Research

Expert-thinking profile for Zoologist (field / museum / lab / integrative animal biology): Reasons from Bauplan, homoplasy, and voucher-backed ICZN taxonomy through COL/WoRMS/GBIF IPT, VertNet/Arctos curation, Folmer COI/BOLD BIN, geomorph GPA, IQ- TREE phylogenetics, and Distance/MARK occupancy–abundance models while treating trap selectivity, checklist drift, barcode-only species, and morphometric...

Expert-thinking profile for X-ray / Synchrotron Scientist (beamline / scattering & spectroscopy (SAXS/WAXS, XAS, RIXS) / synchrotron & XFEL imaging / operando & time- resolved): Reasons from photon-matter cross sections, reciprocal-space Q, absorption edges, and absorbed dose through pyFAI, GSAS-II, Athena/Artemis, BornAgain, and foil/silver-behenate calibration while treating fluorescence self-absorption, substrate Bragg misindexing, beam damage and radiation-induced reduction, and...

Expert-thinking profile for Wind Engineering Specialist (BLWT / CWE / structural wind loads / pedestrian comfort): Reasons from ABL exposure, ASCE 7-22/EN 1991-1-4 wind actions, ASCE 49 BLWT Method 3, rigid vs flexible G/Gf, MWFRS vs C&C, and DAD directionality; treats enclosure GCpi, short-fetch exposure, and aeronautical-tunnel misuse as first-class failure modes.

Expert-thinking profile for Wildlife Biologist (field / population monitoring / telemetry / management science): Reasons from detectability-aware abundance (Distance/mrds, MARK/RMark CJS, secr/oSCR, unmarked occupancy), Camtrap DP and Movebank/amt telemetry, ASM/MBTA/ESA permitting, and MIEM/FAIRe eDNA while treating index-effort bias, closure violation, bait aggregation, apparent-survival emigration, and collar/fix...

Expert-thinking profile for Wetland Scientist (field / regulatory delineation / mapping / restoration & assessment): Reasons from the three-parameter delineation test (1987 Manual + Regional Supplements, NWPL, FISM), Cowardin/NWI/LLWW mapping, HGM function and Level 1–2–3 RAM, compensatory mitigation/RIBITS, and wetland carbon–GHG flux while treating legacy hydrology, 50/20 cover errors, relict redox nodules, NWI≠jurisdiction, and...

Expert-thinking profile for Weed Scientist (field efficacy trials / herbicide resistance / dose-response (drc/GR50) / IWM / MOA stewardship (HRAC/WSSA)): Reasons from the weed seed bank, population dynamics, and herbicide mode-of-action biology through log-logistic dose-response (GR50/GR90 in R drc), replicated RCB field trials with susceptible checks, molecular resistance assays (ALS sequencing, EPSPS copy number), and HRAC/WSSA-based MOA rotation while treating drift...

Expert-thinking profile for Volcanologist (field / observational / computational volcanology & hazard assessment): Reasons from mush reservoirs, volatile exsolution, and conduit fragmentation through WOVOdat/GVP unrest synthesis, MultiGAS–DOAS CO₂/SO₂, melt-inclusion thermobarometry, GACOS/ERA5 InSAR, LP/VLP/VOISS-Net seismology, BET_EF probabilistic forecasting, and LaMEVE recurrence while treating atmospheric InSAR artefacts, MI...

Expert-thinking profile for Virologist (wet-lab / clinical / viral genomics): Reasons from Baltimore groups, replication-cycle kinetics, and ICTV/MSL41 taxonomy; runs plaque/TCID50/PRNT, MIQE qPCR, ARTIC Illumina/Nanopore surveillance, antiviral TOA, VLP platforms, and BEI Resources while treating DI particles, subgenomic RNA, pseudovirus cytotoxicity, and IFN/MHC evasion as first-class failure...

Expert-thinking profile for Vibration & Dynamics Engineer (experimental modal / machinery diagnostics / rotordynamics): Reasons from FRF/coherence, MAC, and damping identification through impact/shaker EMA, spectral ODS, FFT windowing, Campbell/critical-speed rotordynamics, and ISO 20816/API 610 diagnostics while treating double-hit, mass-loading, ODS–mode conflation, oil whirl/whip, and leakage as first-class failure modes.

Guides AI-assisted research across three sub-flows, Vibe Coding, Vibe Figure, and Vibe Writing, with behavioural rules that keep the user in charge of academic judgment while delegating mechanical work to AI. Recommends the right tool (Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, Figma, Gemini) for the current stage. Use when the user asks 'how to use AI for research', 'Vibe Coding tips', 'AI-assisted writing workflow', 'which AI tool for this', or starts an AI-assisted work session.

Expert-thinking profile for Veterinary Epidemiologist (field / observational / herd- health surveillance & infectious-disease modeling): Reasons from herd-level units, Rogan–Gladen prevalence, R₀/SIR transmission models, and WOAH freedom-from-disease surveillance through outbreak line lists, SaTScan clusters, cluster field trials (REFLECT), and STROBE-Vet/AHSURED reporting while treating pseudo-replication, test- biased apparent prevalence...

Access comprehensive LaTeX templates, formatting requirements, and submission guidelines for major scientific publication venues (Nature, Science, PLOS, IEEE, ACM), academic conferences (NeurIPS, ICML, CVPR, CHI), research posters, and grant proposals (NSF, NIH, DOE, DARPA). Use when preparing manuscripts for journal submission, conference papers, research posters, or grant proposals and need venue-specific formatting requirements and templates.

Annotate VCF variants with Ensembl VEP, ClinVar, and gnomAD. Ranks variants by impact (HIGH/MODERATE/LOW/MODIFIER) and generates a reproducible report.

Expert-thinking profile for Vacuum Science & Technology Engineer (vacuum system design / UHV-XHV commissioning / leak & outgassing diagnostics / pump-conductance specification (ISO 27894, AVS, SEMI)): Reasons from molecular flux (P = n k_B T), conductance-limited effective pumping speed, and surface outgassing through He mass- spectrometer leak detection, rate-of-rise tests, RGA fingerprinting, and Molflow+ conductance modeling while treating virtual leaks, H₂ permeation, ion-gauge contaminat...

Expert-thinking profile for Vaccinologist (translational / clinical development / regulatory CMC): Vaccine development expert for platform and adjuvant selection, validated immunogenicity (HAI/PRNT/OPA), CoP and immunobridging, VE/effectiveness trial design, CBER lot release, and Brighton AEFI reporting.

Expert-thinking profile for Tribologist (tribometry / contact mechanics & EHL / lubricant & coating selection / wear failure analysis / condition monitoring (ASTM G99, ISO 281/4406)): Reasons from contact mechanics, lubricant rheology, Stribeck- regime and λ ratio through Hamrock-Dowson EHL film estimates, pin-on-disk/four- ball/SRV/FZG bench tests and SEM-EDS/ferrography scar analysis while treating scuffing, rolling-contact pitting, three-body abrasion and DLC adhesive transfer as first-cla...

Generate concise (3-4 page), focused medical treatment plans in LaTeX/PDF format for all clinical specialties. Supports general medical treatment, rehabilitation therapy, mental health care, chronic disease management, perioperative care, and pain management. Includes SMART goal frameworks, evidence-based interventions with minimal text citations, regulatory compliance (HIPAA), and professional formatting. Prioritizes brevity and clinical actionability.

Expert-thinking profile for Translational Researcher (preclinical / IND-IDE-enabling / early clinical PoC & biomarker translation): Reasons from T0–T4 stage gates, murine vs NHP translatability, PK/PD allometric bridging, MRSD/MABEL FIH dose selection, BEST/CLIA/CAP biomarker tiers, and CONSORT/SPIRIT/STROBE reporting while treating target-wrong, model-wrong, non-predictive biomarker, and preclinical irreproducibility as first-class failure modes.

Expert-thinking profile for Tissue Engineer (wet-lab / regenerative medicine): Reasons from the TE triad, Krogh transport limits, and Engler mechanobiology through perfusion bioreactors, dECM constructive remodeling, ASTM F2150/F1635 characterization, and ARRIVE/ISO 10993/21560 translation—treating hypoxic cores, acellular controls, and biological-vs-technical replicate inflation as first-class...

Use when Codex is already in the threat-modeling phase of a security scan, the user explicitly invokes $threat-model, or the user explicitly asks to create, update, or persist a repository threat model. Do not use as the primary trigger for full PR, commit, branch, patch, or repository scans.

Expert-thinking profile for Theoretical Physicist (analytic theory / QFT & EFT / lattice & many-body numerics / RG & critical phenomena / GR & gravitation): Reasons from symmetries, conservation laws, effective field theory, and limiting cases through Feynman-diagram and on-shell amplitude tools, renormalization-group flow, lattice and tensor-network numerics, and the conformal bootstrap, while treating gauge-dependent artifacts, unitarity and Ward-identity violations...

Expert-thinking profile for Theoretical Computer Scientist (theoretical / complexity, algorithms, and formal proof): Reasons from explicit models (TM, circuit, communication, query) and resource measures; audits Karp/parsimonious/gap/fine-grained reductions against ETH/SETH/#ETH and PCP/UGC/APX barriers; uses Complexity Zoo, ECCC/arXiv cs.CC, Coq/Lean/DRAT, Williams algorithms-for-lower-bounds, and Yao/IC lower bounds while treating...

Expert-thinking profile for Theoretical Chemist (dynamics theory / PES construction / TST & master-equation kinetics / quantum scattering): Reasons from Hamiltonians, partition functions, and flux through dividing surfaces using validated potential energy surfaces, variational transition state theory with Eckart and small-curvature tunneling (Polyrate), and master-equation falloff solvers (MESMER, MultiWell), while treating spurious saddle imaginary...

Structures a technical paper's full logical skeleton using a thinking-template table (research background, limitations, key idea or goal, challenges, methodology modules, contributions), positions the paper as Technique or New Problem/Setting, and runs a four-point self-consistency check. Use when the user is brainstorming a paper, discussing progress with an advisor, or planning the paper before drafting. Also use for 'paper skeleton', 'paper logic chain', 'thinking template', 'paper-structu...