[bioundgrd] Fwd: IAP Biology Offerings -- Wednesday, January 7, 2026

[Joshua Stone]

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Subject: IAP Biology Offerings -- Wednesday, January 7, 2026

Career Enhancement Skills

“The Curse of Knowledge: Why your expertise makes it harder for you to communicate”
Miro Kazakoff, Senior Lecturer, MIT Sloan School of Management


Wednesday January 7th, 3-4:30pm, Luria Auditorium, KI, 76-156


By the end of the talk, participants can expect to learn:

- How the process of encoding and decoding introduces communication challenges

- Why experts are worse communicators in their domain than non-experts

- What you can do to be a more effective communicator of graphs and data visualizations

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.



More detail on these at Biology IAP website: https://biology.mit.edu/about/iap
For these and other IAP Events: https://calendar.mit.edu/MIT_IAP



















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