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“I just see this flattening of imagination. This is for me the most terrifying thing. There is no imagination that leads to a lack of problem solving, and a lack of critical thinking. This is what is at risk here.”
Emily Grassley, the creator of the brain scoop
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Emily Grassley is one of the ones you may not think about when filming the work that is lost as a result of federal employees and lowering funding. It is a scientific connection that creates YouTube videos that explain all types of scientific research in fun and easy to understand ways. You may have stumbled through her channel, Brain scoop – Or others like it – in browsing your YouTube, as you cover topics ranging from them What excavations can teach us about climate change how The city of Chicago addresses the problem of mice. I produced hundreds of videos and gained more than 600,000 followers. But it is now facing an undiefing future for the channel, and its work.
“There may be just one day to log in to YouTube, and there is no longer any of your favorite creators anymore,” she said.
Grassley, who appeared on us Grist 50 menu again in 2016The brain scoop has been created for more than a decade. The show was ran for years as the first “great curious correspondent” of the Chicago Museum, where the work was shared behind the scenes in the museum, then it was later re -launched as an independent installation, partnership with museums, nature centers and other institutions throughout the country to help tell the story of their research.
Emily Grassley, Creator of the Cemeter of the Brain. Jolly Florio
Graslie is closely involved with the scientific communication community, including a group of women and non -creators in the first place. “The majority of us possess and run our production companies, which include negotiating contracts on the basis of each project,” Grassi told Grist. “We are very excited when we get money from a” gets us “scientific group – like from the science center, or through the library awareness grant.” So it was a dream come true when it was disturbed by working with the National Health Institutes to create videos to share and remove mystery from the world’s largest medical research organization.
The National Institutes of Health, or the National Health Institutes, are part of the Ministry of Health and Humanitarian Services and include 27 institutions, each with their research focus. “One of the fields in particular was interested in highlighting infectious diseases, which we know will only become more prevalent with the warming climate,” said Grassley. As not scholars themselves-but as lovers of science and a member of the audience-a large part of her work was the collapse of a public public on the importance of the sciences that we have a tax fund. She said, “I can be a channel in some of these beautiful dark institutions.”
It was supposed to be on the campus in the National Health Institutes in January this year to start shooting in this series, which was already under development for a year. Instead, I received an email telling her that the project was suspended until further notice.
“I discovered from the press – I discovered from the news title that there is this Communication is a gag She said, “With regard to the National Institutes of Health,” referring to a memorandum issued by the Minister of Health and Humanitarian Services in charge of the Acting during the first days of the Trump administration, About all external connections stopped. “Because I consider a member of the media, I could not communicate with those people I was participating with for more than a year.” In February, she was visiting the family in Washington, DC, and continued with one of her cooperatives on the address of their personal email. “What opportunity can each other face in a café?” I asked. “Only for gossip. Only to Chitchat.” Through this informal meeting, she learned that her project was effectively canceled.
It was not paid for any of the prejudices she carried out in 2024, and now its financing is evaporated throughout the year.
Although it was a big blow, the impact on its work goes beyond the loss of this opportunity in the national health institutes. Trump administration also Frozen financing from the National Science Corporation I moved to Get rid of the Museum and Library Services Institute (The procedures that Grasli Covered on YouTube recently). Grassley said that many people may not realize that federal financing that supports scientific research and programming in museums and libraries often covers contracts with independent creators like them, to help deliver work to the public. Without that, you fear that the work is like her salary is difficult to maintain.
She said: “The online science content was never profitable,” and these discounts are likely to pay many people from space – especially creators who come from marginalized backgrounds, and they cannot afford time and energy in these projects without sufficient salaries.
But after she was in this work for more than a decade, Grasli said she was proud of the curious science and mindsets community that she sponsored. You hear regularly from the viewers about how the presentation affects them – including some who started watching in middle school and continued to become scientists or teachers themselves.
“One of the most important things that the brain scoop is just sharing the different types of work that occurs in the centers of nature and museums throughout the country, all over the world. I think the loss – it is just an end to understanding people what they can, and those who want to be when they grow up, and how they see the world around them.”
“I just see this flattening of imagination. This is for me the most terrifying thing. There is no imagination that leads to a lack of problem solving, and a lack of critical thinking. This is what is at risk here.”
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Claire Elise Thompson
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In 2020, Emily Grassley appeared for the first time on public television, hosted and produced an offer for PBS called Pre -history journey. I traveled through the northern plains of the United States to learn about archaeology and fossil science, and to see some wonderful fossils. Here it is in a quarry in Montana with the Sorbod bone – a group of dinosaurs that include the largest animals that lived on Earth.
