Online soft skills Colorado State University May, 2018 @CristobalUauy
Your online presence matters What do you do when you receive an email from someone you don’t know? Google • Have you Googled yourself recently? Google images? • What are your top hits? Facebook?
Add a photo to your online presence
Improve your online presence matters • LinkedIn • ResearchGate, ResearcherID, Google Scholar, ORCID (publication record, author ambiguity, metrics) • Department/Institute • Twitter • Blogs • Skype
Why? Name recognition and recognising others •
Staying informed Latest manuscripts • Conference • Generally interesting things •
https://twitter.com/hashtag/PEQG18?src=hash https://twitter.com/search?q=%23BGRI2018&src=typd
Resource and Advice #PhDlife •
Resource and Advice
Resource and Advice https://twitter.com/ Addifaerber/status/ 996405930316173312
Networking Be part of the conversation • https://twitter.com/PlantoPhagy/status/959451742940336129 • https://twitter.com/KamounLab/status/985769096468946944 • http://media.inscopix.com/twitter-for-academics-101-getting-started •
Google Scholar • Easy, free, go to place, updated metrics
The title should be informative (What did you find?) • Most people will only read the title- so give some information that will add to their knowledge • Avoid vague, uninformative, and boring titles like: “Genetic characterization and mapping of the Rht-1 homoeologs and flanking sequences in wheat” • Useful titles should communicate the main finding: “The Ph1 Locus Suppresses Cdk2 -Type Activity during Premeiosis and Meiosis in Wheat” “A NAC Gene Regulating Senescence Improves Grain Protein, Zinc, and Iron Content in Wheat” “The high grain protein content gene Gpc-B1 accelerates senescence and has pleiotropic effects on protein content in wheat”
The title should be informative (What did you find?) “The Ph1 Locus Suppresses Cdk2 -Type Activity during Premeiosis and Meiosis in Wheat” The role of Ph1 during Premeiosis and Meiosis in Wheat “A NAC Gene Regulating Senescence Improves Grain Protein, Zinc, and Iron Content in Wheat” Positional cloning and functional characterisation of the Gpc-B1 gene. “The high grain protein content gene Gpc-B1 accelerates senescence and has pleiotropic effects on protein content in wheat” Gpc-B1 affects senescence and protein content in wheat “Wheat Vacuolar Iron Transporter TaVIT2 transports Fe and Mn and is effective for biofortification. ” Characterisation of VIT2 vacuolar transporter in wheat “Genome-wide sequence and expression analysis of the NAC transcription factor family in polyploid wheat” (sometimes more descriptive) “Haplotype analysis of the pre-harvest sprouting resistance locus Phs-A1 reveals a causal role of TaMKK3-A in global germplasm” (sometimes more specialised)
http://kamounlab.tumblr.com/post/163409024195/whats-up-with-preprints-and-why- im-bothering
How does it work? • Upload your article and online within hours! • Clear time stamp and history • Links to published version once accepted (not always automatic)
Effective scientific presentations 1.Title 2.Presentation layout/plan
Practice makes perfect • Rehearse talk (and record it). Don’t improvise Practice (don’t memorize) how you are going to speak • Read out loud and in front of a mirror •
Before you arrive • Be prepared (several USB drives, Dropbox, email presentation) Know your audience (who are you speaking to) • Triple check for spelling •
During your presentation • Get to know the room Maintain eye contact across audience • Speak up (everyone has to hear you) and change tone • • Pronunciation and pauses Don’t hide behind the computer • Careful with jokes • Do not read from the screen unless showing or describing a photo/ • graph
Stage fright… What is stage fright? • An anxiety, fear, scare, being nervous, etc Effects: • Trembling, sweating, shaky voice, increased heart beat, dry mouth, etc Who suffers stage fright? • Everybody How do you overcome stage fright? • Practice, practice, practice..... The fear is there, but I have to do it anyway
My heart rate on Monday…
Quick tips on posters Keep it simple and short: lots of images, little text • It’s a presentation: be prepared for 30 sec - 2 min - 10 min • No need to include an abstract (it’s a poster!) • • Keep it simple and short: lots of images, little text
Quick tips on posters
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