Begin Every PhD Presentation Like a TED Talk

I don't know about you, but my first scientific

presentation

was a nightmare when I thought about going on stage and giving a 15-minute

talk

about my ongoing project that had no conclusive data set in my first year of study. about to throw up welcome back to PhD coffee time, this is the online community for you as a PhD candidate to get motivation, peer support and practical advice during a PhD, so I hope that at the end of This video can share my own experience on how I prepare. my

presentation

, especially as a non-native English speaker, will encourage you to prepare a good scientific presentation if we don't know each other yet.

My name is Vera. I make weekly content on this platform and will support you as a PhD candidate. For you to be a successful PhD graduate, be sure to hit the subscribe button so you don't miss anything in the future that may be useful to you. It was New Zealand in July. 15 degrees Celsius was our winter temperature in Hong Kong. so I still remember walking on stage in this gigantic winter jacket. I remember I was shivering and it felt even colder than the New Zealand winter, so first of all accept that you will be nervous even to date.

I will still say that I have a strong feeling when I speak in front of an audience, but now I helped myself identify that feeling as an emotion. I am excited and happy to be here and receive all your attention looking at me and I think that with this reinforcement I will help you. overcome fear this is the mindset I hope you can change first the second mindset is to prepare the size and my first 15 minute PowerPoint I used almost the entire work week trying to get

every

thing right even the font size and color will change week and it's almost like a vicious cycle of unproductive time and I hope that by sharing this video it guides you to a progressive process to make your first powerpoints without consuming so much energy, so before you know that you have to prepare a PowerPoint Slide you can already prepare to be the next speaker when you go to someone's presentation you can already start taking mental notes about what is the style you would like to have what are the color options that you think work well and not work well in that room with that intention you You will save over time this disconcerting moment to adjust the font type, its color and play with something that has low contrast so that in the future you have a white background and light yellow backgrounds. that no one can read, you are going to develop sensitivity on how to make a good slice, it is by attending more online webinars, busy taking scientific notes, give yourself a notebook and try to write down what you like, what you don't like and what is. your personal style some people like white background someone likes black background and their school of thoughts apparently is people who like black background because they think you will be more focused and people will be more captivated by that bright text , but recently I was also learning that if you put a white background on it, you will have a style that looks more like a published article.

Tell me in a comment below. Do you prefer a black background for your PowerPoint or a white background as my teachers would suggest from an ecological point of view? I don't know, if you use a black background, you'll spend a lot less energy projecting your slides, so that's also one of the reasons why I use a black background in most of my research work and I also think that black backgrounds They look good on microscopy images. because a lot of them had a black background, so if you have a stark white background you may not have the same sensitivity, think before you write a powerpoint about what your style may be and take notes of what you're doing.

As a general rule, it will help you save time in the future. If you are allowed to speak for 15 minutes, you are expected to have a question and answer exchange for at least two to three minutes, which will indicate that you are free to speak. for about 12 to 13 minutes, so most of the time people will give this rule of thumb

talk

ing for one minute per slide speed type, depending on how many animations you have, this is pretty accurate for me if I prepare 15 slides for 12 minutes . then I will be more or less on time, so if you have 15 minutes, don't make a PowerPoint of the thirtieth part expecting to work so you can finish it because in the end you will get stressed because you won't be able to finish

every

one on time.

You'll be ashamed of yourself, and you'll be even more embarrassed when people have to follow you off stage. Estimate how much time you will need for each slide and don't prepare too many slides for your talk. The second rule of thumb is every slide. Five things or less is ideal so that you don't feel really intimidated by that slide in the first place. It will start with an introduction to Russian materials and methods, results and discussion, which is why many people have difficulties and don't know how to start. scene and one thing I've learned over time is that most good science talks on the first five slides are a bit like a micro lecture where it feels like you walk into someone's classroom and they teach you something you don't know .

Remember from your high school, so what I recommend is that you always start your first slide with something that is common. Even if you go to a conference, there will be different levels of experience, so I think a safe place to start is to assume that everyone has the same high school level knowledge and bring them to that point of human knowledge slowly scene by scene, like this. that maybe five slides later you will teach them something to take home and they will be proud of it for knowing your five minute lecture on your topic, so I also imagine it in a way that you are establishing, since almost like a talk TED, you're going to engage everyone in the room so they understand the overall importance of your work and the specific methodology you're using. we are going to present and implement and why you should care what you should expect from this study.

You always thought about making sure that your entire audience is with you and believe me, if even they are a really knowledgeable audience, they will appreciate that you have done a good job. teach because everyone loved to hear about their own field over and over again, that's why they are in that field of research, so if you do them justice by presenting your own research topic with passion and enthusiasm, there is never anything too basic to

begin

with, as long as you progress well and give a good talk at the end of your introduction. You should be able to do a few things first: Educate the background of your research by highlighting this great article so everyone sees what it offers you in your field and how you advance your research and why you are curious about your own specific goal.

Another way of introduction. You can also start with a nice video, starting with a time-lapse movie, a hand race, and raising awareness about how many people have gotten the flu shot. and if your talk is about influenza and the Vasa nation, you can also make an analogy that everyone can relate to, like if you work on the microbiome, you can have an analogy with yogurt, so that will make everyone aware of what What are you talking. It's not too far from them and they get the connection to listen to you with the materials and the method.

I already talked about illustration in the last video. I think it's powerful to include an illustration of your mental design, your lap photography procedure, you should do it. make it graphic avoid using words to explain a methodology it is better if you can illustrate it with a diagram or illustration and in your research section I think that each person's result is different, it is difficult to give a general rule, but one piece of advice I would give is to have a color scheme designated for the factors you are looking at, if you have a temperature effect make sure you choose an intuitive color like red is warm and blue is a code that will help your audience understand what data point they are looking at.

That is the treatment, if it is a scatter plot, they will automatically know if it is red, it is like a Siddha treatment or a warm temperature treatment or if you have a drug, you can have brown or black, if you have mortality, you can have like a cross , so think. about what is intuitive for people to understand by its color and shape intuitively, so as you review all the data and methodology towards the end, many students fall into the trap of doing a lot of written summaries about what have made. It's almost like a disclaimer form that people put a lot of words on saying this if you didn't understand it's not me it's all there.

What I recommend that you can do is make that image like an illustration, but you still can. keep all the text if it's your defense, you know you'll always want to have it as a backup slide. Consider using your own illustration or looking at some published review article and try to cite something that is relevant to your own graph and annotate. at the top and say modify from whose article and we should point out these pathways and think of it as a future study which would be much easier to digest than just writing, we need this XYZ pathway to be analyzed as a point, other things to remember that I discovered that it was not important to add the page number on the slides until one day someone told me that if I add a number in the corner of my slide, people who want to ask specific questions to your talk can notice the number of slides and ask him. exactly which slides you go back to and ask the follow-up question, so that's something I didn't consider and it's also very helpful when you cite someone's article or someone's figure as a source of content when you cite someone's article, make sure you include he quotes in the same segment instead of waiting until the end because no one is going to read the final segment and a lot of people will appreciate it if you share that information in the moment, so that if there is an interesting figure, they can move on to find out when they leave home later, of course, before you show up for your talk, you have some time standing in front of the cover slide, so don't forget to put in your Twitter ID, maybe a 2D code that will link to your research gate or whatever. connect with you your email put it on your cover slides so everyone looking at you can immediately know how to contact you if they have a question or if they have an idea or collaboration for you so you don't miss any opportunities at that conference Because you pay that registration fee registration, you could also be more available to promote yourself, believe me, I think accent is something you can work on over time, but if you can offer good content and good support, a long portion that speaks for itself, automatically win authority and trust when we are in this pandemic era, you are likely to communicate online, it is now more important than ever that you have good graphics to communicate your work, if you are going to give a summary that has powerful graphics, you have a higher chance of participation and your work will be more productive, so that's it for you.

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