Science Communications on YouTube

Who has time for videos? I know lots watch them, but wow - reading is so much more efficient. I can skip ahead - and skim - or revisit; I can annotate; I can save, transcribe (copy/paste), I read so much faster than even accelerated video can play .... and all so much more easily.

By sticking to reading, am I missing out on content?

Edit: Not a criticism of watching video, I'm wondering if I'm missing substantial things. If I didn't read, for example, I'd miss a lot that doesn't exist in video or audio. Same thing with podcasts.

Re: Science Communications on YouTube

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Post by Workaccount2 » Sun, Dec 14, 2025, 5:54 PM UTC

ThrowawayTestr wrote: post #4

Some people might take issue with the Veritasium recommendation. I think he's great though.

I was an avid viewer until he stepped in my area of expertise and leveraged technicalities, half-truths, and misrepresentation to really juice up the click-baityness and "wow!" factor.

My interest in his videos plunged after that, and it seemed like he was re-alinging for consistent high views over straight hard factual education. Frankly I wish I could purge him from my feed at this point (youtube still recommends all his videos incessantly, despite me not watching one for at least a year now. On paper I am the ideal viewer though, so...)

Re: Science Communications on YouTube

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Post by jonahrd » Sun, Dec 14, 2025, 5:58 PM UTC

mmooss wrote: post #6

Who has time for videos? I know lots watch them, but wow - reading is so much more efficient. I can skip ahead - and skim - or revisit; I can annotate; I can save, transcribe (copy/paste), I read so much faster than even accelerated video can play .... and all so much more easily. By sticking to reading, am I missing out on content? Edit: Not a criticism of watching video, I'm wondering if I'm missing substantial thi…

I'm a much more auditory/visual learner, so these videos work really great for me. I'm glad that reading works for you!

Re: Science Communications on YouTube

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Post by gnz11 » Sun, Dec 14, 2025, 5:58 PM UTC

mat_b wrote: post #3

No mention of PBS Space Time? That show is high quality.

PBS also did a recent live stream on the topic of science communication with some notable YouTubers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPKxk3s-8Yc

Re: Science Communications on YouTube

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Post by estimator7292 » Sun, Dec 14, 2025, 5:59 PM UTC

Workaccount2 wrote: post #7

ThrowawayTestr wrote: post #4

Some people might take issue with the Veritasium recommendation. I think he's great though.

I was an avid viewer until he stepped in my area of expertise and leveraged technicalities, half-truths, and misrepresentation to really juice up the click-baityness and "wow!" factor. My interest in his videos plunged after that, and it seemed like he was re-alinging for consistent high views over straight hard factual education. Frankly I wish I could purge him from my feed at this point (youtube still recommends a…

On your homepage, click the three dots next to a video and click "do not recommend channel"

It's one of the very few things that actually work