The best presenters have found their own style. It's not about being the perfect. The goal is an engaged audience, & there's a load of ways to achieve this.
One person's talk may rely on skills that you don't use much, and vice versa. We all have our own skill set.
#Academia #PHDChat #Presentations
What's the biggest crime people commit when it comes to their presentation slides?
We ask lots of people this - and the answers all add up to "too much stuff"
People put too much stuff on their slides and it overwhelms the audience.
Stop it.
There are only really two kinds of slide in a research talk.
1. Slides that take complex stuff & make it easier to take in (Graphs, infographics etc)
2. Signposting slides that remind your audience where we are in the flow of the talk.
Neither kind is about putting up a wall of text!
Meet the winners of the 2025 #DanceYourPhD contest
It's time again to honor the winners of the annual Dance Your PhD contest, where eager young scientists attempt to convey the concepts of their doctoral theses through dance.
There are four broad categories—physics, chemistry, biology, and social science—liberally defined. https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/05/meet-the-winners-of-the-2025-dance-your-phd-contest/
#PhD #PhDLife #PhDChat
STOP PUTTING STUFF ON A SLIDE AND THEN NOT TALKING ABOUT IT!!!
If its not important then why is it there?
If it is important then why don’t you mention it!
“I just let the data speak for itself”
Risky!
Different audiences will take away different meanings from the same data. The audience hasn’t got the time to consider all the nuances - cut to the chase and tell them the meaning they should take away.
“It’s more of a comment than a question.”
We’ve all been there – and you don’t have to put up with it. If you’re the speaker, you own the space. Tactfully suggest that you’re prioritising people with questions? Roll your eyes? Throw things at them? The choice is yours!
“But that’s the way talks have always been done!” – academia has a huge status quo bias, change is slow.
Embrace your rebellious side and go do your talks differently! Audiences get bored, so novelty is a big asset. And by doing it YOUR WAY, it’ll be more honest, authentic, and genuine.
This looks like an interesting training event for postgrads and doctoral researchers in literary studies: stylometry and keystroke logging analysis using R and AntConc.
#Postdocs and #PhD students hit hard by Trump’s crackdown on #science, anxiety and fear grip early-career researchers.
Month of repeated threats to #US science funding, many early-career researchers are fearing for their careers. #Scientists especially vulnerable: graduate students, postdocs and scientists just starting their own labs are the researchers most likely to be living pay cheque to pay cheque, most reliant on federal grants for their income.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00550-0 #PhDLife #PhDChat
Only one more month to register for this year's YoMos workshop in Ilmenau 
Now we need your help to share this poster with your peers, friends, working groups, departments and mailing lists connected to #Ecological #modelling! Let's spread the word about #YoMos and have a workshop as wonderful as last year!
You can register here: https://www.yomos.org/next-workshop
Has anybody done a PhD in the UK and not hated it? I'm considering applying for some next year but it seems everybody hates it and regrets it!
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We are hiring! 8 PhD positions in #battery research!
Apply until 10 November 2024 using our online portal https://www.uni-muenster.de/Baccara/application/index.html.
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Wow, one of my PhD students spotted an APC scam. A paper that had been accepted to a journal and went online triggered a scam email that asked for the Article Processing Charges (>$3000) to an email address that used the name of the journal but at gmail.com . I can see how people at a very early stage of publication can fall for it. Be careful #phdchat #openscience #openaccess
The strain on scientific publishing 
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The publishing sector has a problem. Scientists are overwhelmed, editors are overworked, special issue invitations are constant, research paper mills, article retractions, journal delistings… JUST WHAT IS GOING ON!?
Myself, pablo, @paolocrosetto and Dan have spent the last few months investigating just that.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.15884
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I've created an aoir.social account, so here's an #introduction post for this corner of the fediverse!
I'm a PhD candidate in Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. I'm studying how individual people relate to corporations, governments, etc. through various types & layers of technology.
My dissertation is about how individual people are constructed as "Users" on the internet.
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