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.
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Even when I started grad school, armed with a NSF GRFP like the student in the beginning of this story, finding an advisor felt like being on the Bachelor, or maybe Survivor. I can't imagine what it's like now.
Amid federal funding cuts, first-year grad students, even those with funding, can't find labs that will take them.
From @STAT's Jonathan Wosen, who also knows this scramble firsthand:
https://www.statnews.com/2026/01/30/first-year-phd-students-squeezed-tighter-research-funding/
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What do I do with my hands?
They can direct the audience’s attention to the right place, add emphasis to what you say, & provide variety to keep the audience engaged.
They can also indicate: big things, small things, precise things, vague things, contrasting things, & connected things.
‘The universities are the enemy … we have to honestly and aggressively attack the universities in this country’
--- J. D. Vance, 2021.
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RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:qglonbp5yy2la74n5psfsqhq/post/3mdg6hrsfpf2a
"10,109 doctoral-trained experts in science and related fields left their jobs last year as President Donald Trump dramatically shrank the overall federal workforce."
www.science.org/content/arti...
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I’m going to call it out… just stop putting lots of text one your slides. You know its bad, I know its bad, everyone knows its bad… so can we just not?
“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!
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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!
So many talks are just lists!
Here's all the things we did, all the papers published, all the grants won.
Much better to make a point! Have a key message, an agenda, something that the talk revolves around. Say something of note.
Right, let me talk about slide templates.
Most universities have an official slide template everyone is told to use.
More often than not these are rubbish.
Focusing on splashing the university logo around so much there is no space for actual content.
Indexicality lesson for students and others who submit attachments. You need to label your file with your OWN NAME, not "Chapter 6" or "Paris conference presentation". The Paris conference will receive 400 files, 395 of which will have identical/similar names. Recipe for chaos. #academicsky #PhDchat
We all get nervous.
Presenting nerves appear because we fear the unknown/the unfamiliar.
Dry throat, hot face, queasy stomach all happen because of our fight or flight response to the unknown. This is why rehearsal matters - you are making the unknown known.
We train scientists to ask questions. Now they’re asking: “Is there a better way?”
Research culture scholar Fátima Sancheznieto joins Voices to talk about challenging norms and building evidence-based systems to improve academic training.
https://elifesciences.org/community/community-voices-episode-7?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=organic #PhDChat
Counting myself so lucky to have another great review on Amazon for It Shouldn't Happen to a PhD Student
Even better for anyone who wants to pick it up, the Ebook is still on sale for only 99p for a few more days
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Shouldnt-Happen-PhD-Student-survive/dp/1806050757
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!
"an ever-widening gap between those who do the work and those who administer it. And an even larger gap exists between those tasked with most of the teaching and those who do most of the budgeting."
Does this affect you?
