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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 “attendance vortex.” If the number of e-posters is small, there will be few people browsing no matter how good the posters are. People will go where there are people, which reinforces the poor attendance. Electronic posters were courtesy Morressier , according to Gemma . • • • • • You are going to have to click through to see the video of this poster from the lab of Prosanta Chakrabarty. It... spins. Like Wheel of Fortune spins. This serves no communicative purpose. But it is fun. Hat tip to Tidepool Ann. • • • • • The littlest poster presenter, at the International Congress for Neuroethology . Courtesy of Dr. Paloma . • • • • • Dr. Petra has a Twitter thread about taking pictures at conferences. While it’s mostly abou

If I may be permitted a moment of self-indulgence, I would like to share this: This is a T-shirt design I entered into a contest for the International Association of Astacology . And it won! First place: “ Astacus fluviatilis ” by Zen Faulkes Second place: “ Euastacus ,” front and back design by Premek Hamr Third place: “Astacolic” by Alexa Ballinger I can now say the Better Posters blog is written and curated by an award-winning graphic designer.  😉 Over at the NeuroDojo blog , I wrote about the design of the shirt, other designs I made that I like even more but that didn’t win, and my newfound admiration for Rösel von Rosenhof. External links Crayfish clothing contest conqueror!

Adam Stone was kind enough to share this poster from the Third International Conference on Sign Language Acquisition in Istanbul, Turkey. You’ll definitely want to click to enlarge this one! This is the second comics-inspired poster in as many month (the first was here ). I was a little caught off guard when I read there was a connection between them, as Adam explained: I was inspired by this tweet by my colleague who saw a comic-inspired poster at LREC . So this poster is a direct descendant of the one featured on the blog last month! Adam continues with how he made the poster (lightly edited). I love xkcd so I went with that. I used vectormagic.com to vectorize the stick figures so I could resize them easily. It’ll be nice to have a graphics tablet to draw more fine-tuned artwork instead of hacking it out in PowerPoint. I added eyes to them because my postdoc supervisor and co-author Rain said, “These are deaf people, right? And it’s about eye tracking, so the characters should ha

Errant Science is on form again: I loved this, but I thought it didn’t include options I see surprisingly often, at least for bar graphs. Click to enlarge! Hat tip to Justin Kiggins.

Last Thursday, there was a shooting in the Capital Gazette newspaper in Annapolis, Maryland. On Friday, the Gazette put out a damn paper , and ran this as its editorial page. Today, we are speechless. This page is intentionally left blank today to commemorate victims of Thursday’s shooting in our office. I nearly cried looking at this. What gives it power is not just the words. It’s the space around the words. Imagine if that powerful statement had appeared like this: There’s no impact at all. I’m always telling people, “Don’t fill up your poster! You don’t need to cover every inch with stuff!” This is the kind of stuff I’m talking about.