95: All good presentations are alike; each bad presentation is bad in its own way

Published: Nov. 4, 2019, 7 a.m.

Dan and James discuss why academia tolerates bad presentations and the strange distrust of polished presentations.

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Here's what else they discuss...

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  • James had a Filipino feast https://twitter.com/jamesheathers/status/1188582859528949766?s=20
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  • We\u2019re approaching 100 episodes!
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  • ReproducibiliTea is spreading worldwide!
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  • Why do some people not trust polished presentations?
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  • The Mike Morrison episode on the Better Poster
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  • The \u201cI want a refund for a bad presentation\u201d blog post
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  • What does James consider a \u2018good\u2019 presentation?
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  • Conference apps
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  • Why don\u2019t we teach PhD students to do things that they\u2019ll need further in their careers, like making presentations and writing emails?
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  • Vague emails
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  • James wants to help out an email spammer
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  • Email vs. Twitter DM
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  • Anonymous people on the internet
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  • James discovers coin collecting
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  • Blocking people on Twitter
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  • Dan\u2019s got a show recommendation: Money Heist / Paper house
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  • Why do we hate spoilers?
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  • Spoiling the end of a movie on Pompeii
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Music credits: [Lee Rosevere](freemusicarchive.org/music/Lee_Rosevere/)

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