What a night! Packed house at @nfsaonline.bsky.social diving into "Paprika" - a wild anime about dream therapy and neurotech fantasy 🎬 And great discussion with @crystationalbio.bsky.social, Dr Chitra V & Dr Lou Farrer about identity, science, and those gorgeous/terrifying neurotech imaginaries!

🎓Outstanding Student Project Alert🎓 🤩 2024 Science and Humour student, Gypsy Cook, has published her final project in IJSE Pt.B, OA 🤩 "Science is funny as long as it happens to someone else: understanding humour in science publications" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #science #humour

📚Science Goes Pop💥Publication 3/3📚 The Superhero Art Edition: between-science-and-art.com/science-goes... Kel Ronning, Kikifoxbones, Ben Nickl, and @anna-sophiejurgens.bsky.social cc @sci-comm-anu.bsky.social #sciart #superheroscience #NationalScienceWeek2025

📚Science Goes Pop💥Publication 2/3 📚 The Zine Art Edition: between-science-and-art.com/science-goes... Patrick Galvin, Camilo Potocnjak Oxman, Stefan Buchenberger, Torsten Weber & @crystationalbio.bsky.social cc @sci-comm-anu.bsky.social #manga #supervillainscience #NationalScienceWeek2025

📚Science Goes Pop💥Publication 1/3📚 The Whimsical Art Assemblage: between-science-and-art.com/science-goes... Houl, Britt Nichols, Dan Santos, @crystationalbio.bsky.social & @anna-sophiejurgens.bsky.social cc @sci-comm-anu.bsky.social #laboratories #hopepunk #NationalScienceWeek2025

🦹 Meet Africa's SuperScientists! 🦸 Check out the the latest interview in our w/k series on Visual Science Storytelling with the (Super)creators of @scisuperheroes.bsky.social!!! between-science-and-art.com/superscienti...

🎓Outstanding Student Project Alert 🎓 ✨Quoll and the Stars!✨ A beautiful, soulful and exquisitely illustrated children's book, created by the brilliant 2025 SCOM3003 Special Project student, Tilda Joy Blackbourn-Rooney 🌌 popsicule.weblogs.anu.edu.au/quoll-and-th... #extinction #anthropomorphism

📯"Science. Art. Film." Season 6 announcement!📯 Where do the boundaries between human and humanoid begin and end? Join our "Ex Machina" event and find out! 16 April, 6pm, Arc Cinema, tickets: tickets.nfsa.gov.au/Events/Scien... #Canberraevents #Canberralife #scicomm #ScienceArtFilm

SCIENCE. ART. FILM. returns with Season 6 and we're starting it with a bang! 🥳 Join us for a screening of cult classic TANK GIRL (1995), followed by a panel on the science & themes of the film! See you this 26 March, Wednesday, 6:00 PM, Arc Cinema! #Canberra #scicomm #popculture #Canberraevents

📯"Science. Art. Film." Season 6 announcement!📯 Book your tickets now (8 AUD) for the 20th Anniversary #cult #classic #postapocalyptic #scifi "Tank Girl" tickets.nfsa.gov.au/Events/Scien... #canberra #ScienceArtFilm #filmscreening in collab with @nfsaonline.bsky.social @sci-comm-anu.bsky.social

For the 10th anniversary of 👩‍🏫👩‍🔬 International Day of Women and Girls in Science #IDWGS Celebrate with us! Read Bridget Gaul, @anna-sophiejurgens.bsky.social and Karina Judd's "Women Scientists in American Television Comedy" @springernature.com link.springer.com/book/10.1007... #scicomm #popculture

That's a wrap on science at ANU for 2024! Wishing everyone a safe and happy festive season🎄🎆🧪 youtu.be/Nhk8sQcv5-c?...

Just a reminder that you can also find us on Instagram: @ANU_Popsicule and Twitter: @ANU_Popsicule (we got advice to leave our account open there so our name doesn't get hijacked). The art is a lovely call and response between Teddy Lampert and Phillip Dexheimer, from LinkedIn: shorturl.at/wG4bV

🎓Outstanding Student Project Alert 🎓 "The Science of T!" A brilliant, funny and informative video helping folks navigate the information deluge around testosterone therapy. Created by 2024 SCOM2006/6006 Science and Humour student, Lil Logan💫 popsicule.weblogs.anu.edu.au/transforming...

☄️🦸‍♀️ "When exploring pop culture is your passion and your profession, violent clowns, parasitic villains and extraterrestrial jellyfish are just another day in the office" Kicking off 2025 in the most colourful way, with this ANU Reporter profile of @anu-popsicule.bsky.social's Dr Anna-Sophie Jürgens

"[The human right to science] can also serve as a spark for human imagination and curiosity. And this is where its true power resides," write Professor Sujatha Raman and Professor Brian Schmidt in The Conversation. #science #humanrights science.anu.edu.au/news-events/...

This lecture on the case for hope by Professor Joan Leach from @sci-comm-anu.bsky.social will be great way to end the year! 🗓️: 5.30pm 18th December at Smith's Alternative, Canberra & online science.anu.edu.au/news-events/...

We've collated a starter pack of researchers, students and staff from the College of Science at the Australian National University (ANU). This is a growing starter pack, so please send us your suggestions! go.bsky.app/D2Cih9V 🧪

🎓ANOTHER Outstanding Student Project Alert🎓 This week we meet Jasper! Brainchild of this year's SCOM2006/6006 Science and Humour student, Amirah Farell! "Jasper's Journey" is a fantastic educational comic chronicling the life history of a ROCK 🤘🤘🤘 popsicule.weblogs.anu.edu.au/jaspers-jour...

Fighting for the future! Our last 2024 Science. Art. Film. Screening & discussion of the Aussie scifi film "2067" was a blast! Thanks to our special guest panel: director Seth Larney, producer Lisa Shaunessy and composer Prof Ken Lampl!!! #scifi #popculture #sciencecomm #canberra #nfsa

Love Science Fiction & Popular Culture??? 🤓 Read Prof Alice Motion's beautiful piece in @chemistryworld.bsky.social on how our Poptastic Leader, Dr @anna-sophiejurgens.bsky.social helps to "create wormholes between galaxies" with Cinematic Science 🤩 www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/cine...

🎓Outstanding Student Project Alert🎓 Meet Poly! They're the brainchild of this year's SCOM2006/6006 Science and Humour student, Jaquelen Huang! "Poly's Tour of Sydney" is a creative cartoon exploring plastic pollution on the Australian environment 🤩 popsicule.weblogs.anu.edu.au/engaging-in-...

We're new to Blue Sky 🦋, but we're excited to be here! The Popsicule was started in 2021 by the Poptastic🎉 Dr Anna-Sophie Jürgens 👩‍🏫, a Senior Lecturer at the Australian National University's Center for the Public Awareness of Science (CPAS): youtu.be/ZERrHFY2HuI

Hey there!!!! If you've just followed us, welcome! 🤩 We're The Popsicule - We study Science in Popular Culture and Entertainment Hub at the Australian National University 🎓 popsicule.weblogs.anu.edu.au