Start thinking like a burglar
Having company over is fun, except when they show up unexpectedly. Or worse, if they turn your whole house upside down. That happened to me not …
Posts about Presentation structure
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Why general practitioners are bad presenters, and what you could learn from this
The guidelines for the thesis presentations for our future general practitioners (GP's) are as follows: Give a 10-minute presentation containing no more than 10 slides with …
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‘If you can’t explain it in 20 seconds, you don’t understand it well enough’
A phrase that could have well been spoken by Einstein. But it wasn’t him. And yet there’s plenty of truth in it. During a presentation, on a poster …
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How researcher Julie De Smedt made her infographic
I was recently asked to take a look at Julie De Smedt’s infographic about her research. Julie is a researcher with Steunpunt Media, and this …
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Cosmology in 24 seconds
Each year scientists try to outshine one another during the 24/7 talks. This event is organized during the Ig Nobel Prize ceremony. The Ig Nobel Prize is …
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Templates: three ground rules
You probably know them all too well: those presentation templates with each slide displaying the institute’s logo, a dash of color here, a bit of …
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The best presentation ever (about sex)
I admit, I hesitated before I decided to put sex in there. Was that just too easy? Titles are designed to attract attention. I used “sex” …
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Professional photos for your posters and presentations
“Google” is typically the answer to the question “where did you get the photos for your presentation and posters?” And yet, there are two issues with …
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Why not try an analogy?
Some matters cannot be explained in simple terms. Science is intricate and your research is often so specialized that even people from your own discipline …
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SlideDog: useful tool to avoid awkward presentation mistakes
Out of the blue – projected on that big screen up front – is a picture of the organizer, wearing only swimming trunks, holding a …