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Conference presentation accessibility
I am helping with a project on conference accessibility. I was brought on board because of my interest in posters, but this research is about oral presentations, too.To get us started on data...
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Review: Storytelling with Data
Some scientists might pass over Storytelling With Data (2015) because they have an incredible aversion to the word “storytelling.” Author Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic might drive off some people when she...
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Link roundup for August 2022
There’s a lot of device on making graphs, but sometimes research on whether the advice works is harder to come by.This research paper on graph design tries to assess whether “decluttering” (Edward...
View Article“Design a poster” interview with Tullio Rossi
Friends of the blog Tullio Rossi and Echo Rivera (who penned the intro to Better Posters) talk posters!This should have been in the last month’s link round-up. Whoops. But I don’t want to wait several...
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One class of pharmacy students preferred online poster sessions
We spent two years mostly having conferences online. Many people see advantages to that format and want conferences to keep online options. But would online conferences be just a better-than-nothing...
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Box plot makeover
This is a figure in a journal.This is simple data that is much harder to interpret than it needs to be.At a glance, it looks like it’s showing one variable with four groups. But it isn’t. To get that,...
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A quick and animated guide to typography. Hat tip to Biochem Belle.• • • • •And that’s it for this month!
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Wanted: Posters not in English
I’ve been interested in seeing (and showing) posters in languages other than English for a while. No contributions so far. Jay Patel suggested I search Figshare. There, I stumbled upon this poster in...
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An interactive poster with sound and paper magic: Q & A with Nicola Harman
Nicola Harman recently tweeted a short video of a poster that invited the viewer to reach out and touch it. “This year my poster is interactive and has a voice recording of the poster walk through.”...
View ArticleCan you give the same poster twice? And should you?
Don’t let the “Twitter is dying” talk stop you, there are still many valuable discussions on the bird site! Luisa Turbino Torres asked if people thought it was okay to present the same poster twice at...
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Link roundup for November 2022
This month’s contestant for the coolest poster ever:That’s a legitimate contender for the title. Every icon making up the wolf is something wolves have eaten. From Voyageurs Wolf Project, spotted by...
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A poster in the round
When I was stumbling around Figshare for non-English posters, I found this poster. It is in English, which i not what I was looking for, but is unlike any other poster I have ever seen.The authors...
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Artifical intelligence gives good poster advice
I asked a new natural language artificial intelligence (AI), ChatGPT, “What are some best practices for academic conference posters?”This is the response from the AI: There are several best practices...
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Making the cut: Compression is not the solution
Imagine you’re a filmmaker. You have made a two hour documentary. Then the producer comes back and says, “Sorry, but we will want a one hour documentary.”This is an unfortunate situation to be in. What...
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2022 in review: Face-to-face poster sessions return but covid never goes away
When I think about posters, poster sessions, and academic conferences this past year, all I can think of is this pair of tweets.“I love conferences,” then, “I have covid.”I just can’t get forget that.I...
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Link round-up for December 2022
In November, Sarah Weirich gave a conference presentation titled, “Managing conference posters: A lifecycle overview from printing service to digital repository discovery.”Alas, this is a PowerPoint...
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Critique: Smilin’ hydrozoans
Last year, I was putting out a call for conference posters in languages other than English. This week, I can thank Alexandra Vetrova for answering the call with this blog’s second poster in Russian,...
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Comedy is hard, especially for poster titles
I recently watched Vir Das’s comedy show “Landing” on Netflix. It was a real treat to discover such a sharp and funny comedian.A good chunk of Das’s routine describes the outrage that was generated by...
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Review: Academic Conference Presentations
We have a new addition to the “academic advice” genre! Academic Conference Presentations has a 2022 publication date, but was released early January 2023.This book is aimed at conference novices, and...
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New research on conference presentation accessibility
Today at the 2023 European Meeting of International Society for Medical Publication Professionals (#ISMPPEurope2023 on Twitter), new research was presented on conference accessibility. (Disclaimer: I’m...
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