academic-slides
Use this skill for creating or refining an academic slide deck and the talk built around it: structuring a conference talk, thesis defense, lab meeting, or paper-to-slides deck; deciding the narrative arc and slide breakdown; improving slide design and visual hierarchy; planning rehearsal, timing, Q&A, and backup slides; or generating the .pptx. Reach for it when the user is shaping the presentation itself. Do not use for writing the paper, producing standalone speaker notes/scripts/transcripts, making posters, creating isolated figures/charts outside a slide deck, or building non-academic pre
npx skills add BioTender-max/awesome-bio-agent-skills --skill academic-slides --agent claude-code
Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.
Weekly change comes from our own snapshots, not the repository page — it measures attention, not adoption.
# Academic Slides A structured approach to creating academic presentation slides and preparing research talks. Covers narrative structure, slide design, visual hierarchy, delivery technique, and Q&A preparation. ## When to Use This Skill - User wants to create presentation slides for a research talk - User asks about structuring an academic presentation - User needs to prepare for a conference talk, thesis defense, or lab meeting - User wants to design a slide deck from a paper or research project - User mentions "slides", "presentation", "talk", "defense", "poster talk" --- ## Before You Start: Three Questions Before designing any slides, answer these questions clearly: 1. **What works are you presenting?** They must share a coherent research direction. If presenting multiple works, they should form a narrative arc — not a disconnected list. 2. **What problems do these works solve in that direction?** Each work should map to a specific problem. If you cannot articulate the problem in one sentence, you are not ready to present. 3. **How do you use related work to naturally introduce these problems?** Related work is not citation duty. It builds the motivation for YOUR problem. Each
- When to Use This Skill
- Before You Start: Three Questions
- Core Workflow
- Step 1: Define Scope and Audience
- Step 2: Draft Narrative Arc
- Step 3: Design Slide Structure
- Step 4: Create Individual Slides
- Step 5: Build the .pptx File
- Step 6: Rehearse and Time
- Step 7: Prepare Backup Slides
- Artifact Sources from Other Skills
- Counterintuitive Presentation Rules
- 1. Your slides are not your paper
- 2. Reading and listening compete
What does the academic-slides skill do?
Use this skill for creating or refining an academic slide deck and the talk built around it: structuring a conference talk, thesis defense, lab meeting, or paper-to-slides deck; deciding the narrative arc and slide breakdown; improving slide design and visual hierarchy; planning rehearsal, timing, Q&A, and backup slides; or generating the .pptx. Reach for it when the user is shaping the presentation itself. Do not use for writing the paper, producing standalone speaker notes/scripts/transcripts, making posters, creating isolated figures/charts outside a slide deck, or building non-academic pre
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add BioTender-max/awesome-bio-agent-skills --skill academic-slides --agent claude-code` — it drops the skill into your project so the agent can pick it up. Swap the --agent value for codex, cursor or copilot if you use one of those.
Where does this skill come from?
From BioTender-max/awesome-bio-agent-skills, a repository with 135 stars. We read it straight from the repository tree rather than a submitted listing, so what you see here is what is actually published.
Is a popular skill a good skill?
Not necessarily. Stars measure attention, not adoption — a repository can trend for a week and be abandoned. That is why we show the weekly change from our own snapshots next to the total, instead of a single flattering number.