab Meetings
February 2024 - Mastering Schlenk Lines
January 2024 - Time-saving Excel shortcuts you didn't know
December 2023 - Virtual coworking with scientists
November 2023 - Data plots for colorblind scientists
October 2023 - Crowdfunding your experiments and The Lab Coat Project finale
September 2023 - How to quickly find info on chemicals and molecules
August 2023 - An intro to quarterly planning for research
July 2023 - Using AI to search research papers
June 2023 - The easy button on literature reviews
May 2023 - Negotiating vacation and Pocket Paleontologist launch
April 2023 - Job interviews and lab coat updates!
March 2023 - Lab coats affect your mental health?
February 2023 - STEM books that won't put you to sleep
January 2023 - AI Chat and SciArt
December 2022 - SciComm video editing tools
October 2022 - Career skills workshops
September 2022 - Conservation in the laboratory
August 2022 - Join a study to help scientists
July 2022 - Lab Coat Materials Ultimate Guide
June 2022 - Neuroscience Podcasts and Lab Coat Update
May 2022 - Science Learning Centers near you
April 2022 - The Pocket Physicist Launch and Best Math Blogs
February 2022 - Fantastic Physics Blogs
January 2022 - Pleasure reading for engineers
December 2021 - Easy lab process diagrams
November 2021 - Free STEM icons for your presentations
October 2021 - WebPlotDigitzer and Lab Coats
September 2021 - Engineering Podcasts
August 2021 - STEM Holiday Calendar
June 2021 - Productivity resources
May 2021 - SciComm on Social Media
April 2021 - Sustainability in the lab
March 2021 - Gifts for Engineers
February 2021- Focus on reading papers
January 2021 - Focus on interviewing
December 2020 - Inspirational reading for graduate students
November 2020 - Graduate application resources
October 2020 - Voting for Science
September 2020 - New Lab Art Photography
August 2020 - The Pocket Chemist Exam Edition launch!
July 2020 - Word Magnet Launch!
June 2020 - Constant giveaways and learning to code
May 2020 - Time to get writing?
April 2020 - Quarantine life and a new retro sticker!
March 2020 - Focus on Best Chemistry Blogs
February 2020 - Focus on Digital tools for chemistry
January 2020 - Focus on Outreach
December 2019 - Focus on Social Media Accounts for Scientists
November 2019 - Focus on Helpful Reading for Grad Students
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