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---
title: "Presentations"
image: ./assets/images/presentation.jpg
description: |
Advice for your project presentation
number-sections: true
about:
template: marquee
links:
- icon: twitter
text: Twitter
href: https://twitter.com/scompbiol
- icon: github
text: Github
href: https://github.com/sipbs-compbiol
- icon: envelope
text: Email
href: mailto:leighton.pritchard@strath.ac.uk
html:
anchor-sections: true
---
## Preparing for your talk: checklist
1. Think about exactly what you want to convey
- tell a story
- keep it simple
- keep the number of results you show small (≈3-4) and the message from each clear
2. Prepare figures for your slides (the "backbone" of your talk)
::: {.callout-tip}
The figures for your slides will rarely, if ever, be exactly the same figures you present in your thesis. You cannot convey as much information in a slide, so you should simplify figures for your talk such that they can be easily understood by your audience.
Presenting too much data on a single slide can be overwhelming and your audience may disengage or read the slide instead of listening to you.
:::
3. Introduction: think about what your audience needs to know (context) to understand your work
- what didn't you know, at the beginning of your project?
- keep it simple: the minimum to contextualise your story
4. For each experiment, explain (**in this order**):
- 1. what you were trying to do (aim)
- 2. how you did it (method)
- 3. what you found (results)
- 4. what your results mean (significance)
5. Finish with your conclusions/significance of your work
- what have you learned?
- how have you contributed to the field?
- what would you do as the next step?
6. Go back through your talk and make sure it "flows" in a logical order
7. Edit, proofread, improve your slides.
- ask other students in the group for feedback and incorporate it.
8. Practice, practice, practice!
- get your timing right (it always takes longer than you think)
9. Repeat steps 7 and 8 iteratively until you are happy with your presentation and feel confident in your delivery.
## Some presentation guides/resources
- [How to give a better-than-average talk](https://smallpotatoes.paulbloom.net/p/how-to-give-a-better-than-average) - _A view from a psychology professor._
- [Giving a Scientific Presentation](https://sipbs-compbiol.github.io/BM432/notebooks/07-01-presentations-intro.html) - _Prepared by Dr Feeney and Dr Pritchard for BM432 in 2022_
- [07-01: Presentations - Intro](https://sipbs-compbiol.github.io/BM432/notebooks/07-01-presentations-intro.html)
- [07-02: Presentations - Content](https://sipbs-compbiol.github.io/BM432/notebooks/07-02-presentations-content.html)
- [07-03: Presentations - Figures](https://sipbs-compbiol.github.io/BM432/notebooks/07-03-presentations-figures.html)
- [07-04: Presentations - Aesthetics](https://sipbs-compbiol.github.io/BM432/notebooks/07-04-presentations-aesthetics.html)
- [07-05: Presentations - Slide Preparation](https://sipbs-compbiol.github.io/BM432/notebooks/07-05-slide-preparation.html)
- [07-06: Presentations - Delivery](https://sipbs-compbiol.github.io/BM432/notebooks/07-06-presentation-delivery.html)
- [Scientific presentations: a cheat sheet](https://blogs.nature.com/naturejobs/2017/01/11/scientific-presentations-a-cheat-sheet/) - _Good general advice for presentations, and not just scientific presentations - LP_
- [Ten Simple Rules for Making Good Oral Presentations](https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.0030077) - _More good advice from the reliable "Ten Simple Rules…" series - LP_