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Link roundup for July 2019
Sarah Knowles wins our completely informal “Best poster of the month” award.From here and here. Hat tip to Colin Purrington and Elaine Williams.• • • • •Speaking of awards, Hannah Isotalus (whose work...
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Critique: Beach plastics
I promised this as the end of May, and I finally delivered! Today’s poster comes to us via Fabian Roger on Twitter. Fabian called this poster by Therese Karlsson“absolutely brilliant.” Click to...
View ArticlePoster vandalism
In part of a discussion about authorship and ownership of projects, Keira Lucas mentioned this anecdote:I had a previous disgruntled employee crumble up one of my biologist’s poster at a conference...
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Critique: Nucleus versus cytoplasm
Today’s contributions (we have two!) come to us courtesy of Colin Cheng. Click to enlarge!I always like to see how people refine their presentation from one version of a poster to the next. Colin says...
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Infographic imposters
I went looking for examples of infographics recently. This page boasted of having some of the best infographics of the last year. Their choices left me confused.This is a bar graph. It’s a bar graph...
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Link round-up for August, 2019
Sigma Chi has compiled a few short pieces of advice for poster presentations. And by “presentation,” the point where you are talking to other people during the meeting. There is not much on poster...
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Citing posters
Kevin polled his Twitter followers with the burning question, ¨Are poster session presentations citable in manuscripts?”The audience was spectacularly unhelpful, splitting straight down the middle. 50%...
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Freedom to change from your abstract
Jennifer Rohn asked:Academic STEM Twitter: how far have you ever strayed from your submitted abstract when it comes time to write the talk or create the poster? Or turn it around: if you went to a...
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Networking flair: Reasons to wear something ridiculous at a conference
Jessica “Rocky” Rohde presents a great networking tip from her Instagram account (lightly edited).Three reasons you should wear a ridiculous hat like this at your next conference.This is my...
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Link round-up for September 2019
Cody Christopherson asked students on Twitter:Which is the worst outcome when you present a poster at a research conference?The sample size was 944 votes, but Cody included a “Show me results!” option...
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Critique: Agricultural landscapes
Aleksandra Dolezal will testify that Neil Gaiman’s law of typos, originally applied to books, also applies to conference posters. It doesn’t matter how closely you check, you will find a mistake as...
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How to make a 3-D poster
I love when media that are normally flat reach into the third dimension!This week, I have a guest post from Kayla Hall, who created this poster. Click to enlarge!I reached out to Kayla because all of...
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Critique: The Amazing Spider-Poster!
A few weeks back, I introduced Charles Cong Xu in a post about wearing distinctive clothing as a networking tool. You may recall Charles presented his poster kind of like this:While the last post was...
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Psychology teaching poster conference on Twitter
The Society for the Teaching of Psychology is the latest organization to hold a poster session on Twitter.It will run 1-2 November, using the hashtags #stp19poster and #stp19thread.You can...
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Link round-up for October 2019
Since this link round-up happens to fall exactly on Halloween, I must start with a font for the season. Hellvetica. Courtesy of Zack’s Bad Jokes. This isn’t just a mock-up, this is a real TrueType font...
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The manuscript is done
As part of this blog’s tenth blogiversary, I mentioned that I was working on a poster design book. Yesterday, I submitted the manuscript of that book to my editor at Pelagic Publishing.The book is...
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Critique: Crayfish cell culture
“Here’s one we did earlier,” as they say on the cooking shows. This was a poster I did in 2018 for the International Crustacean Congress in Washington, DC, and the paper is now out as a preprint. Click...
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Critique: Cells grow after fly sex
This week’s poster comes fro Josephine Hellberg. This work was recently published (Leiblich et al. 2019), so Josephine was able to set her poster free for others to see! Click to enlarge!Josephine...
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Why established academics should make their own posters
This one is for the people who are now full time academics, scholars, scientists, and “PIs.”Keep making your own posters.For many people, a poster is their first presentation. But sometimes there is a...
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Link round-up for November, 2019
Caroline Bartman made me laugh:Poster sessions are wildIt's like, do you like papers?In that case you will really like traveling hundreds of miles to look at rough drafts of paper figures in a large...
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