Garr Reynolds, at Presentation Zen (a moment for fangirling, please), has a post linking to resources for scientific presentations. Often presentation advice is geared towards commercial or creative models, and while it’s helpful to extract what works/what sucks from those sorts of domains, a Zen-approach to scientific/academic presentation couldn’t come soon enough. From the editorial … Read more
Grrlscientist links to Yellow Ibis, which have the coolest science t-shirts. The Darwin phylogeny sketch ones are my favourite, but I’m also fond of “this is what a scientist looks like”. Inside HigherEd offer columns and articles, including Academic AWOL by Mary McKinney, which I found to be a good kick-in-the-pants about Just Getting On … Read more
In science, being “scooped” really sucks. It crossed my mind when I set up Culture Evolves! that “idea security” might become an issue. There are two aspects to this: 1. Idea Security as directly relates to the work I’m doing on my PhD, which I have yet to describe in any detail because I’m not … Read more