Do you love musicals and theatre? 🎹🎶 Do you also love science? 🧪 Then this episode is just the right one for you! Join in as Iris chats with Roberta Wilkinson and Matthew Kemp, creators of Geologise Theatre and Earth Sciences PhD students, as they talk about their love for communicating science. Get to know about the not-so-boring (see what we did there? 😉) origin story of Geologise Theatre, their creative process, highlighting underrepresented figures and important topics in science, keeping in mind the target audience, and the different musicals they have produced! 🦖🕵️‍♀️🧑‍🔬🧪🎹🎶

(Don’t!) Stalk The Geologise Theatre: https://www.geologisetheatre.com / https://www.youtube.com/@wearegeologise

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Resources*:

• A science musical: combining theatre and song for science communication: https://essopenarchive.org/doi/full/10.1002/essoar.10506609.1
• Science 'Dance your PhD' contest: https://www.science.org/content/page/announcing-annual-dance-your-ph-d-contest
• Theatre as a space for negotiation and co-creation of knowledge: https://jcom.sissa.it/article/pubid/JCOM_2005_2021_R01/
• Science in performance: theatre and the politics of engagement: https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9780719099205/
• Theatre as a tool for science communication: https://mxhuntermass.medium.com/theatre-science-communication-world-theatre-day-bb9ef098ba48 *Note: very incomplete. These are just some suggestions for starting points.

Secret paper: Van Zelst et al., 2022 (Solid Earth): 101 geodynamic modelling: how to design, interpret, and communicate numerical studies of the solid Earth https://doi.org/10.5194/se-13-583-2022 https://irisvanzelst.github.io/papers/2022a_vanzelst.pdf

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***** Season 1 ***** Announcement - https://youtu.be/StyunNJ-JzY Trailer - https://youtu.be/vdqvYx_3VYg Ethical fieldwork with Thirze Hermans - https://youtu.be/dofyDP70mZI Switching careers with Leah-Nani Alconcel - https://youtu.be/er0ZwkYK5wg Science communication with Simon Clark - https://youtu.be/hagf8KMnBzE Postdoc Life with Tamarah King - https://youtu.be/qvajLpWI4AM Leadership with Richard Ghail - https://youtu.be/Gnc3GSGjilQ Women in science with Diana Avadanii - https://youtu.be/yiAyNPTqWGs Job applications with Paula Koelemeijer - https://youtu.be/_h9CDL1VhN8

The Science Sisters team: Dr. Iris van Zelst - creator, producer, and host Marina Cano Amoros - video editor Hinna Shivkumar - video descriptions and captions Dr. Fabio Crameri - thumbnails and graphics Dr. Lucia Perez-Diaz - logo, music, and graphic design

Season 2 of Science Sisters is partly funded through a 2021 Sharing Science Grant from the American Geophysical Union (AGU).

Want more of my amazing science? Or maybe silliness and jokes are more your thing? Check out these links: Twitter: https://twitter.com/iris_van_zelst Personal webpage: https://irisvanzelst.github.io QUARTETnary - the card game about the geological timescale https://quartetnary.com

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