| 🎥 3-min manifesto talk | https://youtu.be/WBjhxjWDiHw |
| 🍿 #betterposter Generation 1 | https://youtu.be/1RwJbhkCA58 |
| 🍿#betterposter Generation 2 | https://youtu.be/SYk29tnxASs |
| 🐘 Mastodon / Twitter Science Poster | https://youtu.be/fQDL8r3r_d4 |
Play a little game and choose the right icon for each role in science.
Play our CRediT Roles icon game/survey, and help make scientific authorship clearer and more accessible!
https://creditsurvey.sciux.org/
PSA: Last week, Affinity Studio (major Adobe Illustrator/Photoshop alternative) went completely 'free forever'. I may start recommending this to PhD students in my #scicomm workshops!
https://www.affinity.studio/graphic-design-software
I suspect they're just doing this to use Canva's mountain of cash to obliterate Adobe in one swing, but...I'm okay with that?
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!
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
Quick science communication tip: Your eye goes to where the most contrast is first.
The most important point on your slide/poster should also have the highest contrast. Your 2nd point should have slightly less contrast, etc.
This is how you help people look at the right information, at the right time.
New video in my "design for scientists" series shows eye-tracked examples:
https://youtu.be/yjJDpx2jdgs
APCs costing science $Billions.
Would love to be able to track average APC cost, so we can see *hopefully* progress in reducing that number through efficiency.
This fantastic study curated an APC dataset, but notes it may take regulation to force full, open transparency by publishers.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.16551
This study presents estimates of the global expenditure on article processing charges (APCs) paid to six publishers for open access between 2019 and 2023. APCs are fees charged for publishing in some fully open access journals (gold) and in subscription journals to make individual articles open access (hybrid). There is currently no way to systematically track institutional, national or global expenses for open access publishing due to a lack of transparency in APC prices, what articles they are paid for, or who pays them. We therefore curated and used an open dataset of annual APC list prices from Elsevier, Frontiers, MDPI, PLOS, Springer Nature, and Wiley in combination with the number of open access articles from these publishers indexed by OpenAlex to estimate that, globally, a total of \$8.349 billion (\$8.968 billion in 2023 US dollars) were spent on APCs between 2019 and 2023. We estimate that in 2023 MDPI (\$681.6 million), Elsevier (\$582.8 million) and Springer Nature (\$546.6) generated the most revenue with APCs. After adjusting for inflation, we also show that annual spending almost tripled from \$910.3 million in 2019 to \$2.538 billion in 2023, that hybrid exceed gold fees, and that the median APCs paid are higher than the median listed fees for both gold and hybrid. Our approach addresses major limitations in previous efforts to estimate APCs paid and offers much needed insight into an otherwise opaque aspect of the business of scholarly publishing. We call upon publishers to be more transparent about OA fees.
Happy Spring Semester! 🎉
Just a reminder that you can post your scientific posters, slides, research software interfaces — whatever! — on the scienceUX reddit and get suggestions from professional designers on how to make it work better.
Boredom is repetition. Add 'contrast slides🦄' to your presentation that are different from your other slides to keep people awake.
Also, templates are the worst repeat (heh) offender of creating boring repetition.
Video explains with examples, tips, and science on how to inject timely novelty:
https://youtu.be/geNqadeqGWc
