Scientific graphical abstracts — design guidelines
Scientific posters — design guidelines
The Outbreak Poems — artistic emissions in a pandemic
Nature Cancer cover of Mutation spectra
2020 `\pi` day art and the piku
The deadly genomes — run away!
Second infinity `\aleph_2` and beyond — music and mathematics
DNA on 10th — street art, wayfinding and font
The tree of emotional life — phylogenetics of emoticons
The largest map of absolutely nothing: Universe — voids and superclusters
Pixels in space — Ultra-high resolution maps of the Moon, Solary System and Sky
Nature Methods Points of View visualization column
Nature Methods Points of Significance statistics column
writing
Poetry
Inked Sadness is a collection of poems written in that difficult time between being no longer young, but not yet old.
Expressions and Conversations of Love are short heart-breakers.
Scripts
Proverbial Man considers how our names and expectations limit our perceptions and freedoms. No answers are offered. I don't think I finished this.
The Surrogate echoes my own fears of fleeing from Poland in the early 80s. Or at least the fears I retroactively erected, to add drama. Count on the Polish for drama.
Narrative
Thirty Reasons should be enough to decide a place isn't worth returning to.
NeverEnder — Epic Space Poem
By my friend and colleague Emanuele Raffaele Ettore Libertini, the NeverEnder is a voyage through space and words.
news + thoughts
Fri 13-11-2020
Clear, concise, legible and compelling.
Making a scientific graphical abstract? Refer to my practical design guidelines and redesign examples to improve organization, design and clarity of your graphical abstracts.
▲ Graphical Abstract Design Guidelines — Clear, concise, legible and compelling.
Tue 06-10-2020
An in-depth look at my process of reacting to a bad figure — how I design a poster and tell data stories.
▲ A poster of high BMI and obesity prevalence for 185 countries.
Thu 01-10-2020
Building on the method I used to analyze the 2008, 2012 and 2016 U.S. Presidential and Vice Presidential debates, I explore word usagein the 2020 Debates between Donald Trump and Joe Biden.
▲ Analysis of word usage by parts of speech for Trump and Biden reveals insight into each candidate.
Mon 24-08-2020
We are celebrating the publication of our 50th column!
To all our coauthors — thank you and see you in the next column!
▲ Nature Methods Points of Significance: Celebrating 50 columns of clear explanations of statistics.
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dorothy parker
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drumming
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