Maintenance begins at creation, so why are we not creating better?

The beats are the same. You work for government, or academia (lets face it, that’s probably where 90% of the work is) you have a deliverable; you save it; you print to PDF; you store it on an institutional repository with some metadata (or Zenodo, OSF or equivalent) and its done.

There’s a small chance that it’s FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) right? It has metadata that can be discovered by an audience looking for it and can be indexed by search engines. The data is potentially accessible if published correctly. They’re not particularly interoperable or easily converted, and PDFs aren’t really designed for reuse, even if tools like Apache Tika help ease the burden of extracting artifacts. It’s just a PDF, why are we even talking about FAIR? There begins a story…

The beats are the same, yet, we work in digital preservation, our backgrounds are in GLAM or software, why do we want to shoot ourselves in the foot? Why are we not using our skills to create better?

Doctors Without Borders goes #betterposter! Our #ScienceUX community created an evidence-based poster template to improve science communication at the DWB/MSF Pediatric conference this year.

Video explains design decisions & the science communication principles at play:
https://youtu.be/1QoYDeYu59k

Got to work with 120 Early Career Researchers on poster + presentation design at NSF EPSCoR.

Nearly exploded Google Docs with 120 simultaneous people playing presentation slide & poster design games.

After 5 years, still my favorite group!

#ScienceUX #betterposter

We have a hideously-ugly 3D printed prototype! 🎉

Video explains: https://youtu.be/7RgjXVU8XGU

Big update on our quest to create an #OpenHardware people counter to measure & improve how scientists forage for information in poster sessions.

Prettier, better device to follow. All designs/code on GitHub.
#betterposter

Presenting my AGU24 poster this Tuesday afternoon - GC23A-0229: Choosing Earth Foundation Models: From research grade to community maintained. Come have a chat about how we can make Foundation Models for Earth Observation / Geospatial data more practical for different use-cases!

Poster made using @excalidraw, code available at https://gist.github.com/weiji14/7f3ade1ad231587380f131c402b9649d.

#AGU24 @developmentseed #EarthObservation #MachineLearning #BetterPoster

As of 2024, how do you preferably create a conference poster?

I’ve used PowerPoint before, not gonna lie. Open to suggestions, even if it means learning new stuff.

Bonus question: did anyone try the „#betterposter“ design and could share real life experience? How did people interact?

#academicchatter #science #scicomm #academia #sciences #wisskomm

The #betterposter movement hits a new stride! 🚀After #betterposter-style academic posters rated more accessible, #CochraneLondon rolls out a new poster template and we measured engagement.

Video summary:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kroYbu-kd8

Article:
https://www.cochrane.org/news/complexity-clarity-research-shows-benefit-betterposter-templates-cochrane-colloquium