How to give a great scientific talk

Re:How to give a great scientific talk by crispyambulance on Monday January 07, 2019 @09:29AM (#18845336)

    > ...as a defence mechanism, people embbed complex (almost impossible to understand during the talk) information in their slides...

Yes, this happens a lot, and it has the effect of alienating those who actually need to hear the talk and coming off as pandering or cloying to those that already know the material.

One thing I suggest to folks, if there is some insecurity about not covering "everything", is to make some slides on detailed sub-topics that aren't included in the main talk but are intended to be used when/if there's a follow-up question.

If the speaker is careful, they can even "bait" their talk to implicitly suggest follow-up questions for which a detailed auxiliary slide has been prepared.

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Re:How to give a great scientific talk by sitkack on Monday January 07, 2019 @10:02AM (#18845643)

If we are to have healthy discussions, we need to socialize being ok with being wrong. Embarrassment will end the human race.

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Re:How to give a great scientific talk by sitkack on Saturday January 12, 2019 @11:15PM (#18895026)

This article on Vox [0] is exactly what I was talking about.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18892889

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Re:How to give a great scientific talk by SubiculumCode on Monday January 07, 2019 @11:38AM (#18846671)

I expect that fear of embarrassment leads people to work harder to be right.

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Re:How to give a great scientific talk by stronglikedan on Monday January 07, 2019 @11:42AM (#18846719)

> Embarrassment will end the human race.

Not before we're all offended to death.

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