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Disposable design
One of the arguments I sometimes see is that nobody should care about conference poster design, because posters are “disposable.”Counterpoint.My friends, have you ever used cheap toilet paper?Did the...
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Posters will stay bad unless we start building continuity of work
In six pages, Richard McGuire changed comics.In 1989, McGuire created a six page experimental comic called “Here.” The gimmick was that each panel showed a single place, but sub-panels showed that...
View Article”Why did I lose?” Making poster competitions better
Many conferences have poster competitions. Lots of people like to compete, and it often brings out people’s best efforts. I have been pleased to show lots of competition winners here on the blog.But...
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Link roundup for December, 2019
Ford and colleagues analyzed presentations by under-represented minorities (URMs) at the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall meeting (one of the biggest conferences, along side Neuroscience).The AGU...
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Critique: Dangerous LDL
New year? New decade? Whatever. We have business to attend to!This week’s contribution comes from Jessica Schubert. She gave this work at the 2019 European Society for Cardiology conference. This is...
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Critique: Bee DNA
Today’s poster comes from Mark Davis. This was, as far as I can tell, presented at a US Department of Defense (DoD) environmental restoration workshop last December. Click to enlarge!This poster was...
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The view from SICB 2020: Fabrics!
I recently attended the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology conference in Austin (#SICB2020 on Twitter). I saw hundreds of posters spread across three days of poster sessions, and am here...
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Critique: Narcissus, portrayed by fish
I didn’t get a chance to talk in person to the creator of this poster, which was a fabvourite of mine merging from SICB 2020 (which I mentioned last week, and will have more to say in weeks to come)....
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Link roundup for January, 2020
This article asks what research into user interfaces can teach basic scientists. Excerpt:Unfortunately, it is difficult to get in the mindset of your reader or audience. It requires forgetting about...
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Critique: Intensive care neural networks
Today’s contribution comes from doctoral student William Caicedo. This was presented the Medical Devices and Technology satellite meeting in New Zealand last September. Click to enlarge!William...
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Critique: Opto mice
Today’s contribution comes from Lidor Spivak. The poster was presented in the Israel Society for Neuroscience 2020 annual meeting in Eilat, Israel. Click to enlarge!The poster was designed by Eden...
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Pronouns on posters
My given name (Zen) is an ambiguous gender signal. I know both men and women with the same first name as me. I understand that other people often want to know someone’s gender, and that people may want...
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Link roundup for February, 2020
The Smithsonian has created a huge archive of material that is now open access for anyone to use.This includes photographs. 3-D models. Datasets. Ever needed a high quality image of the first...
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Eleven years on
March is anniversary month! The Better Posters blog has been running, improbably and incredibly, for eleven years now!To celebrate, this project is expanding again. Better Posters is now on Instagram...
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Critique: Dirty, dirty flies
Today’s contribution comes from Gowri Rajaratnam and was presented at the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology meeting back in January. Click to enlarge!I saw this browsing the session,...
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The @IAmSciComm poster threads
This week, I’ve been tweeting about posters at the IAmSciComm Twitter account. Most of the topics are ones I’ve blogged about before, but I made lots of new images special for these threads, and think...
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Link roundup for March, 2020
The big news about poster sessions this month is that... there are not going to be very many of them any time soon.Conference after conference has been cancelled in response to the threat of COVID-19....
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Pandemic publishing plans: Better Posters book update
When I started working the Better Posters book over two years ago, the original plan from the publishers was to release it in the first quarter of 2020. Which would have been the end of March, 2020.Er....
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Critique: The world belongs to squirrels now
I’m always fascinated to see show presentations of a project change. Today we have two posters from Sarah Westrick. Click to enlarge! This is the first one, chronologically, from the 2019 Animal...
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Critique: Anorexic mice
This poster was done as practice by a group of students, not for a presentation at a conference. Click to enlarge!You could put this up in a conference and it would probably be one of the nicer looking...
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