Zulip for research
Chat for your project, research group, department or scientific field
Zulip Standard is free for academic research! Contact sales@zulip.com to check whether your organization qualifies, or request sponsorship today.
Make Zulip the communication hub for your research community.
Zulip is the only modern team chat app that is ideal for both live and asynchronous conversations. Coordinate with collaborators, post questions and ideas, and learn from others in your field.
Use topics to organize the discussion
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Zulip topics create a separate space for each discussion.
- Find active conversations, or see what happened while you were away, with the Recent Topics view.
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Check out Zulip for communities to learn how Zulip empowers welcoming communities by making it easy to participate on your own time.
The Lean community switched from Gitter to Zulip in early 2018, and never looked back. Zulip’s stream/topic model has been essential for organising research work and simultaneously onboarding newcomers as our community scaled. My experience with both the app and the website is extremely positive!
Lasting knowledge repository
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Link to a Zulip conversation from emails, notes, talk slides, or anywhere else.
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Information is at your fingertips with Zulip's powerful full-text search. New participants can learn from past discussions with unlimited message history.
- Zulip is 100% free and open-source software, so you are never locked into a proprietary tool.
+10 or maybe even 💯 for @zulip. Was originally put onto it by @five9a2 (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!
— Joshua Grochow (@joshuagrochow) April 16, 2021
Powerful formatting
- Type LaTeX directly into your Zulip message, and see it beautifully rendered.
- Zulip code blocks come with syntax highlighting for over 250 languages, and integrated code playgrounds.
- Structure your points with bulleted and numbered lists.
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If you made a mistake, no worries! You can edit your message, or move it to a different topic or stream.
I've been using @zulip 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.
— Tom Gur (@TomGur) August 14, 2020
Interactive messaging
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Start a video call with the click of a button, or make plans for later without worrying about time zones using local times.
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Use emoji reactions for lightweight interactions. Have fun with custom emoji and gather feedback with polls.
- Share papers, presentations or images with drag-and-drop file uploads.
For more than a year, Zulip has been the cornerstone of our online Category Theory community. We greatly appreciate the seamless integration of Latex in every message as well as being able to get sidetracked (which, let's face it, happens a lot with mathematicians) without compromising an entire conversation: we can simply create a new topic for every tangent! Moreover, the flexible streams-and-topics system greatly helps us navigate through the constant influx of messages, as it is simple to tell if a message is relevant to one's interests.
All in all, Zulip enabled us to create an unprecedentedly extensive, active and vibrant community for all category theory enthusiasts out there.
Flexible administration and moderation
- Invite new members with multi-use invite links, or allow anyone to join without an invitation.
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Automatically subscribe members to streams when they join.
- Manage your community with fine-grained permission settings for administrators and moderators.
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Zulip offers dozens of features for moderating discussions. Members can also mute anyone they'd rather not interact with.
When and how you want it
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With apps for every platform, you can check Zulip at your computer or on your phone. Zulip works great in a browser, so no download is required.
- Zulip alerts you about timely messages with fully customizable mobile, email and desktop notifications.
- Use Zulip in your language of choice, with translations into 17 languages.
Make the move today
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Zulip's founder is a former MIT PhD student, and we love helping academics succeed. Learn about using Zulip for teaching and conferences.
- Getting started or moving from another platform is easy! Import your existing organization from Slack, Mattermost, Gitter, or Rocket.Chat.
- If you have any questions, please contact us at sales@zulip.com. You can also drop by our friendly developer community at chat.zulip.org to ask for help or suggest improvements!
I have to use Slack for some other research groups I collaborate with, but my own graduate students voted to switch to Zulip a few years ago and it's just vastly better.