 Good morning to you double AS and astro vlog fans It is day three of double AS 235 today's the only day of the conference that I don't have official Conference duties. I've given three talks. I have chaired a session and tomorrow we'll be running the hack day, which is Always a lot of fun. So today's my easy day today. I get to do some stuff. That's really fun and to be honest I'm not sure how many talks I'm gonna go to today I'm gonna get to carry this camera and get to go talk to a couple of people who I look up to and really admire I'm gonna go talk to Frasier Kane and David Kipping have meetings with both of them today is about meeting It's about meeting people one-on-one and talking about science talking about outreach talking about YouTube It's gonna be really fun. I hope to learn a lot when I woke up this morning. I felt a little guilty thinking There's so many posters and talks. I'm not gonna go to today But then I remembered that you already can't go to any appreciable fraction of the talks and posters at double AS and the reason We bring 3,000 people together is to have these interactions. I didn't have these meetings planned before these aren't people that I would normally meet with on A weekly basis instead of a day full of meetings with dynamic and cool people who I would normally not get to see even though That's not in the meeting program. That is absolutely what double AS is about So if you find yourself missing a session but engage in a great conversation over lunch Don't feel guilty. You are doing double AS exactly right And this morning and with the very nice privilege of having somebody else hold my camera for a minute So I have two hands for like the first time in the entire vlog guy could get used to that Yeah, I know we look pretty ridiculous carrying four separate tripods around this conference But you know when you actually want to set it up and do a good interview and it's The end product looks good. Yeah, it's just hard on the back to carry all the stuff around Yeah, when did you get started doing science communication and video? Well, I've been doing I've been running a universe today for 20 years now and then I got into podcasting It's got to be like 12 13 years ago I started astronomy cast with dr. Pamela gay like the original iPod podcast Yeah, like back when like what the first I panel was like right at the very early stages of Podcasting and then I felt I was like too late, you know two years into it or whatever and then we started doing video I think in 2013 so it feels like we do about six years of video and at this point now I think we're we just wrapped up like episode 425 ish of the guide to space done More than a hundred question shows. I think it's about a thousand videos on the channel Yeah, it's really admirable and it's really inspirational for for the small small time beginning creators I mean to get to see your content and then you get to see you here and get to interact here So yeah, well, I mean it's like what what is it? You just just keep putting in the work That's right, right? It's just day after day after day I mean our job is to try to Explain the stuff that's going on in these kinds of conferences the stuff the research that's being done To as many people as humanly possible and as long as there is always that gap between What's being discovered and helping people understand? We've got work to do. I love it. Yeah. Thank you. All right Well, that was fun It's really fun to see how a higher level production gets made. I Need a better tripod This this handheld thing. It's too hard on the shoulder my good friend dr. Meredith Rawls veteran of the astro vlog and my Traveling companion the other day who I mentioned but did not show I didn't make the edit because I was sleepy and I apologize Today I'm talking to a lot of people about like science communication outreach And I have been a fan of your science communication outreach for a long time and I wonder why why did you get into it? You were also busy doing science. Why were you also spending all this time doing science outreach? One piece of it was that in graduate school. It's easy to feel really isolated You're working only with your immediate collaborators with a couple other people who are experts in your subfield And I was in a more remote geographical location to in New Mexico I couldn't like go to a big city very easily and or go to conferences as cheaply either and Social media especially Twitter at the time was a really cool way to connect with people who were dealing with similar struggles And also scientifically doing things that were relevant. So that was kind of the Motivation and then I just was like well, this seems to be working It's an opportunity that has such a low barrier to entry and such a big payoff Yeah, I mean to be fair some people do have issues with like harassment and stuff and that's very legitimate I want to acknowledge that But I have been really lucky and have mostly enjoyed the positive aspects of it University before I attended double A.S. meeting I just see from this beautiful rainbows tribe. This is my first time attending. I started starvation and So what I look at how exactly do the gas inside is cool nebula comes together And you mention collapses to form two stars we've seen the night sky in terms of my vision for science communication Outreach is that I had a really good experience enjoying science and realized there's a lot of joy being able to see the universe firsthand and so a lot of what I want to do is bring that joy to the audiences and So one thing I hope the launch hopefully within the upcoming year is to do a podcast One to basically create this excitement But also showcase the life of different scientists in that these are humans These are people you can relate to and these are potentially people who you can become and you can get the experience All right finally on the vlog you made it you made it here My guest today, of course Professor David Kipping who has the incredible YouTube channel cool worlds if you are watching this and you're not subscribed Then you click the wrong video I'm kind of I'm kind of intrigued what your plans I was where's this whole experiment, which is it's really original, right? I don't think you realize it's wrong too many Channels which really blog and astronomers perspective. Yeah, I think it's at an inflection point To be honest, I spent a minute thinking it was really good outreach or maybe I'm just not charismatic enough I mean the target audiences is to me. I was sad for a little while about that, but I think I'm actually okay with it Because it's really it seems really effective in reach We started off always thinking about science. Yeah, and the original videos as some of my viewers will remember work We're shorter. Yeah, like four or five minutes because I thought that's what YouTube wanted Yeah, and it makes it really hard. It makes it really hard to talk about a research paper In what mean people are doing You're really trying to put yourself in the mindset of Another civilization which has nothing to do with our civilization. Yeah, what are all the possible ways? Which something could look non-natural and it's it's an endless list and yet. Yeah, there's so few of us Thinking about it that it's it. I really appreciate your point that there's a desperate need away for Astronomers to invest some small fraction of their time. Everybody did that. We probably have some some really unique ideas come to the fore This has been an awesome Easy day at double ass the first couple days were so packed giving talks chairing sessions today I just got to go to a couple talks that I wanted to be at and I got to talk to some incredibly interesting people Through total luck I had a bunch of meetings with people that I was really excited about that all came together on one day It especially means a lot to people like David and Frazier on my show These are people who that I've looked up to for a long time in science communication and to get to feature them today on my Astro vlog. Thank you guys But I think actually sincerely the bigger things needs to go to Undergrads and young grad students and the first time attendees to the double ass meeting who have let me put my camera in front of Them in front of their posters and because it gives me a reason to go talk to new people To go down the poster hall and talk to new people and more generally I hope they also put a more human and a more broad face on what astronomy is One of the pieces about this channel that I'm always conflicted about is because it's sort of the gym show that might suggest that This is somehow the model of how you should be or what a scientist looks like. Yes This is what a scientist looks like, but this is not what all scientists look like For example, go check out the amazing Twitter thread and all the quotes recently by Seraphina Nance about what a scientist Looks like so. Thank you to everyone who has watched this channel Especially thank you to everyone who has been willing to contribute Let me put my camera in front of them and have given me a small bit of their time in their story Tomorrow's the last main day of the conference and that means it is time for the double ass hack together day I'll be running that show tomorrow. I'll bring the camera along I can't wait to see what all the amazing projects people start are See you bright and early