New Job at TWENTYTWO FILM

In May 2022, I started a new job as a writer/editor for the young science video production firm TWENTYTWO Film, based in Cologne, Germany. They are most famous for their YouTube-Channel “Doktor Whatson” and that’s the format I am writing scripts for. On May 29th, Doktor Whatson released the first video based on a script …

I Made A Video about De-Extinction for a Competition

The science communication competition “Fast Forward Science” is an award funded by different public and private entities in Germany. I made a first contribution in 2019, when I made a video about some core principles of neuroscience. This year, the focus of the award was broadened so I could submit a podcast episode, an Instagram …

I was featured on NeuWrite SD

A couple of months back, Ariane Pessentheiner interviewed me about my work as a researcher and my eventual transition to science communication. She wrote a very nice article about it, which I enjoyed reading very much. It was published by the NeuWrite San Diego science communication blog. Please, enjoy and follow Ariane on Instagram or …

My first Preprint Server Submission

This weekend I happily completed a manuscript describing my recent postdoctoral work. We took the opportunity to try a further step into what hopefully will be the future of publishing. So, next to submitting the manuscript to a well-known, peer-reviewed neuroscience journal, I made a version for bioRxiv. This is a preprint server that is …

Dissertation now online

Hi, the school I did my PhD at did not publish my dissertation for some unknown reason – they are usually pretty good at self-archiving these things. This might have been out of copyright reasons(?). However, I found out that all publishers allow me to self-archive the articles. Thus, I have no problem putting the …