Ecofictology

Hey ecofictologists and welcome to episode 7 of the Ecofictology podcast! This week is Part 2 of our Spells and Specialists episode with Dr. Moiya McTier and we head over to Clark’s area of expertise and find what he calls a seed crystal, which is the little nugget of inspiration that we use to grow all of our ideas from for the magic system based on astrophysics which is coming next week in Part 3. This process of finding the seed crystal is so much fun and Clark goes into lots of detail on his youtube channel, the magic engineer, which is also where you will find the video version of this episode. It is not on my Ecofictology channel! So you will find the link to that in the show notes if you prefer a visual medium. I hope you enjoy.

Finding Solar Seed Crystals: Spells & Specialists with Dr. Moiya McTier Pt 2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97gvTqVolho&list=PLbLBMlI_GY5K9bywwltAwXjtDZR8h37fI&index=3 

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Hey ecofictologists and welcome to episode 6 of the Ecofictology podcast! This week kicks off the first of four parts of our SPells and SPecialists episode with Dr. Moiya McTier where we just absorb all the cool stuff she can teach us about the universe and let our brains explode so if you’ve ever wondered how stars are formed, how they die and what a supernova really is, just keep listening. It was a joy to chat to Moiya and I loved stepping out of my little ecology box to learn something new. This is an archived episode from my youtube channel so if you prefer the visual medium, you can find the link in the shownotes. I hope you enjoy

How stars and planets form, age, and die | Spells and Specialists with Dr. Moiya McTier Part 1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7dEMY5V5Kg&list=PLErvk5p2-eWrif1Vn3uDole07p_C4EILb&index=3&t=57s 

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Hey ecofictologists and welcome to Episode 5 of the Ecofictology podcast! This Minisode Monday is going to introduce you to a little project called Spells and Specialists that I’ve started with my good friend Clark Rowenson, otherwise known as the Magic Engineer over on his youtube channel, which I highly recommend you check out if you are at all interested in building magic systems. SPells and SPecialists is a show where we wanted to combine our love of fantasy and magic systems with our love of nerding out over...well pretty much anything. Throw some science communication in there and I am in heaven, really. FIction for science communication is, after all, what I’m all about! We go into more detail in the episode but I just wanted to say here how much i love this project, it brings me so much joy and i hope it does the same for you. This is an archived episode from my youtube channel so if you prefer the visual medium, you can find the link in the shownotes. I hope you enjoy

Spells and Specialists Introduction | Magic, Stories and Science Communication

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuAHXFvhj7k&list=PLErvk5p2-eWrif1Vn3uDole07p_C4EILb&index=2 

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Hey ecofictologists and welcome to episode 4 of the Ecofictology podcast! This week I am interviewing John Yunker, the author of the Tourist Trail and the co-founder of Ashland Creek Press, a wonderful vegan boutique publishing press based in Oregon. If you missed this week’s Minisode where i shared my book review of The Tourist trail, then maybe listen to that episode first so you have all my thoughts, but John will be giving a brief summary of the book if you’d prefer to just stay right where you are. This is an archived episode from my youtube channel so if you prefer the visual medium, you can find the link in the shownotes. I hope you enjoy

Interview with John Yunker, author of "The Tourist Trail" and co-founder of Ashland Creek Press

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mdAq5Wf9zI&list=PLErvk5p2-eWoC2qkqDRKjUm-eLzChdx0o&index=10 

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Hey Ecofictologists, welcome to episode 3 of the Ecofictology podcast, this is the first of our Minisode Mondays which i do if there is any additional information I want you to have ahead of the longer episode on Wednesdays. My upcoming episode this Wednesday is with the wonderful John YUnker, co-founder of Ashland creek press, a vegan boutique publishing house that focuses on publishing stories about nature and how we treat animals and they have been so wonderful and welcoming to me coming into this community. John Yunker wrote the Tourist Trail as well as its sequel Where the Oceans Hide their dead, so today I am giving you my book review of the tourist trail ahead of the interview with John on Wednesday. This is an archived episode from my youtube channel so if you prefer the visual medium, you can find the link in the shownotes. I hope you enjoy

Ecofiction Book Review: The Tourist Trail by John Yunker | SPOILER FREE 

https://youtu.be/ndlrgY_Lzcs 

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Hey ecofictologists, welcome to episode 2 of the Ecofictology podcast, this week is all about why we scientists find it difficult to communicate sometimes, we why need to do it anyway and how ecofiction can maybe help us with that. I come across this on a daily basis in my job as a researcher and i would love to see fiction and storytelling used more often as a tool to get our message and our passion across to people who are not necessarily in the academic community. This is an archived episode from the Ecofictology youtube channel so you can find the videos of the different parts over there. With that in mind the audio might sound a bit different because i had a different recording setup, audio production did not come naturally to me let’s put it that way. Also keep in mind that these were produced for youtube so if it feels like im talking at a hundred miles an hour....i am. Youre not wrong. Still, i hope you enjoy.

Top 5 reasons scientists struggle to communicate https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=po1sOwb83EY 

Dangers of not bridging the science communication gap https://youtu.be/YaQpw3oT-rY 

How can ecofiction bridge the gap between scientists and the public? https://youtu.be/F92OkfcdBjk 

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Hey ecofictologists, welcome to episode 1 of the Ecofictology podcast, this week is all about giving you the ecofiction definitions that you need to understand what I’m talking about going forward but also to make you aware of some of the controversy i’ve come across with these terms, especially the term clifi. Categorisation is not without its dangers so i thought i’d discuss this with you all. This is an archived episode from the Ecofictology youtube channel so you can find the videos of the different parts over there and the links will be in the shownotes. With that in mind the audio might sound a bit different because i had a different recording setup but I hope you enjoy

Ecofiction: All the hashtags https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEGlkae9UJE&t=88s 

Climate fiction, clifi and the dangers of categorisation https://youtu.be/nYwP6vOgYtQ 

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Hey ecofictologists, welcome to the Ecofictology podcast, My name is Lovis and I am basically here to nerd out over the fiction that I read and write. On this podcast, we are going to talk all about this genre that I love called ecofiction and how it can be used as a science communication tool. What truly brings me here making a podcast is my love of reading and writing stories that capture some of that relationship between us and what’s happening in our environment, a genre that i refer to as ecofiction. So I hope you stick around and join me as I discover beautiful stories!