Another guest post – vitae researcher blogs
VITAE (a UK organisation to support researchers) recently advertised for paid blogger positions on their career development blogs. I wasn’t successful in my application, as I couldn’t make it to their training day in London, what with me living in France and all. But they said they’d publish the submission from my application and it’s now up: ranting about powerpoint overview slides. Seriously, I have, in the past, considered adding a slide to my conference presentation which says:
- Waffle
- Other people’s stuff
- What I did
- How it worked
- Waffle
The other thing I’ve considered doing is photographing every overview slide in a conference and turning all 30+ of them into an animated gif. I guess I’d better wait until I’m better at taking photos without flash though, as it could get a bit distracting for the other attendees…
Have you seen the Nature PostDoc Journal competition? Closing date Dec 15th. http://www.nature.com/naturejobs/news/competition/index.html
Probably lots of competitors, but you might get the same benefit of at least an airing.
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