The @IAmSciComm threads

This post is a collection of threads I wrote during my week curating the IAmSciComm Twitter account.

Monday, 16 March 2020

• Introducing your host
• Taking over in a crisis
• Show me a poster
• Better posters means better academia
• The future is visual
• Posters in a time of crisis

Tuesday, 17 March 2020

• RTFM
• Getting to the point
• Online poster sessions
• Writing a title
• Lessons from Shaun the Sheep

Wednesday, 18 March 2020

• Decisions plus empathy
• Buy new fonts, cheapskate
• Reading gravity
• Type size

Thursday, 19 March 2020

• White space
• Type choices
• Academic camping and clothing choices
• Setting up an online poster session
• How to present a poster

Friday, 20 March 2020

• Public intellectuals
• Lessons from crayfish headlines
• The “kiloauthors” story
• How doing SciComm affected my scientific career
• How to build a science career while doing SciComm

Saturday, 21 March 2020

• Mission Mangal review
• Poster critique: Employee placement
• Poster critique: Fur seal populations
• Poster critique: Penguin metabolism
• Poster critique: Glucose toxicity
• Poster critique: Children's confidence
• Poster critique: Visual storytelling
• Poster critique: Asteroid impact
• Writing Better Posters: the book
• Peace out

External links

I am SciComm home page