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The general answer is that, in most degree programs, you are likely to encounter the need to do a presentation at least a few times. … For instance, quite a few courses in our program have presentation elements, even if the courses themselves are not in any direct way related to presentation technique. …

Having good visualizations (that are made specifically for the presentation, not just a figure from the paper). …

It's important to keep in mind that different talks have different audiences and goals. How much you should simplify depends heavily on what kind of talk it is: For a job talk, part of the goal is t …

First of all, stop worrying - I am sure that, no matter how you decide to approach this, the quality of the talk will be much more memorable to the participants than how you ran the Q&A part from an a …

How should I decrease my stress on the day of my paper presentation and better control my nervousness in my presentation? … The best remedy for being nervous are (1) knowing your material / presentation really well, and (2) having a lot of practice (not just for this specific presentation, but of presentations in general). …

Third-grade IEEE conferences often accept no presentation at all (as long as the registration is being paid), second-grade conferences often require some sort of presentation, but make due with some "hacks … " (let a friend present the paper, play a recorded presentation, allow a Skype presentation). …

As a rule of thumb you should aim your presentation to be finished 2 to 3 minutes before the allotted time. … Even if this is not the case, 30 seconds of discussion seems like such an irrelevantly short time that I can't imagine changing my presentation for it (in slightly larger conference halls it may take the …

My general rule of thumb in these matters is the following. If you don't want to communicate your results yet, you should not be talking about them in a public seminar. Or, at the very least, you shou …

There's different schools of thought on that, and I don't think there is any really dominant convention (at least in my field). By and large, for conference papers, I tend to only include citations wh …

I agree with your inclination: explaining your research programme, arguably the most important part of a tenure-track job talk, at the end seems counter-productive, to say the least. Moreover, I would …

I agree with you. I feel the request to put your salary on a slide (on the first slide, no less!) is rather unexpected, and quite frankly does not speak highly about the professionalism of your contac …

Doing this as soon as you start your research group seems a bit premature, but for a somewhat established group, having some sort of corporate identity is actually quite important: For other researc …

I am not going to lecture you on the ethicality of taking sick leave to go to a conference. Not that it sounds like a great idea to me, but let's focus on your actual question. How do I politely a …

You can try what aaaaa recommends and escalate the issue. Depending on your department structure this may or may not work (it probably wouldn't in our department). What you can and should do in that c …

We are in full agreement that there are in fact dumb (or, more accurately, non-productive) questions, and I do not think that it is your responsibility as a speaker to make the asker of the question f …