| Abstract Detail
Education and Outreach Edwards, Molly [1], Rahni, Ramin [2], Russo, Silviana [3]. Science IRL: a YouTube channel that’s here to show you what being a scientist is like, in real life!. Science In Real Life (IRL) is an educational YouTube series whose mission is to cultivate, especially in young people, enthusiasm for and a sense of belonging in science. In each episode, producer & host Molly Edwards visits a guest scientist in their lab, where they do an experiment together and discuss their research. This format allows several magical things to happen on the way to accomplishing our mission: 1) Viewers get to see textbook science concepts come to life. You probably had to memorize the steps of photosynthesis in high school, but what does it actually look like for a scientist to study photosynthesis in the lab? We’ll show you! 2) Our audience can witness the humanity and joy of being a scientist at work. Popular culture still infuriatingly perpetuates damaging stereotypes of scientists, and when you do catch rare glimpses of real scientists on the news, we usually have our serious science faces on to announce the very important discovery we made. On Science IRL, you’ll get meet a Harvard scientist and learn about their impressive research, but you’ll also get to see them do a happy dance around the lab when their experiment works. 3) Our audience can meet scientist role models who represent their identities. Some of the most important things for us to consider as science communicators are whose stories we’re telling and whose voices we’re elevating, because those choices will have a major impact on whether our viewers feel like they belong in STEM. To that end, funding from ASPB has allowed us to produce 10 episodes featuring the work of women plant biologists at leading research institutions around the country, and our subsequent work has been and will always be crafted through the lens of diversity & inclusion. At Botany 2020 I’m hoping to connect with other science communicators and brainstorm collaborations, learn about the scicomm job landscape, and discuss the future of our work in the context of Covid-19.
Related Links:
Science IRL on YouTube
1 - Harvard University, Biolabs Room 1119, 16 Divinity Ave, Cambridge, MA, 02138, United States
2 - New York University, Biology, 12 Waverly Pl, New York, NY, 10003
3 - United Nations Global Compact
Keywords:
YouTube
Science IRL
inclusive scicomm.
Presentation Type: Poster
Session: P, Education and Outreach Posters
Location: Virtual/Virtual
Date: Tuesday, July 28th, 2020
Time: 5:00 PM Time and date to be determined
Number: PEO001
Abstract ID:417
Candidate for Awards:None |
