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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 MoreTips on Receiving and Applying Constructive Feedback for Scientists
…an open mind and a good attitude when receiving feedback on your performance is fundamental to personal and professional progress. Feedback can be uncomfortable—for both the person giving it and…
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 MoreBanish 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 MoreHow to Reconcile Being an “Aspie” and a Scientist
…But I somehow managed to deal with this by training a lot and planning my presentations carefully. Furthermore, PowerPoint presentations are a great help. They provide guidance to your talk,…
Read MoreA Quick Guide to Organizing Your First Academic Event
…event for a starting point.Enhance your chance of securing industry funding by allotting some time and space for industry presentations or demos. If your event includes a competition (e.g., student…
Read MoreAlternatives 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 MoreHow to Become a World Class Speaker
…take you out of your comfort zone and allow you to develop faster than giving similar lab meeting presentations week on week ever could. The 10 speeches are: The Ice-breaker….
Read MoreTalking 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 MoreThe Art of Giving Advice
Science is a culture of information exchange, from the top to the bottom. Sometimes we are simply presenting the information, such as in seminars or papers, but most of the…
Read More10 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 MoreAccessibility in Science: How Can We Make Science More Accessible?
…what immediate actions can you take? We’ve listed some suggestions below: Consider color blindness and neurodivergency in your presentations. Consider using fonts suitable for dyslexic readers in your presentations and…
Read MoreHow 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 MoreHow to Present Successfully at Conferences
The very idea of standing up and giving an oral presentation at a conference gives even the most confident of us butterflies. Additionally, I don’t know many scientists who find…
Read MoreHow 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 MoreJournal Club: How to Prepare Effectively and Smash Your Presentation
…wrong. Poorly explained papers dictated blandly to an unengaged audience. Confusing heaps of data shoehorned into long presentations. Everybody stood awkwardly outside a meeting room you thought would be free….
Read More5 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 MoreWhy You Need To Mentor, No Matter What Your Level
…connected to the “real world” by forcing social interaction and challenging your prowess as a leader. Mentoring will also keep you primed for giving lectures, presentations, and engaging in seminars….
Read MoreThe Importance of Delegation for Scientists
…data analysis or making figures. Figure out what other people love to do, and consider giving them opportunities to do those things. Delegating to Someone in Another Lab Sometimes there’s…
Read MoreHow 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 More10 Tips on Writing a Research Poster
…your work is generally much less daunting in the one-to-one and small group situations provided by poster presentations, and they give you a chance to gauge your audience’s reaction in…
Read MoreCareers for Scientists – Medical Writer
…thorough grounding in communicating research effectively through presentations, posters and manuscripts so by the time it came to writing my thesis, I (quite unexpectedly) found it to be a logical…
Read MoreHow 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 MoreThe 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 More15 Ways to Make Contacts at Conferences
…of people will want to ask you about your work. Check out these articles on writing posters and giving presentations. 10. Have a networking strategy for mixer sessions. Scan the…
Read MoreIntroducing Aptamers for Super Resolution Microscopy
…to co-localization studies to investigate other proteins your pet protein interacts with, giving you more information on what it might be up to in there. An overlap of fluorescent signals…
Read MoreHow to Stop Worrying and Love Your Q&A Session
…rather just skip it if they could. Despite its bad rap, the Q&A session is actually my favorite part of giving a talk! It’s my chance to get feedback from…
Read MoreMeasuring Invasion – Round is the New Flat
…period of time – giving information not only on the invasive capacity of the cells but also the kinetics of invasion. Another advantage of this 3D sphere invasion assay is…
Read MoreHow to Avoid Feeling Isolated During Graduate School
…enjoy giving back to others, so it lifts up mood and spirit. It can also take your mind off of your next deadline, grant writing, committee meeting, or lab experiment….
Read More!BAM! !POW!: How to Become a Better Job Search Street fighter – Round Two
…tomorrow at 11am” be ok? You’re giving them closed alternatives, whereas if you simply offer 3pm, you’re giving them the opportunity to say “NO”! If you manage to get to…
Read More6 Ways to Maximize the Lifetime of Your Reagents
…your lab’s standards and supervise, there is little sense in giving them free reign to where they can always help themselves. Giving away the secrets to where the best reagents…
Read MoreFluorescent Tyramides In Histology: A Versatile Approach For Multiplex Molecular Tissue Probing
…This eliminates the risk of antibody reagents cross-reacting with each other in multiplex colocalization studies and giving false positive colocalization results. Same species? That’s okay In principle, this means that…
Read MoreMaking 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 MoreThe 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 MoreHow to Give a Great Scientific Talk and Engage Your Audience
…your audience knows anything—even if you’re giving a talk to a group of specialists in your field. Be clear about the assays, axes on your graphs, and readouts you’re using….
Read MoreUnderstand EC numbers in 5 minutes Part I: How EC numbers work
…classes of enzymes catalyzing similar reactions. Besides giving very specific information about the general reaction type, mechanism, substrates, products and cofactors, the EC number prevents the confusion that would otherwise…
Read MoreWhat’s The Problem With Ampicillin Selection?
…very large portion) of the cells may no longer have the plasmid, giving poor yielding plasmid preps, protein expression etc. On agar plates, ampicillin degradation can lead to the formation…
Read MoreOptimize 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 MoreWhat’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 MoreTroubleshooting 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…
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