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In the May Editorial, Nature Methods' Editors list their top ten pet peeves about conference presentations. Check out the list and add your tips!

Posted by Veronique Kiermer on April 29, 2008 01:00 PM |

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Well done! The spirit of the rules perfectly agrees with observations made in the other fields (for example, see PLoS Biology Editorial)

Personally, I found such rules very useful, while talking to a fresh audience. However, these things do not help (or they are not enough) at the end of a session, when the audience is tired (usually >16.00). The worse case - last speaker before dinner :-)

How to catch the attention of a tired audience? Is there something like "ten rules to wake up the audience"?

Posted by: Valentin Ananikov | July 31, 2008 06:28 AM

The link to PLoS Biology Editorial is:

http://www.ploscompbiol.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pcbi.0030077

for some reason it did not work in my previos post.

The other useful "Ten rules" from PLoS collection:

http://collections.plos.org/ploscompbiol/tensimplerules.php

Posted by: Valentin Ananikov | July 31, 2008 11:31 AM

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