The impact of Antonella Fioravanti’s killer presentation Can a great presentation change your life? Yes, it can! In 2018, Molecular Biologist Antonella Fioravanti presented her research at the VIB Seminar, in front of 1,000 people. She won the public award and many other prizes after that, including the Eos Pipet 2020. But what made…
Presenting online? Bring the essence and only the essence
Recently we’ve transitioned to also hosting all our workshops online. That is going well and we continue to learn new things along the way. From ourselves, but also from other online presentations. That is why we would like to emphasize an additional element that is essential in online presentations: present the essence, and only the…
Online presentations: how do you get started?
Currently, all meetings, classes and conferences have been suspended. Fortunately, there are plenty of online tools that allow us to continue to communicate with each other remotely. But giving an online presentation is quite different from speaking to an actual audience. How do you get started? And how do you ensure that your message sticks…
Science is boring
‘Science is boring’, says biologist and science communicator Sally Le Page in her YouTube video. Because as a scientist, you spend most of your days performing repetitive tasks, such as numbering petri dishes from 1 to 120. It really takes no more than 2.5 seconds per dish, but doing a couple thousands of these, you…
Here is how to create a new presentation (step by step) – Part 2
Recently I wanted to give our media workshop a full makeover. Not just revise several slides, but completely rebuild things from the bottom up. Let me share the steps I took to do this, as these may come in helpful the next time you’ll be working on a new presentation. Because this is a more extensive blog…
Here is how to create a new presentation (step by step) – Part 1
Recently I wanted to give our media workshop a full makeover. Not just revise several slides, but completely rebuild things from the bottom up. Let me share the steps I took to do this, as these may come in helpful the next time you’ll be working on a new presentation. Because this is a more extensive…