LAB

MEETING

LAB

MEETING

26.03.2019

What is Felipe doing now that the paper is submitted ?

ILLUSTRATIONS

BIG PLAN

Why is he still here ?

Is he staying forever ?

Drawing is a real job now ?

Does this means he will keep complaining about our colormap choices ?

what's

now

different

?

CURRENT STATE

SCIENCE &

SOCIAL MEDIA

PAPERS

VISIBILITY

1

2

3

4

CURRENT STATE

is there any chance this is actually going to work ?

CURRENT STATE

CURRENT STATE

Thion, M. S., & Garel, S. (2017).
On place and time: microglia in embryonic and perinatal brain development.

Current opinion in neurobiology, 47, 121-130.

Including taxes, we need 39.000 € annually to keep the Illustrator position

This means a monthly income of 3.250 € per month

As an platform service,the value is estimated according to time needed for the project

One figure in average range from 600€ to 900€, varying with complexity

What's the estimated cost of a publication ?

What's the estimated cost of a publication ?

1000 €

One year of post-doc salary
[1]

[1] https://www.payscale.com/research/FR/Job=Postdoctoral_Research_Associate/Salary

What's the estimated cost of a publication ?

1000 €

One year of post-doc salary
[1]

Consumable material

[2]

[1] https://www.payscale.com/research/FR/Job=Postdoctoral_Research_Associate/Salary

[2] https://io9.gizmodo.com/heres-what-it-actually-costs-to-run-a-university-scienc-5827381

What's the estimated cost of a publication ?

1000 €

One year of post-doc salary
[1]

Consumable material

[2]

Publication fee

[3]

[1] https://www.payscale.com/research/FR/Job=Postdoctoral_Research_Associate/Salary

[3] https://www.nature.com/news/open-access-the-true-cost-of-science-publishing-1.12676#price

[2] https://io9.gizmodo.com/heres-what-it-actually-costs-to-run-a-university-scienc-5827381

What's the estimated
cost of a 

1000 €

One year of post-doc salary
[1]

Consumable material

[2]

Publication fee

[3]

Illustration

[1] https://www.payscale.com/research/FR/Job=Postdoctoral_Research_Associate/Salary

[3] https://www.nature.com/news/open-access-the-true-cost-of-science-publishing-1.12676#price

[2] https://io9.gizmodo.com/heres-what-it-actually-costs-to-run-a-university-scienc-5827381

good

publication ?

less than 2% of the total investment

Are there alternative forms to complement the income ?

SCIENCE &

SOCIAL MEDIA

SCIENCE &

SOCIAL MEDIA

SCIENCE &

SOCIAL MEDIA

do scientists have a social life ?

Facebook

Twitter

LinkedIn

Intagram

Dribbble

Behance

quick examples

A strong presence on twitter could help with client prospection for the platform !

PAPERS

PAPERS

PAPERS

can we make real publications about design and science ?

For a long time, the bad use of colormaps drives me mad...

For a long time, the bad use of colormaps drives me mad...

Spectrum

or Rainbow

Physics

or Jet

Viridis

For a long time, the bad use of colormaps drives me mad...

Spectrum

or Rainbow

Physics

or Jet

Viridis

Glasbey

VISIBILITY

VISIBILITY

VISIBILITY

if the clients cannot find us, how are we going to work ?

scientific illustrations

Design studio, good but more like 3D renderings [link]

Free 3D renderings. But from the same website they also provide "Illustration service" [link]

Article about anatomy and biology drawings

Article about anatomy and biology drawings

Kind of society for anatomy and biology drawings

figure editing paper

English proof reading, no figures service

Proof reading app. No figures service

Question on research gate about software to make illustrations (post from 2013)

Question on research gate about software to make illustrations (post also from 2013)

Article about software to create figures

figure design

Normal design studio, not scientific

Article from Broad Institute about good practices for figures. Not really a service, but it has a "make an appointment" button

Book about drawings

Book about drawings

Course about making good scientific figures

help to design figure paper scientific

Research gate question about software to make illustrations (post from 2013)

Research gate question about software to make illustrations (post from 2013, same as before)

Paper about making scientific figures (short but interesting) [link]

Article about software (same as before)

Article about  making figures with quality. Focus more on raster images and resolution

tutorial figures scientific

Presentation about a tutorial on how to use Inkscape. Focus on making figures for publications.

List of tutorials about Illustrator, with focus on figures for publications

Article about using Illustrator to make scientific figures. 

Series of video tutorials on how to use Illustrator to make scientific figures

Selling a big video tutorial of how to use Illustrator to make figures. They say they are a community of "scientists, graphics professionals, students and educators interested in scientific visualization."

none of them offer links to illustration services !

tips for good scientific illustratons

Tips for making better figures. They also offer editing services, including illustrations (but no portfolio online) [link]

Service for Scientific Illustrations. Last updated in 2015, don't know if they are still working. [link]

Article about drawings in biology (same as before)

Tutorial about how to make good figures for paper. It's attached to a university, and they offer a consulting service [link]

Article about drawing medical illustrations

improve paper figures

PLOS paper about guidelines for better figures. [link]

Tutorial about making figures for papers, focus on more on raster (same as before)

Research gate question on software for editing images (post from 2016)

Article about better figures and quality of research. They provide illustration services with focus on 3D. Same as before. [link]

Article about better using colors

research

summary

research

summary

research

summary

But...  Where's our platform in the results?

scientific illustration platform

another Illustration service 

again those guys !

article, more about inforgraphics

tool to create illustrations online

scientific illustration platform

Google's search engine algorithm is mostly a secret...

...but some guidelines may help us !

SUMMARY

Short term

  • Contact with PIs at IBENS
  • Weekly Design open desk
  • Workshops & Talks about design

Long(er) term

  • Assure a next contract (PSL grants ?)
  • Colormap paper
  • Become a twitter celebrity

Lab meeting March 2019

By Felipe Delestro

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