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How ChatGPT Tells a Joke: The Reasoning of the Unreasonable

Can a system that doesn’t experience humor create it? Let's discuss!

Robots & AI

All of the Dumb Science Questions You Were Afraid to Ask

If you’ve ever had a science question that seemed too embarrassing to ask out loud, you’re in luck.

Funny Science

AI Animates Your Trip... LIVE!

Psychedelics and AI: a match made in weird heaven.

Robots & AI

Funny Science

Science Comedy Workshop: Announcement and Details!

Hello SciCom is thrilled to announce our upcoming Science Comedy Workshop

Science Communication Tips

2023's Naughty and Nice: A Year in Science News

We made a list and checked it twice.

Funny Science

What the Hell is VR Comedy?

If you thought putting on a VR headset and flailing about in your living room was embarrassing enough, try performing standup at the same time.

Robots & AI

Evolving Depictions of Robots in Film and TV

Robots have captured our imagination on screen for over a century and reflect our evolving relationship with artificial intelligence.

Robots & AI

Why You Need Humor to Market Your FemTech Company

As FemTech companies continue to grow, companies will need to find new ways to differentiate themselves.

Science Communication Tips

Why Science Needs Comedy

Blending humor and science together can lead to better results than if the two are always kept separate.

Science Communication Tips

Is Psychology STEM?

Many fields have tried to elevate themselves to the position of “science”. Does psychology deserve to be there too?

Funny Science

How to Name Your Robot

Did you know the Roomba was almost called the “Cyber Suck”?

Robots & AI

The Power of Robot Memes

Robot memes are everywhere. Why?

Robots & AI

Science Communication Needs Positivity

Science communication suffers from a negativity problem.

Science Communication Tips

Comedy…in Space

Space comedy is nothing new and, when used correctly, it has the potential to make outer space a little more relatable.

Funny Science

Creative Spotlight: 10 Q's for James Caven to A

Get to know a member of our creative team, James Caven!

Interviews and Profiles

Team Interview: Natalia Reagan!

Meet anthropologist, comedian, and monkey-lover extraordinaire Natalia Reagan, the newest member of the Hello SciCom team!

Interviews and Profiles

How Google Bard Can (Or Can’t) Help Comedy Writers

Google Bard is the newest generative AI chatbot on the market. But how can comedy writers use it to make their writing funnier, especially in comparison to similar tools like ChatGPT?

Robots & AI

When should I tell a joke? Climate Change Edition

As with anything politicized, it can be hard to know when it's right to lean on comedy and tell a joke. Here, we ask the question: when it comes to climate change, when can we (and when should we) tell a joke?

Science Communication Tips

How Comedy Writers Can Use ChatGPT

Will AI replace comedians? Can neural networks automate humor? Ever wonder how comedy writers can use Open AI's ChatGPT to improve their comedy writing?

Robots & AI

ChatGPT is great, but it won’t replace comedy writers anytime soon

ChatGPT is a very useful tool, but we’re going to keep writing the jokes ourselves.

Robots & AI

7 Useful & Fact-Based TikTok Tips to Grow Your Brand

If you’re a company, brand, public figure, or thought leader looking to grow your audience, TikTok might be right for you. In 2022, TikTok had the fastest-growing audience in the world, with 656 million individual downloads.

Science Communication Tips

Comedians Break Down How Google’s AI Explains Jokes

Google’s new Pathway Language Model, or PaLM, can do a lot of things. It can perform reason, write code, and translate languages. It could even decode genomes. But most importantly, in our opinion, it could explain jokes.

Robots & AI

Why Dall-E 2, the AI-Powered Image Generator, is Comedy Gold

Dall-E 2 is one of most advanced AI technologies ever built. We used it to create a picture of King Kong fighting Nicolas Cage.

Robots & AI

5 Entertaining Science Books

These books will tickle your funny bone, and explain that bone’s mineral composition.

Funny Science

Is Science Comedy a Thing?

Science comedy is empirically… “a thing.” Here’s the science of comedy behind science comedy.

Funny Science

7 Not-Terrible Science Discoveries from 2021

Any way you slice it, 2021 was an objectively bad year, and we all know why. But it wasn’t all bad. Here’s a handful of good science things that happened last year (that have nothing to do with COVID-19).

Funny Science

Creating Engaging Voices for Robots

In a new paper co-authored by the Honda Research Institute of Japan and Hello SciCom's Sarah Rose Siskind, voices were put to the test to determine the most effective voice for a new tabletop robot, Haru.

Robots & AI

Five Instances of Bad Science That People Actually Believed

Just like wine, reality TV, and blind dates –– there's science, and then there's BAD science.

Funny Science

Funny Science May Be the Solution for Fake News

Only 44% of U.S. adults said they had “a great deal of confidence” in the scientific community. Here's how making science funny can help.

Funny Science

If Scientists Were Treated Like Celebrities

What could possibly go wrong?

Funny Science

What Scientists Can Learn From Stand Up Comedians

Comedy and science might seem very different, but they have a lot more in common than you think. In fact, there are a few techniques from standup comedy that can help scientists effectively present their work.

Funny Science

The Do's and Don'ts About Communicating Climate Change

Getting everyone to understand and believe in climate change is harder than riding a unicycle in a hurricane, which is becoming a serious cause for concern for clowns due to climate change. Check out our tips for how to get your message across!

Science Communication Tips

We Can Boost SEO! Look, We're Doing it Right Now!

At Hello SciCom, we don’t just do comedy writing, we’ve been using search engine optimization to find our audience even in the farthest reaches of the internet. Here are some of our tips for boosting SEO traffic to your site or business.

Science Communication Tips

Top 15 Science Communication Tips

Science would not be possible without communication. You have to use language, even if you didn’t get into STEM to write sonnets. Read our 15 simple tips for improving how you write and speak about your work.

Science Communication Tips

SciCom Lessons from Covid Reporting in 2020

What lessons in science communication have we learned from Covid reporting in 2020?

Science Communication Tips

5 Great Science Communicators! ...Parodies

Spot on imitations of Carl Sagan, Bill Nye, Neil deGrasse Tyson, and the MythBusters!

Funny Science

Tips To Be LESS BORING in Video Conferences!

16 tips in 60 seconds for how to be more engaging on your next Zoom call.

Science Communication Tips

Introducing Hello SciCom

Hello SciCom helps people in science and tech fields express complex ideas in a way that is clear, accessible, and entertaining.

Science Communication Tips