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“Eye protein”: Lessons from giant monster movies
I recently got the chance to rewatch one of my favourite movies of the last few years on Blu-ray: Pacific Rim. It has a fantastic commentary track by director Guillermo del Toro. There is a lot of...
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Critique: Epigenome reorganization
Today’s poster comes from Corey Duke. His Neuroscience poster got lots of love when he posted it on Twitter. (In flagrant violation of Neuroscience meeting rules, I expect.) Click to enlarge!Corey...
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No more slidesters, part 7: Inkscape
Inkscape is a free software that creates vector-based illustrations. As such, it’s the freeware answer to Adobe Illustrator and CorelDRAW.Inkscape has been on my radar for some time, but I hadn’t had a...
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Critique: Water balance
Today’s poster is up a little late because the contributor asked that it be shown after the conference ended, and totally not because of bad time management on my part. That’s my story and I’m sticking...
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Link roundup for December 2016
Who else got a Christmas present delivered in poster-styled gift wrapping?Hat tip to Shit Academics Say.Sometimes we have a best poster of the month, but this is probably the first nominee for best...
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Picking up the tab
I’m stepping a bit away from the poster board this week, so to speak, to talk about conference etiquette more generally. Conferences involve travel and eating out, usually in locations that cater to a...
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Critique: Viper shapes
Today’s poster comes from Jessica Tingle, who I met at the recent Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology meeting in New Orleans, where she presented this poster. Click to enlarge – if you need...
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Critique: frog choices
The “Best of Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology” continues, with this contribution courtesy of Matthew Murphy! Click to enlarge!This is a very successful poster on multiple counts. There...
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The Columbo rule vindicated again! Another research article has found that simple, declarative titles are the best. (The first was this.) Articles with such title were more likely to be highly rated by...
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Critique and makeover: Migrating birds
This is the third poster I was able to get submitted after I prowled through the halls of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology meeting last month. This one is from Carolyn Buaer, and you...
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Critique: Feather sections
The poster contributors from the last Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology meeting have continued to be generous with sharing their work. I’m pleased to show off another beauty from that...
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Link roundup for February 2017
It’s been a slow month in poster land, but smile this gave me this makes up for the low volume of links this month.Scott Kerr says:I’m using this kid’s science fair poster for my next presentation.Hat...
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Eight is great!
We interrupt your regularly scheduled blog about making conference posters that don’t suck to note that this project has been running eight years now! Which is kind of awesome.Thank you for your...
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Showing authorship on posters
More and more academic projects are collaborative. This means more contributors, and more authors to list on posters. I’ve been thinking about how long author lists might be best displayed on posters,...
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Critique: Peak fusion protein
Today’s poster comes from contributor Braeden Schaefer, and is shared with his permission. CLick to enlarge!Braeden notes:The poster theme colors had to fall within ASU’s maroon, gold, black and white...
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Critique: Oil spill
Today’s contribution is an award winning poster from Ryan Gilchrist. Click to enlarge!Ryan writes:My aim here was to balance on the fence between a poster and an infographic, and try to convey some...
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Critique: Electric India
Today’s poster comes from Anjali Sharma. It is being presented at the Energy For Society conference in April. Click to enlarge!It’s... square. This is interesting, because I don’t see many square...
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Link roundup for March 2017
My last link roundup came out just before this year’s Academy Awards, which featured an ill-fated announcement of announcing the wrong winner.This article argues that the card design could have been...
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Critique: Fear of death
Today’s poster comes from Anthony Biduck. Click to enlarge!This poster is unusual, because there are not graphic elements here. There is only text. This poses a challenge, because text blocks are not...
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Critique and makeover: Snake bite
Today’s poster comes to us courtesy of Catherine Chen, who was kind enough to share. Click to enlarge!Catherine supplied this in an editable file, so the easiest way to go through this critique is to...
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