SciComm Summer #22: Alex Dainis on Producing Online Videos

Alex Dainis is a freelance science communicator and video producer. She's been making science videos on YouTube for years, including recent work for the American Chemical Society. In 2024, she was received an Award for Excellence in Science Communications from the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine and the Schmidt Foundation. We talk about how she started down this road and decided to make it her full-time work after graduate school, including the challenges of freelancing while staying committed to high-quality content. "Science is About How You Know" prints available here. You can find the rest of this summer's science communication podcast series here . For a transcript of this episode, visit this episode's page at: Learn more about Opinion Science at and follow @OpinionSciPod on Twitter.

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SciComm Summer #22: Alex Dainis on Producing Online Videos is an episode from Opinion Science by Andy Luttrell.

This episode is 61:05 long.

This episode was published on Jul 14, 2025.

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