Make Science Pop!

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What makes great science communication great? It’s hard enough explaining scientific results in an effective way, choosing language and expression appropriate to the audience, without sacrificing rigor. But what elevates a good science story to a great one — one that really resonates or pops? Make Science Pop! is a special online event featuring scientists, science writers, and communicators discussing their experiences with communicating and disseminating scientific results that made an impact on the broader world. What challenges did they face? What worked and what didn’t? And what took their stories to the next level?

Join us on 24 October 2024, virtually, to hear from and interact with our esteemed lineup of experts:

Andrea Kritcher, speaker

Dr. Andrea "Annie" Kritcher is a nuclear physicist and engineer at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. She was the engineering design lead on the experiment that achieved the holy grail of nuclear physics in December 2022: the world’s first controlled nuclear fusion reaction that released more energy than it consumed, also known as "ignition". Her team has repeated that feat at least four times since then. She earned her M.S. and Ph.D. in nuclear engineering from the University of California, Berkeley. She is a fellow of the APS, was awarded the named Lawrence Postdoctoral Fellowship, and is a recipient of the John Dawson award for her design of a burning plasma. Dr. Kritcher was included on TIME's list of the 100 Most Influential People of 2023 and was named one of Nature’s 10, a list of people who made a significant impact in science in 2023.

Ryan F. Mandelbaum, speaker

Ryan Mandelbaum is the Editor in Chief of IBM Quantum. In this role, Ryan manages a team of science writers and guides editorial strategy across written content including blogs, websites, case studies, and more. When not thinking about quantum computers, Ryan is a nature writer with work published in the New York Times, Scientific American, Gizmodo, Audubon Magazine, Gothamist, and their Substack newsletter eyy, i’m walkin’ here. On weekends you can find them leading nature tours in New York City as an educator for the New York City Bird Alliance.

Michelle Roberts, speaker

Dr. Michelle Roberts is Digital Health Editor at BBC News. She reports on a wide range of medical and consumer health topics for online, radio and TV and has over 20 years experience in news and publishing. Before entering journalism, she was an NHS doctor. She is on the advisory body of the Science Media Centre, an independent press resourced that aims to improve accurate reporting of scientific evidence and expertise.

James Beacham, host and moderator

Dr. James Beacham is a physicist at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, researching phenomena such as dark matter and quantum black holes. In addition to his research, he speaks and performs around the world at the intersections of science, technology, politics, society, and art, at venues such as the American Museum of Natural History in New York, the Royal Institution in London, the Guggenheim Bilbao, SXSW, and the BBC, among hundreds of others. He contributes to podcasts, radio shows, TV series, and documentaries; appears in the popular press; and serves as an expert science and communications consultant for companies and international organizations. His talk, “How we explore unanswered questions in physics”, was featured on TED.com and has been viewed more than 1.6 million times. Dr. Beacham is also an experimental filmmaker, exhibiting at art venues internationally.

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Make Science Pop! is organized by Chelonia Applied Science for AiChemist, a project funded by the European Union’s Horizon research and innovation programme, along with the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Doctoral Networks, with the participation of the Avithrapid project and the support of the Swiss Confederation's Federal Department of Economic Affairs, Education, and Research, State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI).