DTU Biosustain 5 December 2022, Poster Improvement Workshop

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Hi everyone,

Thanks for a great afternoon and evening at Gråbrødretorv where we had some really interesting discussions on how to balance the perspectives of the scientist and the communicator. I am looking forward to seeing what improvements you will come up with!

Part III of the workshop

6–12 December: the virtual feedback room at GoVisually will be open. Submit posters by adding them to Dropbox; you can add as many versions as you want.

  • Start by adding the poster in its original format. Give it the name “YOUR_NAME_ORIGINAL”
    (Not for those who design their first poster this week, of course.)
  • Any version you add should be named “YOUR_NAME_VERSION_##”

12 December, 10:00: deadline for improved versions.
12 December, afternoon: the winners will be announced.

If you have any questions or reflections, please email me: olle@bergman.com.

Working with your poster

Check list

  • Will it be useful as a networking tool?
  • Does it have a clear main story?
  • Are the conclusions or the project aims clear?
  • Is every component there to support these main messages?
  • Does it look interesting to the poster exhibition participant?

Below are some links that can be useful when you design and improve your poster.

Information design

Some tools and models

Five principles for any communication activity

1. Define your task. Always know WHY you are initiating a communication activity, and what the GOAL is. How will you change the world?
2. Analyze your target group. Be like the elephant: listen more than you talk.
3. Know yourself. Follow your passions, improve your strengths, work on your limitations. Let your experience and your personality guide you as a communicator, and believe in your own values, voice, and style.
4. Understand the limitations at hand. Start any communication activity by drawing up the limits of time, budget, man-hours etc – then start creating.
5. Seek inspiration in all types of communication. Remember The Grand Unified Theory of Communication and Influence!

The Aristotelian triad

Keep in mind that communication not only conveys information (logos) but also trust/attitudes/values (ethos), and emotions (pathos).

  • Ethos = trust, credibility, personal trademark
  • Pathos = emotions – positive or negative
  • Logos = facts and logic

Here’s a great blog article!

The inverted pyramid

In short: frontload your texts and announcements, starting with what really matters for your audience.

The Wikipedia article is very enlightening. Have a look at the Five Ws when you’re at it!

 

Homepage

 

SciLifeLab Facility Forum, Djurönäset, 17 October 2022

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Djurönäset’s bus stop for southgoing traffic. 

Thanks for a great late afternoon session! Here are some advice, built on the feedback:

  1. Always set up a goal for your communication activities.
    Then use that goal as an aiming point when you’re planning, preparing and performing the activity. (Setting up goals is also a great way to start a work meeting!)
  2.  Keep in mind that communication not only conveys information, but attitudes, values, emotions etc.
    The Aristotelian triad helps you navigate this complex universe – both as you analyze what’s coming at you, and as you try to plan and execute your own communication.
  3. If you prepare an elevator pitch, remember that it can be used in a number of ways.
    This 100-word summary works excellent as a LinkedIn Summary and can also be used as a bio. Remember to edit the content and the tone of voice to every different context.

Below, you will find my Google slides as well as some links which my participants usually find useful. Feel free to email me for questions, reflections, or feedback on your PPt slides or poster design.

Olle B.

olle@bergman.com

Such a lovely autumn we’ve had in Mälarregionen! View from Hällbybrunn, northwest of Eskilstuna.

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Our workshop

A PPt for scientific presentations

This template is based on a chapter in the first edition of Matt Carter’s Designing Science Presentations. Matt is an assistant professor of biology at Williams College, Massachusetts, and a very friendly person!

Presentation techniques

Poster design

  • Better Posters
    By McMaster University professor Zen Faulkes; by far the best resource on poster design on the web.
  • The Poster Design Hub
    A (somewhat messy) resource page with some selected guides and websites.

Information design

 

Homepage

 

Summer Research School, Karolinska Institutet, Solna, 22 June 2022

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Tack för en trevlig eftermiddag på Karolinska! Lycka till med era projekt, och hör gärna av er med frågor och undringar.

O.

olle@bergman.com

Social media

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instagram.com/generalblom

Our seminar

A PPt for scientific presentations

This template is based on a chapter in the first edition of Matt Carter’s Designing Science Presentations. Matt is an assistant professor of biology at Williams College, Massachusetts, and a very friendly person!

Presentation techniques

Information design

 

Amgen Scholars, Karolinska Institutet, Solna, 21 June 2022

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Hi guys! I hope you’re all well, that you had a great midsommar, and that you look forward to starting your lab work. There is a chance that I’ll show up for the Wasa Museum visit or the Birka trip—otherwise, we will meet for the poster workshop in August.

Below, you will find my Google slides as well as some links which may be useful. I wish you a nice summer and good luck with your summer projects: may your experimental systems be reliable and may your biomolecules be obedient!

Feel free to email me for questions, reflections, or feedback on your PPt slides or poster design.

O.

olle@bergman.com

Social media

se.linkedin.com/in/ollebergman/en
instagram.com/generalblom

Our seminar

A PPt for scientific presentations

This template is based on a chapter in the first edition of Matt Carter’s Designing Science Presentations. Matt is an assistant professor of biology at Williams College, Massachusetts, and a very friendly person!

Presentation techniques

Poster design

A resource page with some selected guides and websites.

Information design

 

Summer Research School, Karolinska Institutet, Solna, 15 June 2022

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Hi guys & thanks for a great afternoon at Karolinska!

Below, you will find my Google slides as well as some links which may be useful. I wish you a nice summer and good luck with your summer projects: may your experimental systems be reliable and may your biomolecules be obedient!

Feel free to email me for questions, reflections, or feedback on your PPt slides or poster design.

O.

olle@bergman.com

Social media

se.linkedin.com/in/ollebergman/en
instagram.com/generalblom

Our seminar

A PPt for scientific presentations

This template is based on a chapter in the first edition of Matt Carter’s Designing Science Presentations. Matt is an assistant professor of biology at Williams College, Massachusetts, and a very friendly person!

Presentation techniques

Poster design

A resource page with some selected guides and websites.

Information design

 

My dad and I

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When I was six years old, my father stayed home for a year and took care of all the housework. We became very close that year.

 

People around us were probably bewildered by this castling of the gender roles. But for me, it felt like the most natural thing in the world. A monthly magazine for women, Damernas Värld, sent a reporter and a photographer.

 

I love this photo of my dad – I can feel that we are connected in many different ways.

Three genres I turn to when I want to relax

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Words, words, words (that’s actually a Hamlet quote – from Act 2 Scene 2)! As a professional writer, you have to be a professional reader as well. In a way, you’re a text machine where an ingoing feed of text (from latin textus ‘tissue’) is transformed into an outgoing feed.

But when I want to relax and enjoy that the time just slips by, I turn to three genres:

• Thrillers and crime fiction.
• Rock biographies, especially from the surrealistic seventies.
• War memories from foot soldiers.

The last one may seem a bit odd.

A few notes on Time by Bowie and Scentless Apprentice by Nirvana

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• Time on Bowie’s 1973 album Aladdin Sane (which can be read “A lad insane”). Such production work, such cooperation between three amazing musicians and one poet (where Bowie plays two of the roles. Mike Garson’s piano which effortlessly moves between vaudeville, glam rock and jazz, Bowie’s desperate struggle with the most terrible oppressor of them all – Old Father Time, and then the timing of Mick Ronson’s guitar solo – one underlined phrase which sets the whole song on fire for a couple of bars.

• Scentless Apprentice reminds me that the greatest Kurt Cobain album was not Nevermind but the fragmented and chaotic last album, In Utero, which has DESPAIR written all over it. I was 30, expecting my second child and witnessed the greatest musical artist and rock poet of my generation destruct himself and choose a lonely death with a shotgun in his mouth, according to the pitiful marginalized-male cultural protocol he was taught during his mobile home upbringing. Whitetrash to Whitetrash, Guns to Guns.

And his eyes were just as blue as the eyes of my two year old son. Good night, sweet prince, and flights of angels sing thee to thy rest!

 

 

A birthday celebration to my brother

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY, DEAR BROTHER! On this your big day, I was very happy to receive this photo from our mother. It shows a sunny summer day in Rydebäck, south of Helsingborg, where we had some bright and formative years in a collective of kids from (as it seemed) happy and optimistic core families.

The reason that I like this photograph is that I think it mirrors our characters and our relation. You’re the serious and target-oriented explorer of the world (in this case a The Famous Five book; probably Five Go Down To The Sea). I am the easy-going spectator of whats going on – more motivated by inspiration and things I stumble over that catch my curiosity.

There’s a nice harmony in the composition. You are deep down in your well of concentration, and you will have finished this book before the evening meal. On the other hand, I will not have achieved anything measurable, but seem to enjoy this afternoon anyway.

The detail you should study is the admiration in my pose. I am fascinated by your reading skills and your focus – which eventually will earn you a Ph.D. and a career where you belong to the industrial elite of our nation.

If I should choose a single memory where I felt empowered by having such an able brother is the day during my high school years when you, the tech student at LTH, sat down to teach me how derivatives work.

I am looking forward to many fun dinners and activities together with our growing families – I am especially happy that we share a passion for music, nature, history and culture.

I think a Swedish SKÅL! is the right way to end this text:
SKÅL, STOREBRORSAN!

Beta-testning av Lottens podd ”När Lotten får avgöra”

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Avsnitt #1: Det nya ordet fokusork

Det finns många ord som saknas i det svenska språket men som finns på engelska. Nu har jag löst problemet med ”attention span”: FOKUSORK!

Avsnitt #2: Berättelsen om barnförlamnings-vaccinet