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After a few days suspension , the automated Twitter feed for this blog is now back up and running! Please follow @Better_Posters if you want updates of new posts. Thanks to Twitter customer service for not taking too long in reviewing the appeal. Sigh. All because I was just trying to add a new header graphic to the Twitter account. Hat tip to Cecil Adams’s Straight Dope for the tagline.

The automated Twitter feed for this blog (@Better_Posters) is currently down. I had logged in to make a few cosmetic changes to the feed. When I did, I was prompted to add a birthday, so I picked the day the blog went live. Little did I know that since this was ten years ago, it didn’t meet Twitter’s minimum age requirement of 13. This instantly got the account locked. I have put in a service ticket, and will post here when the feed is back.

I have created a couple of new resources for this blog. First, and more important, the blog has a new, dedicated email address: BetterPosters@gmail.com . If you would like to submit a poster to the blog, or get in touch for anything else poster related, please mail me at this address. ( DoctorZen@gmail.com still works, too.) Second, the blog now has its own dedicated Twitter feed: @Better_Posters . That’s “Better underscore Posters.” The plan is that this will be an automated feed that will tweet out new blog posts. Blog readers on Twitter no longer have to wade through my other random thoughts about crayfish, scientific publishing, Doctor Who , or what have you. (Those are all still available on @DoctorZen , too.)

Nature magazine has a feature on posters up today. It features my co-instructor in the # SciFund Challenge poster class, Anthony Salvango. Nature wants you to tweet your # PosterWins and # PosterFails ! Following that hashtag could be fun for this blog... I submitted this recent beauty as for #PosterWins and one of my own for #PosterFails. Reference Woolston C. 2016. Conference presentations: Lead the poster parade. Nature 536 : 115-117. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nj7614-115a