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Today in, “Things I should not have to say.” A poster session is a place for exchange of scientific and technical information between professional adults. It is not a place for you to hit on people for a hook up or booty call. Beth Ann McLaughlin asked : Women of STEM,…

This month’s link round-up begins with a big tutorial on making posters by Desi Quintans, “ How I make conference posters .” Excerpt: About my design ethos I think that visual design is just as important as content. I believe that by adapting lessons from other fields…

This month’s nominee for “Best poster ever” comes from the Ecological Society of America (ESA) meeting, and was created by Julian Resasco , with pictures by Andrew Bell : I got multiple people forwarding this to me, and saw many positive comments on Twitter, so this on…

Many conferences have some sort of awards for “Best student poster.” But John Vanek recently noted something I pointed out early on in this blog: the winners are often not very good looking posters. Pet peeve: when posters that are simply walls of text win best poste…

Here’s the level of “attention to detail” that anyone who designs should aspire to: This makeover from Rian Hughes is shown here . His website is well worth checking out. Hat tip to John Wick. Titles matter. This article analyzes what titles of scientific articles get…

Kaitlyn Werner is the winner of this month’s “Best re-use of a conference poster (beach edition)”: Alex Barnard took a poster into the third dimension with 3-D printing: This is not the first time I’ve shown a poster with a third dimension on this blog , but it’s stil…

Cathy Newman pointed out that this year’s Evolution meeting in Austin has conference T-shirts... but none in women’s styles. Sigh. Weirdly, this is a choice you have a pre-registration, months out from the conference , so it’s not as though you would make unneeded T-…