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I thought this[1] was nicely done, and potentially inspiring for students. [1] Planet Hunter https://vimeo.com/419873718 https://vimeo.com/419873718

• mncharity 6y ago
  Though what I'd really like to see... Different subcultures have very different norms for thesis defenses. Some, molecular bio around MIT for instance, have atypically extensive "thank you" postludes. Extensive as in say quarter-hour slide shows. The defense audience is mostly the lab community, friends, family. Slides of parents and siblings and family, BFFs, sometimes undergrad friends, sometimes inspiring HS or college teachers, professors and mentors, SO's and pets, grad friends and lab mates, trips and parties and pranks. Stories and tears. Some of them are retrospectives on a life. Sometimes the struggle of it is apparent. Often that it was a great deal of fun. I speculate that it might be nifty for inspiring kids. "I can seem myself there". Defendees, and their families, are diverse. The defenses are public, and do get taped. But I've never seen an accessible video of one. Perhaps with covid come fall. Anyway, I thought I'd mention it, in case it nudges someone. Hmm... Kunle Demuren has a thesis defense Monday Jun 1 at 10 on zoom...