tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1481277762471114452.post5923475824571155764..comments2024-03-20T12:56:48.451-05:00Comments on Better Posters: Poster versus talk, listening editionZen Faulkeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07811309183398223358noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1481277762471114452.post-80401743538999712362011-10-27T13:13:43.209-05:002011-10-27T13:13:43.209-05:00I wonder how much of this poll is tainted by the &...I wonder how much of this poll is tainted by the "prestige factor" of giving a talk. Rightly or wrongly (I favor the latter), talks vs. posters at big meetings tend to be akin to the adult vs. the kid table at Thanksgiving. "If your abstract is good enough, you get to give a talk. If not, to the poster hall with you!" I think this is a seriously flawed perspective, and I often get a lot more out of meetings from the poster sessions, particularly because it's becoming the only place to see new and unpublished data a lot of the time.<br /><br />Something else that may have biased my answer though towards GIVING a talk (not so much listening to them) is that, unless your poster is deemed "hot" by the meeting attendees, standing at your poster for 3-4 hours can be a real drag. No one wants to have that poster where you're standing there by yourself and someone walks up to your poster, reads the title, and gets this look like someone who is in the supermarket and somehow finds themselves standing in the cat food aisle even though they don't own a cat.Carl Wondershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17006223152242187007noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1481277762471114452.post-54926243795650370542011-10-27T07:49:37.731-05:002011-10-27T07:49:37.731-05:00I find the absolute best, at least for smaller mee...I find the absolute best, at least for smaller meetings, is for me to have a poster after my advisor has a talk. At larger meetings, though, the poster sessions are largely abandoned spaces that people browse while waiting for the next talk they want to see.Miss MSEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06529587231142371243noreply@blogger.com