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This month’s contender for “Best conference poster” was spotted by Greg Fell : Clever! • • • • •  If you have a fabric poster, Crystal Lantz can show you how to turn that ol’ science communication into a lovely tote bag ! She’s got detailed instructions, but you’re on…

Bergstrom and West think tilting graphs will make people less likely to make mistakes about them. An article in Nature provided this example: Hat tip to Nature News and Comment . • • • • •

Always fascinated by what happens to posters after the conference, particularly posters in the hands of crafty people. Beth Stuart says of her poster quilt: I’m not sure this version is any worse at communicating science than the original. Hat tip to Katy Kennedy . • …

Mike Pacchione at Duarte Design talks about how my wife created a powerful professional poster . Mike writes: Let’s summarize so you can apply this to your work, whether it’s a poster, slides or something else: Figure out the story you’re trying to tell. You need to be…

Paul Frankland compares the electronic poster session to the traditional paper poster session at the 11 th Federation Of European Neuroscience Societies (FENS) Forum of Neuroscience . Here are electronic posters: And here are the paper posters: I think this may be a …

Starting off this month with a “Done in one” advice article on poster design by Tullio Rossi. I disagree with a few very minor points (bullet points are not your friend ), but overall very good! Hat tip to Anna Clemens .  • • • • • A five tweet thread from Tolpa Studi…

Poster season has started, so we have people tweeting the coolest ones. Here is one by Alison Wardlow: She starts with a blank page, then draws the poster while explaining her theory. Bold move. And people told me it couldn’t be done when I suggested this years ago ! H…

Charlotte Payne , I love you! Well, not in that way. I love you for tweeting about posters in haiku. I think my favourite is this one , on de-extinction: resurrect the lost? can we really right our wrongs with a tweaked dodo? • • • Here’s how Meredith Rawls made an a…

Animate Science has a “done in one” blog post about how to design a poster . Readers of the blog will find a lot of advise there familiar, but it’s very well done. It’s a much better “single serve” post than this blog is. (It’s not fair to expect newbies to read throug…

Neuroskeptic asks whether conferences are hostile environments . I have never been the target of a harsh question at a conference but one of my colleagues was, a couple of years ago.

One of the problems with free fonts is that they often don’t have special characters that are necessary for proper display of characters from other languages, or symbols. Google Noto is a series of fonts meant to have almost every character (and emoji!) in as many lan…

The link roundup after the massive Neuroscience meeting is always fun. Just ask Shaena Montanari , “How big is that meeting?” Was at the bar tonight in DC and saw poster tubes... I’m not even a neuroscientist and I knew. #SfN17 With tens of thousands of posters, I find…

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…