Please join us for a discussion about science communication, journalism, research, and collective sense-making during a global pandemic. Liz Neeley, executive director of The Story Collider, and Ed Yong, an award-winning science journalist who reports for The Atlantic, will begin with a wide-ranging, 45-minute conversation followed by a Q&A session as we all grapple with our respective contributions to solving a problem too big for any one person to fully comprehend.
Presented by the UCSF Office of the Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost and the UCSF Alumni Association.
Liz Neeley is executive director of The Story Collider, which is dedicated to true, personal stories about science. She is a member of the AAAS Committee on Science and Technology Engagement with the Public and the Aspen Institute Science & Society Program. Liz is also a lecturer at Yale University working with the National Neuroscience Curriculum Initiative.
Ed Yong is an award-winning science journalist who reports for The Atlantic. His TED Talk on mind-controlling parasites has been viewed more than 1.8 million times. His first book, I Contain Multitudes, was published in 2016, became a New York Times bestseller, and was listed in Best-of-2016 lists by the Times, NPR, The Economist, The Guardian, and others. Bill Gates called it “science journalism at its finest,” and Jeopardy! turned it into a clue. His second book, An Immense World, is a journey through the extraordinary sensory systems of the animal kingdom.