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Assertive Slide Titles to Guide Your Presentation
…you were trying to say. And after all, isn’t audience comprehension the point of presentations? For more information and useful presentation tips, check out “The Craft of Scientific Presentations” by…
Read More15 Top Tips to Giving a Great Talk
…have come a long way. And so, almost 4 years down the line, having given a number scientific presentations and having listened to quite a few, I realized there are…
Read More Banish Those Insecurities: Tips on Giving Scientific Talks
…need to take some initiative to improve our presentations. One of the hardest things is trying to deal with those little voices in our heads that express our insecurities. Here…
Read More Alternatives to presenting your science with Powerpoint
…contains a Powerpoint equivalent called Impress that you can use to make presentations and pdfs LaTeX lets you make pdfs only. In general, saving your presentations in pdf format allows…
Read More Talking When Terrified: Tips for a Nervous Presenter
When I was in school, I absolutely hated giving talks. I was a really nervous presenter, my heart would start beating faster, my face would go red, my hands would…
Read More 10 Ideas for Researchers Working from Home
…for some links. 5. Practice Your Presentations Many researchers fear presentations, but they are a staple of science life from lab meetings to conferences. You need to be able to…
Read More 10 Tips on Writing a Research Poster
Poster presentations are a great way to show off your hard work, especially if you are just starting out in research. They are much less stressful than oral presentations, but…
Read More How to Give an Incredible Scientific Talk
Committee meeting approaching? 10 minute department seminar? Lab meeting? Fear not! My adviser has insulted my presentations so regularly, that I’ve finally learned some things. Hopefully, I can head your…
Read More 5 Top Tips for Surviving Your First Conference
…to see presentations from the major players in your chosen field. Now you’ll probably have all sorts of frivolous reasons for not wanting to go to a conference, you don’t…
Read More How to Have a Successful Lab Outreach Program
…inferior. Always keep in mind the knowledge base of the visiting students and adjust your presentations accordingly. Talking about things they understand and giving them just a little taste of…
Read More How to Share Your Lab Protocols and Why It Benefits You
…always check with your PI before sharing a lab protocol outside of your lab. Giving someone a printed copy and walking them through the protocol allows them to ask you…
Read More How to Choose the Right PhD Lab
…delivering presentations. Besides your lab mates, the history of funding, the funding of your project, presence of necessary equipment (you might not like visiting a collaborator’s lab situated 20-miles away…
Read More The Art and Science of Figure Creation: Think BIG to see Small
…film. Slide presentations were slides. Micrographs were, well, micrographs on film. Figure creation involved several steps: figures for publications had to be mocked up; then photographed using film cameras and…
Read More The Art of Bridging the Gap between Scientists and the Public
Communicating your science to a lay audience is different than giving a talk to other scientists. An urban legend says that when Michael Faraday verified the relationship between electricity and…
Read More What’s The Problem With Ampicillin Selection?
…cultures, this means that a portion (possibly a very large portion) of the cells no longer have the plasmid, giving poor yielding plasmid preps, protein expression etc. On agar plates,…
Read More Optimize Bacterial Protein Expression by Considering these 4 Variables
…Protein Expression Guide This short guide will help you get started by considering the key variables in bacterial protein expression and giving some insight into how to fine-tune them. Feed…
Read More The Establishment of the Nobel Prize
…each in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature, and Peace). What’s interesting is that he never picked any Nobel Prize winners, he never went to a prize-giving ceremony, and he…
Read More Troubleshooting and Optimizing your Mouse Breedings
…may not be the most obvious player in reproductive or hormonal physiology giving you a surprising insight into its role and may produce an interesting research article. If your mice…
Read More Making Sense of Creative Commons Licenses
…of the journal, but comes with a number of downsides for you as the author. For example, by giving a journal exclusive rights to publish your manuscript, you are restricting…
Read More Fluorescent Tyramides In Histology: A Versatile Approach For Multiplex Molecular Tissue Probing.
…other in multiplex colocalization studies and giving false positive colocalization results. Same species? That’s okay In principle, this means that antibodies which have been raised in the same species can…
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