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What a great day for a movie with the @anu-popsicule.bsky.social
October 22, 2025 at 11:05 AM
What a night! Packed house at @nfsaonline.bsky.social diving into "Paprika" - a wild anime about dream therapy and neurotech fantasy 🎬

And great discussion with @crystationalbio.bsky.social, Dr Chitra V & Dr Lou Farrer about identity, science, and those gorgeous/terrifying neurotech imaginaries!
September 26, 2025 at 4:56 AM
🎓Outstanding Student Project Alert🎓

🤩 2024 Science and Humour student, Gypsy Cook, has published her final project in IJSE Pt.B, OA 🤩

"Science is funny as long as it happens to someone else: understanding humour in science publications"

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#science #humour
Science is funny as long as it happens to someone else: understanding humour in science publications
Humour is the driving force behind the Ig Nobel Prize, which celebrates unusual research that ‘makes people laugh and then think’. It appears in publications across STEM fields, on topics such as w...
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September 2, 2025 at 5:40 AM
📚Science Goes Pop💥Publication 2/3 📚

The Zine Art Edition:
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Patrick Galvin, Camilo Potocnjak Oxman, Stefan Buchenberger, Torsten Weber & @crystationalbio.bsky.social cc @sci-comm-anu.bsky.social

#manga #supervillainscience #NationalScienceWeek2025
Science Goes Pop: The Zine Art Edition
Till Bödeker: Drawing inspiration from scholarly discussions on manga as a historically inflected form of educational media, as well as comic books featuring eccentric scientists, visual artists Patri...
between-science-and-art.com
August 13, 2025 at 5:27 AM
🦹 Meet Africa's SuperScientists! 🦸

Check out the the latest interview in our w/k series on Visual Science Storytelling with the (Super)creators of @scisuperheroes.bsky.social!!!

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SuperScientists: Celebrating science through the power of superheroes
Anna-Sophie Jürgens: In this conversation, Dr Justin Yarrow and Clyde Beech discuss the SuperScientists project, which combines science communication and comic art to inspire and educate South African...
between-science-and-art.com
May 23, 2025 at 12:30 AM
🎓Outstanding Student Project Alert 🎓

✨Quoll and the Stars!✨

A beautiful, soulful and exquisitely illustrated children's book, created by the brilliant 2025 SCOM3003 Special Project student, Tilda Joy Blackbourn-Rooney 🌌

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#extinction #anthropomorphism
Quoll and the Stars - POPSICULE
By Tilda Joy Blackbourn-Rooney – A ‘Special Project’ (SCOM3005, 2025, shortened) Communicating Extinction through Children’s Picture Books This report is part of an environmental science communication...
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April 1, 2025 at 11:52 PM
📯"Science. Art. Film." Season 6 announcement!📯

Where do the boundaries between human and humanoid begin and end?
Join our "Ex Machina" event and find out! 16 April, 6pm, Arc Cinema, tickets:

tickets.nfsa.gov.au/Events/Scien...

#Canberraevents #Canberralife #scicomm #ScienceArtFilm
Science.Art.Film.: Ex Machina
Alicia Vikander’s humanoid AI, Ava, challenges the line between technology and consciousness in this sci-fi thriller.
tickets.nfsa.gov.au
March 31, 2025 at 9:11 PM
SCIENCE. ART. FILM. returns with Season 6 and we're starting it with a bang! 🥳 Join us for a screening of cult classic TANK GIRL (1995), followed by a panel on the science & themes of the film! See you this 26 March, Wednesday, 6:00 PM, Arc Cinema! #Canberra #scicomm #popculture #Canberraevents
March 18, 2025 at 11:16 AM
📯"Science. Art. Film." Season 6 announcement!📯

Book your tickets now (8 AUD) for the 20th Anniversary #cult #classic #postapocalyptic #scifi "Tank Girl"

tickets.nfsa.gov.au/Events/Scien...

#canberra #ScienceArtFilm #filmscreening in collab with @nfsaonline.bsky.social @sci-comm-anu.bsky.social
Science. Art. Film.: Tank Girl
Punk-rock rebel Tank Girl battles baddies in a post-apocalyptic world without water
tickets.nfsa.gov.au
March 14, 2025 at 12:11 AM
For the 10th anniversary of 👩‍🏫👩‍🔬
International Day of Women and Girls in Science #IDWGS

Celebrate with us! Read Bridget Gaul, @anna-sophiejurgens.bsky.social and Karina Judd's "Women Scientists in American Television Comedy" @springernature.com

link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
#scicomm #popculture
February 26, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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That's a wrap on science at ANU for 2024!

Wishing everyone a safe and happy festive season🎄🎆🧪
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A year in science at ANU | 2024
YouTube video by Science ANU
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December 19, 2024 at 12:47 AM
Just a reminder that you can also find us on Instagram:
@ANU_Popsicule and Twitter: @ANU_Popsicule (we got advice to leave our account open there so our name doesn't get hijacked). The art is a lovely call and response between Teddy Lampert and Phillip Dexheimer, from LinkedIn:

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January 22, 2025 at 6:29 PM
🎓Outstanding Student Project Alert 🎓

"The Science of T!" A brilliant, funny and informative video helping folks navigate the information deluge around testosterone therapy. Created by 2024 SCOM2006/6006 Science and Humour student, Lil Logan💫

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TransForming Science - POPSICULE
By Lil Logan – A ‘Science & Humour’ Project (SCOM6006, 2024) The YouTube video “TransForming Science” was inspired by my personal experience of trying to find accurate information about testosterone t...
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January 14, 2025 at 12:48 AM
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☄️🦸‍♀️ "When exploring pop culture is your passion and your profession, violent clowns, parasitic villains and extraterrestrial jellyfish are just another day in the office"

Kicking off 2025 in the most colourful way, with this ANU Reporter profile of @anu-popsicule.bsky.social's Dr Anna-Sophie Jürgens
Science goes pop: where mad scientists meet the world
When exploring pop culture is your passion and your profession, violent clowns, parasitic villains and extraterrestrial jellyfish are just another day in the office.
reporter.anu.edu.au
January 9, 2025 at 1:25 AM
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"[The human right to science] can also serve as a spark for human imagination and curiosity. And this is where its true power resides," write Professor Sujatha Raman and Professor Brian Schmidt in The Conversation.

#science #humanrights

science.anu.edu.au/news-events/...
The human right to science is 76 years old. It’s a reminder for us all to be more curious
The right to science can serve as a spark for human imagination and curiosity. And this is where its true power resides.
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December 10, 2024 at 12:15 AM
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This lecture on the case for hope by Professor Joan Leach from @sci-comm-anu.bsky.social will be great way to end the year!
🗓️: 5.30pm 18th December at Smith's Alternative, Canberra & online

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ASC Christmas Lecture: THE CASE FOR HOPE
Professor Joan Leach, the Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science (CPAS), ANU will delvier a lecture on the case for hope in science communication
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December 11, 2024 at 12:22 AM
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We've collated a starter pack of researchers, students and staff from the College of Science at the Australian National University (ANU). This is a growing starter pack, so please send us your suggestions!
go.bsky.app/D2Cih9V 🧪
November 19, 2024 at 12:21 AM
🎓ANOTHER Outstanding Student Project Alert🎓

This week we meet Jasper! Brainchild of this year's SCOM2006/6006 Science and Humour student, Amirah Farell! "Jasper's Journey" is a fantastic educational comic chronicling the life history of a ROCK 🤘🤘🤘

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Jasper's Journey - POPSICULE
By AMIRAH FARRELL – A ‘Science & Humour’ Project (SCOM6006, 2024) Jasper’s Journey is a storybook written for children aged 5-7, inspired by my background in geomorphology, and my young nephews and ni...
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December 5, 2024 at 12:29 AM
Fighting for the future! Our last 2024 Science. Art. Film.
Screening & discussion of the Aussie scifi film "2067" was a blast! Thanks to our special guest panel: director Seth Larney, producer Lisa Shaunessy and composer Prof Ken Lampl!!!

#scifi #popculture #sciencecomm #canberra #nfsa
December 4, 2024 at 2:24 AM
Love Science Fiction & Popular Culture??? 🤓

Read Prof Alice Motion's beautiful piece in @chemistryworld.bsky.social on how our Poptastic Leader, Dr @anna-sophiejurgens.bsky.social helps to "create wormholes between galaxies" with Cinematic Science 🤩
www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/cine...
Cinematic science
Film screenings that celebrate science, cinema and art
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November 28, 2024 at 5:19 AM
🎓Outstanding Student Project Alert🎓

Meet Poly! They're the brainchild of this year's SCOM2006/6006 Science and Humour student, Jaquelen Huang!

"Poly's Tour of Sydney" is a creative cartoon exploring plastic pollution on the Australian environment 🤩

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Engaging in humorous conversation: “Poly’s Tour in Sydney” - POPSICULE
By Jaquelen Huang – A ‘Science & Humour’ Project (SCOM2006, 2024) “Poly’s Tour in Sydney” is a creative educational cartoon exploring the impacts of plastic pollution on Australian wildlife and landsc...
popsicule.weblogs.anu.edu.au
November 28, 2024 at 4:59 AM
We're new to Blue Sky 🦋, but we're excited to be here!

The Popsicule was started in 2021 by the Poptastic🎉 Dr Anna-Sophie Jürgens 👩‍🏫, a Senior Lecturer at the Australian National University's Center for the Public Awareness of Science (CPAS):
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This is POPSICULE | Science in Popular Culture and Entertainment Hub
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November 25, 2024 at 6:37 AM
Hey there!!!!

If you've just followed us, welcome! 🤩

We're The Popsicule - We study Science in Popular Culture and Entertainment Hub at the Australian National University 🎓
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Welcome to the - POPSICULE
The POPSICULE is an open, community-based interdisciplinary platform created by the Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science (CPAS) at the Australian National University. The POP...
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November 25, 2024 at 6:29 AM