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About: This bingo card perfectly captures the lively, sometimes chaotic experience of attending a conference talk or research seminar in the life sciences. With references to technical jargon, awkward moments between trainees and PIs, and common phrases speakers use, this card is a great way to stay engaged during those long scientific presentations. Ideal for grad students, postdocs, or lab groups who want to add some lighthearted fun to academic events.
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This Seminar Bingo: Paula's PhD Defense Edition Cards Game contains following Words or Phrases: Technical issues, Repeated use of "um" and "uh", Speaker goes over time, "In the interest of time", "Beyond the scope of this work", "That's an interesting question", Lots of acronyms, Meme on the slides, Phone goes off, Audience member falling asleep, You have no idea what is going on, Speaker forgets to thank collaborators, Speaker mentions a past or current advisor, Somebody asks about gene panel, Speaker mentions a past advisor, Trainee embarrasses PI, PI embarrasses trainee, Audience member in Hawaiian shirt and/or flip flops, Irrelevant political commentary, Direct competitor asks for the secret sauce, Somebody complains about grant funding, Slide full of equations, She says "neighborhood" (about cells), She says "MERFISH", She makes an NYC analogy, She points to her own body, She says "atlas" or "resource", She says "cell signaling" or "cell communication", She starts speaking Spanish, She mentions clinical severity, She says "therapeutically targetable", She shows a plot where every dot is a single cell, She says "microenvironment", She says "spatiotemporal", She says "homeostatic", She mentions the sole of the foot or scalp specifically, She says "ligand-receptor", She mentions "perivascular", She says "T cell", She thanks a collaborator by name, "In the Nature Genetics paper we …", Somebody asks about cell segmentation, Your name or photo appears on screen, She cracks a joke, "How much did this cost?", She mentions "dissociation bias", Bitter postdoc asks a question, Unsolicited job hunting, Somebody starts crying, Unmuted zoom interruption.