Printing your poster at UT-Austin
- Poster Printing (Harris Lab specific; restricted access)
- UT Brand Guidelines - UT logo, color pallet, etc.
- For the UT logo, go to "Identity". Then under "Logos", read and follow the usage guidelines carefully. Click "Download Assets". This will open a shared UT Box folder. "1_Primary.zip" or "5_Informal_Horizontal.zip" will fit the best for your poster. Use a PNG (for PowerPoint or Photoshop) or EPS (for Illustrator) file in RGB.
Presentations
Designing effective scientific presentations (Susan McConnell, Stanford Univ.)
Conference presentation opportunities for undergraduates
- CNS Undergraduate Research Forum: https://cns.utexas.edu/info-undergraduate-students/events-recognition/undergraduate-research-forum
- Gulf Coast Undergraduate Research Symposium: https://gcurs.rice.edu/
- LSU Discover Day: https://www.lsu.edu/discover/events/index.php
Writing papers
Writing
- Writing Strategies
- Strunk W. The Elements of Style. (New York: bartleby.com, 1999)
- Preparing a Manuscript for Submission to a Biomedical Journal (ICMJE)
- So you're writing a paper (Nature Methods14, 1115 (2017))
How to Write an Accurate, Concise, and Meaningful Significance Statement (Society for Neuroscience)
- Living Science: Love Writing (eLife 8, e45734 (2021))
- Check your manuscript for plagiarism with iThenticate (UT EID required)
Figures and videos
Image manipulation
What's in a picture? The temptation of image manipulation (J Cell Biol 166, 11 (2004))
Data Visualization
SuperPlots: Communicating reproducibility and variability in cell biology (J Cell Biol 219, e202001064 (2020))
Violin SuperPlots: visualizing replicate heterogeneity in large data sets (Mol Biol Cell 32, 1333-4 (2021))
SuperPlotsOfData—a web app (Mol Biol Cell 32, 470-4 (2021))
- Raincloud plots: a multi-platform tool for robust data visualization (Wellcome Open Res 4, 63 (2021))
Accessibility
- Making graphics accessible to those with color vision deficiencies (Nature Methods 8, 441 (2011))
- Refer to the Figure 16 – When generating an image in Reconstruct, use RGB values (0-255).
If you are using Adobe Illustrator: View → Proof Setup → Color blindness to set up color proof. Then View → Proof Color to turn it on/ff.
How to Make Figure Plates
Reporting requirements
- RRID: for unique, persistent identification and tracking of key biological resources (e.g., antibody, software, etc.)
Reporting and reproducibility in microscopy (Nature Methods)
A guide to accurate reporting in digital image acquisition – can anyone replicate your microscopy data? (J Cell Sci 134, jcs254144 (2021))
A guide to accurate reporting in digital image processing – can anyone reproduce your quantitative analysis? (J Cell Sci 134, jcs2541 (2021))
Data availability
- Sharing Data through 3DEM.org (Harris Lab specific; restricted)
Submitting
Reviewing papers
Tricks of the Trade: How to Peer Review a Manuscript (Society for Neuroscience)
- Step-by-step guide to reviewing a manuscript (John Wiley & Sons, Inc.)
- Rookie review
- Reviewer Mentoring Program (Society for Neuroscience)
Food for thought
"Why Is It so Hard to Do Good Science?" by Ray Dingledine
- "What Is the Question?" by Leek and Peng
- "On Fallacies in Neuroscience" by
Promoting Awareness and Knowledge to Enhance Scientific Rigor in Neuroscience (Society for Neuroscience)
- Considerations and recommendations for experimental designs by Journal of Neuroscience
Consideration of Sample Size in Neuroscience Studies by Journal of Neuroscience
