Change your poster title when publishing the paper
A recent paper by Prasad and colleagues (2025) provided some advice on how to turn a conference poster or presentation into a publication. For the most part, these are common sense if you understand...
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Old school numbers have advantages
“Why aren’t there lowercase numbers?”Well, there are. I’ve mentioned the excellent MyFont manuals about typography before. Their latest is about the different ways that numbers are shown in type.Early...
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Lessons from political parties: More points means less clarity
One of the major American political parties shared this on their social media accounts this weekend.I saw this post not in its original form, but from critiques of it. And it deserves those...
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Reimaging posters on In Plain Cite podcast
Everyone has a podcast now. Even the International Society for Medical Publication Professionals . They just renamed their podcast to In Plain Cite, and their first real episode is about conference...
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Critique: No grave mistakes
This poster comes from Spencer Moore. Click to enlarge!I’m super pleased to have posters that are not from the traditional sciences. This one is off to a good start. This posters had a big advantage,...
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Sweet sixteen
Almost missed blogiversary month!It’s always a little crazy to think how this one project, started almost on a whim spinning off from my general academic blog, has managed to keep going.I thank you for...
View ArticleYou can’t have a great poster session in a bad conference
Many academics are aware of predatory or low-quality journals, but I get the impression that many are not as aware of predatory or low-quality conferences.Christine Ro has just released an article in...
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Politics hits poster sessions
Alexandra Witze reports:Here at the ASSW (Arctic Science Summit Week - ZF) Arctic science conference in Boulder, a poster describing research done with US federal funds has words including “ethical”...
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Water Whys presentation, 28 March 2025: Poster pitfalls and power-ups!
I’ll be giving an online presentation tomorrow, March 28 at 2:00 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time or 11:00 a.m. Arizona time.There is still time to register! Visit https://waterwhys.org/seminar/spring-2025/...
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