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Why do (legal) drug names all sound like spells from Harry Potter? Lipitor, Zoloft, Allegra -mora! There's actually a reason! Hello SciCom founder @srsiskind breaks it down in her @Vocabaret Does Drugs guest appearance at @caveatnyc #sciencecommunication #scicom #medication #scicomm #pharmaceuticals #pharmacy #sciencecomedy #caveatnyc #vocabaret

“To determine if you’re punching up or punching down, you have to know how tall you are.” - @srsiskind

Founder @srsiskind trained her fetus and an AI on the exact same data, and we're starting to see some results. Check out how bot's first babbles compare to Sarah's real human baby! #FetusGPT was a product of Daniel @shiffman / @thecodingtrain + @elevenlabs + @PLAUDAI + a fetus. Human Fetus Collaborator: @nickgillespie Stay tuned for more updates on #TeamBaby vs #TeamBot… who learns faster? 📷📷 Shot at @poptech 📷 Full PopTech talk: tinyurl.com/y9bb95nt #ScienceCommunication #ScienceComedy #SciCom #PopTech #AImeetsParenting #EarlyChildhoodScience #ChildhoodDevelopment #ArtificialIntelligence #FetusGPT

"What is language?" Hello SciCom founder @srsiskind poses the layered, philosophical question while managing to slip in the sentence "pass the hot priest calendar." A true master of integrating deep thoughts and comedy. Big thanks to @noam_dworman,@DanNaturman, and @ComedyCellarUSA for having Hello SciCom Sarah on Live From the Table! Full episode available youtube.com/watch?v=TcaEOn… #technology #AI #artificialintelligence #sciencecommunication #sciencecomedy #AIAssistant #AIAssistants #ChatGPT #GPT #language #semantics #whatislanguage

Great piece by @KhaliqNamir in @NautilusMag ft @johnmulchaey @HansonRobo of @hansonrobotics ! All our favorite people! ❤️ nautil.us/the-books-that…

📢📢CALLING ALL SCIENCE LOVERS 📢📢 Don’t you hate choosing between learning science and watching a live dating game? Us, too! That’s why we’re delighted to invite you to the second @carnegiescience Social on Monday, March 23rd at @caveatnyc ! The first event was an absolute sold-out delight (see below), and this time we have two brand new Carnegie Science scientists to entertain you. This event will feature two incredible Astrobiologists: Dr. Andrew Steele and Dr. Mike Greklek-McKeon. We’ll be playing Mission Matchmaker on the stage with the scientists and brave volunteers: part dating game and part space mission where the audience questions two secret celestial candidates and commits to a cosmic destination before the big reveal. Volunteer to win some Carnegie Science swag! WHEN: Monday, March 23, 2026, at 7:00 p.m. WHERE: Caveat Theater 21 A Clinton St, New York, NY 10002 WHY: To laugh, play games, learn about the search for life beyond our planet, and engage in general space-themed nerdery. Grab your tickets on Eventbrite right away, or reach out to info@hellosci.com for a discount code! shorturl.at/CwFQH #Science #ScienceCommunication #Astrobiology #Astronomy #ScienceComedy #CaveatNYC #CaveatTheater #CarnegieScience #ScienceDatingGame #DatingGameForNerds

What is a drug? No, seriously, can someone tell us? It's surprisingly difficult, but Hello SciCom founder @srsiskind shares her pitch during her guest appearance on @caveatnyc's @thevocabaret Does Drugs #sciencecommunication #scicom #scicomm #caffiene #pharmaceuticals #sciencecomedy #caveatnyc #vocabaret

Proud and honored to have worked with @RWJF on a webinar about using humor in effective communication! Congrats to the creatives on this project, Sarah A. and founder @srsiskind. Interested in adding some silly to your science? Some oomph to your AI? Some robustness to your robots? Let us help! We're a creative consulting agency focused on fun ways to communicate in STEM, AI, robotics, and education. Check out hellosci.com for more info (and a free consultation)! #ScienceCommunication #SciCom #ScienceComedy #STEMCommunication #STEM #Healthcare #RWJF #RobertWoodJohnsonFoundation #Webinar #ComedyInCommunication

Your parents might have said "it costs nothing to be nice." Tell that to @SamAltman, and the tens of millions of dollars it costs @OpenAI every time you thank chatGPT. Big thanks to @noam_dworman, @DanNaturman, and @ComedyCellarUSA for having Hello SciCom founder @srsiskind on Live From the Table! Full episode available youtube.com/watch?v=TcaEOn… #technology #AI #artificialintelligence #sciencecommunication #sciencecomedy #AIAssistant #AIAssistants #ChatGPT #GPT

ChatGPT use # 293: marriage counselor? @noamdworman's marriage may be perfect, but for everyone else, chatGPT can be a helpful counselor. Thoughts @EstherPerel? Thanks @ComedyCellarUSA for having our founder @srsiskind on Live From the Table! Full ep: youtube.com/watch?v=TcaEOn…

Proud of our founder! @srsiskind !

My friend Sarah Rose Siskind (@srsiskind) is incubating two types of intelligence at once: her unborn child, and FetusGPT—a LLM trained on nothing but what Sarah hears and says throughout the day. This includes Seinfeld episodes, YouTube videos about lemurs, eight hours of snoring per night—and even conversations with me, all condensed into MP3 and text files that are used to train the AI. Because FetusGPT is learning English from such a narrow, idiosyncratic slice of the world, it mostly babbles right now, and if she swears, it picks that up too. For Sarah, that’s the point of this zany experiment: AI becomes what we teach it, just like young children do—a reminder for anyone who expects brilliance from LLMs without training them thoughtfully. Sarah is a professional science comedy writer and the founder of @HelloSciCom , a science and technology communications agency. She’s one of the few comedians who uses AI in her process, and I had her on @every’s AI & I to talk about: - Using AI to be funny, including how @ChatGPTapp has become her "emotional safe place to be weird" when she brainstorms - Why Sarah sees in using AI even when its output isn’t directly useful - How she uses AI as a wordsmith, research assistant, and editor to refine creative ideas - How ChatGPT developed into an unexpected support system as she navigates pregnancy - Why Sarah is telling everyone to create a ChatGPT project for their health (and how she used one to biohack her energy levels) This is a must-watch for writers, creatives, and anyone who wants to learn how to get more out of AI. Watch below! Timestamps: Introduction: 00:01:54 How Sarah is running an experiment between her unborn child and an LLM: 00:02:03 A demo of Sarah’s FetusGPT: 00:07:34 Sarah’s pick for the funniest LLM: 00:15:16 How Sarah uses AI in her comedy writing: 00:17:12 Dan and Sarah use ChatGPT to write a joke together live on the show: 00:24:41 Why AI is useful even when you don’t use its output directly: 00:37:21 How Sarah used a ChatGPT project to biohack her energy levels: 00:44:15 A question we fundamentally couldn’t have asked in pre-ChatGPT times: 00:57:09 How ChatGPT is a source of emotional support for Sarah in pregnancy: 01:05:29

Hello SciCom creative Andrew Moorhead is doing great things, inside and outside of Hello SciCom! A few of us had the pleasure of watching Andrew's recent play, "This Purple F***ing Pot," and we have to say: we're glad there will be another staging in 2026! Follow @PurplePotPlay on IG for updates. About the production: "This site-specific office comedy thrust audiences into Andrew’s comedic corporate nightmare. Four branders have one day to figure out how to market a hideous purple cooking pot, this simple branding exercise quickly devolving into a sharp satires of corporate culture and consumerism.”

Nervous about family tension this holiday? Simply divert the conversation to science! Every. Single. Time. Read our foolproof tips in Hello SciCom's new blog by Andrew! hellosci.com/blog/how-to-sa… #Thanksgiving #ScienceCommunication #ScienceComedy #Thanksgiving2025 #SciCom #holidayseason #SurvivingTheHolidays #HolidayTips #ThanksgivingTips

Advice for Parents, From Engineers: “Garbage in garbage out.”  (Parents matter) “Ship it.” (you gotta let them go) Advice for AI Engineers, From Parents: “It takes a village” (Diversify your data) “They grow up so fast” Agree? From my talk at @poptech youtu.be/QXb3M1PBLpg?si…

Honored to work with @RoyaMahboob !! Check out her fantastic profile in the @nytimes : nytimes.com/2025/11/24/wor…

Mattheus stole the show with his Hello SciCom logo loaf. Each company should have a company bird. Ours is the Potoo, the most dumbest-looking bird scientifically speaking. And @fruityhebbles won this year's "Most Random Task" award with Andrew! Where we compete for who had the strangest paid assignment of 2025. They got paid to create a fart-themed Star Spangled Banner.

❄️🍁🍾And a Merry ThanksChrisMakkahYears’ Day Unto You! 🍾🍁❄️ (Sarah’s taking off for parental leave Dec 1, 2025 to Feb 1, 2026, so the team partook in an all-emcompassing end-of-year Holiday Party!)