women in #sciComm
celebrating International Women & Girls in SCIENCE Day 2021
#Womeninscience
and #internationalwomensday
by @ScicommSalford
This page celebrates women in science communication. Whilst some people might not label themselves as ‘science communicators’ we feel their work makes an amazing contribution to #scicomm, engaging participants outside of traditional STEM subjects.
Florence Okoye tells us why empathy is good, but not enough, in the world of design. In an era of deep minds and deep learning, Florence believes it's time we start to design deeper and empower each other in the process.
Maya discusses how and why she uses augmented reality in her work. Creative Conversations, University of Greenwich, April 2016.
A collection of performances and media appearances by Touretteshero co-founder Jessica Thom. For more, visit www.touretteshero.com. This video contains language that may offend.
Only 17% of the English-language biographies on Wikipedia are about women - but the statistic won't stay that low for long if Dr Jess Wade has her way.
Professor Dame Nancy Rothwell, Honorary Fellow of the Society and President and Vice-Chancellor of The University of Manchester, talks about her life and career in pharmacology with Professor Caroline Dive.
A really broad audience would be interested in synbio. According to Marieke Navin from MadLab, one of the participants of the Manchester Industrial Dialogue. More at http://projectsmartmap.eu/synthetic-biology/ ________________________________________________________________________________________________ SMART-map (RoadMAPs to Societal Mobilisation for the Advancement of Responsible Industrial Technologies) is a coordination and support action financed by the European Commission under the Horizon 2020 Programme (Grant Agreement no.
While the prospects for machine learning and Artificial Intelligence make the future seem endlessly exciting, many fear the rise of the robots. Danielle George encourages us to embrace the empowering opportunities for sustained and creative collaboration between humans and machines, and to accept the inevitable accompanying failures as we seek to extend the possibilities of our creativity.
Hear from Dr Chloe James and student Paul Wilshaw as they explore the endless possibilities for those with a degree in Science Communication.
Professor Jo Verran on how Manchester Metropolitan University research is helping to preserve British history on film in partnership with The North West Film Archive - and the importance of bringing new blood into the essential field of surface microbiology.
Molecular Bioscience lecturer and Alzheimer's researcher, Gemma Lace-Costigan explains her research and the work they do that feeds into the Salford Institute of Dementia.
Last week I met up with one of the most influential figures in British science and the communication of science, Katherine Mathieson, Chief Executive of the British Science Association. The British Science Association is an organisation that plays a prominent role on the science scene over here in the UK.
Cells are the building blocks of life that grow and divide to create all living things. But how cell growth and division is integrated to form structures such as plant leaves has until now remained unknown.
Cosmic Superheroes is a unique photographic celebration of the superpowers it has taken for women at the forefront of the worlds of Arts and Science to establish themselves as superheroes in their individual fields. The exhibition will be free to attend at Conway Hall in London from December 8th to January 31st.
So many amazing FameLabers!
Elspeth Kenny was one of our joint runners up!
2014 FameLab UK Final presentations on 23 April 2014 at Bloomsbury Theatre in London. 2014 FameLab UK Final presentations on 23 April 2014 at Bloomsbury Theatre in London.
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Name of finalist: LEE Carol Topic: The scientific benefits of music
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Women in #SciComm TV
Not long ago I joined the awesome LEGO video team at the DUPLO factory in Hungary. I was there to host a video for LEGO's social channels but they kindly let me vlog snippets as we toured around! I hope you enjoy discovering how LEGO is made, decorated and assembled!
How to upgrade us: Meet Alice 2.0, a biologists vision of the 'perfect' woman: https://www.news.com.au/technology/science/evolution/how-to-upgrade-us-meet-alice-20-a-biologists-vision-of-the-perfect-woman/news-story/7e92a859f382ad6a13194c4993930bcb. Thanks for watching, subscribe for more videos: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCd_ODCcrc4jEWgi4qYyy0wg?sub_confirmation=1 Have we reached peak human? Evolutionary biologist and science communicator Professor Alice Roberts doesn't think so. In fact, we have probably fallen behind in the evolutionary race for perfection.
Tomorrow's Innovators by Maggie Philbin, CEO @ TeenTech Global Innovation Forum, 14 & 15 November 2018, London UK Most people will know Maggie from her work on the much loved Tomorrow's World and she has stayed on the pulse of science and technology ever since.
The complete Periodic Table (with the missing 16 elements added!) from Helen, with Matt Parker and Steve Mould of Festival of the Spoken Nerd. If you like this, the whole show is available now on DVD, download and... floppy disk! http://shop.fotsn.com for limited edition DVDs, 3.5 inch floppy disks, t-shirts, merch and downloadable extras.
Women in #SciComm Audio
Avery Trufelman, 99% Invisible
The Way Things Live As one of the staff producers for the design podcast 99% Invisible, Avery Trufelman spends most of her time considering the intentions behind inanimate objects. She finds stories hidden in products we encounter every day, like fire escapes and neon signs, as well as oddities and architectural outliers around the world, from art schools in Havana to garbage trucks in Taipei.
Rebecca Allen (Artist & Professor at UCLA Department of Design Media Arts) in conversation with Ghislaine Boddington (Creative Director, bodydataspace) on Presence in Virtual Space at Nesta's FutureFest 2018 - in partnership with Virtual Futures. The Virtual Futures Stage played host to a series of short conversations with FutureFest 2018 speakers and special guests.
Liz Wayne, PhDivas
Women in #SciComm Text
This talk is co-hosted by the Oxford Martin School and the Oxford Institute of Population Ageing, to celebrate their 20th Anniversary For many people science in the media is lovely science stories like gravitational waves, the God particle and incredible discoveries about our natural history.
Alice Bell (http://www.twitter.com/alicebell), writer and escaped academic, presents a peek into the world of fanfic. Filmed at the first Books Showoff on 24th May 2016 at Waterstone's Tottenham Court Road. Books Showoff is part of the Science Showoff family of events http://www.scienceshowoff.org
Hannah Devlin, Guardian science correspondent presenting at HTA's annual conference 2017. Here she is discussing the media's portrayal of death and dying.
Prof Donna Haraway
Women in #SciComm (IN ARTS & COMEDY)
Some of the best #SciComm Work happens outside of traditional science spaces and includes artists, curators, designers and comedians
Dr Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg Artist From The Conference 2018 "Better is not the same as good, better hasn't an agenda." What is better? Who's better? Who decides? The design of living matter can be seen as synthetic biology, a way of engineering biology for a better world.
Your future self needs your help.
Watch WeTransfer's head of experiences NELLY BEN HAYOUN's mainstage presentation "Designing the impossible" at the 2015 AIGA Design Conference in New Orleans. Dubbed the Willy Wonka of design and science, Nelly Ben Hayoun creates space for thoughts, debate, and provocation around the sociological and critical impact of new technologies and the human condition.
Chella Quint is a comedian, author and founder of the #PeriodPositive campaign - find out what motivated her to take action for change.
Natalie Jeremijenko is an artist, engineer, inventor and academic. She's never subscribed to the idea that art and science don't mix. Her many extraordinary ...
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