Pauling, scientific posters on the go
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Pauling, scientific posters on the go
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Re: Pauling, scientific posters on the go
#2It would also be nice if someone built a layout app for scientific posters. I'm not sure why but the prevailing approach seems to be to cram absolutely as much text and graphic content as you can onto the poster, with no line spacing or margins. They are absolutely unreadable.
Re: Pauling, scientific posters on the go
#3It would also be nice if someone built a layout app for scientific posters. I'm not sure why but the prevailing approach seems to be to cram absolutely as much text and graphic content as you can onto the poster, with no line spacing or margins. They are absolutely unreadable.
haha I do agree with you!
Re: Pauling, scientific posters on the go
#4Blog post and app co-author here. We'll publish the app to the stores ASAP. In the meantime, if you want to try it as a beta tester (android at least, iOS I do not remember if that works with buddybuild), then you can email us: hello@tailordev.fr. Thanks!
Re: Pauling, scientific posters on the go
#5It would also be nice if someone built a layout app for scientific posters. I'm not sure why but the prevailing approach seems to be to cram absolutely as much text and graphic content as you can onto the poster, with no line spacing or margins. They are absolutely unreadable.
Personally I just put together a PowerPoint presentation and stick that up (as many A4 pages!). That seems to work better than the standard wall of text on one massive piece of paper, but can be seen as low effort by some people.
Re: Pauling, scientific posters on the go
#6It would also be nice if someone built a layout app for scientific posters. I'm not sure why but the prevailing approach seems to be to cram absolutely as much text and graphic content as you can onto the poster, with no line spacing or margins. They are absolutely unreadable.
Having just gone down this road, here is the tech stack I used for putting together a scientific conference paper: emacs / org-mode / beamer / beamerposter.sty. I had to do a bit of reverse engineering from tex back to org-mode to determine the proper org-mode properties to have the beamer layout I wanted -- if that makes any sense. I also poked around in ox-beamer.el. In addition, I used Omnigraffle and the Gimp for graphics. I am happy with the end result, and the original org-mode file is clean and manageable. And, yes, less verbiage, the better for conference posters.
Re: Pauling, scientific posters on the go
#7Would someone in the world of science explain the role of posters and why that format is so popular? It's seems like there are so many other options - a video, a talk, a demonstration, an interactive computer screen, an interactive exhibit, a diorama, a play, etc ...
Re: Pauling, scientific posters on the go
#8Would someone in the world of science explain the role of posters and why that format is so popular? It's seems like there are so many other options - a video, a talk, a demonstration, an interactive computer screen, an interactive exhibit, a diorama, a play, etc ...
My guess is logistics. What portion of your conference attendees is there to present and what portion is there to listen to talks (general, or specific?)?
N>h where N is people and h is hours.
Re: Pauling, scientific posters on the go
#9Would someone in the world of science explain the role of posters and why that format is so popular? It's seems like there are so many other options - a video, a talk, a demonstration, an interactive computer screen, an interactive exhibit, a diorama, a play, etc ...
Posters. The original landing page.
Re: Pauling, scientific posters on the go
#10Would someone in the world of science explain the role of posters and why that format is so popular? It's seems like there are so many other options - a video, a talk, a demonstration, an interactive computer screen, an interactive exhibit, a diorama, a play, etc ...
The main reason to go to conferences is to meet people who are working similar things, to exchange ideas, make friends and build potential collaborations. Maybe even impress some program managers.
A very efficient way to do this is the poster session, where you have enough of your work on a poster that you can get the general ideas across in a few min (or even less). Some people do bring laptops with videos and things. My experience though is that spoken words and a few graphs are sufficient to get the story across and spark deeper conversations.