Objectives
Doing science is only one aspect of being a successful researcher. Another aspect is the ability to communicate your science to a broad audience. This course aims to help you make and present your work in a talk. Through lectures and productive interactions with the other students, you will learn how to help the audience to follow your talk and to remember its message. Emphasized topics include: distilling your study into a concise theme that runs throughout the talk, powerful openers and closures to grab the audience's attention, contextualizing and justifying the study, simplifying the methods and figures, choosing just a few results to support the conclusion, and practicing in front of others to see what works and what needs to be changed.
This five-day course will be taught online. Each day will be a mix of theoretical talks and practical work. Students will often meet in smaller teams to give each other productive feedback (there will be an initial training on how to give productive feedback the first day of class)..
Prerequisites
Participants should be advanced MS or PhD students, or postdocs, who have a project near completion that is ready to be presented. Prior participation in the ForBio course “Creating Scientific Illustrations” is helpful, although not required
Teachers
Micah Dunthorn, Mahwash Jamy, & Isabelle Ewers
Natural History Museum, University of Oslo
Course date
7 October to 11 October
Application deadline
To be announced
Registration link will open soon
Credits 3 ECTS (this includes the presentation at the ForBio annual meeting as an exam for this course)
Registration: ForBio members can attend free of charge.
Contact: Quentin Mauvisseau - Micah Dunthorn for practicalities.