Claude Skills by dvdsosa

Structure a scientific paper section by section — tables and figures, Results, Methods, Introduction, Discussion, Abstract — following Stanford's Writing in the Sciences. Use this skill whenever someone is writing, drafting, planning, restructuring or reviewing any part of a research paper, journal article, conference paper or thesis chapter: "help me with the introduction", "how do I structure the discussion", "is my abstract missing anything", "my results section is too long", "what order s...

Communicate science to non-specialists: lay summaries, plain-language abstracts, press releases, science news stories, talking to journalists, presenting risk numbers honestly, interviewing a scientist, and using social media. Based on Stanford's Writing in the Sciences. Use this skill whenever someone needs to explain research to a general, non-expert or non-technical audience — "write a lay summary", "plain language summary", "my funder wants a public abstract", "a journalist has contacted ...

Plan and run the writing process for a scientific paper or thesis chapter — pre-writing and organisation, drafting fast without perfectionism, revision, and the final pre-submission checklist — following Stanford's Writing in the Sciences. Use this skill whenever someone is stuck, procrastinating, or asking how to approach a piece of writing rather than asking about the text itself: "I don't know where to start", "I've been staring at this for weeks", "I'm about to write chapter 3", "how do I...

Write the documents an academic career runs on besides papers: narrative review articles, grant and fellowship applications (specific aims, research plan), letters of recommendation, and personal statements. Based on Stanford's Writing in the Sciences. Use this skill whenever someone mentions writing or reviewing a grant, a fellowship application, a research proposal, a specific aims page, a research plan or strategy, a review article or literature review, a letter of recommendation or refere...

Edit and tighten scientific or technical prose at the sentence and paragraph level, using the method taught in Stanford's Writing in the Sciences. Use this skill whenever someone asks you to review, edit, tighten, clean up, polish or improve any piece of research writing — a paper, thesis chapter, abstract, grant paragraph, cover letter or report — and whenever they say a passage "sounds wrong", "reads badly", "is too long", "is too dense", or needs to fit a word limit. Also use it for target...

Navigate publication: choosing a journal, the submission process, responding to reviewers after a revise-and-resubmit, performing a peer review yourself, authorship decisions and order, plagiarism and self-plagiarism, and spotting predatory journals. Based on Stanford's Writing in the Sciences. Use this skill whenever someone mentions submitting a paper, a decision letter, reviewer comments, a rebuttal or response letter, "revise and resubmit", "my paper was rejected", being invited to review...