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Link roundup for May 2025
It’s been a while since I’ve had the brainpower to pull one of these together. But now?Since its debut, the billboard format has been admired and disliked. A new paper compared it to more standard...
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A quick way to assess posters
If you are looking for a rubric to assess conference posters quickly, this might fill the bill. This rubric has gone through a couple of versions. This is the most recent, presented on a poster this...
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Critique: Posters have entered the chat
Some time ago, Greg Fell shared an interesting poster. (You may not be able to see it due to user settings.) I reached out to the creator, Anton Pottegård. He sent a slightly earlier version of this...
View ArticlePoster controversies
Over a year ago, I saved a few tweets about controversies that erupted over a couple of posters at a Society for Personality and Social Psychology conference. At the time, I was aware that there was a...
View ArticleHow to pitch a poster in lightning talk (ePosters blog guest post)
The good people at ePosters asked if I would write something for their blog, They asked nicely, so I said, “I’ve been meaning to write about flash talks where people pitch their posters. How about...
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Critique: Computing crocetin
This week's is courtesy of the extremely patient Dimitra Bezantakou. Dimitra was nice enough to say that she found the blog helpful as she was creating the poster below. Click to enlarge!This is a...
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Link roundup for June 2025
Let’s see if I can get back into a regular rhythm of posting these!• • • • •There continues to be a small group working on creating posters by computing methods.A new preprint by Pang and colleagues...
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Critique: Minimalist RNA
I spotted today’s poster when researching the Woodstock of Biology 2 + Night Science conference for the June link roundup. I reached out to its creator, Jakub Zeman, who sent along a copy and how he...
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Critique: Biconcave backbones in 3-D!
Friend of the blog Mike Taylor gave me the okay to share this poster some time ago. Get out your 3-D glasses, and click to enlarge!This poster has, dare I say, a touch of elegance to it.Part of what...
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Critique: Toads aren’t picky
I’m always pleased to show an award winning poster! This week’s poster is courtesy of Audrey Kelly. This poster won the Victor Hutchison Graduate Student Poster Award in Ecology, Natural History,...
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Critique: Small town fungi goes to the big city
Today we have a trio of posters from Stephen Kutos. Click to enlarge!This is the first of the posters chronologically, and already shows a lot of sophistication in the design. There are usually few...
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Link roundup for July 2025
It’s been a month. What has happened around conference poster sessions?• • • • •The quest to perfect the online poster session continues!Macarthur and Drude posted a slide deck with a brief explanation...
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Critique: Got water?
Today’s contributer is Antonia Hadjimichael. She sent a pair, presented in no particular order. They were both presented at the American Geophysical Union in the same year. You can click the enlarge...
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Critique: Bang your head
We have two posters today from contributor Nicole Ackermans! This first poster is from a Mount Sinai Annual Neuroscience Retreat. Click to enlarge!Excellent concision in the text. This poster is about...
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Critique: Glowing dust
Friend of the blog Natalia Asari has already shared a poster with us. But It’s been a while, so you might ask, what else has Natalia been up to? Click to enlarge! Natalia wrote:This poster was for a...
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Grids and gestures and posters
I watched this video about comics.I wasn’t aware of Nick Sousanis before. In his introductory remarks, he briefly describes a teaching exercise he uses called “Grids and gestures.” In a technical...
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Critique: Lumbar party
I want to thank Sasha Aspinall for sharing this award winning poster. Click to enlarge!Sasha wrote (lightly edited):I presented this poster at a back and neck pain conference in Quebec City. I’m really...
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Lessons from sabre-toothed cats
Look at this beautiful art by Yuefeng Song.What’s lovely about this is not just the illustration, but that it is Figure 6 in technical paper in an academic journal. It’s not done just for press...
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Link roundup for January 2026
A unique account of a non-traditional conference poster (pictured) with non-traditional goals. (T)he question of the purpose of the academic conference, and the AcademicConferenceMachine. Linares-Roake...
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Your title is 75% of your communication effort – here’s the science
I’ve said in this blog that “Your title is 90% of your communication effort, because that’s all that most people will ever see.”Well, I exaggerated.Your poster title is probably about 75% of your...
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Upcoming free webinar with Reproducibility For Everyone
In one month (or less, depending on when you read this), I will be giving a free online talk, thanks to the kind invitation from the good people at Reproducibility 4 Everyone!If you can’t scan the QR...
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Prime blogiversary: Seventeen years of Better Posters
One of the wild things as you get older is that you find yourself thinking, “Hey, when did that movie /song / TV show come out? Must be, like, five years ago now.” And you look it up and it’s over...
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Upcoming talk for Organization for Human Brain Mapping 2026 conference
If, by chance, you are planning to go to Bordeaux this year to attend the Organization for Human Brain Mapping meeting, the organizers have created this great prep session. Warning: Contains...
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Illustrae website review
Illustrae is software for creating scientific illustrations. Let me hit what might be the most relevant feature of this product for many readers right at the top:There’s no free version to try.For that...
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