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<ahref="/plans">Zulip Standard</a> is free for academic research! Contact <ahref="mailto:sales@zulip.com">sales@zulip.com</a> to check whether your organization qualifies, or <ahref="/accounts/go/?next=/upgrade%23sponsorship">request sponsorship</a> today.
<h1class="center"> Make Zulip the communication hub for your research community. </h1>
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<ahref="/hello">Zulip</a> is the only <ahref="/features">modern team chat app</a> that is <ahref="/why-zulip">ideal</a> for both live and asynchronous conversations. Coordinate with collaborators, post questions and ideas, and learn from others in your field.
<li><divclass="list-content"><ahref="https://github.com/zulip/zulip-archive">Publish</a> discussions on the web, or move your data with our high quality <ahref="/help/export-your-organization">export</a> and <ahref="https://zulip.readthedocs.io/en/latest/production/export-and-import.html">import</a> tools.</div></li>
<li><divclass="list-content">Zulip is <ahref="https://github.com/zulip">100% free and open-source software</a>, so you are never locked into a proprietary tool.</div></li>
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<blockquoteclass="twitter-tweet"data-conversation="none"data-dnt="true"><plang="en"dir="ltr">+10 or maybe even 💯 for <ahref="https://twitter.com/zulip?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@zulip</a>. Was originally put onto it by <ahref="https://twitter.com/five9a2?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@five9a2</a> (thanks!). Have since used it at all levels - my research group (~10 ppl), my dept group (CS Theory, ~30 ppl), my research community (algebraic complexity), and small collaborations. All great!</p>— Joshua Grochow (@joshuagrochow) <ahref="https://twitter.com/joshuagrochow/status/1383141209934163969?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 16, 2021</a></blockquote><scriptasyncsrc="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script>
<li><divclass="list-content"><ahref="/help/format-your-message-using-markdown#latex">Type LaTeX</a> directly into your Zulip message, and see it beautifully rendered.</div></li>
code blocks</a> come with syntax highlighting for over 250 languages, and integrated <ahref="/help/code-blocks#code-playgrounds">code playgrounds.</a></div></li>
<li><divclass="list-content">Structure your points with bulleted and numbered <ahref="/help/format-your-message-using-markdown#lists">lists</a>.</div></li>
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If you made a mistake, no worries! You
can <ahref="/help/edit-or-delete-a-message">edit your
message</a>, or move it to a
different <ahref="/help/move-content-to-another-topic">topic</a>
or <ahref="/help/move-content-to-another-stream">stream</a>.
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<blockquoteclass="twitter-tweet"><plang="en"dir="ltr">I've been using <ahref="https://twitter.com/zulip?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@zulip</a> recently for my research collaborations, and I was pleasantly surprised how effective it is! The excellent LaTeX rendering and clever threading make it far superior to email and Slack. I found myself shifting most of my research correspondences to Zulip.</p>— Tom Gur (@TomGur) <ahref="https://twitter.com/TomGur/status/1294322062274842624?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 14, 2020</a></blockquote><scriptasyncsrc="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script>
<li><divclass="list-content">Share papers, presentations or images with <ahref="/help/share-and-upload-files">drag-and-drop file uploads</a>.</div></li>
<li><divclass="list-content">Invite new members with <ahref="/help/invite-new-users">multi-use invite links</a>, or allow anyone to <ahref="/help/allow-anyone-to-join-without-an-invitation">join without an invitation</a>.</div></li>
<li><divclass="list-content">Manage your community with <ahref="/help/stream-permissions#detailed-permissions">fine-grained permission settings</a> for <ahref="/help/roles-and-permissions">administrators and moderators</a>.</div></li>
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Zulip offers dozens of features
for <ahref="/help/moderating-open-organizations">moderating
platform</a>, you can check Zulip at your computer or on your
phone. Zulip works great in a browser, so no download is
required.
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<li><divclass="list-content">Zulip alerts you about timely messages with <ahref="/help/stream-notifications">fully customizable</a> mobile, email and desktop notifications.</div></li>
<li><divclass="list-content">Use Zulip in your language of choice, with translations into <ahref="https://www.transifex.com/zulip/zulip/">17 languages</a>.</div></li>
<li><divclass="list-content">Getting started or moving from another platform is easy! Import your existing organization from <ahref="/help/import-from-slack">Slack</a>, <ahref="/help/import-from-mattermost">Mattermost</a>, <ahref="/help/import-from-gitter">Gitter</a>, or <ahref="/help/import-from-rocketchat">Rocket.Chat</a>.</div></li>
<li><divclass="list-content">If you have any questions, please contact us at <ahref="mailto:sales@zulip.com">sales@zulip.com</a>. You can also drop by our <ahref="/developer-community/">friendly developer community at chat.zulip.org</a> to ask for help or suggest improvements!</div></li>
—<ahref="https://cs.stanford.edu/~keithw/">Keith Winstein</a>, Assistant Professor of Computer Science at <ahref="https://www.stanford.edu/">Stanford University</a>