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This week: Automate your literature review with three Python scripts
How to use Semantic Scholar's API + Python to build a living bibliography that updates automatically when new papers cite your work.
Elicit — AI research assistant that actually finds real papers. Honest review: what it's good at, where it fails, and the free tier limits.
Pandoc citation filter · Obsidian Dataview for paper notes · One Zotero shortcut you probably missed
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