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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Like I said, this differs from one institution and workshop to the next. I have attended countless ones where repeated interruptions were the norm. I have seen talks where people did not make it past slide 2. And people found it interesting.
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I'm not usually prone to produce diplomatic utterances like this, but I think it is safe to say that there are annoying and non-annoying ways to interrupt talks for both audiences as well as speakers.
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I have learned my lesson. Next time I present at any business school, I won't be preparing anything more than an overview slide.
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Haha I have at least one piece of corroborating evidence for this. At a job talk, a huge discussion erupted on my first slide after the title and I never got to the next. Never got to my methods or results. Just the research question. It was stressful but they made me an offer

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I'd like to see that slide!
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Haha I wonder if I’ve kept it. Now I’m curious as well bec I don’t remember at all what it was.
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There must have been some really explosive stuff on it!
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I think someone in the audience was just a high-conflict personality and they initiated the whole thing rather than me. They were going to pick on something regardless of the specifics.
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