“That’s an interesting question” Cell phone goes off Speaker sucks up to host professor Speaker apologizes to audience Doesn’t start on time / goes over time Blatant typo Rambling / long introduction of speaker You have no idea what’s going on Incomprehensible graphic (chart, graph, diagram, etc.) Speaker explains something obvious Speaker mispronounces something Results conveniently show improvement Speaker is surprised by what appears on the next slide Someone creates excessive noise with their snacks Skips over slides to save time Speaker forgets to thank their research team Boring slides / no color Technology malfunction Undefined abbreviation Speaker tells an “amusing story” that is not related to the subject of the seminar “Beyond the scope of this work” Speaker wastes 5 minutes explaining outline Excessive use of “um” “uh” etc. Sleeping professor / student Someone has a "question" that's actually a comment Too much time thanking people “To piggyback off _____’s question / comment…” Work ties into Cancer / CVD / War / COVID-19 Speaker flips forward past a slide too fast for you to read it Someone takes more snacks than they could ever eat at seminar Speaker spends several minutes talking to the title slide Low resolution image(s) “That’s an interesting question” Cell phone goes off Speaker sucks up to host professor Speaker apologizes to audience Doesn’t start on time / goes over time Blatant typo Rambling / long introduction of speaker You have no idea what’s going on Incomprehensible graphic (chart, graph, diagram, etc.) Speaker explains something obvious Speaker mispronounces something Results conveniently show improvement Speaker is surprised by what appears on the next slide Someone creates excessive noise with their snacks Skips over slides to save time Speaker forgets to thank their research team Boring slides / no color Technology malfunction Undefined abbreviation Speaker tells an “amusing story” that is not related to the subject of the seminar “Beyond the scope of this work” Speaker wastes 5 minutes explaining outline Excessive use of “um” “uh” etc. Sleeping professor / student Someone has a "question" that's actually a comment Too much time thanking people “To piggyback off _____’s question / comment…” Work ties into Cancer / CVD / War / COVID-19 Speaker flips forward past a slide too fast for you to read it Someone takes more snacks than they could ever eat at seminar Speaker spends several minutes talking to the title slide Low resolution image(s)
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“That’s an interesting question”
Cell phone goes off
Speaker sucks up to host professor
Speaker apologizes to audience
Doesn’t start on time / goes over time
Blatant typo
Rambling / long introduction of speaker
You have no idea what’s going on
Incomprehensible graphic (chart, graph, diagram, etc.)
Speaker explains something obvious
Speaker mispronounces something
Results conveniently show improvement
Speaker is surprised by what appears on the next slide
Someone creates excessive noise with their snacks
Skips over slides to save time
Speaker forgets to thank their research team
Boring slides / no color
Technology malfunction
Undefined abbreviation
Speaker tells an “amusing story” that is not related to the subject of the seminar
“Beyond the scope of this work”
Speaker wastes 5 minutes explaining outline
Excessive use of “um” “uh” etc.
Sleeping professor / student
Someone has a "question" that's actually a comment
Too much time thanking people
“To piggyback off _____’s question / comment…”
Work ties into Cancer / CVD / War / COVID-19
Speaker flips forward past a slide too fast for you to read it
Someone takes more snacks than they could ever eat at seminar
Speaker spends several minutes talking to the title slide
Low resolution image(s)
