Dear reader,
A flourishing scientific career is strengthened by a sustained flow of oral presentations. And this is where most scientists may wish that, like bees, they were equipped with a social gene enabling them to dance uninhibited in front of an audience avid for new sources of ideas. Fortunately (at least so far) nobody has identified a presentation gene in our DNA. Presentation skills, even though they appear native in those who flourish, are not found in the human genome. They are learned and, in this blog, they are shared.
This blog presents the challenges faced by the scientist who presents. It also points to other URLs with resources for presenters, and it contains podcasts and original videos with PowerPoint or Keynote techniques also found here http://www.scivee.tv/user/7043/ and podcasts http://scientific-presentations.com/?feed=podcast . Naturally, it features the book “When the scientist presents“, published by World Scientific, and authored by yours truly 
You may also have landed on this page because you discovered the existence of SWAN, a tool based on the techniques I promoted in “Scientific Writing 2.0: A reader and writer’s guide” (World Scientific Publishing). My friends from the University of Joensuu in Finland implemented this tool in Java. SWAN (Scientific Writing AssistaNt) will help you identify whether your scientific paper is written in a way that will enable the reviewer to appreciate your contribution. SWAN is also found here: http://cs.uef.fi/swan/index.html
Contact_me: whenthescientistpresents @ gmail dot com.
