The Scicommer Dudes

You are a hard-working scientist, who has found out interesting and fascinating insights about nature. You got a grant where you promised to communicate these results to the general public, or you want to get the word out as matter of good practice. But you are too busy, and you don’t want to spend days compiling video stock footage, shooting and editing videos, and promoting them online.

We are The Scicommer Dudes, Klaus and Matt. We want to make your scicomm video!  We like to make videos about marine biology, ecology, fish biology, animal physiology and related fields. We can include an interview with you (the scientists whose work we are covering). If your (macroscopic) study organism is found in tropical coastal waters, we’ll probably already have footage of it in its natural environment, or we can get it.  We will come up with ideas, and please talk to us regarding your own ideas for your scicomm video – together we will figure out something awesome. if we don’t see a way of making an engaging video about your work (too abstract, too far outside of our realm), we will tell you, and not take your money for a mediocre video!

We are not just “YouTubers”, one of us (Klaus) has a doctorate in zoology/neuroscience, and a publication record in these fields. And, a long record in writing popular science, too. Matt has a degree in computer science. We will understand your science, get to the core of it, and communicate that in the video we’ll make. We offer very affordable rates for our scicomm videos. And yes, we are in talks with animators to complement our video-creation skills. Don’t be shy, contact us at klaus@pacificklaus.com.

Here are samples of our work: We really enjoy making these videos, and even before we started offering to make these for a fee, we made a bunch of them just for the pleasure of it:

Low Reynolds Numbers

The Reynolds number is a concept from fluid dynamics. The Reynolds number is crucial in explaining the transition from the orderly flow of liquids at small scales & speeds to turbulent, much less predictable flow at higher flow speeds and bigger sizes of objects in the flow. A lot of complex math builds on it. We made a funny video about it, with footage of us eating candy underwater and some fish, including sharks. Hopefully the viewer will easily learn what the Reynolds number means:

New Cephalopod Science: A Video Review

New research on cephalopods shows that they show distinct sleep states not unlike mammals. Also, their gene expression relies heavily on the modification of mRNA after it has been transcribed. Here is the video explaining this in more detail, with lots of our own octopus and cuttlefish footage, showing the animals in their natural environment:

Public Understanding of Science & Science Denial

We also made a video about the public understanding of science, or the lack thereof. Science denial, whether denial of anthropogenic climate change or evolution or of anything else (too many sad examples these days), often uses very similar patterns of weak arguments. We try to isolate the bizarreness of these arguments by applying them to a new (fictional) conspiracy theory, the theory that gobies (a family of small fishes) don’t exist:

Again, let’s chat if you want to see your science presented by us,

Klaus & Matt