intengineering t1_iso2e4v wrote
Reply to comment by rotanitsarcorp_yzal1 in AskScience AMA Series: I'm Hashem Al-Ghaili, a science communicator with around 20 billion video views. AMA about bringing complex ideas to a wide audience! by AskScienceModerator
We're a team of 3 people. We make around 3 videos per day, which we publish on several social media platforms (literally all of them, depending on the type of content we make). Sometimes we work on more original content that takes several weeks to finish. The content is published on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, YouTube, Snapchat and TikTok.
Choosing a topic can be a bit of a challenge sometimes, but for the most part, I try to choose a topic that directly connects to people or will change their lives in one way or another. For example, a new potential cancer treatment, or a new way to generate energy, or a new breakthrough in quantum computing. These breakthroughs could change our lives in the future. Sometimes the topic is knowledge-based and has no direct or indirect application, like discovering an exoplanet or discovering a new subatomic particle. There are always people who are interested in learning about those as well. Thousands of discoveries are published every day, it's difficult to cover everything, that's why we need to be selective with the topics. The most important aspect with choosing a topic is that it should be interesting to me as well. If the topic is interesting to me, I'll put more effort in presenting it in the most engaging way possible.
I get the news from several sources. Sometime from press releases published by research insinuations, which are always accompanied by the original paper. Other times I get contacted by scientists before their paper is published. We work together on making a video so that the paper and the video are published at the same time. They're generous enough to provide me early access to their publication. Other sources of information include primary sources such as journals like Nature, Science, The Lancent, etc. We quickly souct through their new publications to see if there is something interesting. And secondary sources like ScienceDaily and EurekAlert.
rotanitsarcorp_yzal1 t1_isp6e66 wrote
Thank you for answering.
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