The Better Posters Gallery

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An enjoyable part of writing the Better Posters blog has been showcasing well-designed posters. But as the number of posts rose, it got harder to browse. This page collects some notable, interesting, and unusual posters.

Zen Faulkes

Wolf diet

Kimberly Boustead for Joseph K. Bump, Thomas D. Gable, Autin T. Homkes at Voyageurs Wolf Project

The Wildlife Society conference, November 2022. #TWS2022 

Photo by Trish Brockman.

Auk eggs

Beatrice Demarchi.

9th Bird Working Group Meeting, June 2018.

https://betterposters.blogspot.com/2018/06/critique-sciencing-on-eggshells.html 

Chekov tondo

Tatyana Orlova, Veronika Faynberg, Frank Fischer, Svetlana Lashchuk, German Palchikov, Ivan Pozdniakov, Evgenia Shlosman.

Digital Humanities im deutschsprachigen Raum (Digital Humanities in German-Speaking Countries), 2018.

https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.6410909.v1 

Texting poster

Anton Pottegård.

Conference unknown, 2018. 

Photo by Greg Fell

Hansard comic

Gavin Abercrombie.

Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, May 2018. #LREC2018

https://betterposters.blogspot.com/2018/06/critique-hansard.html 

Poster in acrylics

Karmella Haynes. 

Synthetic Biology 5.0, June 2011. #SynBio5 

Photo by Jonathan Eisen

Hand drawn

Rachel Louise Byrne.

32nd European Mustelid Colloquium. November 2017.

Winner, First place poster.

https://betterposters.blogspot.com/2017/12/critique-badger-parasites.html

Landscape in portrait

Aleksandra Dolezal with Amelia Dolezal.

Joint meeting of The Canadian Society for Ecology & Evolution, the Entomological Society of Canada, and the Acadian Entomological Society, August 2019. #EcoEvoEnto2019

Winner, Best poster.

https://ecologyforlifeblog.wordpress.com/2019/08/27/my-advice-for-creating-an-academic-poster/

Interactive plague

Alison Atkin.

British Association of Biological Anthropology and Osteoarchaeology, September 2014.

Winner, Bill White prize.

https://deathsplaining.wordpress.com/2014/09/28/plagueposter/ (See blog post for interactive components)

Paper magic

Nicola Harman.

International Clinical Trials Methodology Conference, October 2022. #ICTMC2022

https://twitter.com/harman_nicola/status/1577301657582542852 (See tweet for video of interactive elements), http://betterposters.blogspot.com/2022/11/an-interactive-poster-with-sound-and.html 

Don’t get mad

David M. Schultz

American Meteorolgical Society 2011, January 2011.

http://eloquentscience.com/2011/02/rethinking-poster-sessions-as-second-class/ 

Protest

Leila Akbari.

Society for Neuroscience, November 2018. #sfn2018

Photo by Lionel Rodriguez.

https://betterposters.blogspot.com/2018/11/blackout-poster-protests-travel-ban.html

Dead salmon

Craig Bennett, Abigail A. Baird, Michael B. Miller, George L. Wolford.

Organization for Human Brain Mapping conference, June 2009.

Winner, Ig Nobel prize for Neuroscience, 2012.

Poster abstract cited over 500 times.

http://prefrontal.org/blog/2009/09/the-story-behind-the-atlantic-salmon/ 

Agamid

Nicholas Wu.

Society for Experimental Biology, 2018.

https://wunicholas.wixsite.com/home/portfolio 

Crustacean domination

Mantis minimalism

Anther colours

Emily Austen.

Evolution conference, June 2016. #evol2016

http://betterposters.blogspot.com/2016/07/critique-anther-colours.html 

My cat

Sarah Knowles.

Health Services Research UK conference, July 2019. #hsruk2019

Winner, Best poster.

Photo by Sarah Knowles.

Going on 5

Abril K. Bellido-Wardill.

International Society for Neuroethology, July 2018. #icn18

Photo by Paloma Gonzalez-Bellido.

Future congresswoman

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

International Science and Engineering Fair, 2007. 

Second place, Microbiology category.

https://www.societyforscience.org/blog/intel-isef-alumna-headed-to-capitol-hill/

Introducing the web

Tim Berners-Lee.

Hypertext conference, December 1991.

The paper introducing the World Wide Web was rejected and Berners-Lee showed a poster instead.

https://www.w3.org/2004/Talks/w3c10-HowItAllStarted/all.html, https://hapgood.us/2015/04/21/that-time-berners-lee-got-knocked-down-to-a-poster-session/ 

Laureate

John O’Keefe.

Society for Neuroscience, November 2022. #sfn22 (also #sfn2022)

O’Keefe shared a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2014.

Photo by Tim Bredy.