“Why Storytelling Matters For Science”: Ed Yong and Liz Neeley

Ed Yong is a science journalist for The Atlantic and the author of the best-selling book I Contain Multitudes, an exploration of the microbiome. His TED talk about mind-controlling parasites has been viewed 1.8 million times.

Liz Neeley is the Executive Director of Story Collider, a nonprofit organization that produces podcasts and hosts live events where people tell stories about science. An expert on science communication, she co-organized the National Academies of Science’s Colloquium on the science of science communication. At Yale, she works with the National Neuroscience Curriculum Initiative to help psychiatry trainees integrate modern neuroscience into their clinical work.

I Contain Multitudes will be available for purchase and signing at the talk.

Co-sponsored by the Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Poynter Fellowship in Journalism, Yale Microbial Sciences Institute, and The Franke Program in Science and the Humanities.

Contact carl.zimmer@yale.edu
https://communications.yale.edu/poynter/liz-neeley-and-ed-yong