Things I’ve been involved with, published elsewhere, original works and translations:
Social media campaigns
- @SciCommJC twitter chat – science communication on languages other than English here
- Guest-hosting @IAmSciComm moments here
- @ILSI_Europe #JournalJourney research work popularisation campaign on twitter and LinkedIn
- @ILSI_Europe summer campaign here
Public speaking, oral science communication, podcasts etc.
Current:
- Producer, host and editor of SciComm_jc podast here
Past:
- Blue Streak Science podcasts with JD Goodwin
- Science Café – videos here and here, FB live
Original (non-scientific) publications
- Authored an op-ed on the most interesting and exciting scientific discoveries of 2017 for Bulgarian newspaper Dnevnik – can be found here (in Bulgarian).
- A blog post covering a paper by the research institute I work for now was published in the Cambridge Core blog as the original research article became Paper of the Month of the Nutrition Society for November. Read it here – Optimising fibre intake – current stage of the knowledge
- Най-новото в лечението на рака идва от изследванията на програмираната клетъчна смърт – убитите ракови клетки действат като мощна противоракова ваксина
- My article “There are no green animals” got featured on the Wtnschp.be website
- The “Dressed to kill“got featured on the Wtnschp.be in July, 2016
As part of my Science Communication internship at Wtnchp.be
- an “#FunFactFriday” article on all sorts of viral things
- an article on Age-Old-Viruses revived from the permafrost
Translations
- Collaboration with the the ERC=Science Squared Project and Bulgarian newspaper Dnevnik to publish an article on robotics for human use – here.
- Environmental preservation – Let nature remain in Bulgaria – Environmentalists: The agreement for the ski zone Bansko is a hostage of the state idleness
- Environmental exploitation – Let nature remain in Bulgaria – Capital’s town council initiates the settlement of the problems in Nature Park Vitosha
- A debate for the future of the French ski resorts – Let nature remain in Bulgaria
- Coalition ‘Let Nature Remain in Bulgaria’ declared participation in the meeting for establishing a consensual solution for the concession for the ski zone Bansko in Pirin National Park – Let nature remain in Bulgaria
- Renewal of the authorization for glyphosate was canceled on account for health concerns
- ‘Greenpeace’ – Bulgaria: permission for the use of neonicotinoid pesticides exposes bees to a risk
- ‘Books in exchange for garbage’ returns on the 16th of April with new titles and more cities
- Bulgarians are against logging and construction in the mountains
Stand up comedy
- Lets talk science summer school, VUB – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsgWLbx7kEc
- Bright Club Brussels 1 – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8OS0UXyKzU
- Bright Club Brussels 2 – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=no-olS1VfUk
- Bright Women Club – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqUA8kABHbQ
- Science FUCK UP night Brussels
Featured in
- An article (in EN) from Henri the bilingual magazine of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, where I’m doing my PhD, in the column for “Young Blood” – https://goo.gl/W0B4oi;
- An interview by Aleksandrina Ginkova (in BUL) for Dnevnik – one of the big web-based news sources in my home country of Bulgaria, about science and the need to talk about it continuously and loudly, to counteract the harm pseudo-science keeps doing to humanity and the planet – https://goo.gl/Q3wH1p;
- DNAtoday podcast with host Kira Dineen to listen on-demand on her webpage. Aired 16/09/2016 on WHOS
- An interview (in BUL) for Radio Bulgaria with Diana Tsankova – a program of the National Radio Broadcaster in Bulgaria, about science communication, Bright Club Brussels, food safety, and the importance of science for our daily life – https://goo.gl/AUfvJh.
- Coverage in the Belgian DeMorgen of the FUCK UP Night in Brussels in collaboration with VUB – “Vertel ons uw grootste mislukking”
