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Notes from building tools for researchers — scientific figures, diagrams, papers.

Give Every Research Figure a Small Manifest

By Tian @ FigCanvasDisclosure: I work on FigCanvas. The manifest below is a suggested workflow, not a report of a measured experiment or a built-in Fi

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From a methods paragraph to a clean illustration, without redrawing it twice

When a paper gets a methods-heavy section — a multi-step protocol, a signaling cascade, a sample-prep pipeline — a good illustration does more than de

2026년 5월 31일
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Why I stopped picking colors by eye for scientific figures

Every lab I've worked in has at least one "the reviewer hated our colors" story. Usually it isn't the figure that's wrong — it's six categorical serie

2026년 5월 27일
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From methods section to a clean flowchart, in one paste

When I'm finishing a paper, my methods section is usually a slab of dense prose: protocols, parameters, conditional branches, sample sizes. Reviewers

2026년 5월 19일
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Drafting publication figures: a one-week tool sweep

Scientific figures eat more of my paper-writing time than any other single task. I spent the last week pulling out tools to see what actually moves th

2026년 5월 18일
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