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From Paper to Presentation: Redesigning Existing Figures for Slides

January 15, 2024 Scientific figures do not equally suit all contexts. A figure designed for a paper will often be information-dense; multiple panels illustrate multiple ideas, multiple axes and color bars show the impact of numerous variables, annotations highlight specific caveats, and an extensive caption explains the whole thing. This can work well where a figure demonstrates the… View Article
Using Miniature Figures to Enhance Your Conclusion Slides

February 1, 2024 Have you seen a conclusion slide that looks like this? At conferences, such walls of text are often the cue for the audience to take out their phones and check their email as the presenter hurries through a summary of their findings. In the slide shown below, I’ve provided an example of a wall-of-text conclusion… View Article
Using Generative AI for Your Scientific Writing? Be Aware of Journal Policies

August 27, 2023 For researchers, an important factor to consider when deciding whether to use generative AI for scientific writing are the policies of journals. Publishers’ editorial policies on generative AI range from a ban unless explicit permission is given by the editors (e.g. Science) to the more common position of disclosure in the manuscript (e.g. JAMA Network,… View Article
Will Your Article Reach Peer Review?

April 7, 2023 Most researchers are familiar with the peer review process, though some may be less familiar with the preliminary editorial review process. When a journal receives an article, the editors decide whether or not to advance the submission to peer review. After peer review, the editors decide whether or not to publish the article…. View article
Use the CommKit

August 21, 2020 The CommKit is a collection of guides to successful scientific communication, written by MIT’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Communication Fellows.