 Welcome everybody to this NH webinar digital online geoscience communication. This seminar has been organized by the natural hazard early career scientists team of EGU. Very briefly I'm going to introduce our group. The natural hazard early career scientists team is is a very active team inside the European geophysical union. We do a lot of interesting activities together. Some of them have been reported here in this slide we call organized sessions short courses and activities during the general assembly. We have a very interesting blog that I think that also one of our speakers going to introduce you today. We meet on our Slack platform to do some networking to share job opportunities to discuss together about potential collaboration to share our knowledge in our personal knowledge regarding natural hazard. And last but not least, we organize a lot of interesting outreach activities such as this webinar that we are organizing today. Of course, if you're interested in joining us, we are really happy to welcome everyone interested in this field. And to join us you have just to send an email to this address that is ecs-nh at egu.eu. So let's start with this seminar I'm really happy to have ER3 special guest today. We have Julia Roder, Iris Van Zelsen, Roberto Guardo. For any question, please use the Q&A chat, the dedicated chat, we are going to collect all your questions and then at the end of the presentations we have a very dedicated session in which the different speakers can reply to all your questions. So I leave the floor to the first speaker today that is Julia Roder. Julia is a postdoc at the University of Woodinay in Italy, where she studies the economic and non-economic value of water. In the past she joined the Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability at the UN University in Tokyo, Japan, working on water sustainability and policies. She has a PhD from the University of Padua, making a thesis on floods and human interactions. She joined our group, the EGU Early Careist Scientist Group of the NIH Division in 2017, so almost at its beginning. Since then she has been contributing a lot to the blog and to all the activities of the group, including the organization of these outreach activities. I'm really happy to leave the floor to Julia for the first presentation, talks about the Natural Hazards, the EGU blog. Thank you very much, Silvia. I'm going to share my screen. Okay, so I'm really glad to kick off this webinar regarding geoscience communication. First of all, I really would like to start speaking about our Netra Hazard Division blog that has been launched on December 2017. And up to now it counts six people that are posting every two weeks almost on a rotational basis, plus some guest authors that are publishing once in a year or once in their academic life. So we're approaching a broad geoscience community with different type of posts. So we have selected so far interviews, posts about Netra Hazards event, so just concentrating on single events and this description of them in a more scientific but also in a broader and informal way. We have started a Netra Hazard 101 series, so our aim was to give some basic definitions of the most important concepts and avoid the misinterpretation on the use of these terminologies. We liked to share our life in academia but also it struggles and some tips for success. So one month ago, for example, we published a post regarding how to write a scientific paper. One of the most important part also on blogging is the advertisement. In fact, we use Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn. And as we are a group hosted by EGU, we are retweeted and reshared by the Netra Hazard Division, the EGU but also on our personal accounts. So let's see how you can start blogging by your own. Of course, first you have to understand which is the motivation behind your desire to blog. So you have to understand whether you want to share your own research or research topic in a broader sense, whether you prefer to network and make yourself more visible, or to communicate geoscience because you are in love with science overall so you wanted to share it broadly. There are different types of posts you can offer. Again, you can select to offer your own research but of course be aware that can be limited. You can share uninterested publication, an interview or someone you would like to network with or someone working on a hot topic. For example, in our blog we have interviewed a group that has been arguing a lot about the natural disaster definition. Of course, our academic life is struggling so even sharing our personal experience might be an idea or to share geoscience fun facts. So we are approaching to a wider audience and the lay public so we are not approaching to our peers. When choosing the format, of course, there are different styles and different word limits in accordance so you can go for short posts that are up to 500 words. They are less detailed. They are much more general in their content and you can put a lot of images but be aware about a copyright of them. Then you can select long posts. Of course, I wouldn't exceed 1500 words. They are much more details and they can offer a more specialized overview about the topic you have been interested to. On the other side you can go for interviews. They are quite personal, less scientific, quite easy to read from the reader point of view. And of course they can take a different time for you to write them because you can really interview the people in a normal form or you can let them reply to your questions in a written form. At least you can write opinion posts. Of course, for the nature of these kind of formats, they are very subjective and humor and sarcasm are really acceptable. In all the cases, I would advise to give a personal touch to everything because there are a lot of blogs out there and we need to be original. Of course, depending on your aim and motivation, your audience differs because you can relate to a broader community of peers, so only just scientists and scientists related to your field of research. A more lay public, a general public, so you need even to be careful about the language you are using, or specific groups, for example, high school students. As I said, the language is essential. So, of course, if you select English that is the most common language we can use in the internet, of course you are going to reach a wider audience, but sometimes it's much more comfortable for someone to use the mother tongue. In general, I would suggest avoiding using the jargon, so try to use alternatives or provide some examples of what you're writing, for example, by creating some boxes in your posts. What I would like even to say is talk simple but not simplistic, so people, especially the lay public, need to understand that you are doing something really complex because science is really complex and complicated, but you have to explain it in a simple way. And of course, use an inclusive language that English somehow can really help in using an inclusive language. Of course, we were a team and there are a lot of pros and cons in publishing as a team. If you can imagine, of course, you can reach support by your peers, you can have feedback and discussion. And regarding the visibility, you can really jump quite fast because you have a lot of posts in a limited time, and you are sharing the burden and the time investment is very little at the very beginning. Of course, the cons are regarding some conflicts that may originate regarding the style or the content, and of course you have less freedom to choose. In our case, of course, we need to stick even on easier rules because we are hosted by them. If you fly solo, of course, you have complete freedom in all your choices on your topics on your style, but of course the time investments is really high, and it takes a little bit of time to start and to grow and to advertise yourself in this regard. Some more tips I want to share with you is that readers sometimes are quite tired in reading blogs because there are a lot out there, so you need to be catchy. And of course, the first thing that they are reading is the title, so really just provide an explosive and really catchy title of your posts. In the same way, you have to use spaces, bold italics and keywords in order to catch their attention, but also because if you use keywords is really much important, and it's quite easy to find your post while someone is doing a web search on the internet. Again, as I said before, if you're using images, just be aware and pay attention to the copyright, because not everything that you find in your browser search can be reused without permission, and there are some websites that allow you to have some pictures without any copyright. If you fly solo, of course, you need a friend or a peer who is reading over your post before publishing, that is a good exercise for you, but also because you have a feedback of someone external from your field, and keep an eye on the analytics. So as we are all researchers, we do like statistics a lot. Of course, they are not essential, but can help you to tailor your content, but also check your performance and your audience. So what we have achieved so far is that by looking at matomo statistics, we grew up a lot, and not only we expanded out from Europe, so we are very glad that we reach India and the Philippines and Japan a lot, so we are reaching Asian countries as well. And we have also changed our content because we have seen that the 101 series was much more catchy than other type posts because of course they are much more reachable in the search net because of keywords. We are using matomo and not Google analytics because of some privacy data that are released by those websites. So 10 minutes are really short time, so I hope I have gave you a little bit some tips for writing and starting your blog. If you want to know more, there is this fantastic short course called science blogging for beginners available for free on the YouTube channel, so check it out. So if you want to give it a try on our Netra Hoser blog, just write to us as ecs-nh at egu.eu. We will really eager to welcome on board. Thank you. Thank you very much, Julia for your presentation. I hope that there will be time at the end to discuss some questions with you two. So now I would like to leave the floor to our second presenter today. It is Wanzel, is a postdoc at the German Aerospace Center in Berlin where she studies the evolution of Venus. She worked on subduction and earthquake dynamics at the University of Leeds and ETH Zurich. She's a very active in the egu community, in particular at the geodynamic division where she's editor in chief of the blog. But the reason for which in particular today it is easier is because she started a YouTube channel at the beginning of 2021 to shed light on what life is like as a postdoc. And for her science sisters interview series on YouTube, she recently won the AGU sharing science grant, and she won the 2021 AGU public engagement grant to develop an educational card game about the geological time scale. So we are really happy to have Iris today here with us. I leave you the floor for your presentation. Thank you very much. Thank you very much for having me here and inviting me. I'm very excited. I hope you can see this. What is this about? Well, I wanted to give you some hands-on tips on how to start vlogging, spoiler, the answer is just do it. That's really all there is to it. And yeah, I'm going to be giving you very specific examples from my experience. It's probably going to be a bit cringy, but you know, it's vlogging. Also, when I talk about vlogging, video blogging, it has this connotation that it is, you know, a person talking into a camera about themselves. I don't necessarily mean that I also mean any kind of video you might want to make really. So that's what we're talking about today. So vlogging is in my world at least kind of associated with YouTube. That's where you upload your videos. So how do you start a YouTube channel? Well, step one is have a basic plan. Doesn't have to be very complicated, but try and answer the following questions for yourself. What is your goal? Who is your target audience? What kind of videos do you want to make? And how often do you want to make a video? And I am now immediately, shamelessly going into the self-promotion in order to answer these questions myself, because as mentioned, I have a YouTube channel. This is kind of the weird stuff that I do. This is the link. And to kind of guide you through this, I will answer these questions for myself. The goal that I have is to entertain people. You know, I want people to watch it and it shouldn't feel like work. It should just be something fun that it put up. But it still is about science, but it shouldn't feel like work. And I want to show what life as a researcher is like, because I was missing that I wanted to see another postdoc struggling in academia. And there wasn't one that I could find. So, you know, I became that person. And I wanted to start honest conversations about academia and all the weird things that are here. My target audience, therefore, since I'm making something that I would like to see, is you guys, basically young academic professionals, PhDs and postdocs, kind of, you know, at the beginning of their academic career. And also, as I'm, you know, educating people on what life as a researcher is like, prospective academic students that are interested in maybe going into science or going to the university. And then to a lesser extent the general public to show what life is like at university. The kind of videos that I wanted to make our sketches and skits and kind of comedy things on academic life. I wanted to make a postdoc vlogs once a month to show what I've been doing as a month as opposed to like what you do in a month. And then science sisters, which is an interview series where I have a guest on the show, and we talk about something that is wrong in academia basically. And I wanted to make videos once a week. So those are my answers. Okay, so I've taught you that have this basic plan but how do you actually do it. That's very simple answer. Just do it. And I'm serious, just start and start for the right reasons because, you know, starting a YouTube channel for the fame or the money is probably not going to get you anywhere because you will not get famous. And you will not make money, at least I don't I lose money. Very regularly, all the time. So, the reasons I started doing it, because I wanted to learn a new skill I wanted to learn how to do video editing, and how to produce videos and the only thing to learn that is by doing. And someone said once to me, you know the first 50 videos you will produce are going to be crap. So you might as well get them over with as soon as possible so just just do it. And along the way you'll get better. And I also wanted to have a creative outlet. I just wanted to do some silly things, let go of my creativity. So that is why I do it. And to show you that just do it really is what I did. This is the thumbnail of my ever first YouTube video that I uploaded. And I started to think seriously about this and, well, let's just see how it started it's about me reviewing scratch continental crack up which is an Ice Age, comedy skit, and seeing if there's any mistakes in it from a scientific point of view. Hello, and welcome. I am ears and I will be your scientist on this flight. Hello to me this is very cringy choices were made. Yeah, it's not my best work funnily enough though it is the second most viewed video on my YouTube channel with over 2000 views, just not something I necessarily want but you know, a bangers can be chooses. Yeah, there were definite mistakes but along the way you'll learn right so you know, you can start at cringy it's fine. In terms of equipment. The golden rule is, don't take all my money, it might be very tempting if you want to start that you're like oh I need a fancy camera, I need fancy microphone. No, you don't need that. Whatever I filmed here was, you know, filmed with no fancy microphone or whatever. So, and it's the video like one of the videos that's done the best on my channel so it really doesn't matter. What people do in most cases, if you are really eager to invest in something. Maybe start with a microphone because people's ears are more easily offended than their eyes. So it might seem counterintuitive but the microphone is the better choice to invest in first and then you know maybe a camera but really not necessary. Okay, so we've been talking about this, still haven't told you how to make a video. So I'm going to do that now. So how to make video, three steps, pre production, production, post production, and we'll go through them right now pre production, start with the idea, have an idea of what you want to film what you want to do. And, and then, if that idea involves collaborators reach out to them, and the golden rule here is fortune favors the bold. And, besides friends and colleagues that I wanted to have on that interview series, I of course also wanted someone that I didn't know, and I thought was quite famous so this is Simon Clark. He's a big YouTuber and my eyes with over 350,000 subscribers, which is way more than my 200. So, I just reached out to him on Twitter, and he said yes of course I'll join your interview. Golden rule, just ask fortune favors the bold. And, you know, the worst thing that could happen is that you either don't get a reply, or someone says no thank you. Both cases, absolutely fine so it can be very scary but put your hesitation and shyness aside, and just reach out to people. I wanted the other way if people reached out to you, you know, to talk about something that you're passionate about of course you would say yes, because you're excited about it you want to talk about it so don't feel shy about that. Yeah, but we're not going to talk about this particular video in order to illustrate the production process. We're going to talk about this. This postdoc in the bedroom about what it is like to do a postdoc completely from your bedroom during a pandemic, and it's a song parody. So I, I modified the lyrics of a certain song that I knew. This is a thumbnail. And I didn't have any collaborator for that. But pre production process then looks like this, you write the script, you have text. I have a script, I have a little slack channel with myself, where I just talked to myself and put all my ideas and all my scripts and things. And this is part of what the script looks like so these are the modified lyrics. But you don't only need text you also need the shots that you want the angles. So, these again are some of my notes, what I wanted to film, I wanted to film one setting of the song sitting in the bed, and convey these kinds of emotions. Etc. And then lastly, you need to prepare your costumes and your props so that everything is readily available and the filming can be done rather quickly. So here I have combining all the different shots with the different costumes and what I needed to record for each situation. Okay. And then production. Okay, you know you've you've laid out all your props costumes, you know what you want to film you have your script. Now you need to do it. So you set up your camera, maybe you set up your microphone, and then in this case, since it was a song, I recorded the audio first and edited that. And afterwards I filmed over it so this is the awkwardness that I never thought would see the light of day that is recording and editing the audio. I'm a postdoc in my bedroom with my contract almost done. Yes, so you know no background music and then I just have the backing track on loop later take the best take edit some things together to make it sound a little bit better. And then I have the final audio recording. And then once I have that you need to film the video from your multiple angles with your multiple costumes, maybe do multiple takes if you screw up. This is then how I start recording the actual video. So what you saw me do is I have this little remote control to record start recording remotely. And then I need to hide that because I don't want to have it in shot. And then let's see. I have the music so that I can sing along with it so that later in post production, I can sync the song with the actual nicely produced audio, so that my lips will sync up with the sound, and they have the better produced audio. And then you need to do the post production, you know, you filmed everything multiple takes, and then you need to edit, and that arguably takes the longest so you need to cut all the different takes together cut out any mistakes. You can make it pretty, you know, boost the colors, polish the sound at background music at flying, you know, airplane sparingly, and and so on. The edit is where you can really make your video. And the way I edit is in iMovie. If you're wondering what kind of software to use. Why do I use iMovie. It was free, and it was pre installed on a laptop, and sometimes I'm frustrated that it doesn't do all the things that I wanted to do, but it's free. So I can't really complain about that. And it works for him for most things. And then lastly, you need to have the thumbnail, something that catches the eye of the server on YouTube, and then you're pretty ready to go and you get something like this. I'm a postdoc in my bedroom with my contract almost done. Which is halfway decent. And if you look very closely, the things that I pay attention to is that the cuts align with the music on the beat and the accents of music. Yeah. So just a summary, golden rules. Have a basic plan. Just do it. Execute your plan. Don't take all the money. Don't need the fanciest of equipment. You can just take your phone and do it. And fortune favors the bold. Just ask around. People will most likely want to collaborate. And then go and make your video pre production, production, post production, and then taking my own advice. Fortune favors the bold. This is again my YouTube channel. Feel free to subscribe and like and share and whatever you need to do these days. That's not something I'm very good at. Which is why I'm very much looking forward to the next talk, because I think I learned a lot from that. Thank you very much for listening. Thank you very much. It is for your presentation. It was very interesting, but also very, very funny. So I'm really happy for this, for this presentation. So now I think that we are going to to move to our last guest today that is Roberto Guardo. Roberto is a geophysicist and the viconologist with the strong experience in GIS. He attended both bachelor master at the University of Catania in Italy where he studied and published about Mount Etna. He also took courses at Halberg University of Copenhagen in Denmark in 2016. He moved to Argentina for a PhD position in volcano in volcanic volcanology and seismology that he completed in 2020. He defines himself as a multi-potentialite with several interests, one of which is science communication. That's the reason for which Roberto is here today with the speech, science communication, a failed plan B to the published or perish. So I leave you the floor for your presentation, Roberto. Thank you Silvia and hi everyone. Thank you for being here. And yes, I'm going to talk about a failed plan B to the published or perish, because once I was going to complete my PhD I said, Okay, I understand, I realize that I don't like to write papers. And that's for a researcher is a big issue. So I said I like to talk so I can move to science communication everybody do communication and there are a lot of science communicator so it not must be that hard. I was wrong and presages. So I tried and I failed, or at least I failed considering that the plan B for the published or perish. So it is a plan that I'm pushing on pushing forward, and I don't know where it will bring me, but I keep going. And we only have less than 10 minutes and time is a major issue when communicating in social media. No matter what you are communicating science communication or other kind of communication. The time is one of the most important thing to keep in mind and you have to adapt your content to the platform you're using and how to choose the content you are one you want to use. Because how you consider a lot of platforms with several billion users. And it is hard to choose. And I'm going to show you the most important rule that belongs that cover the platform we are using so no matter which one you choose there are three main rules for every platform. The first one is that golden and harder rule is that but be always there, because every algorithm is a new enemy. And if you say that no okay algorithms you're here to help. That's a lie. The algorithm is your enemy and we are going to see why. Second rule, the battle for attention, people and time are limited, meaning that there are a lot of content creator and people have to choose which one wants to watch or listen. So you have to be fast when you want to communicate something and you have to keep in mind that there are a lot of people creating content so you have to fight with our content creator to gain the attention of your audience. And the third one, spell the name to became a shadow. Never, never say the name of another platform while you are sharing content in a platform. If you are on Instagram, don't say YouTube or Twitch, you can say Facebook because they are the same, the same, but never say the name of other platform. You are, if you're on YouTube and you say Instagram Twitch, you can fall in the shadow of people will see less of your content or you will not be shared by the algorithm you will be hide, banned. And that's the three main rules. And there are a lot of different stats online but almost done talks about science communication. So I'm going to talk about what I found out during the last three years on just four platforms that are YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, and Twitch. As I see myself is like my life I was born on YouTube, I will going, I grew up on Instagram and Facebook, and I'm going to die on because of the time and because I really like it. Let's start with YouTube. I divided on between pros and cons. YouTube is almost but free, meaning that you do not need to be always there, but you must be constant. Because if you do not publish once a week or once of two weeks while you are small, while you are, you have less than five or 10,000 subscribers, the algorithm hides you if you do not publish. I tried this myself. I didn't publish for almost one year and this Saturday I published a new video and it reached less than 50% of the views that I was used to reach. The algorithm helps you to reach people with similar interests and the videos are indexed. That means that if you look for some content on Google, you can find out videos that doesn't work on other platforms like Instagram, we will see later. There is a self-certification while you are uploading a video, means that YouTube algorithm ask you if in your video there are inappropriate language, violence, drug-related content, and other things like that depends on the language you are publishing the video. And that's helped you to gain possibility to publish without censorship and also the use of ads on your videos. There are three types of content, short video like real, the normal video and the live stream, and YouTube is the second most used social platform. And as it said earlier, it is time-consuming because you have to record and before recording you have to write down what you want to say and you have to edit and then upload. And it takes a long depends on how long is your video. And there is almost no pay when you are a really small YouTuber. You have to reach a really great number of subscribers to see some money. One of the important things that you have to remind is that you have to check the nationality of your audience. And I want to say other things about low pay, when you start to monetize it's not as you start. You can start monetizing once you reach 4,000 hours of view and 1,000 subscribers. It's not that easy. Let's move to Instagram that there are four type of contents, the posts, the stories, reels and Instagram DB. It is easy to create network without a content creator because it just you can send a message and if the reply is done. And it helps you develop a relationship with your audience because they brought you and if you want just reply and you are start connecting with them. There are a lot of calls in my opinion about Instagram is not indexed so you cannot find information of your post on Google, you are not indexed. There's a strongest but you'll always be there you must be always there because there are a lot of people sharing content that hides you. The algorithm change continuously. And for example, now you can do live stream of four hours maximum land while last year was only one hour. And there is a heavy competition and there is a lot of thoughts and scam. That's really a problem. And there is a strong censorship. For example, what I experienced last week is that I upload a satellite volcano image that probably is not that clear because it is a satellite image of a really low quality, but it was considering unity or sexual activity. So it was shut down. The same censorship happened on Facebook because, you know, the same boss behind them, but Facebook is the first most used social media. There's a sponsored post that is also a con because if you don't have money, you cannot sponsor your post. Your profile can be your page. So if you have a 5000 friends, you can convert them in 5000 subscribers, and you can manage the post automatically in the Facebook business app. You can post directly on Facebook, on Instagram, or on both of them. And the cons is that there are a lot of fake news that are shared by all this age users that create some sort of toxic place. So it's not that fun being on Facebook this time. And as I said, there's a strong censorship. And let's move to the one that I really, really prefer. That probably is the hardest to use. That is Twitch. You can be there all the time you want. There is no stop on recording live streaming. You can be online live streaming for months. This is crazy. You can reach alternative public mostly young that find your stream just by chance, not because our indexed so you can find a new audience that they didn't know they could like your content. You can monetize not easily but faster because people can send money in every kind of form on Twitch, they can do donation or can subscribe and you can receive a part of that money, and it's much faster than YouTube. It's a great engagement with the people in chat because they can unlock feature just by writing how on depends on how much they write on your chat they unlock features and they can be the best of your audience so people like to be engaged in that challenge like a video game. It is challenging because it is like a video game where you unlock feature depends on how much time you spend on the audience you reach how many people are in the chat. At the same time, how many people are writing how much messages they are sending so depends on that you unlock features and you unlock new levels and depends on new level, you can gain more money. And it is important to remember that if you lose that the streak that gold you already reached you downright that's free. And there is almost no sense of people when you are a smaller twitchers, because no one is controlling you but once you gain view. That's can be a problem because the algorithm is not that good to understand when you are joking when you are talking about history, for example, and when you are talking about all you are doing something that is not on the guideline. And the cons is that if you are unknown, you will not have audience that means you need a fan base to start because if you are if you have less than five people watching your stream, it is hard to reach others. It is a lot of time consuming because you learn, you need to learn the setup you need to learn how to use the streaming software, and it is pretty hard. And actually, in Twitch, you need good hardware like microphone and the camera and also light setting because people do not like to watch stream that are not interesting and not well for the side and listening part. And, as I said, you need to be constant or you down with your position and one say that there is a main pro between all the platform that is only one advice I give you that is be yourself, because if you are yourself, you can switch from a platform to another one and. You don't need to adapt on the platform, but you have to adapt the kind of format you are sharing but not yourself. So, that's, it's my only advice and has our sale. Just do it. And thank you for your attention and you can follow me on YouTube on Twitch or on Instagram. And if you want, you can give me feedback my English. And if it is good enough I may start being to make video also in English. And thank you again. Thank you, Roberto. For sure it is better than mine your English so you can for sure go for it. Yeah, I leave you the floor to me guard that is going to moderate the now the question and answer session. Please. Thank you. First I would like to thank all of the speakers for their valuable advice and helpful tips on how to communicate science using digital words really. We actually have a couple of questions from our audience. I actually select one question at this time to each of our speakers. So, one of them is for Julia. So, someone asks, how can we gradually introduce basic technical terms through social media if there is no room for explanations. So, if, if we can start with you then you know I can perhaps get other people's on the panels as well to give their view on this. Yeah, thank you very much I will be very short. Basically what we do is that we sometimes offer some boxes in which we explain the basic concepts. Second, we can recall to other material that is external to our material itself. And we also took advantage of these, let's say limitation, and this is the reason why we perform the one on one series in which we explain exactly basic technologies and we help our readers to all readers or audience to understand them. And if you are doing some videos I guess that it is going to be the best person to answer this but I guess that you can even recall to your previous videos so you can advertise yourself more. Yes, that makes sense. Thanks so much. So, the next question is for Iris. They mentioned, could you talk about how much time commitment each production requires required is required for each production. Yes, quite a lot. I was very optimistic in the beginning. Oh, once a week. Great. Yeah, it takes about. It depends very heavily on the type of video that I make. Usually I kind of write the scripts. I don't know, like during the day or have an idea. So that isn't really the most time consuming. I usually rather short can be like maximum half an hour, unless there is an interview that I do when it's about one or two hours, but also relatively short, and then the edit that just takes a long time I have been getting quicker like you, when over time it will go faster. In the beginning it took me hours days to do really short videos. Now it goes a lot faster and can take like a couple of hours to do like a 10 minute video. And it depends on what kind of video it was so if it's very heavily scripted so if I have every sentence that I want in there in a comedy sketch. It's very easy because I have multiple takes, I picked the best take, and then that is that part of the video done. And then I kind of have to kind of cut that all together but that's fine. If it's something where more kind of talking. It's harder because I get off track very easily in order to make it concise and still make sense. I think is the most time consuming part of the whole production, perhaps yeah, and it is not some but you know I think the best thing about it is that you don't have to do it in one go like you can still separate it in different, you know, in your schedule, hopefully. Yeah, definitely. Yeah, but thanks. I may add something about that. It is also hard in the post production the editing part because you have to sum up image content that helps to explain what you are saying. And it is hard to doing all in once, because if you let past days, your style change. So, once your style changes, you do the edit in a different style in a different form and there is no coherence on the video and if the video is long, it is hard. It is necessary to become to increase your ability in editing the video so you will do that in less time. But as I said, eight minutes of video, I mounted in four or five hours, for example. Yeah, I hope. Yeah, I hope the answer. I mean, the answer is, you know, it's quite complete. So I hope, you know, you got an idea of how, how much time it is really required. And this question is, you know, sort of to everyone, but I start with Roberto, perhaps. So the question is how do you deal with the comments of the audience, specifically when it would be in opposition of your posts and contents. Do they affect your upcoming posts? Yes, they affect the upcoming post some in a bad way others in a good way depends on the type of comments, because if it is a good critics that they say, for example, oh, you forget to say that, or, for example, it happens on my YouTube video that I talked about about active volcano, dormant volcano, active volcanoes, and I made an example of an active volcanoes put in the category of dormant volcano and in my comments, someone said, but you say that it is in this fun time so this volcano is active one. You are right that my advantage is that say sorry, learn from my mistakes and growth from that mistakes and make greater videos. On the other hand, while there are some haters that just write bad stuff on you, because they are haters, I just ignore them. And it's really hard to ignore and be peaceful with yourself, but it's the only way do not engage with others because they drain your energy and your time. But they are good for the dissing and they are good for let's grow your channel, but they drain your energy so do not engage with others and ignore them and go ahead. Thanks so much Roberto and Iris do you want to add something? I agree. If it's a weird comment, it's very clear which ones are sincere and helpful and actually watch the video and which ones are just hate comments or spam or whatever, just ignore it. It's not nice, but you'll get over it. I hope, you know, we sort of don't expect getting extreme bad, extremely bad comments for, you know, especially communications in science, because, well, it has a sort of specific community, you know, the audience is sort of selected in many ways. But still, yeah, it's not something that avoids any bad comments. And the last question at this time is for Julia again. So someone asks how should scientists really address a broader audience, how to reach people who are not already looking for you. Yeah, this is not a really easy question to answer. Basically, you have to give it a try and trying to advertise it a lot and have a good team that is going to help you because as I said, if you fly solo you have a limited number of people to be reached. And of course we have a good platform in which we are hosted, that is the EGU, so we jumped already from a good start and we are sharing our content with a well-defined community. So I don't know exactly how it works when you have to start from ground zero basically, maybe Roberto and Iris would answer it better because we got very lucky situation from the beginning. Yeah. But still, as you mentioned, I think Natural Hazardous is a very good platform anyway for anyone who wants to start with, you know, just to show what they are doing in this context. And yeah. And how about Roberto or Iris, do you want to add any comments to answer this question? I mean, I can say that it's very hard and I don't really have a solution because I'm not particularly good at this. This is the stage where I fail. But I don't know, because yeah, ideally you want someone to endorse you like that EGU is kind of whatever retweeting or something like that. But it's difficult to persuade them to do that if it's not already affiliated with EGU. What I have found, but I'm not really a Reddit user. So sometimes I post videos there and then because you have very specific communities, lots of people watch it and there is increased engagement. This is why some of the videos have like a few more views. But it's a tricky platform that I don't really know how to navigate because you have to be part of the community and I don't have time to be on Reddit all the time. So I just kind of pop in and say hi, this is my video and then pop out and if you do that too often, they don't like that. But as you said before, just jumping into your answer, if you interview someone that is famous, you might have the chance to enlarge your community, isn't it? Right, exactly. That's another way, the collapse. That can help, yeah. Although it hasn't helped in my case, but yeah. My experience is that I tried both methods and the one when you try to be endorsed. Even if you have a good goals, like I want to share my contents to as much as persons are possible because there are a lot of fake news. I want to explain in the best way the earthquakes so people will not scared about them. It doesn't work. So you have to first share other people's contents. You share them and people will be happy to share you as well. And then you, second, you can try to use the best hashtag. You can find the Google Trends and third, use the trend. Thank you so much, Roberto. It was very good advice. I thank everyone for taking their time for answering this question and questions. And now I hand it over to Silvia to conclude. Yes, very briefly, I would like to share something with you. I hope that I have been able to learn from my previous mistakes as suggested by Roberto before. Let's try to share my screen now in the proper way. I'm doing my best. Sorry. No, it's not working. But if I swap this place, is it working now? Right. Great. I learned from my mistakes. So just to conclude, I would like to say thank you everyone for joining us today. This is just to let you know that this is not the last event we are organizing as an early career scientist and age group. These are the upcoming events we have already scheduled in March. We will focus on some tips to be ready to present at EGU General Assembly. In June, we will move to the funding opportunities to boost scientific research. And then in autumn, we will talk about the challenges to be women in natural hazards and academia. If you want to know, for example, the date when we'll be fixed of these events or in general, stay tuned about all our activities. These are our social media channels that we're using. So we have Twitter, Facebook, you can subscribe to our mailing list. I also would like to underline that the keynotes of this interesting webinar will be to say reorganize a little bit, rearrange in a blog post that will be published in the next weeks on our NH division blog. So this is the link to the web page of the blog where you will find in the next weeks also some contents related to this webinar. So thank you very much everyone. Thank you for Iris, Roberto and Julia for their speech and also to Nigar for the support and see you soon. Thank you. Thank you everybody.