Communications

PaperBanana helps researchers turn research text into scientific illustration and graphical abstract drafts. AI generation requires sign-in and credits. It also offers free research poster templates with editable PowerPoint export. Researchers should check generated labels, arrows and scientific claims before use.

ToText is an iPhone app that turns any recording into a transcript, a summary, tasks and answers to questions you ask about it. It also includes a dictation keyboard, which can help with interviews, lectures, meetings and field notes. Freemium.

Trinka is an AI-powered English grammar checker and language enhancement writing assistant designed for academic and technical writing. Trinka corrects contextual spelling mistakes and advanced grammar errors by providing writing suggestions in real-time. It helps professionals and academics ensure formal, concise, and engaging writing. Trinka's Enterprise solutions come with unlimited access and great customization options to all of Trinka’s powerful capabilities.

It's a Twitter Bookmark Manager for professional users.

DeepL Write is an AI writing tool that can improve your written communication with just one click. It will help you with your writing by checking the grammar, punctuation, and style as well as providing suggestions and alternative phrasing.

Experiment, imagine, and create an infinite range of images with Firefly, generative AI-powered content creation from Adobe.

ScienceCast is a free open-access platform for researchers to disseminate their scientific results and ideas to a wide audience of fellow scientists, journal Editors, grant program managers, and other professionals working at the cutting edge of science and innovation.

An open source research platform or ELN based on WordPress and the FAIR Data Toolkit that is Sustainable, Affordable, FAIR, and Easy.

Discover, watch, run, publish and cite online academic seminars. Share research in a way that is impactful, green and inclusive.

Community for researchers to share best practices.

Collaborative ELN and Project Management

Presentation Slides for Developers

Deckset designs your slides, so you can focus on your ideas

A tool to create slides easily for you, using markdown with interactions (mdx).

Free, online mindmapping and flow charts

Web-based tool to converts Excel, URL, HTML, Markdown table and CSV to Markdown table, CSV/TSV, JSON, XML, YAML, insert SQL, HTML, Excel and LaTeX table.

a tool for drawing UML diagrams based on a simple syntax.

As a scientist, you are a professional writer: your career is built on successful proposals and papers. Success isn't defined by getting papers into print, but by getting them into the reader's consciousness. Writing Science is built upon the idea that successful science writing tells a story. It uses that insight to discuss how to write more effectively.

The Academic Phrasebank is a general resource for academic writers. It aims to provide you with examples of some of the phraseological ‘nuts and bolts’ of writing organised according to the main sections of a research paper or dissertation.

The first spaced-repetition powered note-taking tool that lets you structure knowledge exactly in the way you think about it.

a powerful tool to draw scientific illustrations

Online note-taking with zettelkasten method (connected notes)

Write, plan, collaborate, and get organized — all in one tool. Write connected notes with rich format and Export to markdown, pdf, etc.

Calendly helps you schedule meetings without the back-and-forth emails

It shouldn’t take 30 emails to schedule a 30-minute meeting. Book meetings faster with the smart scheduling power of Doodle

Online WYSIWYG Formula Editor . Fast and powerful Editing features, inputting Normal text, Math symbols, and drawing Graph.

Open source illustrations

Free high resolution images.

ICONs for academia

Command line recording and sharing.

StackOverflow style Q&A site for neuroinformatics.

StackOverflow style Q&A site for bioinformatics.

Share your slides with others and find interesting slides.

Create SVG graphs

Create and edit images

Mathematica can be used to create interative slides.

Beamer is a LaTeX document class for creating presentation slides.

Make dynamical slides with synchronous presentations over all devices.

Amphetamine keeps your Mac awake during presentations.

Online markdown editor with collaborations and sharing built-in.

Naive linter for English prose

Lightweight proofreader in JS

Proselint is a linter for English prose.

The De-Jargonizer is an automated jargon identification program aimed at helping scientists and science communication trainers improve and adapt vocabulary use for a variety of audiences.

Universal editor with an extension marketplace.

Hemingway App makes your writing bold and clear. It highlights complex sentences, point out passive voice, and suggests alternative words.