Ten simple rules for short and swift presentations

Lortie, Christopher J.

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“…When such expectations are not met, webinars tend to have low participation. Webinars with pictures, graphs, tables and other diagrammatic representation get participants much more interested in following the session to the end than textual presentations [16, 17]. Webinars’ presenters need to carefully develop a presentation that truly reflects the advertised themes while devising ways to sustain the audience throughout the session.…”

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“…One way to maintain interest and encourage participation is to propose the recording of short videos where the authors present their talks (following the rules explained in Lortie [19]). In the ATIDES conference, the video presentation of each paper had to have an image quality between 480 and 720 pixels and be accessible on YouTube.…”

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“…Gaming and less formal interactions can be developed as mechanisms to promote academic work at conferences because they can be used to provide rewards, increase social networking by having fun together, and if discovery and review are included in the games, promote scientific advances (Castronova, 2013). Shorter talks such as PechaKucha (slide deck auto‐advances and there are a fixed number of slides, that is, 20 slides × 20 s each) and lightning formats (fixed time, short duration talks) are also more fun because of the timed component, both for the presenter practicing and for the listener (Lortie, 2017). Shorter talks will also reduce the cognitive load imposed by attention span issues for content presented via video (Blum, 2020; Bradbury, 2016; Lorenz‐Spreen et al., 2019).…”

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2020

Ecology and Evolution

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A crisis is never welcomed, and we must now rally to innovate how we do science. We need to work harder to make conferences better and not only address the immediate challenges but tackle pre-existing limitations associated with conferences and meetings. Conferences are a profoundly useful mechanism to enable scientific progress as a community. These conventions provide the opportunity to network, collaborate, communicate, connect early-career researchers with new (and established) collaborators, and most importantly co-learn and build community. Ecologists and evolutionary biologists are scientists, citizens, educators, and a collective that can affect social good. Hence, conferences allow us to convene and share and learn in different and extended ways (Cooke et al., 2017). These meetings are typically about more than scientific content and facilitate the identification of research gaps and opportunities (Kochetkov et al., 2020; Oester et al., 2017). In some respects, coming together also helps us decide how we feel about the global grand challenges that we face environmentally and as a species (Acocella, 2015). We build collective strength and cohesion. Conferences in ecology and evolution are also incredibly frequent. A brief search on sites that compile conference listings for ecology and evolution including the Nature Ecology and Evolution website, relevant society sites, and The World Academy of Science, Engineering, and Technology (filtered using the key term "ecology") suggest that there were approximately 400 meetings scheduled for the calendar year of 2020 (Lortie, 2020c). However, as citizens, we have a moral responsibility to flatten the curve of a pandemic through reduced in-person interactions, smaller conventions only for critical needs, and much less travel to mitigate spread and reduce risks for everyone (Khoo & Lantos, 2020; Verma et al., 2020). More broadly, we can reconsider the carbon costs and other impacts including accessibility and the equity of costs to convene exclusively through faceto-face meetings (Julsrud et al., 2014; Neugebauer et al., 2020). In doing so, we have an opportunity to promote equity, diversity, and inclusivity through different planning, by reducing some of the financial costs, and by sharing our insights to wider, more varied com

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Ten simple rules for short and swift presentations

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