147. Interview with science communicator and Miscible founder Molly Patton
Show notes
This week we were thrilled to be joined by the wonderful Molly Patton - founder, sci-comm lead and producer at Miscible, a Melbourne-based science communication studio that has quickly made a name for itself for the way it turns complex research into visually striking, deeply engaging stories. Molly's path here is a fascinating one: a former biomaterials postgrad, she walked away from academia after watching the same three problems crop up again and again: no time, no funding, and no shared language to explain why the work actually mattered. With a dual background in science and the arts (photography in particular), she's spent the last nine years leading creative teams to help researchers communicate work that is, in her words, "easy to understand and impossible to ignore" - translation work that has supported nearly $200 million in research funding in just the past four years.
Join us for a fabulous conversation about why science and the arts were never meant to be separate, science communication as a profession in its own right, the art of a great grant application, and Molly's lovely reminder to be human first and scientist second.
You can follow Molly and learn more about her work here:
Molly on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/mollypatton
Miscible on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/miscible-co
Molly's Substack: mollykpatton.substack.com
And, since he got a mention, Molly's very photogenic dog Kodak: @kodak_the_bluemerle
Transcript: https://go.unimelb.edu.au/z58h