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Example presentation: Surviving science
My example presentation When discussing quality of presentations it helps a lot to discuss on the basis of example presentations. An example presentation is exactly what this post is about. Although I...
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Last-minute preparations for a presentation
In an ideal world scientists prepare their conference talk way ahead of time. In a realistic world they prepare their talk one or two days before they get on the plane. Or they do it on the plane. In...
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Sharing my slides
Abstract In this post I have tested several solutions for slide sharing. I found the free product of SlideBoom to be superior. Introduction Scientific presentations are nowadays delivered in a form...
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I discovered something a few days ago that made me ask the question: Am I mad, or are all web designers out of their minds? The sun was shining in my office and I just could not read the information on...
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Mouse on glass surface does not work
A week ago I went to an international conference where I had to give a presentation. I was confronted with an unpleasant surprise when I wanted to deliver my presentation. Glass surface The conference...
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Ever-increasing competition for unfairly limited funding is backfiring. Territorial allocations and research topic fixing is hurting the creativity of researchers and specially demotivating the younger...
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Improving a journal’s impact by rewarding outstanding authors: an example
The reason for writing this post is a bewildering experience on my side while preparing a talk a few months ago. I was invited to give presentation on May 17 of this year for a 200-people audience at a...
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Deliberately misleading titles and abstracts of papers
In the Shakespeare play As You Like It main character Rosalind reads the epilogue, from which we cite: If it be true that good wine needs no bush, ’tis true that a good play needs no epilogue; The...
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Improving plotting programs with better data import
When you look at modern scientific journals you will find that in the majority of papers (some of) the results are presented in graphical form, from a simple black-and-white X-Y plot to sophisticated...
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Important feature all slide-sharing-services lack
Ten years years ago the major computer company Sun Microsystems advertised in all media with the slogan: “The network is the computer”. And I must admit they knew where they were talking about. They...
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Maximizing reusability of presentation slides
Science is about competition, about collaboration and about communication, to mention a few keywords dominating the life of a scientist. In this post I will discuss a matter relating to collaboration...
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