2014 Three Minute Thesis winning presentation by Emily Johnston

Watch Emily Johnston's Three Minute Thesis UniSA Grand Final winning presentation, 'Mosquito research: saving lives with pantyhose and paperclips'. Emily also won the People's Choice award.

[vinayyyyy_]

Presentation: 3 minutes
Preparation: 3 years

[blameviolet]

"science doesn't have to be beautiful, it has to be effective"

i love this

[IndraD]

Her voice is crystal clear and she didn't use any filler words at all. Truly deserving the award she got.

[..]

This scientist respects my time more than I do.

[emon]

Me with a single slide of presentation. Teacher: What the hell is this?

[klashnotfound]

She's very impressive, not only did she summarized her own research in 3 minutes that took a lot of time, days, months and even a year, rhe way she spoke was very clear, brief and concise. Simple in terms yet it gives a big impact to audience and listeners. She explained it very straighforwardly, direct, without any stutters or mistakes. I'm in awe.

[Irish]

The key to this was she obviously did this speech dozens of times to control her breathing and get the timing right. The breath control and no filler words is so impressive.

[Smartstudycircle]

Just imagine how many demos she has given before presenting here

[timehaley]

No idea why this showed up in my feed 8 years later, but I was still impressed. She must be a Doctor by now and saving lives through her research.

[LukeBrady]

She accomplished more in 3 minutes than I will accomplish in my entire life.

[ahnafatef]

Everyone: “Excellent presentation!”

Me: “Excellent preparation!”

[CristianSerran]

Mindblowing how she even had time to kickstart things off with a joke. Hats off.

[laletemanolete]

She knows her own thesis so well, and had her presentation so well rehearsed... she nailed it!!!

[Aoitetsugakusha]

For anyone wondering, as of 2024, Emily Flies (nee Johnston) is now a lecturer at University of Tasmania and is a full-time health ecologist. It looks like she continues to participate in science outreach and communication as a regular part of her professional work.

[qwabe]

Science doesn’t have to be beautiful but effective 👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽

[Yash-fslq]

Everybody in comment section ' I'll do my best in the next ppt" amd here i am trying to figure out stage fear

[RAJEEVRANJAN_]

She didn't even give me time to think and wander around in my thoughts. Her presentation kept me hooked throughout. I found it interesting and understood it mostly even though I am not into this field. Thats very impressive. I wish to be concise and straight forward like her.

[AbWischBar]

She has the confidence of somebody who had a really successful research outcome, with a brilliant, "simple" idea. The best way is to present this great idea just as simple. Well done.

[AjitSingh-orml]

And here I am am preparing my physics presentation using graphs and thor for voltage jokes 😂

[prithvirajdj]

The presentation was 3 min long.
~about the time we take to connect our laptop to the projector.