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2026-03-13 06:36 UTC

@MCDuncanLab@mstdn.social thank you for this thread! At some point in the past, I was told that this was the way to give a talk but being the rebel that I am, I don't follow the advice. I will likely have to teach a class on scientific presentations next year, and I would love to use this example (if you don't mind).

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@MCDuncanLab@mstdn.social 2026-03-13 11:16

@steveroyle@biologists.social Please steal this slide. There is an excellent PowerPoint presentation floating around from the early 2000s about better ppt presentations. I think it was done by a woman at Stanford*. I’ll see if I have a copy to send you. Edit: Yes it was a woman at Stanford: Susan McConnell (Stanford): Designing effective scientific presentations and she has an ibio presentation https://www.ibiology.org/professional-development/scientific-presentations/

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@neuralreckoning@neuromatch.social 2026-03-13 12:35

@steveroyle@biologists.social @MCDuncanLab@mstdn.social recently I started doing the first slide of my talk titled "TL;DR" where I try to tell the essential points of the whole talk in one slide, and telling the audience that they're welcome to go to sleep after this one slide if they want to. Quite a few people have told me they really like it, both those who did subsequently go to sleep, and those who found it useful for framing the rest of the talk. Doing social media threads has actually been really helpful for me, it's shown me that you can usually get the essential message over in very few words.

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