Welcome to the Animate Your Science Blog

Interactive posters and ePosters are a growing trend in academia, with many conferences going online! Add interactivity to your next poster.

What's the difference between a scientific conference poster session and an art gallery? Learn from examples of good poster design.

Science is to be seen just as much as it is to be heard. Read about some handy tips on making scientific illustrations.

Direct your reader to the ‘next step’ with a QR code. What’s more: making a customised, permanent QR is free and easy.

Choosing the right font (A.K.A. typeface) for your scientific poster is all about two things: readability and style. But with thousands...

For academics, it’s tough to be seen, even by your peers. With over 7000 papers published every day, who has the time to read every new...

Making an effective scientific poster is about standing out from the crowd and presenting your hard work in the best light. But choosing...

Here’s everything you need to know about how to achieve a great user experience with your scientific poster layout.

You may be familiar with the saying 'Publish or Perish' but have you heard about 'Visible or Vanish'?

By now, you’ve probably heard of video abstracts. Like a movie trailer for your research, video abstracts are short videos that quickly...

How do I design effective webinar slides? Do I use less or more slides? Do I use less or more visuals? Animations? It's all right here.

Whether you’re a graduate student hoping to woo a potential postdoc mentor with cash or a new team leader scrambling to keep your lab...

From "cattening" the curve to singing a rap song on hand washing - science communicators around the world come up with some brilliant ideas

Let's face it, scientific progress relies, in part, on effective science communication and increasingly, this requires an online...

From PowerPoint slides to science animations, here are 8 ways to make a video abstract for your next research paper.

It was a warm and tranquil summer day back in 2016 when the news broke. The Great Barrier Reef is experiencing mass coral bleaching. My...

Use our free academic infographic resume template and make and stand out from the crowd.

Without communication, there is no science. But the discipline of science communication is still a relatively fresh idea. It's a career...

This post will give you a quick rundown of exactly what you need do to boost the impact of your next scientific paper.

Every researcher dreads that moment. The moment you realise you’ve become THAT person. The person at the dinner table who provokes polite...