“You must be absolutely in love with the problem.”

Raj Apte, X project lead, chatted with @TheBrilliantHQ about his career building world-changing technologies like the digital X-ray, mobile phone thumbprint scanner, and salt-based energy storage:

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🔬 All's fair in science and poetry. Right?

✨'Brilliant Poetry' is an international competition for the love of poetry and the need for science communication. Join by submitting your poem today!

➡️ Read more about the 'Brilliant Poetry': thebrilliantpoetry.com

🎉Happy UNESCO 🏛️ #Education #Sciences #Culture 🇺🇳 #WorldPoetryDay ! 🎉

🎆To celebrate TheBrilliant are launching a new science & poetry competition with £1,000 cash prize!

Free to enter and open to all!

🔗Enter here: thebrilliantpoetry.com

#scicomm #sciart #poetrycommunity

Do you ever wonder what your #GlobalCall24 application can get you and if pitching your project at the #ScienceSummit in Berlin is worth it?
Read our '22 winner Thabiso Blak Mashaba's success story about his journey: bit.ly/3x6Ye9n #ScienceEngagement

🌟 New Science & Poetry Competition 🎉

With TheBrilliant & Kylie Ahern

Brilliant Poetry goes live on UNESCO 🏛️ #Education #Sciences #Culture 🇺🇳 World Poetry Day, March 21!

Judged by Dava Sobel & prizes up to £1000!

Details: thebrilliantpoetry.com

#BrilliantPoetry #WorldPoetryDay #scicomm #sciart

'Carl Sagan’s words reverberate today' | My essay for @TheBrilliantHQ on this eve of #CarlSaganDay :
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I collaborated with CBS to raise public awareness of AI ethics! 🤖

So excited to have collaborated with CBS’s television show CBSUnstoppable hosted by Miranda Cosgrove to discuss my work with AI ethics and advocating for child-safe AI infrastructure.

Collaboration is key in the race to address climate change, says science futurist and entrepreneur, A/Prof. Catherine Ball. Read her brilliant story
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#womenin

Hakeem Oluseyi on the importance of reimagining our approach to communicating STEM education to students. 'for a quarter of a century, we’ve been pumping STEM like there’s no tomorrow. Yet, only 18% of our undergraduates graduate with STEM degrees'
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My latest Science Communication Matters e-newsletter on LinkedIn where I talk about Barbie, Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock and Sun Bears. 🐻
#scicomm
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“80% of online abuse received by BBC journalists is directed at one woman: the corporation’s 27-year-old disinformation correspondent.”

Brilliant to speak to Sunday Times Mag on investigating disinfo, hate, social media & Radio 4’s Marianna in Conspiracyland pod! New ep later.

Meet Prof Svetha Venkatesh FTSE FAA, an AI expert & entrepreneur. 👩‍💻

She helps teach machines to find complex patterns in data, from sorting apples & bananas to improving security surveillance. 🍎 🍌

Read more about her work in TheBrilliant: thebrilliant.com/profiles/https…

I'm looking for freelancers to write about tech at Vox. That includes a contract position to cover a writer on parental leave as well as one off assignments. Email me! [email protected]

I had a great time chatting with Gabrielle Ahern about science illustration for this TheBrilliant case study ➡️ thebrilliant.com/case-studies/j…

In the latest issue,, we spoke to Jen Christiansen, senior graphics editor at Scientific American about the role of science illustration in communicating science.

Read her brilliant story!
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👋 #scicommfam , I'm so excited to bring my experience (& enthusiasm) to The Brilliant's editorial board.

Thanks for bringing me on Kylie Ahern, TheBrilliant has already done so much in and for #SciComm

Some news: After 8 years & 750 stories, I've decided to leave The Atlantic. Today's my last day.
Being a writer means you can’t say things like 'I can’t tell you what this means' cos, well, I can. That's kind of the point of me. So here’s an attempt at looking back & forward: 1/

In the latest issue, we interviewed visionary filmmaker Damon Gameau 🌎 about the importance of storytelling. “Big, existential questions need something tangible and personal to hang on, How do you humanise and personalise a journey for someone? #scicomm
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