About this Episode
Dan and James discuss why academia tolerates bad presentations and the strange distrust of polished presentations.
Here's what else they discuss...
- James had a Filipino feast https://twitter.com/jamesheathers/status/1188582859528949766?s=20
- We’re approaching 100 episodes!
- ReproducibiliTea is spreading worldwide!
- Why do some people not trust polished presentations?
- The Mike Morrison episode on the Better Poster
- The “I want a refund for a bad presentation” blog post
- What does James consider a ‘good’ presentation?
- Conference apps
- Why don’t we teach PhD students to do things that they’ll need further in their careers, like making presentations and writing emails?
- Vague emails
- James wants to help out an email spammer
- Email vs. Twitter DM
- Anonymous people on the internet
- James discovers coin collecting
- Blocking people on Twitter
- Dan’s got a show recommendation: Money Heist / Paper house
- Why do we hate spoilers?
- Spoiling the end of a movie on Pompeii
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- [James on twitter](www.twitter.com/jamesheathers)
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Music credits: [Lee Rosevere](freemusicarchive.org/music/Lee_Rosevere/)
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