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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,…

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…

This Twitter thread by Laura Williams about poster presentations began: 83% expect 10 or fewer poster visitors at large meeting. This reminded me of an unfinished project: a formula to estimate how many people you could expect at your poster. This is how far I got: My…

Most of the readers of this blog are lurkers. They read, but they don’t feel obliged to make a comment, or send me a tweet, or email, or anything else. And that’s fine. I’m a lurker in many online spaces. Some poster viewers are lurkers, too. They will see your poster …

Lisa Rost has a nice overview of colour tools to help with data visualizations. Some have appeared on the blog before, but this is a great summary. MarkMaker bills itself as an automated logo designer (backstory here ). It’s fun to look at, but I was unimpressed with…

“I don’t have a question so much as a comment...” Dave Levitan at Slate looks at the phenomenon of why people use question time at the end of presentations to not ask questions .  “My question is the following statement” is the bane of any sane conference-goer’s ex…