Crystal Clitheroe 晶 💎
            
            @CrystationalBio
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              Science Communication (in Comics) wizard at @ANU_Popsicule. 🇿🇦in🇦🇺 via 🇺🇬🇲🇬🇨🇿🇯🇵. non binary 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 (they/them) 🥼🧬🧑🏻🔬🧑🏻💻💥🧑🎤
              
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              Joined November 2013
            
            
           A #termite walks into a bar. It asks; "Is the bar tender here?" #InverteFest #Joke we need a #termiteemoji
          
          
                
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             What a night! Packed house at @nfsaonline diving into "Paprika" - a wild anime about dream therapy and neurotech fantasy 🎬 🗣️And great discussion with @AnnaSo_Jurgens, @CrystationalBio, Dr Chitra V & Dr Lou Farrer about identity, science, and neurotech imaginaries! 
          
                
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             Whoop whoop, so honored to work with a such a brilliant student and the gifted team, Anastasiya Fiadotava and @AnnaSo_Jurgens!!! 🎉🎉🎉 Read our new publication on humour in scientific publications in IJSE Part B here: 
           🎓Outstanding Student Project Alert🎓 2024 Science and Humour student, Gypsy Cook, has published her final project in IJSE Pt.B "Science is funny as long as it happens to someone else: understanding humour in science publications"  https://t.co/UJ0lwnKZnX 
            
          
                
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             📚Science Goes Pop💥Publication 1/3 📚 The Whimsical Art Assemblage:  https://t.co/z7c289fXnh  Houl, Britt Nichols, Dan Santos (@biotechgeog), @CrystationalBio & @AnnaSo_Jurgens in @wkScienceandArt! #laboratories #hopepunk #NationalScienceWeek2025
          
          
            
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              Till Bödeker: Houl and Brit Nicholl’s artworks explore science through the lens of comics, artistic imagination and visual storytelling by framing and reflecting on scientific work (in progress) as...
            
                
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             📚Science Goes Pop💥Publication 3/3📚 The Superhero Art Edition:  https://t.co/UG9qosIbuz  Kel Ronning, Kikifoxbones, Ben Nickl, and @AnnaSo_Jurgens in @wkScienceandArt! #sciart #superheroscience #NationalScienceWeek2025
          
          
            
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              Popsicule et al.: In this article, visual artists Kel Ronning and Kikifoxbones reflect on the aesthetic strategies used to communicate science through the visual language of superhero comics – from...
            
                
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             📚Science Goes Pop💥Publication 2/3 📚 The Zine Art Edition:  https://t.co/A2M89OhuRh  Patrick Galvin, Camilo Potocnjak Oxman, Stefan Buchenberger, Torsten Weber & @CrystationalBio in @wkScienceandArt! #manga #supervillainscience #NationalScienceWeek2025
          
          
            
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              Till Bödeker: Drawing inspiration from scholarly discussions on manga as a historically inflected form of educational media, as well as comic books featuring eccentric scientists, visual artists...
            
                
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             TEHRAN has 12 million residents, including disabled individuals, hospital patients, and prisoners and ... the majority are unable to evacuate IMMEDIATELY 😭😭😭 My family cannot EVACUATE IMMEDIATELY 😭😭😭 Those people don't have THE NUCLEAR WEAPONS 👊👊👊 
          
                
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             🎓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 🌌  https://t.co/L2zw7pdGMV 
            #extinction #anthropomorphism
          
          
            
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              By Tilda Joy Blackbourn-Rooney – A ‘Special Project’ (SCOM3005, 2025, shortened) Communicating Extinction through Children’s Picture Books This report is part of an environmental science communicat...
            
                
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             Welcome to the Popsicule! 🥳🥳🥳 Shao-Jie has recently joined our Science in Pop Culture research universe - find out more here:  https://t.co/F90kfqXLOX 
          
          
                
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             🦹 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!!!  https://t.co/AXlaMsrb24 
          
          
            
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              Anna-Sophie Jürgens: In this conversation, Dr Justin Yarrow and Clyde Beech discuss the SuperScientists project, which combines science communication and comic art to inspire and educate South...
            
                
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             📯"Science. Art. Film." Season 6 announcement!📯 Book your tickets now (8$) for the 20th Anniversary #cult #classic #postapocalyptic #scifi "Tank Girl"  https://t.co/yrElCiowpt 
            #canberra #ScienceArtFilm #filmscreening in collab with @ANU_CPAS @systemsanu and @NFSAonline
          
          
                
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             For the 10th anniversary of International Day of Women and Girls in Science #IDWGS Celebrate with us! Read Bridget Gaul, @AnnaSo_Jurgens and @bucketscientist "Women Scientists in American Television Comedy" @SpringerNature @ANU_CPAS
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            #scicomm #popculture
          
          
                
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             Just a reminder that you can also find us on Instagram: @ANU_Popsicule and Blue Sky: @anu-popsicule.bsky.social. The artwork is the result of a lovely call and response between Teddy Lampert and Phillip Dexheimer, from LinkedIn:  https://t.co/ZzyAHrsFZg 
          
          
                
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             ☄️🦸♀️ "I have always been interested in extreme characters in pop culture, including mad clowns, performers and scientists" Kicking off 2025 in the most colourful way, with this ANU Reporter profile of @ANU_Popsicule's Dr Anna-Sophie Jürgens:  https://t.co/iFL1jZkKUo 
          
          
                
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             🎓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💫  https://t.co/BN1Qo2tkX2 
          
          
            
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              By Lil Logan – A ‘Science & Humour’ Project (SCOM6006, 2024) The YouTube video “TransForming Science” was inspired by my personal experience of trying to find accurate information about testosterone...
            
                
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             Today is #HumanRightsDay2024 The head of the UNESCO Chair in Science Communication for the Public Good @Sujatha__Raman and Professor Brian Schmidt @cosmicpinot discuss the human right to science, and why this is particularly important during a time of crisis. 
           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 @Sujatha__Raman and Professor Brian Schmidt @cosmicpinot in The Conversation.  https://t.co/EYhbwrtadS 
            
          
                
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             🎓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 🤘🤘🤘  https://t.co/b8jrA6z96w 
          
          
                
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             🎓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 🤩  https://t.co/OKqnyGpMUs 
          
          
                
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             Do you remember when you joined Twitter? I do! For my Twitter anniversary y’all know where I’m headed 🦋 
          
                
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             Our 'Science in Comics' week at the #FramingtheUnreal conference, hosted by the Ca' Foscari University of Venice, was nothing short of super-inspiring, incredibly multifaceted and hyper-intense. And the Popsicule banner made it to Italy! #scicomm #popculture
          
          
                
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             Day2 in @CaFoscari’ beautiful Culture Flow Zone 🤩! Thank you @biotechgeog for kicking off our session Panel 11: Unframing the Real - Science in SFF Comics with an exciting talk on “Laboratory Life and Life at the Frontiers in DC Comics” #hybridmodel #science #synbio in #comics
          
          
                
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