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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 your own for the sewing machine. Hat tip to Crystal Lantz and Caitlin verder Weele. • • • • •  I missed these tweets from Suzy Styles about poster club back in August, when there was discussion about harassment in poster sessions: The First Rule of Poster Club is... 🤛🏻you 🤛🏻do 🤛🏻not 🤛🏻 talk🤛🏻about... 🤛🏻the presenter’s appearance 🤛🏻the presenter’s phone number 🤛🏻who you think ‘actually’ wrote the code 🤛🏻basically anything other than the poster and relevant scientific context 🤷🏻‍♀️ The Second Rule of Poster Club is... 🤛🏻you 🤛🏻do🤛🏻not 🤛🏻try to look down the presenter’s top 🤛🏻stand unnecessarily close 🤛🏻touch the presenter 🙅🏻 🤛🏻block the presenter with your body 🤛🏻talk about anything o

Today’s poster comes from kindly contributor Emma Taylor, who was generous enough to share her honours project. Click to enlarge! Quick thoughts. Good structure that lets me know I read in rows. Visual hierarchy is generally good. Looks crowded. Would benefit from more space around everything, but particularly between text and edged of blue boxes they are in. Underlining text in discussion would probably be better as bold or italic text. Another editing run to cut more text might help. (I know, that bit is hard .)

This blog mostly uses sciences as examples, so I am always positively delighted when I get contributions from the humanities. Today’s contribution is from Cornelius van Lit . Click to enlarge! One of the things like about getting other people’s posters is they try stuff I would never do. I’d never put my title in the middle of the poster. And yet, it works here. The poster is a great example use of using size to indicate reading priority. That large text in the middle makes it very clear where you are supposed to start reading. Nothing competes with that title. The downside of having the title in the middle is that there is some potential confusion about how you are supposed to read the remaining text. But it’s okay here. After reading the middle introduction, people will jump up to the upper left corner (which starts “Scholars use digitized manuscripts...”) because that’s just where you look first when you read English. After reading that section, I think most people will read across

You are not supposed to take pictures on the poster session floor of the Neuroscience 2018 meeting. Photography, video, filming, tape recording, and all other forms of recording are prohibited during the poster sessions , lectures, symposia, minisymposia, nanosymposia, courses, workshops, and on the exhibit floor. But people broke the rules to take pictures of this poster. Here’s a closer look at the one visible section of text: It reads: Unfortunately, due to the travel ban imposed on citizens of Iran and other countries I am unable to be here to present my poster. My supervisor and I therefore decided not to present the poster at all. Science should be about breaking down barriers not creating new ones. I hope to be able to make the next SFN conference in 2019. This situation has been brewing since August, according to co-author Chris Dayas’s Twitter timeline. Starting 20 August : My PhD student who was so excited to attend her first SFN has been denied a visa to enter US based on h

No, I haven’t gone full Tolkien this week. Mediterranean means “Middle of the Earth,” right? This week’s poster about the Mediterranean Sea comes from kindly contributor Francisco Pastor. Click to enlarge! Francisco is a repeat customer of this blog. One of his earlier poster was reviewed here last year , but this iteration is in Spanish. One of the things I like about graphic design is that you don’t always need to be able to understand the exact language to be able to offer advice! (Though I’m not sure what I would make of a poster in Korean or Hindi.) Francisco’s aims were to “increase importance for graphical info and reduce text. I also tried to highlight conclusion sections and added a screenshot to publish our sea surface temperature website.” Compared to the previous poster, I think this version is more successful at meeting those goals. The images are bigger and the take home message is more obvious and cleaner. But some problems that were in the previous poster are still cree

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 . • • • • •