 Hello everybody and welcome to rhyme your research. We're asking everybody if it's possible to stay on mute throughout, but if you want to, if you feel happy, if you feel comfortable and confident to turn your videos on so we can see where in the world we're speaking to you from. I'm going to ask my co-hosts to continue to admit people in because I will forget to do so from the waiting room. And yeah, just to introduce myself and ourselves briefly. Hi, my name is Sam Illingworth and I'm a senior lecturer in science communication. And my research is involved in using poetry as a facilitatory medium through which to give voice to underserved and underheard audiences. Kaitlyn, would you like to introduce yourself? Hi, my name is Kaitlyn Hall. I'm a PhD student at Arizona State University focusing on trying to share science with policymakers and also in doing that. How can we share science in different ways? One of those is through poetry and I work a lot with Tim who I'll invite to introduce himself next. Tim. Tim's Bluetooth is cut off so we're just going to allow for the fact that Tim's Bluetooth is cut off and when Tim gives me the nod, we're going to allow Tim to introduce himself. Yeah, so I have a really crappy Bluetooth headset, sorry for that. So anyway, I'm Tim Van Emmerich, assistant professor at Wageningen University. I study plastic pollution in rivers and for the rest I just really enjoy listening to Sam reciting poetry. Thank you very much Tim and Ariana. Hi everyone, my name is Ariana Soldati. I am a postdoc at LMU Munich and my research focuses on the rheology of lava flows, but I'm also interested in science communication using creative means such as poetry. Fantastic. So basically that's it. Hi everyone, welcome to this Rhyme Your Research session. It's going to be about an hour. It's going to be really fun. It's going to be ridiculously chaotic. Hopefully you're going to learn something. You're definitely going to learn something even if it's not how to host a Zoom session. You're going to learn something in this next hour or so. And basically just a few bits of housekeeping if everybody can stay muted unless I invite you to unmute yourselves. If everybody can switch on their videos if they want to, it's just a really nice way of us all seeing ourselves. Everyone can just be super polite throughout. That would be really, really nice. And basically, you know, good bread. Don't say anything in the chat that you wouldn't want to say in real life and just be as polite as possible to everybody and just be, you know, just be good eggs basically. The other thing just to say is that there is the potential that you will be invited to share your poems that you create in this session at a party at the end of the week. So please think about that. And also please if everybody can use the hashtag that I'm putting into the chat, share EGU poetry. That would be absolutely amazing. There are over 100 participants now, which is quite frankly crazy. I think we've done all of the housekeeping. It's going to be a way that we're going to just basically have a session in which we're going to involve everybody. All voices are welcome. We're going to create some poetry and hopefully we're going to have a lot of fun. So I'm going to pass you over to Tim now, allowing for the fact that Tim needs to sort out his Bluetooth headset and Tim is going to run the ice breaking activity to get us started. Take it away, Tim. Yeah, thanks, Tim. So, as you all know, if you write poetry, you need pen and paper, right? So I hope that you all have pen and paper with you. If not, try to look around, get some pens, pencils, papers. This is actually just, you know, psychological reporting on myself that I use. Before we got to do poetry, we're going to do something else because we need to sort of get our creative brain working. And at the same time, I want you to get to know one another. And normally we have a very funny or very fun sketching exercise and we're just going to do that again. So does everyone have pencil and paper? Can you show your pencil and paper on your camera? So many people. Okay. So unfortunately, I can only see what is it, 36 of you at the same time, maybe less. But I think there is, yeah, just browse around a little bit to see who's out there. And what I want you to do is go and click on get a review. So you can see as many other people, as many other participants as you can right now. So I see so many people and I can click here on the arrows and I see more people. And I want you to do is to just browse around a little bit and then stop. So many people. Do you see people in your screen? Okay. Now I want you to just randomly select a person. It doesn't matter why and draw them. And you have one minute to draw them. You can use your right hand if you're right handed or your left hand if you're left handed or you can flip to make it more fun. But just draw one of your fellow participants of this session and I'll give you one or two minutes to do that. And we're going to show results of course. Now if you want to give it an additional dimension, you can also, you can also decide to put some of the people that you see into someone else's background. So if you think like, oh cool, I really like Tim's bookcase background, which is actually true. It's not a fake background. You can, for example, draw Catelyn and put her into my room or something else. So just mix and match backgrounds with people and then show your results. It will be cool if we can listen to some music in the meantime, right? But I'm not sure if that's possible. For those of you who have heard Tim and I singing, that's not good. What I'd invite you to do is remember, as Tim said, just use the arrow to scroll across. And also, as you're working on it, feel free to take a photo of it and share it on Twitter using the hashtag EGU, share EGU poetry and tagging in EGU sciences as well. And feel free to play your own music in your background. That way you can have the own music that you enjoy rather than being subjugated to the music that we enjoy, which is a purposeful decision that we made, which is why we're not playing music now. Again, or trying to karaoke a top 40 song, which is just as bad, if not worse. So to everybody joining us late, we're just doing an activity at the moment where we're asking everybody just draw a random person that you see on one of the screens in Zoom and try to make it as flattering as possible. And as Tim said, if you want to, you can put somebody else's background into the foreground of somebody else and we're going to share those in a minute. So that's to everybody that's just joining us late. Yeah, so this is fine at the moment where it can really also look at what backgrounds everyone chooses. It's really quite fascinating to see what you all have there. And one thing as well, virtual backgrounds in Zoom are really cool. If people can maybe turn them off, the only reason I'm saying this is because we're also recording this session so that the people who aren't able to come to this webinar can see it. If you feel as though you're in a comfortable environment where you can turn your virtual background off, it just makes it slightly easier for the recording suite going on. Obviously, if you're in an environment such as the toilet and you have your virtual background on, maybe don't turn it off. It's just if you feel in a safe environment in which you can do so. Tim, how much longer have we got on this activity? I think we have about, I think I'm going to see now, I think we have about 20 seconds left. 20 seconds, everyone. We lost the background that I was sketching. Where are you? We lost the participant, oh no. So I think we have five seconds left, Tim. Yeah, that's it. Show your results. Mine was Sidra Bibi. I saw you holding a cat, which is a terrible drawing and I superimposed someone else's background because someone appears to be in a cage at the moment. I'm not entirely sure why. I think I saw the cage too. And feel free to find the person on the message function in Zoom that you've drawn and say, hey, Lillian Barracroff, hey, Istam Ozen, hey, Dan Rengers, hey, Massimina Nezapa, hey, Andy Ben East. I've drawn you. Check it out. So I'll give you a minute just to message that person and say, I've got a really nice photo of you. Check it out. And also with your photos, just make a picture and please upload them and post them on Twitter using the hashtag. There's a share EGU20 and share EGU poetry. Share EGU poetry, exactly. Massimiliano, I drew you. Okay, these are great. If anybody has managed to draw me, please do send them to me. I'm at Sam Illingworth on Twitter as I'd love to see how you've made me. I drew Veronica Escobaruit with a background of David Schlappenhorst before he took away the background. Great work, Massimiliano. Thank you. Okay, so I'm now going to hand over. Now everybody's warmed up. The ice is broken. Everybody's on board. We've created a safe space in which people feel as though they can draw a complete stranger. We're in a good space. So I'm going to hand you over to Ariana now who's going to introduce us to our first poetry writing exercise. Again everyone, so we're going to get started writing some poetry and we'll do that by working on a list poem. Now what is a list poem? Well, it is simply a list as the name suggests of what we can see around us. So we are going to start by looking at around in our rooms and list down some objects that we are seeing. So for example, I live in a studio apartment so right now I am seeing both my kitchen so I could write down that. My mocha coffee maker, I have tables, some chairs. I can also see my bed and my window. So let's go ahead and all do this in our respective rooms. Just a list of the things that we are looking at. And some of you might want to get a bit more creative and not just write down physical objects that we are seeing but also maybe something that they inspire for us. For example, if there's that nice cup of tea that's steaming, we might write something along the lines of cozy or tea time. Whatever kind of strikes our fancy. How much time do we have, Ariana? Oh, we only have a couple of minutes. There should be a fairly quick activity. Thank you for asking, Dean. And you're writing this down. So you're making essentially a written list, a stem. Yes, that's just a written list. You can break it down into lines. You can have more than one object on every line. Whatever you think is your idea of poetry pass. And then we're going to get back together and share a few of those on a voluntary basis. One more minute and then whoever feels ready to share their work and use the raise hand function on Zoom and can unmute themselves and share what they've come up with. So maybe if people raise their hand, we can ask them to unmute them and then they can do it. That'd be great. Not just yet, Adele. Adele, I can see you're so keen to read your poem out, but we're welcome to. A few more seconds. Some of you even look like they are outside, so there might be some nature themes in your poetry. I'm looking forward to that. I haven't been stuck in the city for quite a while now. I see you're all still really focused. I think we can probably ask people to share some Ariana if they want to. Yeah, is anyone ready with a poem that they would like to share? OK, maybe you can either put your hand up in the real life or put your hand up virtually on Zoom and we'll flick through to see if anybody would like to share their list poem with the participants. So put your hand up on the screen or just flick your thumb up virtually. OK, so Samuel Eberends, I'm going to unmute you. Please avoid profanities and you'll get to share your list poem with everybody else. OK, thanks. Can you hear me? Yes. With three flowers on plastic chairs, on a barbecue, on my table, on my laptop and in my head. A black cat not daring to get into the video. Good for you, smart as privacy cat. Fantastic. So can everyone give Samuel a virtual round of applause, which is this? And also they can do the thing at the bottom reactions round of applause if they want to. So well done, Samuel. That was very, very good. And I'm very glad we got to hear something from the outdoor. Who'd like to go next? Oh, Evan. I see you. Evan, funner still. I am going to unmute you. Feel free to go ahead and share the poem you wrote. I have a laptop on the desk. We love it books on the shelf, my comfy bed and windows to the sky. Wonderful. Thank you so much for sharing. All right. Now we are going to try and do the same thing, but looking into someone else's room through Zoom. We're going to write another, another list poem. Feel free to flick through the pictures and look at someone else's background and write a poem inspired by that. And you can also combine them if you would like to. It's going to be nice to know the inspiration if you want to jot that down as well. Andrew, feel free to share your list poems in the chat function as well as we go through. We're going to get a couple of minutes to do that. Now, as we are still welcoming more participants in the in the session for everybody joining us now, we are doing an activity which is composing a list poem and list poem is simply a list of objects in your physical or metaphorical that we are seeing in in this case through the zoom window of another participant. We have a couple of minutes to do that, and then we're going to come back together and share. So welcome to the people who just joined us and please feel free to grab pen and paper and start jotting down poem together with the rest of us. So maybe 30 more seconds, do you think Ariana? All right, who is ready to share their poem? Again, you can use either an actual hand raise or use the raise hand function and we're going to go through and try to see who our first volunteer is. Ariana, I can see Bart van Osnabroos would like to share so we can invite him. So Bart, I'm going to unmute you. Please do share your poem. Okay, can you hear me? Yes. Okay, so this is at the video of Agnam Arshad, just a face, nothing less, nothing more, shadows in the background on a white wall, a hand touching a face, nothing less, nothing more. Beautiful, very, very good, Bart. Huge round of applause for everyone. I'd like you to go next. I'm Ajay, so I'm going to unmute you and please go ahead and share your poem. Hello, it's Ajay from IIT Karkur, India. So I wrote few lines. In all critical odds today, we are together on one platform, virtually the world now, yet we are connected on real exchange of ideas and thoughts to build a new world connected, we may be forever and ever. Thank you. Fantastic, thank you Ajay. Thank you. Oh, this is great. I want to hear one more before I end it over. In all the critical odds of today. I think one more poem. Sorry, rather than you again. The good is that poem was though. Arianna, I think Katja Dimitrova-Petrova has got something to share. Perfect. Would you like to go ahead and unmute them? I've unmuted Katja. Hi, thank you. So it's almost a riddle. So look at your room. It's a short one. Working out through memories on the walls. Books are anxious to serve him during a pause. Would it be with a cup of tea or a bonbon? That's the room of Duriel Desmond. Hope he likes it. All right. Well, good job everyone. This is really nice. I'm now going to hand over to Sam, who is going to lead us through the next part of his workshop. And again, thank you for sharing your poems. Thank you, Arianna. And thank you everyone so much for sharing your poems. That was a fantastic job. So what we're going to do now is we're just going to talk about introducing a form of poetry. So this session is to get you thinking about writing poems about science, writing poems about your research, writing poems about other people's research. However, if we were to just say to you, write a poem, you know, it's like saying do science. It's a bit too much. It's necessary to have structure there in the first place in order to help you to do that. Right. So what we're going to do is we're going to introduce you to a form of poetry, and then we're going to set you off into breakout rooms and you are going to construct a poem in your breakout rooms using that form of poetry. So it's going to be a collaborative co-creative exercise. And again, just throughout where there's nothing's bad, everything's good. It's about the process. And if we can just be super polite to everyone as well, that would be cool. So what I'm going to do now is I am going to share my screen with you and I'm going to share my screen with you. And I am going to show you a little bit about the haiku. Now, many of you will have come across the haiku before. However, you will have come across the haiku and you will have been taught it incorrectly. So if you've been taught haiku, certainly in the UK secondary school system, circa 1990 to 2000, you'll have been taught that a haiku has five lines, five syllables, seven syllables, five syllables. This is incorrect. So haiku, as we know, is a Japanese form of poetry. And in the original Japanese form of poetry, you would have 17 on, which are the equivalent of syllables in the English language. However, they don't translate directly into English. So a syllable is not the same as an on. For example, Tokyo in English, especially my broken English, would be Tokyo, two syllables. However, in Japanese on, it's to or kyo or, so four on. So you can see that they don't translate exactly. So a haiku theoretically should have 17 syllables or less. It doesn't have to be five, seven, five, but don't worry about the syllables. The syllables aren't that important. What's really important is that a haiku has to be about nature or reference nature. And if it doesn't, then it's not actually a haiku. It's something called a senru, S-E-N-R-Y-U. So a haiku always references nature. Now a haiku must also have a keigo, which is a seasonal reference. Now, if we're writing like really formal haiku, there's a set specific list of keigo for each season. These are certain words associated with plants, with animals, et cetera. But what I like to think of is we can play fast and loose with this and we can just pick a seasonal word that means something to us for that particular season. However, we should only have one season in the haiku. So far, don't worry about your syllable count. Always has to be about nature. Should always have a seasonal reference. And if you can, it should have a kiriji, which is a cutting word. Now, Japanese is a beautiful, vast language, which actually has words that introduced a juxtaposition, so a change, a contrast by a single word, by a specific kiriji. English, on the other hand, as we all know, is a horrible language. It offers no vastness. It is narrow. It is narrow-minded. And we don't have these beautiful cutting words. So instead, what we have to do is we have to introduce that juxtaposition, that contrast ourselves. So a really good haiku would have a juxtaposition. So that's a change of pace, a change of scenery, a change of setting, a change of scope, a change of mind. That is what I mean by a cutting word, or if we write in English, a cutting change. So haiku's, 17 syllables or less. Don't worry about it. Must always reference nature, must always have a seasonal reference, and should, if possible, have a juxtaposition or a contrast. I'm going to give you an example. So this is a haiku that I wrote. It's a very bad haiku, so I'm setting the bar incredibly low. And it's about a species of peaker, so small American rodents that were living in Canada, and which were living in California, and unfortunately their habitats have been destroyed by climate change. So this particular peaker really enjoy orange sneezeweed, which is a type of flower, and so this is the haiku that I wrote. Balanced on a rock, orange sneezeweed in your mouth, you drop in the heat. And I can show you the picture that inspired this. A little peaker there. So orange sneezeweed is the seasonal reference. The fact that it's about a peaker is the fact it's about nature. I've managed to just about include a juxtaposition because you're thinking, oh look, there's a really cute little peaker, and then it drops down. So that's a haiku. To go back, 17 syllables or less. Don't worry about the syllable count. Must be about nature. Must have a seasonal reference and should have a cutting word. So that is the haiku. Now what we're going to do is we're going to split you now into breakout rooms. It's going to be done completely randomly. So I have no idea who you're going to end up with. And what I would like you to do in those breakout rooms is to work in your groups of four, might be three in some instances, but you need to collaboratively write a haiku about the geosciences. So the geosciences can be about just any aspect of the geosciences. The haiku doesn't even have to be in English. If you all share another language that is vastly better than English, then please also think about writing a haiku in that language. But writing a haiku, 17 syllables or less, has to be about nature, has to include a seasonal reference, has to include some kind of juxtaposition or contrast. And it's about the geosciences. So I'm going to split you into breakout rooms. I'm going to give you about five or six minutes to do this. And then we're going to invite you back into the main space and you're going to share those collaborative haiku with everybody. So I am going to split you into 28 rooms of three to four participants per room. And let's just see how this goes. It's just literally going to be done now. Who knows how this goes? So you've all been invited to join a breakout room. Please click on that and see how you go. Have fun, have fun. So everybody else should have been requested. If you should have a little thing on your screen just saying please join the breakout room. Please do move to that breakout room by clicking the link. And hopefully that should take care of all of you. If there are people who are left, I'll just have to move you manually. But you should have had a little link there that just says, please join the breakout room. Just click on that link and it will take you there. And then I'll give you about five minutes and I'll ask you to come back in if that's okay. So almost everybody, if you just click on the little link that says join the breakout room, then that would be great. So we've down to the last few people that need to click on that breakout room. You should all have received an invite. Just click on that join and you will go to that breakout room. So Gwanshan, Rupa Shri, Adnan, Rayana, Hamza, Catherine Howe, Susanna, Chelsea, Radita, Sara, Florian. Just click on the link that I've sent you and you will go to that breakout room. And then that will be that. For the people who are unable to go into the breakout rooms, it should be everybody, you should all be able to go to the breakout room. Please do that. Everybody that's joining late, I will try to assign you to breakout rooms as well. So just click on the link that I've sent you for a breakout room and you should be able to go into that breakout room. For people who aren't in a breakout room, feel free just to listen to us talk. So basically what's happening, I'm going to be inviting people in as we go. People who've joined the session late, we're currently in the process of, I've invited everybody to join a breakout room and they're going to be collaboratively writing a haiku about the geosciences. The people who are in this session still are unable to or unwilling to join a breakout room, which is absolutely fine. I've no problems with that at all. With 116 participants, I'm not expecting everybody to do as they're told. So I'm going to give everybody just another, let's say another minute. I'm just going to assign a few people to random breakout rooms. Everybody's been assigned a breakout room. I'm going to give everybody another minute to do that. And then what I'm going to do for everybody else is I am going to recite some poetry. So just so we can hear it in the background, that might be quite nice. So as we're waiting for me to find some poetry that I think everybody will enjoy, I would like everybody to try and join the breakout rooms if they can. I've got some more unassigned people just going to assign those. No, there's nobody unassigned at the moment. So everybody's assigned to a breakout room. Everybody's got a few more rooms, a few more minutes to do that. And then what I am going to do now is pull up some poetry and I'm going to read it to you. So for those of you who have refused or unable to join the breakout rooms, here's a nice little treat for you. I don't know. Obviously I know Caitlin and simply enjoy this. I don't know. Hamza, Catherine, how Chelsea, Florian and Diana and Martina. This is for you. So this is a poem, one of my favourite poems. And it is, I'm just going to assign the person who's joined. This poem is by Rebecca Elson and it's called We Astronomers. We astronomers are nomads, merchants, circus people, all the earth our tent. We are industrious. We breed enthusiasm's honour, our responsibility to awe. But the universe has moved a long way off. Sometimes I confess, starlight seems too sharp. Unlike the moon, I bend my face to the ground, to the small patch where each foot falls, before it falls and I forget to ask questions and only count things. A little treat for you all there, for everybody who didn't go to the... Thank you very much. Thank you for applauding the work of Rebecca Elson, one of my favourite poets of all time. So Rebecca Elson really there was talking about, I think the need to move away from the miniatura of research and to really forget how easy it is for us to forget about the big picture and for us to get lost in our laboratory notes or for us to get lost in our field measurements when actually we need to think about why are we counting these things, why are we asking these questions in the first instance. So for me that's a beautiful example of a science poem. Rebecca Elson was one of the first people to work on the Hubble Space Telescope. So I'm just going to ask if Caitlyn could... Actually I'll do it, it's okay. Two minutes left. I'm doing a broadcast to everybody saying they've got two minutes left to finish their high coos and then I'm going to close all the rooms and invite everybody back. Unassigned, Hongfei, you are going to get assigned to Breakout Room 11. So Hamza, Catherine, Hao, Chelsea, Florian, Diana, Martina, Vib, Roland, Hongfei, and Yanchen. Again because you've deigned to stay in the main chat I want to provide you with some content so allow me to give you another poem that I enjoy. Now this poem is by Primo Levi and it's called The Black Stars. Let no one sing again of love or war, the order from which the cosmos took its name has been dissolved, the heavenly legions are a tangle of monsters, the universe blind, violent, strange as sails us. The sky is strewn with horrible dead suns, dense sediments of mangled atoms, only desperate heaviness emanates from them, not energy, not messages, not particles, not light. Light itself falls back down, broken by its own weight and all of us human seed, we live and die for nothing. The skies perpetually revolve in vain. What a poem from Primo Levi there, what a poem from Primo Levi. Some of us might think that this is a neolistic view of looking at the universe. What's the point? Everything is going to eat us up, but I actually think that this is a very pragmatic approach if we're all going to be eaten by black stars, i.e. black holes. How big is a black hole? How big is our universe? How small is our planet? How small are we? How small are our problems? So there we go, a little bit of poetry, chicken soup for the soul there from me. I'm now going to end all the breakout rooms, invite everybody back. Again, Hamza, Catherine, Howe, Chelsea, Florian, Terry and Rowland, thank you so much for your time. Stick around, ignore the call for breakout rooms again and you can hear some more poetry, it's our little secret. So we're going to close all the rooms now and invite everyone back. So people are starting to return from their breakout rooms hopefully, which is great. Welcome back to everybody from your breakout rooms. So all breakout rooms will close in 46 seconds. Hopefully everybody had fun. Hopefully everybody met some new connections, met some new people, wrote some Haiku. Maybe all of you just thought to yourselves, that Sam doesn't know what he's talking about. That's not what Haiku is. I'm going to rip up Sam's instructions and I'm going to write something completely different. If you did, well done, because that's what we should be doing with both poetry and science. We shouldn't be listening to people such and myself. We should be creating our own ruleset, stripping down the patriarchy and making up poetry and science of our own choosing. So we now have hopefully got most people back, just going to give everyone a few more minutes for everyone to come back into the room. So many people in those rooms, I think they really must have enjoyed it in that breakout room session, which is great. So the participant count is flooding back up, which is fantastic. What I'm going to do is, we've got an opportunity now, I would like to invite a spokesperson from any one of the groups to put their hand up either virtually or in the space. And I would like them to share the Haiku that they have written about the Geosciences. And I'm going to start with Lillian Baracroff. I'm going to unmute you and I'd like you to give us the Haiku and then if you want to, you can talk a little bit about your experience as well. So our Haiku is peaceful and content. The sun warms our bones as fire ravages our forests. Sweet. Virtual round of applause for Lillian there. And Lillian, was it a productive session? Were people willing to get involved in the writing? Yeah, I mean our group definitely found it was easier to share ideas than write all the words together. But it was productive in bouncing off of each other's ideas of where to go with it. Fantastic. Thank you very much Lillian. So I'm going to ask a couple more people to share. I can see Stephanie Mazon is desperate to share. So Stephanie, I'm going to lower your hand and unmute you. If you could please share your Haiku with the rest of the group. Okay, so it's with Alexandra Yerivu and Bow Dong as well. And we wrote, rivers in the sky, rivers flowing in the ground, quench a thirsty earth. Oh wow, virtual round of applause. Stephanie, that's fantastic. Yeah, it was really nice. We were two atmospheric scientists and one Alexandra studies rivers in the earth. So we wanted to mix the idea of water cycle. Oh, that's beautiful. Absolutely beautiful. Okay, thank you very much Stephanie and everyone for joining as well. Is there anybody else that would like to share the Haiku that they wrote? Like this or raise your hand in the virtual space by doing like raise hand. I'm just going to quickly scan through. Maybe we could take one more person sharing them if they'd like to. Again, I don't want to create. I don't want to force anyone to do anything they don't want to do. People feel free to share your Haiku in the chat as well if you don't want to read it out loud. I'm going to give everybody another minute or 10 seconds if they want to share. It's also quite hard for me to flick through 120 participants. There's one here. There's someone here. I think I see your hand. You're loose. I'm going to unmute you now. Okay. Hi. So we wrote the Haiku. It's the perspective from above how ice melts to the ocean. Rivers flows dry. Oh, amazing my lot. And what was the inspiration behind that? Virtual round of applause for my loss as well. It's very, very good. We just named which sciences we were into. We had rivers and oceans. One of us was into satellites. We thought we were going to look at them from above. One of us wrote about droughts. We wanted to put the dry into it. I'm so impressed. This is such a super time. Everybody has already started doing the main activity. It's the main activity. The main course of this feast of poetry and science. What I'm going to do again is I'm going to break you into different rooms. It's going to be completely random rooms, so you're not going to be with the same people again. I want you to... I forgot to say this. You should probably start by introducing yourself to those people. I'm going to split into breakout rooms. What you're going to do is introduce yourselves first of all, to write a haiku together about who you think has the coolest research. You need to basically have a discussion about what research you do, come up with who does the best, and then write a haiku about it. You can, of course, just ignore that and write a collaborative haiku. You can also ignore a haiku. You can write a Spencerian stanzer. You can write a Rondell. You can write a Kyriel. You can write whatever you want. I just want you to work together 10 minutes collaboratively. If you feel comfortable with it, I'm going to set you off in your breakout rooms. You're going to have 10 minutes. I'm going to give you a two-minute warning. Please follow the link that says go to your breakout rooms. Then let's just see how this goes. I'm going to... Do you know what? I'm going to recreate all the rooms and send you in it. Now, new people, have fun, speak to you all soon. You should all have been invited. Please click on that invite link. You can do it. That would be great. Ariana, you can stay in the room with us this time if you want to. It's up to you. Everybody else, just click on the breakout room. You can join that breakout room. You should be getting a link really soon. Just please do join that room. It should be a room with three or four people. Please do join that room. All you have to do is click on join the room. All you need to do is click on join the room. It will take you there. Please do click on the join the room button. I'm going to give everyone a few more minutes to do this. It's quite straightforward. All you need to do is click on the link that says join the breakout room. You should all have had a document that says join the breakout room. Please do do that. That would be really good. If you want to see that, at the bottom towards the right, there is four little squares. They say breakout rooms. If you can click on it also, your invitation will appear if it has disappeared from your main screen for any reason. If you're just not seeing how to join your breakout room, click those four little squares. At the bottom right. Thank you so much, Arianna. Click on this as Arianna has said. That would be really, really great. If not, I'm just going to give everybody another few minutes as I fill. I'm going to give you another two minutes maybe to try and find those breakout rooms. I'm going to keep a few more minutes. Arianna, could you go into that room and just see what's going on? Would that be okay? I'll do that later. We can't go between rooms. Okay, that's fine. I'll just leave it. They might have clicked it by mistake. For everybody else, now you've had the opportunity. Again, at the bottom of your screen to go into the breakout room, I'm just going to assign Raffaello because he's joined late. That's fine. Okay. Marlos, I'm sure everything is okay with that room. Everybody's been assigned into different breakout rooms. For everybody else. Jalping, Shrashti, Hamza, Howe, Chelsea. Hello again. Florian, Cynthia, Paul. Thank you. Thank you. Please click on the breakout room at the bottom of the screen. You will be able to go and do that. I'm going to stay here. Can no one else see the Ask for Help thing? Kate, Ling, Tim, or Arianna? No. Just really quick. What we can see is the rooms that you've assigned us to. Okay, cool. Marlos, she's asking for help. She's asking for help. She's asking for help. Okay, cool. Marlos, she's asking for help. Kate, Ling, could you PM Marlos V in the message section? No, I can't because it's only giving me the people that are in this screen right now. Okay. Well, I'm sure Marlos will be okay. I'm just worried that if I go away from this section, I won't be able to come back in. So everybody else. Hamza, Howe, Chelsea, Florian, Cynthia, Susanna. Oh, I have an idea. Can you allocate me to that breakout room and I can pop in and pop out? Yeah, that's a good point. So yes, that's a very, very good point. I will allocate you to a breakout room. I don't even know what breakout room that is though. It's Marlos V is somewhere in there. I think it must have been resolved because they've stopped asking for help. If they ask for help again, I'll allocate you and put you in there. That's a very good point. So for everybody else. So again, Hamza, Catherine, Chelsea, Florian, Cynthia and Susanna. Thank you for, thank you for really doing what I wanted you to do. You are the secret winners. When I said, enjoy the breakout rooms, what I really meant was don't enjoy the breakout rooms and stay here. And I'm going to read you some more science poems. Okay. So this poem is written by Walt Whitman. This is written in 1865 and it's called When I Heard the Learned Astronomer. When I Heard the Learned Astronomer. When the proofs, the figures were ranged in columns before me. When I was showing the charts and diagrams to add, divide and measure them. When I sitting heard the astronomer where he lectured with much applause in the lecture room. How soon unaccountable I became tired and sick till rising and gliding. I was wounded off by myself in the mystical moist night air. And from time to time looked up in perfect silence at the stars. It's a nice poem, right? So Marlos V is in breakout room 26. Okay. So Caitlyn. It's because Marlos is the only person in the room. I'm assigned to 26 so I can go there. It's because she's the only person in there. That's why. Okay. So with you and Caitlyn were in there. So Tim can you jump in and just do something super quick. Would that be okay? Caitlyn you can also go in there or you can just say with us. So you can. So hi again, Xaoping, Hamza, Howe, Chelsea, Florian, Cynthia, Susanna and Adnan. You are here in the behind the scenes footage of Rhymiel research. So we had requested all of you to go into the breakout rooms. However, I understand that that's not always possible for some of you. And some of you don't want to. So for those of you who have decided to stay behind, I'm going to read you some science poetry. This is some of the poetry that's inspired me. This is some of the poetry that's inspired many people throughout many different generations, throughout many different nations, throughout many languages, throughout many barriers. And this poem I'm going to read you. Okay. Now it's going to sound a little bit old fashioned, but just bear with me, listen to it all the way through. I'm going to share you some context with this poem that quite frankly is going to blow your mind. So this poem is written by Erasmus Darwin. And it's called, it's from, it's a selection from the Botanic Garden, a poem in two parts, part one, The Economy of Vegetation. Roll on ye stars, exult in youthful prime, mark with bright curves, the printless steps of time, roll near your beamy car's approach, and lessening orbs and lessening orbs encroach. Flowers of the sky ye too to age must yield, frail as your silken sisters of the field, star after star from heaven's high arch shall rush, sun sink on suns and systems, systems crush, head long extinct to one dark centre fall, and death and night and chaos mingle all, over the wreck emerging from the storm, immortal nature lifts her changeful form, mounts from her funeral pyre on wings of flame, and sores and shines another and the same. Now I know what you're thinking to me, I know what you're thinking, you're thinking to yourself, Sam, that is a really old poem written by a really old guy. What possible relevance does that have to me today, right? But let me tell you about that poem, yeah? That poem was written by Erasmus Darwin in 1791. So first of all, Erasmus Darwin, pretty cool guy. Erasmus Darwin was the great grandfather of Charles Darwin. Awesome. Also the father of botany. Awesome. Also decided to write down everything that was known in the world at that time about botany in two collections of verse like this. The whole thing written in rhyming couplets, as I just read to you. Amazing. What's even more amazing is the poem that I just read to you written in 1791 is actually talking about the big crunch, right? It's talking about the big crunch. This is like 200 years almost, 150 years before that was even postulated in science. Erasmus Darwin was writing about it in poetry. So it's all well and good saying, Sam, what relevance does Erasmus Darwin possibly have for me today? Well, he has many relevance, much relevance. A part of that relevance is that poetry is a really exciting, accessible and complimentary way of understanding the world and the way in which we live. I'm going to read you another poem. I'm going to read you another poem. Now this poem is by Robert Kelly. Robert Kelly is the former children's laureate in America and he wrote this poem in 2006 and it's called Science. I think this poem is great. What it does is it reminds us scientists that we just need to calm down sometimes. We need to stop taking ourselves so seriously. This poem is called Science by Robert Kelly. Science explains nothing but holds altogether as many things as it can count. Science is a basket, not a religion, he said. A cat as big as a cat. The moon, the size of the moon. Science is the same as poetry only uses the wrong words. Isn't that good? Isn't that good? So what Robert Kelly is doing now is he's reminding us as scientists that sometimes we maybe just take ourselves a little too seriously and that sometimes what we should be doing is thinking to ourselves, do you know what, science is great, but it's not the be all and end all. And what it does is it pokes fun at us that poem and it makes us question, I think, what science is and ultimately what science can and what science should be. So before I ask everybody from the breakout rooms to come back and to share their poems with us, I'm just going to share one last poem with you all. And I know that I often, you know, I can be a bit silly, I can be a bit daft, but ultimately I think that poetry is a really powerful way of communicating the world and thinking about and interrogating science. So I'm just going to quickly assign Ifa and I'm going to quickly assign Pradymanna and those people are now assigned. And then I'm going to treat you Arianna. I'm going to treat you Zalping. I'm going to treat you Hamza, Catherine Howe, Chelsea, Florian, Cynthia, Susanna and Vadim to a final poem today that is one of my favourites, one of your favourites, Myrstaf Holod, Czech immunologist and poet. This poem is called Wings, written in 1967. We have a map of the universe for microbes. We have a map of the microbe for the universe. We have a grandmaster of chess made of electronic circuits but above all we have the ability to sort peas, to cut water in our hands, to seek the right screw under the sofa for hours. This gives us wings. Beautiful words there from Myrstaf Holod and as we think about how science and poetry can give us wings, we're going to invite everybody back from the breakout rooms to share their poetry with us. Thank you very much for joining us in this secret poetry set. I appreciate your time, your commitment in listening to us. Thank you. Thank you Zalping. I want to say how nice to be able to take a few minutes during a busy sciencey afternoon to just read some poetry and feel something about science. Thank you Arianna. For those of you who are joining us now, what you've actually missed is a secret poetry set that people who were unable or unwilling to join the breakout rooms got exposed to. Exposed is probably the right word. Which teaches us all the valuable lessons. Sometimes it pays to maybe not do what your instructor has instructed you to do. So as the rest of the participants join us, as they come back from their breakout rooms, we're going to be asking everybody if they'd like to share the haiku or the poem, whatever it is that they've written in their collaborative groups. So if there's a spokesperson in one of the groups who would like to read out what they've got, and think about reading that out, that would be fantastic. Tim, can you just unmute yourself and say something so that you come back to the top of my gallery view? Yeah, hello. Thank you. You're both an amazing poem. Great. And Caitlyn, could you also say something so that you can... Perfect. Thank you, Caitlyn. Just so you're there. Just so I feel confident that my co-hosts are still in this with me. And amazingly, we've only lost six people in the entire process, which is quite phenomenal. It's much less than normal. It's quite phenomenal. So if you could either physically raise your hand and I will look out for it, or virtually raise your hand. We just got time for about three or four people to share their poems. OK, I'm going to start with looking through. I always like to give people who I haven't heard from yet. I'm going to go with Dominic Hestin-Rees, and then we're going to go with Claire Murray. OK, so Dominic, I'm going to unmute you. Remember, we're live. Children could be watching. Please take it away, Dominic. So I've got Warming World, Particles of Flux, Scattering Light, Reducing Forcing, makes it the coolest. Dominic, virtual rounds of applause for Dominic, please, because that was very, very, very good. And Dominic, did you enjoy working with your fellow participants in this manner? Yeah, it was nice. We all came up with... We all agreed and came up with slightly different verses, and then kind of brainstormed quite nicely. Cool. And thank you very much, Dominic. I'm just going to put you on mute now. Thank you. And what I'd encourage everyone to do is, if you haven't done so already, just really quickly message everyone in the chat. Continue these relationships. Continue these collaborations going forward. We've all met through EGU. All of us have now been on many projects together. We've set up initiatives together. We've written research together. So please use this as an amazing opportunity to meet other people and to start collaborations going forward. And let me, Tim, Ariana, Catelyn and EGU know about any of those that are happening. So Catelyn, I'm going to invite you... Sorry, Clare, I'm going to invite you, Clare Murray. I'm going to unmute you to share your poem with everyone, please. Clare Murray, thank you so much. I'm going to introduce myself. We had a fantastic conversation with Maluska Rosas and Eva Fanestill. And thank you for coming to us. So our haiku is climate change wrecking our world. Amazon on fire, kids have the power. Fantastic. Virtual round of applause for Clare, please. That was very, very, very good. I'm just going to read some out from... If again, if people can please just raise their hand virtually because it has lasted for so long, I'm just going to read a couple out because some people, you know, don't like sharing virtually. Next I'm going to be coming to Jermaine Chavar. Jermaine, I've unmuted you. Please, you can read yours out now. Well, we had a nice time talking about the monsoon in Southeast Asia, so, et cetera. Monsoon carries south winds. The goal has to wait until it becomes a time machine. Fantastic. Virtual round of applause. Thank you so much for that. Really, really beautiful poem. I'm just going to read one out from Patrick Corbett. His group came up with this really nice haiku. Some water around fractures connect to flow, but only underground. Very, very good. And a slightly longer one here from Lena Stein. Rivers and valleys, oceans and mountains connect the planet. A visual language we are trying to understand. And as Caitlin said, if you want to connect, we recommend that you reach out via social media or directly. We can't share people's contact details, but just look each other up online and message each other in the chat as well. Got time for probably two minutes. I'm going to read one out because I think we need to emphasise on the diversity of European languages and all languages around the world. So, this is one in Dutch for you. Written with the Merlus in Gapesbyn. Donaldson, the reviewer of a written fundamental are the best. Well done. I mean, my polyglot nature knows how good that was in Dutch, Tim. I don't want to ask you for a translation because that would be to superimpose the English is a superior language to Dutch, which we as we know it is absolutely not. We can translate it in any other language. It's fine. Give me two minutes. Okay, so any more virtual, if you can again raise your hand, we've got time for probably two more virtual hands. Raise it physically or in the virtual environment. I look to see if anybody else would like to share them. Here we've got one here from Alexandra Celine Jarvis. Trees breathe clouds grow full summer showers replenish the ground earth renews herself. Wow. Beautiful. Very, very nice virtual round of applause there. So, before I hand over to Caitlin to I'm going to hand over to Caitlin is just going to talk a little bit about the legacy of this going forward. Caitlin's then going to hand back to me and we're all going to say goodbye. But before we do that, I just want to remind you all, please email, please tweet your poems to your Geosciences and please also if you can use the hashtag share EGU poetry. I've just put this in the map and if you have a poem that you would potentially like to read out in a public arena on Friday at an undisclosed time. Let us know via Twitter and you may well be selected. That's all I can say. It's incredibly vague, but trust me it might be worth it. So I'm going to pass you on to Caitlin who's just going to talk a little bit about legacy and then we're going to wrap up by saying goodbye. We'll be finished definitely within the next 10 minutes. Okay, thanks Caitlin. Just also to add on with what Sam was saying because it sounded like perhaps eerily vague. It's going to be a blast if you've ever heard of these famous parties that happened at EGU. We're hoping that it also turns into a poetry one. Details to be determined because we're figuring it out as we go along as well. So I think a lot of folks might be wondering. All right, we just all nearly 100 of you just wrote a poem. Now it's been great. There's so many people working on these things together now what to do with it beyond sharing it on social media. What if I want to iterate on this and make it really strong. The team, particularly Sam has really pushed the effort of trying to show how we can communicate science in new ways particularly through poetry and we've started a new journal called Consilience. And it's specifically assigned poetry journal and it's free to publish in free to access all that good stuff but within this, you submit the poem it goes through a review process and then we end up publishing it. So it's a peer reviewed science public science poetry journal. And with this, it just really kind of starts to emphasize like that there are different ways that we can communicate science and do so through prose and do so through poetry. It just started. We are first issue was on connectivity. The next one on the focus is to be determined, but we really recommend and hope that you guys take what you've created here and don't just let it go. I think that from all the poems that we've heard through all the poems that we've read in the chat, they're so strong. And I think it would be a shame if it didn't go somewhere else. So make sure to reach out to us through social media directly if you have any other questions, but we really hope we really invite you to share these beyond just today. Thank you so much, Caitlin. So I've put a link in the chat to Consilience Journal, just Google search Consilience Journal. Please get involved with that. But most importantly, talk to each other, write poetry, do science, be nice to each other. Follow EGU this week on the hashtag ShareEGU20, look at the EGU website, EGU2020.eu. There's loads of free activities, loads of different ways to get involved, lots of innovative short courses, lots of sessions in which you can join in as well. I'm just going to ask all of the co-hosts to quickly say goodbye and then I'll wrap up. So Caitlin, if you could say goodbye please. Hi, thanks for joining everyone. If you want to reach out, I'm on Twitter. I'll put my Twitter handle in there, but I'm sure everyone's will be floating around a lot. So hopefully we connect later and I'm very excited to hear from you. Thank you very much, Caitlin. Tim, if you could say goodbye please. Yeah, thank you all very much for joining and thank you, Sam, of course, for hosting this session again together with Caitlin and Ariana. Thank you very much. Also, just once more, share your poem, share your drawing and yeah, see you next time. Thank you. And Ariana, if you can just say goodbye as well, thank you. Hi everyone. Thank you so much for participating. This was fantastic and I would love to hear more about your poems and your science. I put my Twitter handle in the chat and yeah, great for participating. Thank you so much, Ariana. So yes, thank you to Ariana. Thank you to Tim. Thank you to Caitlin. Thank you to all of you. Thank you to EGU for creating this environment. Thank you to science and thank you to poetry. We hope that you've enjoyed spending this last hour or so with us. We've really enjoyed spending this last hour with you. Be good to yourselves, people. And until next time, ciao.