I'm sick of going to talks where the speaker gets interrupted 5+ times for somebody/ies else to share their stream of consciousness questions. If it's a seminar for outside your lab, make it accessible by letting the speaker explain their slides in order without interruptions.
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I've said this countless times on Twitter but it's so important and so often overlooked. People in the audience didn't come to listen to the people asking questions. They came to listen to the advertised talk.
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I basically never ask questions in talks because of this.
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To be clear, questions are great but they have a specific time slot for a reason. To allow the speaker and the audience to go on a specific journey. If you keep trying to take the wheel by interrupting the speaker that's robbing the audience.
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Also most of the questions will probably be answered on the next slide!
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This is very Twitter-like behaviour but offline.
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One of the most irritating ones I've noticed is at conferences where people ask questions in such a way that they're unanswerable in the 2 minutes of time given, and are just designed to make the speaker look stupid
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At least it's not an interruption, but yeah, this is another type of BS. Not really conducive to academic debate. More like mindless point scoring.
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