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allison

i enjoy Dr. Becky's videos youtube.com/@DrBecky in which she (an Oxford astrophysicist) explains recent astrophysics research for non-expert audiences. (usually this means "debunking" pop science journalism about pre-prints, but not always.) are there video-makers out there like this, but for other academic areas? not just "here's science explained in an engaging way" but "here is what's currently happening in this scientific field in which i am a participant"?

12 January at 22:47 | Open on friend.camp
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@aparrish anything that's not Sabine, yes please.

Anti-Sabine, even better.

12 January at 22:48 | Open on mstdn.social
Valentin

@aparrish Does acollierastro on youtube fit this description? Also maybe Bobby Broccoli?

12 January at 22:55 | Open on mastodon.social
Valentin

@aparrish Yannick Kilcher also sometimes does videos like this now that I think about it.

12 January at 23:04 | Open on mastodon.social
allison

@apexys yeah, AI/ML is the one area of research that seems to be currently OVER-served by this kind of video (i like "AI Coffee Break with Letitia")

12 January at 23:07 | Open on friend.camp
Valentin

@aparrish I’d love something like this for molecular biology! And I think I saw at least some video like this, but it just doesn’t spring to mind right now.

12 January at 23:09 | Open on mastodon.social
allison

@apexys i like acollierastro's channel a lot and have watched some bobbybroccoli too! but these are more on the "let's digest big ideas from this field for lay audiences" rather than "here's the latest research that is happening," if that makes sense?

12 January at 23:05 | Open on friend.camp
berserk du soleil

@aparrish damn, I would love this. Like "so and so just shares highlights of a new journal" or whatever

12 January at 22:57 | Open on dosgame.club
allison

@aetataureate right? i would especially love something about linguistics or other social sciences

12 January at 23:07 | Open on friend.camp
Rodbotic

@aparrish Dr. Becky is great.
youtube.com/@GutsickGibbon immediately comes to mind. She is PhD student in Biological Anthropology.

When I remember any others I will post them.

12 January at 23:20 | Open on kind.social
Bryan Wright

@aparrish
The best of the best is Brady Haran's mathematics channel called Numberphile:

youtube.com/@numberphile

12 January at 23:25 | Open on fosstodon.org
Jeff Cutsinger

@aparrish youtube.com/@zentouro does this sometimes for climate science

12 January at 23:49 | Open on tenforward.social
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