When Morgan McSweeney first started doing science communication on social media during Covid, he sometimes felt a little embarrassed by it. Now, as he wrote recently for STAT, he has found that “a casual one-minute video about immunology racks up orders of magnitude more views in an hour than my published research papers could accumulate in ten lifetimes.”

McSweeney, aka Doctor Noc, is a social media influencer with 4 million followers across platforms and a Ph.D. in pharmaceutical sciences and immunology. This week he joins First Opinion Podcast host Torie Bosch to talk about his approach to cutting through the noise of social media with real, honest science.