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During the question-and-answer time associated with talks at conferences or in department seminars, have you noticed any difference in how ...

Have you ever been attacked in a rather impolite way while giving a professional talk? OK, so "attacked" is a bit of hyperbole....

A colleague recently commented to me on the tendency for graduate students to introduce their talks at conference by telling the audience t...

Earlier this year, I gave a talk at another university. Much later, I encountered the head of the department that I visited, and he apologi...

This is self-centered and unreasonable, but when I am invited to give a talk, my ideal situation would be to give a vague title (Cool Scien...

A reader writes about something puzzling observed during a talk.. discussed in Scientopia .

Reminder: Don't forget to send in your entry for The Cover Letter contest ! There are some great ones so far, but I am sure there are m...

Today in Scientopia , I discuss a reader's question about how/whether students can ask aggressive, possibly undermining questions of sp...

Speaking of talks, I am reminded of an invited talk that was given by an early-career scientist at a conference in the past year or so. I w...

Do you practice your conference presentations before giving them? What is your career stage? In my case, I used to practice my conferenc...

What do you do when you are giving a talk at a conference and you have a lot more to say but not enough time to say it all as you had hoped...

Today in Scientopia , I address a reader's question about why an advisor would give a talk on the student's research instead of send...

Recently I was pondering my options for a presentation to give at a workshop in the coming year, and I came up with two possibilities. I hav...

Earlier this year, I went to a talk that mostly consisted of text slides. When I realized that the verbal parts of the talk didn't add a...

Once upon a time, when I was about to give an invited lecture at another university, my faculty host warned me ahead of time that the talk w...

Imagine this general scenario: You are at (or about to go to) a conference or workshop or similar, and one of the organizers tells you that ...

At an international conference not so long ago, I saw a talk by a Distinguished Professor. The talk consisted of figures that he cut and pas...

In the Sunday New York Times Magazine , "The Ethicist" fielded a query from a grad student who wondered about the practice of off...

No, this post is not about the use of illegible fonts, invisible or clashing color schemes, text-filled slides, excessive animations, or eve...

At a conference earlier this year, I went to some talks on a research topic that is only sort of related to what I do. That is, I am not dir...