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Posted on February 28, 2011 by drdrA

Please, please, please…. no showing of slides containing images of women in bikinis during seminar presentations.

That is all.

p.s. And no, it doesn’t improve things if you show a photo of a shirtless male model in the next slide. Just don’t go there…

YIKES

anne on February 28, 2011 at 11:04 pm said:

Ugh. No. Really? Just… no.
KBHC on March 1, 2011 at 9:05 am said:

Wow.
BugDoc on March 1, 2011 at 9:06 am said:

Are you kidding me? Did anyone puke on their shoes?
Dr. O on March 1, 2011 at 1:15 pm said:

doh! Tell me this wasn’t a faculty candidate…
ScientistMother on March 1, 2011 at 1:17 pm said:

head just hit desk….
Comrade PhysioProf on March 1, 2011 at 7:49 pm said:

good lord
Dr.Mrs.M on March 2, 2011 at 10:20 am said:

you just can’t make that stuff up. wow! please tell me that this was a student and that the mentor was mortified…..
drdrA on March 2, 2011 at 10:50 am said:

“you just can’t make that stuff up. ”

No, you can’t.
gerty-z on March 2, 2011 at 10:51 am said:

wow. seminar FAIL. big-time
Dr. Cynicism on March 4, 2011 at 3:05 pm said:

Hahaha. Let me guess, was he also reading his slides verbatim? Were the slides black background and neon yellow writing too?
Reyna on March 7, 2011 at 3:45 pm said:

I think I’ve seen this seminar before.
Anne Pumfery on March 8, 2011 at 5:10 pm said:

We had a seminar speaker do that – used a picture of a scantily clad woman when he discussed the model used in his research. He then had a picture for the women in the audience – which was a hairy man with a beer gut. Seriously!?!? Both were very unprofessional and insulting to all in the audience.