** Support Planet B612 on Patreon: https://patreon.com/juliesworld** In this episode, I speak with Jenn Blanchett. Jenn has worked as a Science Communicator with Science North, and now works as a teacher. We talk about science communication for the public by non-scientists, the important role that artists play in scicomm, and the joys of sharing knowledge with different audiences. Introduction (0:00:30) What is Science North?(0:01:33) The animals at Science North (0:04:31) Jenn’s background (0:07:26) The controversy of scicomm when you’re not a scientist (0:12:45) The importance of simplifying scientific knowledge (0:18:51) The science community should work with artists (0:21:30) Grad programs in scicomm (0:25:07) Jenn Learns Stuff video series (0:28:15) Scicomm on TikTok and other video mediums (0:34:54) Targeting audiences (0:36:44) Science North theatre shows (0:39:18) Bizarre questions from the public (0:40:56) Communicating with different audiences (0:42:23) Scicomm training on the job (0:44:54) High school teaching (0:48:14) Is the talent for scicomm innate or learned? (0:51:50) What Jenn does for pleasure (0:53:33) Watch “Jenn Learns Stuff” on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCoUzSOhJy8&list=PLhAjGkpomY84qb4tDHLIVv-4McHMJat1u Visit Planet B612 on the web: http://planetb612.fm/ Follow Planet B612 on Twitter: https://twitter.com/PlanetB612fm