Science Communication (in Comics) wizard at @ANU_Popsicule. 🇿🇦in🇦🇺 via 🇺🇬🇲🇬🇨🇿🇯🇵. non binary 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 (they/them) 🥼🧬🧑🏻🔬🧑🏻💻💥🧑🎤
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13 Apr 2020
A #termite walks into a bar.
It asks;
"Is the bar tender here?"
#InverteFest #Joke
we need a #termiteemoji
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26 Sep 2025
What a night! Packed house at @nfsaonline diving into "Paprika" - a wild anime about dream therapy and neurotech fantasy 🎬
🗣️And great discussion with @AnnaSo_Jurgens, @CrystationalBio, Dr Chitra V & Dr Lou Farrer about identity, science, and neurotech imaginaries!
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2 Sep 2025
Whoop whoop, so honored to work with a such a brilliant student and the gifted team, Anastasiya Fiadotava and @AnnaSo_Jurgens!!! 🎉🎉🎉
Read our new publication on humour in scientific publications in IJSE Part B here:
2 Sep 2025
🎓Outstanding Student Project Alert🎓
2024 Science and Humour student, Gypsy Cook, has published her final project in IJSE Pt.B
"Science is funny as long as it happens to someone else: understanding humour in science publications"
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
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Crystal Clitheroe 晶 💎 retweeted
13 Aug 2025
📚Science Goes Pop💥Publication 1/3 📚
The Whimsical Art Assemblage:
between-science-and-art.com/…
Houl, Britt Nichols, Dan Santos (@biotechgeog), @CrystationalBio & @AnnaSo_Jurgens
in @wkScienceandArt!
#laboratories #hopepunk #NationalScienceWeek2025
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13 Aug 2025
📚Science Goes Pop💥Publication 3/3📚
The Superhero Art Edition:
between-science-and-art.com/…
Kel Ronning, Kikifoxbones, Ben Nickl, and @AnnaSo_Jurgens in @wkScienceandArt!
#sciart #superheroscience #NationalScienceWeek2025
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13 Aug 2025
📚Science Goes Pop💥Publication 2/3 📚
The Zine Art Edition:
between-science-and-art.com/…
Patrick Galvin, Camilo Potocnjak Oxman, Stefan Buchenberger, Torsten Weber & @CrystationalBio in @wkScienceandArt!
#manga #supervillainscience #NationalScienceWeek2025
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16 Jun 2025
TEHRAN has 12 million residents, including disabled individuals, hospital patients, and prisoners and ... the majority are unable to evacuate IMMEDIATELY 😭😭😭
My family cannot EVACUATE IMMEDIATELY 😭😭😭
Those people don't have THE NUCLEAR WEAPONS 👊👊👊
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1 Apr 2025
🎓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 🌌
popsicule.weblogs.anu.edu.au…
#extinction #anthropomorphism
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Crystal Clitheroe 晶 💎 retweeted
30 Apr 2025
Welcome to the Popsicule! 🥳🥳🥳
Shao-Jie has recently joined our Science in Pop Culture research universe - find out more here:
popsicule.weblogs.anu.edu.au…
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Crystal Clitheroe 晶 💎 retweeted
23 May 2025
🦹 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!!!
between-science-and-art.com/…
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14 Mar 2025
📯"Science. Art. Film." Season 6 announcement!📯
Book your tickets now (8$) for the 20th Anniversary #cult #classic #postapocalyptic #scifi "Tank Girl"
tickets.nfsa.gov.au/Events/S…
#canberra #ScienceArtFilm #filmscreening in collab with @ANU_CPAS @systemsanu and @NFSAonline
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Crystal Clitheroe 晶 💎 retweeted
26 Feb 2025
For the 10th anniversary of
International Day of Women and Girls in Science #IDWGS
Celebrate with us! Read Bridget Gaul, @AnnaSo_Jurgens and @bucketscientist "Women Scientists in American Television Comedy" @SpringerNature @ANU_CPAS
link.springer.com/book/10.10…
#scicomm #popculture
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Crystal Clitheroe 晶 💎 retweeted
22 Jan 2025
Just a reminder that you can also find us on Instagram: @ANU_Popsicule and Blue Sky: @anu-popsicule.bsky.social. The artwork is the result of a lovely call and response between Teddy Lampert and Phillip Dexheimer, from LinkedIn:
shorturl.at/wG4bV
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☄️🦸♀️ "I have always been interested in extreme characters in pop culture, including mad clowns, performers and scientists"
Kicking off 2025 in the most colourful way, with this ANU Reporter profile of @ANU_Popsicule's Dr Anna-Sophie Jürgens:
reporter.anu.edu.au/all-stor…
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14 Jan 2025
🎓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💫
popsicule.weblogs.anu.edu.au…
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Today is #HumanRightsDay2024
The head of the UNESCO Chair in Science Communication for the Public Good @Sujatha__Raman and Professor Brian Schmidt @cosmicpinot discuss the human right to science, and why this is particularly important during a time of crisis.
10 Dec 2024
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 @Sujatha__Raman and Professor Brian Schmidt @cosmicpinot in The Conversation.
science.anu.edu.au/news-even…
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5 Dec 2024
🎓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 🤘🤘🤘
popsicule.weblogs.anu.edu.au…
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25 Nov 2024
🎓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 🤩
popsicule.weblogs.anu.edu.au…
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24 Nov 2024
Do you remember when you joined Twitter? I do! For my Twitter anniversary y’all know where I’m headed 🦋
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17 Nov 2024
Our 'Science in Comics' week at the #FramingtheUnreal conference, hosted by the Ca' Foscari University of Venice, was nothing short of super-inspiring, incredibly multifaceted and hyper-intense. And the Popsicule banner made it to Italy! #scicomm #popculture
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12 Nov 2024
Day2 in @CaFoscari’ beautiful Culture Flow Zone 🤩! Thank you @biotechgeog for kicking off our session Panel 11: Unframing the Real - Science in SFF Comics with an exciting talk on “Laboratory Life and Life at the Frontiers in DC Comics” #hybridmodel #science #synbio in #comics
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