Skill UI

Utilizes structured critical reasoning to rigorously stress-test ideas, plans, and decisions. This skill allows you to play devil's advocate, conduct pre-mortems, execute red-teaming exercises, or audit underlying assumptions. It employs multiple advanced modes, including Socratic questioning, Hegelian dialectics, and Falsificationism, to identify blind spots, weaknesses, and unstated assumptions before commitment.

This skill generates a comprehensive, structured guide for planning and facilitating any type of workshop, strategic session, or collaborative meeting. It covers the entire lifecycle, including defining clear objectives, designing detailed activities with instructions, managing group dynamics and conflicts, and ensuring concrete commitments and next steps are captured. Ideal for project managers, trainers, and team leads.

A comprehensive guide for structuring and writing high-quality AI research manuscripts intended for major academic conferences (e.g., AAAI). It teaches how to structure the first page for maximum impact, clearly state contributions (method, theory, system, etc.), ensure two-column readability, and address ethical limitations to appeal to a broad, non-specialist committee audience.

This comprehensive guide provides a project management framework for publishing academic papers at major conferences like ACL. It details the complex "cycle-and-commit" rhythm, covering milestones from initial ARR submission through review, meta-review, commitment, camera-ready preparation, and final presentation. Learn techniques for backward planning, managing resubmission loops, and coordinating multiple papers across volatile academic cycles.

This skill provides a rigorous framework for political scientists to pre-test their research projects against the standards of the American Journal of Political Science (AJPS). It evaluates whether a topic has a sharp, generalizable question, demonstrates strong causal identification, provides a substantive theoretical contribution, and fits the appropriate submission type (Article, Research Note, Correspondence). Use this before committing significant time to writing.

This skill guides researchers to pressure-test their anthropological project's suitability for a major journal like American Anthropologist (AA). It emphasizes achieving "four-field reach"—ensuring the findings matter broadly to all subfields (sociocultural, archaeology, biological, linguistic)—rather than being merely novel within a single niche. Use it before committing to fieldwork or writing to assess global impact, theoretical contribution, and ethical rigor.

This guide provides comprehensive strategic advice for authors writing commissioned review articles for the Annual Review of Economics (ARE). It covers essential topics such as scope negotiation with the Editorial Committee, anticipating the rigorous criteria used by expert referees (e.g., completeness, balance, and framework), managing the author-editor relationship, and adhering to strict academic and production deadlines. It ensures the resulting work maintains the highest standards of rigor and scholarly balance.

A comprehensive guide detailing the unique process of proposing a research topic to the Annual Review of Economics (ARE). It explains that ARE operates on a commissioning basis, guiding authors on how to structure a compelling, committee-ready topic pitch—focusing on the organizing spine, required scope, and market rationale—rather than submitting a finished manuscript.

This guide provides comprehensive strategic advice for authors contributing review articles to the Annual Review of Sociology (ARSoc). It covers how to negotiate the scope of the review with the Editorial Committee, anticipate the specific rigor checks performed by academic reviewers (e.g., completeness, balance, framework), and manage the complex production timeline. It is essential for ensuring the manuscript meets the high standards of academic rigor and balance required for top-tier sociological publications.

A comprehensive guide for authors on how to successfully propose or accept an invitation to write a review article for the Annual Review of Sociology (ARSoc). It details the unique commissioning-driven process, outlining what constitutes a Committee-ready topic pitch. Learn how to structure your pitch, including the organizing spine, provisional conclusions, and strategic steps to maximize your chances of being commissioned.

A critical framework for evaluating art-historical projects, designed to elevate a local description or catalog entry into a significant, general disciplinary contribution. Use this guide to pressure-test the scope, argument strength, visual feasibility, and overall scholarly reach of your research before committing to deep writing.

A comprehensive guide detailing the multi-cycle, rolling model for EDBT research submissions. It covers the entire review pipeline, from initial program committee evaluation and author-feedback exchange, through the accept/revise/reject decision, and critically, the in-cycle revise-and-resubmit stage. The guide also contrasts EDBT's open-access, three-cycle cadence with other top-tier database conferences (e.g., SIGMOD, VLDB).