A symposium on the topic of The Colour Blue – interdisciplinary, rather than multidisciplinary. This will be taking place on Saturday 19 November at the Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution. Crastina had a chat with the project leader Robert Fosbury. “I was an IAS Fellow at the Durham Institute of Advanced Study in 2013 where I participated […]
An animation is a powerful tool to communicate a message within a short time in an easy and memorable way. Here Katharina Petsche, media designer and molecular biologist from Vienna, gives her best advice on how to create a scientific 3D-animation Animated videos have a high potential for science communication to make complex concepts understandable. They can […]
In May, a special science communication session was held at the Annual STS Conference in Graz, Austria, to “study the potentials and problems of web videos in science communication”. Special interest was aimed the impact of such videos on the public communication of STEM subjects. Crastina got in touch with one of the organizers, Joachim Allgaier – a sociologist, media researcher and deputy […]
Think of a game you like. Any game. Then think of all the things you learnt while playing that game. Big or small, useful or useless it doesn’t matter; what matters is that you learnt something. This is why I believe that games are a great way of communicating ideas. And these are my thoughts […]
Recently, the Swedish organisation Vetenskap & Allmänhet (‘Public & Science’) launched an animation project where they want to reach out to children and youngsters. The first video has the title What is Science? (“Vad är vetenskap?”) and was produced in cooperation with the National Food Agency. Crastina got in touch with the project leader Fredrik […]
”I’ve got eight legs and my name is super cool!” Matt Wilkins, postdoctoral fellow, and Tyler Corey, Ph.D. researcher – both from University of Nebraska – won a film festival prize for their music video about a spectacular order of arachnids. Tell us a little about the Evolution Film Festival and how you won the […]
On June 27–28, the networking project Crastina goes live for the first time! The First Crastina IRL Unconference brings together 16 exceptionally talented and friendly people of different ages in beautiful Leuven, one of the classic university towns of Belgium. During day 1, all the participants will give lightning talks and get feedback from their peers. During day […]