Best poster prize ever.
Kristen Zuloaga wrote:
My 8 year old judged posters from my lab and Zuloaga lab at local Society for Neuroscience conference.
My grad student Emily Groom won him over with mice being stressed because they couldn’t play with their friends. 😂
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Clair Sewell shared her slides and notes from a presentation on “Creating an effective conference poster.”
While slide decks alone are not as good as when accompanied by a presenter, the information here is generally quite good.
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Had a few YouTube videos on poster design lately, the latest of which is from Cooked Illustration:
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New paper shows that in dentistry, posters are less likely to match the final publication than oral talks are.
The authors explain this as a function of differences in peer review:
(O)ral presentation abstracts were subjected to rigorous expert review and had higher study quality and scientific priority than poster abstracts, which made higher consistency of oral presentation abstracts.
Again, this pattern has been shown many times.
Wang G, Chen J, Li H, Miao C, Cao Y, Li C. 2023. Reporting inconsistency between published conference abstracts and article abstracts of randomised controlled trials in prosthodontics presented at IADR general sessions. PeerJ 11:e15303. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.15303
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A case study in using Adobe XD to create and host a poster session.
Gehling R. 2023. From teacher to learner: Using digital technology to enhance authenticity and engagement in poster presentations in the classroom and online. Proceedings of The Australian Conference on Science and Mathematics Education. https://openjournals.library.sydney.edu.au/IISME/article/view/17571
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Angela Collier articulates some of the problems with violin plots. I get that sometimes you want to show unusual distributions. But as Angela says, we have a simpler graph for that: a histogram.
There is a lot more critique here, much of it funny, and much serious too.
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