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Item Embargo TransForming Science(Popsicule, 2024) Logan, LilThe YouTube video “TransForming Science” was inspired by my personal experience of trying to find accurate information about testosterone therapy online. Despite my science background, I struggled to discern reliable information amid a sea of conflicting and misleading content. Platforms such as Reddit, YouTube, and Discord are highly popular spaces for transgender and gender-diverse individuals (TGDI) to seek information on trans healthcare. First-hand accounts, in particular, are a widely favoured source of health information (Augustaitis et al., 2021). While such content is valuable for reducing feelings of isolation and providing general insights, anecdotal evidence alone is insufficient for comprehensive medical understanding. Both the video and this report aim to explore how combining personal experiences with science-backed information – delivered with humour – can create a more balanced, accessible, and reliable source of trans healthcare education online.Item Embargo Engaging in humorous conversation: “Poly’s Tour in Sydney”(Popsicule, 2024) Huang, Jaquelen“Poly’s Tour in Sydney” is a creative educational cartoon exploring the impacts of plastic pollution on Australian wildlife and landscapes. The cartoon aims to engage young-aged children by presenting scientific information humorously. Through combining anthropomorphism, wordplay and visual humour in insightful conversations and educational scenes about environmental science, complex scientific concepts are designed to be more approachable and relatable. This project makes the topic more accessible and engaging for children, while at the same time raising environmental awareness and encouraging behavioural change towards the environment.Item Embargo Improving Lab Safety Instruction with Audio-Visual Humour(Popsicule, 2024) Armour, TammyThe aim for this SCOM6006 project was to develop a better vehicle to demonstrate one specific aspect of our health and safety program – inappropriate mobile phone use. Mobile phones are used by everyone. We hold them up against our ears and mouths and touch them constantly with our hands and fingers. They are a major health and safety risk in a microbiology lab and as a result educating students about these risks is important.Item Embargo Jasper’s Journey(Popsicule, 2024) Farrell, AmirahJasper’s Journey is a storybook written for children aged 5-7, inspired by my background in geomorphology, and my young nephews and niece. Rocks and landforms surround us, but the way they got there is an abstract topic that is difficult to communicate – especially to children. Jasper’s Journey uses humour and visual narrative overcome this barrier. In doing so, it provides a pathway for young children to more enjoyable engagement with science, as well as an understanding of some of the complex processes that shape our landscapes.Item Embargo S2 Episode 9: Archaeology with Phoebe Barnes(Popsicule, 2025-01-02) Richards, Isabel; McCarthy, EllaTo kick off 2025, we bring you a fascinating episode on archaeology and pop culture, featuring special guest and budding archaeologist Phoebe Barnes!🏺⛏️🦴 Do you love Tomb Raider? Indiana Jones? Jurassic Park? Then this episode is for you. We touch on archaeogaming 👾, representations of archaeologists on screen vs archaeologists irl 🗿📜, and the mix and bleed of scientific thinking and the humanities.Item Embargo S2 Episode 8: SciComm for Kids with Dr Chloe Lim(Popsicule, 2024-12-02) Richards, Isabel; McCarthy, EllaWhat do ballon art and storytelling have in common? They are both great avenues for Science Communication AND are skills of this episode’s guest: Dr Chloe Lim. Join us as we enter the amazing world that is SciComm for Kids! We’re talking DIY science kits, STEM themed books, and even baking. This feel good episode also touches on being a business babe and a shining light for CALD voices in STEM. So press play and enjoy 🙂Item Embargo S2 Episode 7: Teaching Maths with Will Roberts(Popsicule, 2024-11-02) Richards, Isabel; McCarthy, EllaDoes thinking of maths make you spiral? Don’t worry! This episode we are joined by teacher-in-training and maths enthusiast Will Roberts to talk to us about maths anxiety across reality and fiction! Struggling to think of maths teachers in your favourite high school tv show? Scarred by maths classrooms? The two may be more related than you think!Item Embargo S2 Episode 6: Protoscience with Lilia Walsh(Popsicule, 2024-10-02) Richards, Isabel; McCarthy, EllaWhy do science labs look like *that* ? What is alchemy? What came before the science we know today? And what does spiderman have to do with all of this? Our guest Lilia deep dives with us into the history of science talking about alchemy, astrology, greek myths, spiderman, star trek and so much more.Item Embargo S2 Episode 5: Movie Music with Professor Kenneth Lampl(Popsicule, 2024-09-02) Richards, Isabel; McCarthy, EllaIn this cinematic episode of Sci_Burst our special guest Professor Kenneth Lampl from the ANU School of Music joins to talk about the history of music in movies. From John Williams’ handwritten music to Hans Zimmer’s film score digital revolution, learn with us how technology, cinema, people, and sound, continue to influence each other throughout time.Item Embargo S2 Episode 4: Sign Language(Popsicule, 2024-08-02) Richards, Isabel; McCarthy, EllaEver wondered how sign languages like Auslan communicate scientific concepts and handle technobabble? Or how signing is represented on screen & fictional pop culture media like Bluey, CODA and Dune? Join us and our special guest Bailey Kennedy – who has a vast array of knowledge in these areas – to find out!Item Embargo S2 Episode 3: Fables(Popsicule, 2024-07-02) Richards, Isabel; McCarthy, EllaDid someone say episode 3?! Join us and our special guest Professor Chris Danta from the ANU School of Cybernetics for a deep dive on fables and science, literary anthropology, animals and machines in literature, and even fridge music! 🐷🦊📚🤖Item Embargo S2 Episode 2: AI PANIC(Popsicule, 2024-06-02) Richards, Isabel; McCarthy, EllaDon’t PANIC ! 😎✨It’s Sci_Burst time. Join us and our very special guest Adrian Schmidt in this episode as we explore Artificial Intelligence (AI). Together we dive into AI’s recent surge in popularity, its appearances in popular culture, and its use in art installations across the globe.Item Embargo S2 Episode 1: Science goes Pop!(Popsicule, 2024-05-02) Richards, Isabel; McCarthy, EllaWelcome to Sci_Burst Season 2! We’re kicking off this season by talking all things popular culture, science, and how the two combine in weird, wacky and wonderful ways! Our very first guest Dr Anna-Sophie Jürgens from the Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science joins us to talk about circus, clowns, and even science tattoos…Item Embargo Visualising a Research-based Podcast(Popsicule, 2023) Nair, RishikaItem Embargo Co-Creativity: Reflections, Insights and Impact(Popsicule, 2023) Singhal, IshaCo-Creativity can be a wonderful method of collaboration that brings across ideas from very diverse walks of life to create a truly unique solution for purpose. These videos are created as a collaboration between Scaffolding Cultural Co-Creativity Project and Engaged ANU. They aim to highlight student experiences on co-creation with senior researchers. Each student has had a very different journey, but each project had one thing in common: It was unexpected. Co-Creativity challenged each student to create something they wouldn’t have even considered before.Item Embargo A Guide to Creating Documentary Theatre using a Fictional Database(Popsicule, 2023) Farr, SamuelIt is often said that good fiction requires at least some grounding in fact in order for readers to allow a suspension of disbelief and comfortably engage with the fictional work. When it comes to Documentary Theatre, works are usually created using factual data. But what if your dataset is a fictional database? What if you were to create a work using a database of historical fiction? This guide is designed to aid in engaging with a database of historical fiction such as the To be continued: The Australian Newspaper Fiction Database to create new works of Documentary Theatre. This guide breaks down the process into steps falling under the following three phases - Writing, Workshopping and Editing - that can be followed to help shape a new work of Documentary Theatre. The guide has been developed through reflexive creative practice and has been informed by, and adapted, from the Documentary Theatre methodology used and outlined by La Transplanisphere theatre company in their work with the Polart Circle.Item Embargo Enacting Innovation: Classics Meets Science Communication(Popsicule, 2023) Barnes, SarahSarah’s “Enacting Innovation” poster series is a creative science communication project: an artistic, visual interpretation of the interdisciplinary ‘classics meets scicomm’ conference “enacting innovation” (organised by dr tatiana bur and dr anna-sophie jürgens) which brought together academics from classical studies, science communication and pop culture studies to think about how objects were and are technologically animated in theatrical contexts, both as ideas in text and as realities in production, from classical antiquity to the present day.Item Embargo Comedy for Conservation: Exploring the effectiveness of humorous videos in raising awareness about climate change(Popsicule, 2023) McKenna, EmilieIn a time when environmental issues and climate change science are becoming increasingly essential yet difficult to understand, effective communication and education methods are crucial. As such, I created a short nature documentary that employs anthropomorphism and wordplay humour to explore the impact of climate change on Australian animals. This is a creative tool for engaging audiences with wildlife conservation and climate change science. My SCOM2006 project explores how a nuanced relationship between anthropomorphism, humour and science communication can allow for an enjoyable and relatable science communication product addressing a broad online audience that can be used to communicate the impact of climate change, why it is important to know about it and ultimately advocate for positive change.Item Embargo Episode 16: Solarpunk - Radical Sustainability(Popsicule, 2023-11-30) Richards, Isabel; McCarthy, EllaFor our final episode of Season 1, we’re ending on an uplifting note with a sustainable and optimistic vision of the future. This one’s a little intro to the emerging sci-fi subgenre, aesthetic, and movement that is ☀️ Solarpunk ☀️ Join us in exploring solarpunk worlds in pop culture, where we might see them in the near future, and what a harmonious relationship between nature, community, and technology can look like. As always, let us know your thoughts on our socials @sci_burst or via our gmail sciburstpodcast@gmail.com. And while we are taking a break from releasing episodes for a little bit, we will be very contactable and active online. Stay nerdy and we’ll see you in Season 2!Item Embargo Episode 15: What makes a Hero? Science in Comic Characters(Popsicule, 2023-10-30) Richards, Isabel; McCarthy, EllaOur penultimate episode of season 1 is now here! Listen to learn all about the (science and technology) formulas that make superheroes and supervillains in popular comic universes. This episode is being released as part of the National Film and Sound Archives’ science and film night on the 1997 adaptation “Batman & Robin” — an event featuring yours truly!
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