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Are posters right for online meetings? Thoughts from The Allied Genetic...
I have been watching many academic conferences move to online presentations this year with great interest. I want to see how they are going to do it and how well each format works.In my Twitter feed...
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Link roundup for April 2020
We have a poster webinar from Shiz Aoki at BioRender:There were over 1,000 people attending this, I think I heard her say. The five topics covered within:Consistent margins / paddingArrange “sections”...
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You’d miss serendipty if poster sessions went away
I miss the art of record flipping. When music was released on vinyl, flipping through albums in bins was part meditative in its rhythm combined with occasional rushes of pure joy when you found...
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Lessons from Pac-Man
Shiz Aoki of BioRendersometimesgivesthis tip when discussing posters:Imagine Pac-Man being able to travel between the sections of your poster without getting stuck.This is good advice, but I want to...
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Lessons from make-up
In theater, the viewers are often far from the action, and lighting is not always perfect. To make sure everyone can see what’s going on – even the people in the last row who might not be paying that...
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Link roundup for May 2020
An old PowerPoint or Keynote slide deck won’t protect you in a pandemic. But an old poster can.Hat tip to Janet Stemwedel for realizing:Thing I haven't seen yet this pandemic but which I suspect...
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The power of pictures: America 2020
This post is not meant to make you comfortable. It contains a lot of images that range anywhere from unsettling to terrifying. Just putting that out there before going on.This is not a political blog,...
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Four bad habits of academics that cause ugly posters
There are many reasons that academic conference posters are often bad. Some of it is lack of experience. But even with some experience, many academics have some habits – often deeply ingrained habits –...
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Review: Academic & Scientific Poster Presentation: A Modern Comprehensive Guide
Full disclosure: This book was published after I had started the process of writing my own book on posters. I wanted to write my book my way, and didn’t want to imitate Rowe’s work. I bought Rowe’s...
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Link round-up for June 2020
Hey! Everything is still awful. If you are taking the time to read this, thank you.• • • • •A typeface for the times: COVID Sans.Hat tip to creator Felix Bernoully.• • • • • Many poster creators would...
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#PlantBio20: “Get your message across” workshop
I’ll be speaking at the Plant Biology 2020 meeting next month as part of the workshop, “Get your message across: a guide to artwork and illustrations for better impact and clarity.”I will be joined by...
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Vectr review
I often use Pixlr as a quick online photo editor, and recently noticed a new product, Vectr. I was intrigued because it made vector based graphics.I tested out Vectr by trying to make a version of my...
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Better Posters book cover reveal!
Look at this!The Better Posters book has moved another step being closer to reality, a blogger’s dream you can hold in your hands!Current publication target: 25 January 2021!Read more on the Pelagic...
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Canva review
TL;DR: Canva is great for simple things like an Instagram post, but I would hesitate to use it for a conference poster.In January (before we knew that 2020 would be a dystopian hellscape, remember?),...
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Review: DesignCap
Having reviewed a couple of online graphic editors this month, I got an email from a company, DesignCap, asking me to do a third. I created an account and logged in.Wow, it’s a lot like Canva (reviewed...
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One simple trick to improve (some) bar graphs
I ran across this figure because it was being used as a good example.This is a journal figure, not a poster figure, so there are many things I would want to do differently on a poster. But I just want...
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#PlantBio20 is this week!
A quick reminder that I will be speaking at Plant Biology 20 this Wednesday, 29 July!Wednesday, July 29, 2020, 1:30 PM – 2:30 PM EDTGet Your Message Across: A Guide to Artwork and Illustrations for...
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Link round-up for July 2020
The Journal of Biogeography has an article from its editors about how to make a great figure. heir take-home messages:Create introductory figures to set up your problem.Create figures at final size.Use...
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Mystery whiskers: deciphering box plots
Last week was the first Animal Behavior Society virtual meeting. I watched a lot of presentations (which I wrote about over at NeuroDojo: Day 1, Day 2, Day 3, Day 4). A lot of presentations showed data...
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Posters with plans get as much feedback as posters with results
“Prereg posters” was an idea floated a couple of years ago (and nobody told me about it!) (Tibon et al. 2018). The idea is to present planned work on a poster, before data are collected, to solicit...
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