EditorI’ve been to dozens of conference poster sessions, but I struggle to think of a single thing I’ve learned from them. I don’t think I’m alone, considering the antipathy toward academic posters I’ve noticed among colleagues and librarians.
Me to fellow conferencegoers: "So can we be the generation of scholars that stops perpetuating this poster nonsense?"
— Iva Cheung (@IvaCheung) June 27, 2017
Finally. It's the awkward beauty pageant of academia except instead of a talent portion it's just hypotheses and graphs. So terrible.
— holy modal lounger (@AhemNason) June 27, 2017
It's a punishing small talk avoidance machine. People shuffle around. Presenters die a little until someone asks a question.
— holy modal lounger (@AhemNason) June 27, 2017
I guarantee that 75% of the people who look at posters are doing it to validate the feelings of the people presenting and not reading.
— holy modal lounger (@AhemNason) June 27, 2017
they're also way more trouble to present than conference talks & have less of a valuable record
— Alex (@axfelix) June 12, 2017
They are really only useful as c.v. padding and for providing a guise for socially awkward academics to talk to one another
— Kristin Hodgins (@kristinhodgins) June 12, 2017
When I first started medical editing, I had to start attending medical conferences and discovered poster sessions. I was so curious.
— Mededitor (@Mededitor) June 12, 2017
So I'm walking around, looking at them, wondering, "What the hell is this? Some kind of static Powerpoint?"
— Mededitor (@Mededitor) June 12, 2017