Parlium beta

Every tool you have is built for the published half of science. Parlium is built for both.

An AI thinking partner for the hunch that is not ready to show anyone, and for the literature that will test it.

Free while it is in beta. No password — we email you a link.

Night science

Creativity

For the problem you have been going round for months, where another search is not going to help.

Parlium helps your creativity. It shows you the thing from angles you would not have tried, in the hope one of them breaks it open: your protein as a puppet master, for example.

Nothing you bring here gets graded.

One of two modes. The screen changes when you switch: this is what night looks like.

A panel headed “Ways to look at it”, offering three pictures of the same problem: a fugitive in a police cordon that collapses exactly where they were, one actor delivering a script to an empty house, and a buy-one-get-one coupon that works so well the store changes its price.

Day science

Rigour

The literature is what has already been done. Grants are what is being done now — work that will not appear as a paper for years.

Parlium searches both: PubMed, Semantic Scholar and bioRxiv for papers; NIH, Wellcome, Cancer Research UK, the MRC, the ERC and forty more for awards.

And it joins the two up — what came out of this grant, and who is funded to work on this.

Already have a library? Import it from Zotero.

A day science reply, with the searches it ran declared above it — PubMed and Semantic Scholar, each showing the exact query and how many results came back — and the papers it went on to save listed underneath.

The paper, rebuilt to be read.

Not the publisher’s two-column PDF. Where there is an open-access copy, it takes the whole paper and rebuilds it as a single column — figures with their captions, tables still tables, equations still equations.

It opens full screen with nothing else on it, at whatever text size suits your eyes. Select a passage that strikes you and keep it as an idea.

A paper open full screen in the reader: one wide column of serif text, and beneath it a figure of two labelled pie charts with its caption set smaller underneath. The header carries the source, a control for text size, and a way out.

Not a chat log.

A hunch explored in night science can lead to an idea that is carried into day science and tested against the literature. What you find is kept with the idea — which papers support it, which ones argue against it, and why. It is all still there when you come back.

A project graph. An idea kept out of a conversation sits at the centre — “so maybe the question isn’t which exit next, but: does the tumour have a generator of…” — joined to five papers and to a funded grant.

Parlium helps you think. It does not do your science.

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