CAN SCIENTISTS LEARN STAND-UP COMEDY? A growing nonprofit wants to find out. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE [DENVER, COLORADO] Every few months, audiences crowd into sold-out venues for an evening of brainy entertainment. SCIENCE RIOT is the first organization in the US to train scientists through stand-up comedy. This grassroots effort is seeking crowdfunding support to grow…
We’ve just learned that a radio segment by KUNC reporter Stacy Nick was picked up by NPR’s Here & Now! You can listen here or at WBUR’s Here & Now page.
Stacy Nick of KUNC profiled our Denver program for a feature! We’re thrilled to be spreading the science funny!
Fox21 covered our upcoming show in Colorado Springs! Way to represent, Dave and Sonya!
“But why comedy?” I frequently get asked this by puzzled people and they have a point. With Science Riot, I’m advocating something pretty unusual: teaching scientists to be comedians and to use comedy as a tool for public outreach. Only a small portion of scientists do outreach at all and if you still struggle with…
Science Riot is very proud to be participating in the March for Science advocacy summit in Chicago with workshops and a public performance! July 6-8th March for Science is hosting the Science / Government Institutions and Society (S/GNS) Summit; a national conference that empowers those committed to championing evidence-based policy and science for the common…
Sonya is our hilarious (Australian) organizer of Science Riot in Colorado Springs who joined the team after performing with us in 2016. She recently sat down with Drew Smith of Cumulus Colorado Pulse for an interview that went out on six frequencies throughout the state. In case you missed it, you can listen here!
Can you name a scientist who is alive today? Because 81% of the American public can’t name one. This is discouraging news for anyone who cares about science literacy, but it isn’t particularly helpful unless we allow ourselves to consider that maybe the public isn’t the problem. “We must have very different definitions for the word scientist.”…
Thank you to Joshua Hall and Daniel Arneman from Hello PhD who recently interviewed our cofounder, Dr. Niki Spahich! Two scientists walk into a bar. One steps on stage and delivers ten minutes of raucously funny stand-up comedy. The other enjoys an evening of laughter as enterprising STEM professionals share their science. Scientists doing stand-up…
