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Twitter at AAS #aas217

by Kelle January 7, 2011

Twitter is useful to astronomers for many things, but one thing that stands out to me is information sharing at conferences. You don’t have to tweet or even register on twitter to follow the action, just search for #aas217: http://search.twitter.com/search?q=#aas217 Twitter at conferences works best if there’s a critical mass of people tweeting useful info [...]

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How to Write a 5 Minute Talk

by Kelle January 5, 2011

How to Write a 5 Minute Talk | Cosmic Variance Required reading for anybody preparing a talk for AAS.  Actually, a lot of the advice in here applies just as well to 50 minute talks. My favorite bits: 1. The key to framing the talk is to figure out that One New Thing, and then [...]

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Tweets from #DPS2010 Planetary Science Conference

by Kelle October 5, 2010

Great tweeting going on from the planetary science conference in Pasadena. Check out #DPS2010.

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10-Step Guide to Designing a Presentation

by Kelle September 29, 2010

Design a Presentation | Extreme Presentation Method Detailed 10-step guide for preparing effective and persuasive presentations. You should not draw any slides until step eight, 80% of the way through the process. (via Juice Analytics).

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Talks: Fewer words, more understanding

by Jane Rigby April 12, 2010

When a speaker switches to a new, wordy slide, what happens?  The audience reads the words. They can’t help it.  This is what my wife calls the “Cereal Box effect”: if a cereal box is on the kitchen table, you’ll read the words printed on it.  In all of human history, nothing interesting has ever been printed on a [...]

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Remote Presentations

by Guest February 17, 2010

Here’s another guest post! This one is contributed by Mark Marley, a scientist at NASA Ames Research Center working on modeling the atmospheres of planets and brown dwarfs. You’ve been invited to give a talk at a workshop that will lead to a new spacecraft instrument proposal in Europe, but your spouse is leaving town [...]

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Twitter at AAS next week #aas215

by Kelle December 30, 2009

In advance of the American Astronomical Society meeting in Washington, DC next week, we need to talk about Twitter. Twitter is a great platform for sharing and navigating the craziness that will be this huge meeting. As far as I can tell, many astro outreach folks are on twitter, but not many scientists (except those [...]

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Presentations are a privilege

by Jane Rigby June 3, 2009

Blogger Seth Godin reminds us that presentations are a precious opportunity to change minds. To translate his advice to a scientific context, I’d make the following two substitutions: “emotional pictures”  —> “screen-filling, well-explained, compelling plots” “to change minds”   —> “to educate”. Godin partially echoes Edward Tufte’s argument that slideware is a terrible way to share [...]

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Respond Better: Dealing with Criticism

by Kelle May 11, 2009

Zen Habits is a great blog for folks who want to be both insanely productive and ridiculously happy. He has a nice article on how to accept criticism with grace and appreciation that applies really well to fielding questions during presentations and responding to referee reports. Here’s the summary: Stop your first Reaction: Cool Off, [...]

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