When crafting titles for slides and scientific posters, we often face the challenge of fitting lengthy text into limited space. The natural instinct is to break the title into multiple lines wherever the space runs out or simply let PowerPoint handle the line breaks. While this approach seems convenient, it comes with an overlooked problem: ...| Visual Communication of Science • Workshops & Webinars
If you’ve ever given a presentation, you’re probably familiar with the (awkward) sight of an empty front row. You’ve worked hard to prepare your content, but when your audience arrives, they scatter to the back, and it can feel like you’re speaking to a distant room, which makes engaging with your audience much more challenging. […]| Visual Communication of Science • Workshops & Webinars
One common mistake that many scientists make when creating presentations, images, and posters is jumping straight into the software. When faced with the need for a scientific figure, the instinctive reaction is often to open Illustrator or Biorender. Similarly, when preparing a presentation or poster, PowerPoint becomes the immediate go-to tool. ...| Visual Communication of Science • Workshops & Webinars
When crafting a scientific paper, poster, or PowerPoint presentation, the thought of creating the necessary images can be daunting after extensive writing. Clear and precise visuals are crucial in scientific communication, but did you know that you can alleviate this burden by using free professional clipart and stock photos? Here, we ...| Visual Communication of Science • Workshops & Webinars
When giving a presentation to an audience with varying levels of knowledge on your topic, it can be challenging to strike a balance between providing enough detail for the experts and not losing the novice audience. Preparing such talks opens up a taunting dilemma that can increase your anxiety and hinder presentation effectiveness. This is […]| Visual Communication of Science • Workshops & Webinars
When designing a PowerPoint presentation, one of the first choices one makes is the slide size. PowerPoint has switched to default 16:9 aspect ratio of the presentations a couple of years ago, which follows the trend of “wide-everything”, including smartphones, computer monitors, TVs, and projectors & beamers. But with the craze to wide-everything, is 16:9 […]| Visual Communication of Science • Workshops & Webinars
The concept of »7 C’s of Effective Communication« first appeared in business, where time is precious and there is no room for mistakes done out of misinformation. The »7 C’s« stand for seven essential principles of communication starting with the letter C. Each one represents a requirement that the message should meet to be effective. […]| Visual Communication of Science • Workshops & Webinars
Horizon 2020 H2020 is European Union’s Research and Innovation programme, a financial instrument with nearly €80 billion of funding available over 7 years (2014 to 2020). The best-known H2020 sections are: European Research Council (ERC) grants, Future and Emerging Technologies (FET) funds, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA), Small and Medium-sized Enterprise (SME) funding instrument, Fast Track […]| Visual Communication of Science • Workshops & Webinars
Did you know that you can get professional clipart images and stock photos to use free of charge in your research papers, posters and PowerPoint presentations? Even if it is in restricted-access papers that could be interpreted as commercial use? Below we present a selection of free image repositories with scientifically-appropriate content, which is especially […]| Visual Communication of Science • Workshops & Webinars
Here we gathered some interesting facts to emphasize why using visual aids in scientific communication is so important. 1. Half of the human brain is directly or indirectly devoted to processing visual information. The eye's retina, which contains 150 million light-sensitive rod and cone cells, is actually an outgrowth of the brain. In the ...| Visual Communication of Science • Workshops & Webinars