“Humour Me Some Math!” published

At our February meeting we warmed up the dark Nordic winter with a workshop on ways to tap into humor to communicate about science. For good measure we made it as difficult as possible, by choosing what you might think would be one of the intuitively least-funny fields of endeavor: mathematics.

Yet lo and behold,  we found ourselves laughing along watching Finnish mathematician Samuli Siltanen's comedic performance as he delivered insights at Science SLAM Helsinki. Watching Siltanen was our preparation for workshopping a draft article about him, and about the use of humor in science communication, written by virologist and NeuWrite Nordic participant Ushanandini Mohanraj.

Mohanraj's article has now been published at The Science Basement—check it out here.

Image of Samuli Siltanen from Dimensiolehti