Link roundup for July 2023

Margaret Hinkle is this month’s “poster reuse” winner:

Baby in the office and you don’t have a blanket for tummy time? Turns out a poster is the perfect fix! Also doubles as a changing pad! Academic parenting win for the day.

She goes on:

(Don’t worry, students who made this poster - this one had some typos so it never made it to prime time!)

Hat tip to Zanethia Barnett.

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Creative, right? Matthias Rillig outlines techniques for using poster session viewing as a tool for creativity. Excerpt:

How can we maximize this sort of connection? One has to more actively consume the material on the posters and turn them over in one’s mind, trying to directly connect them to other problems. I think this would require maybe two passes through a poster session, one to try to absorb the information per se, the ‘normal poster session mode’, and another pass, the ‘creativity mode’ to actively try to make such connections.

Hat tip to Paperpile.

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It is summer and thus peak conference season!

The title says “presentations” but the abstract is mostly about posters.

Willis LD. 2023. How to present your research findings at a scientific meeting. Respiratory Care: respcare.11226. https://doi.org/10.4187/respcare.11226 

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An article about why libraries should host poster presentations. A library has been hosting a poster competitions and surveyed students about the experience.

Frost ME, Goates MC, Nelson GM. 2023. The benefits of hosting a poster competition in an academic library. College & Research Libraries 84(4): 495-512. https://doi.org/10.5860/crl.84.4.495

An interesting finding was that even though the competition had a prize of cold hard cash 💵, the main reason students participated was to improve their skills!

The authors note that they haven’t surveyed the faculty supervisors.

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We’ll see you back here in about four weeks for the next roundup!