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<div dir="ltr"><b>Subject:</b> <b>IAP Biology Offerings -- Wednesday, January 7, 2026</b><br>


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<span style="color: rgb(34, 30, 31);"><font size="3">By the end of the talk, participants can expect to learn:</font></span></div>


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<font size="3">- How the process of encoding and decoding introduces communication challenges</font></p>


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<font size="3">- Why experts are worse communicators in their domain than non-experts</font></p>


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<font size="3">- What you can do to be a more effective communicator of graphs and data visualizations</font></p>


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<font size="3">Miro Kazakoff is a Senior Lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management, where he creates and teaches all of the school's classes on communicating with data. </font></p>


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