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CSML Audio Studio
Better Questions. Better Insights.
The CSML Audio Studio is the home for long-form conversations with builders, researchers, practitioners, artists, educators, and community leaders working at the intersection of science and society.
Long-form conversations with people building, studying, and strengthening civic science.
Audio gives guests room to think out loud and explain what they are learning.
Founder journeys, community partnerships, storytelling, culture, tools, and practice.
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Listen by show
Two original CSML audio programs, each with a distinct editorial focus.
Entrepreneurship · Builders · Impact
Consider This Next
One-on-one conversations with founders, innovators, and entrepreneurs building organizations at the intersection of science and society.
Public engagement · Research · Communities
Science Engaged
Conversations exploring why and how scientists partner with communities, and what these collaborations produce in practice.
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Start with these voices
Selected interviews from across the CSML Audio Studio.
Transforming data into art interventions for civic engagement.
Humanizing science through personal storytelling.
Building science stories with civic purpose.
From music to science podcasting.
Agricultural science and food security.
Narrative storytelling as climate communication.
Community-centered science engagement in practice.
Building tools and communities for participation in science.
Lessons from public engagement work on the ground.
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Here’s some of what we are hearing
Recurring ideas and questions that connect conversations across both Audio Studio programs.
Building organizations
Founder journeys, sustainability, leadership, and scale.
Community partnerships
How scientists, practitioners, and communities work together.
Storytelling and culture
How narratives, art, media, and lived experience shape public engagement.
Tools and practice
What people are testing, learning, and changing in real time.
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Highlights from the conversations
Short excerpts and takeaways from voices across the CSML network.
Abby C. King explains how the ‘Our Voice’ citizen science project app works
For Culturally Relevant Science (CRSci), teachers are critical partners.
On Science Engaged, John Besley tells Kristel Tjandra what science engages need to ask themselves
Wait, yacht owners LOVE crowdsourced bathymetry opportunities to support marine science?
Don’t miss Dr. John Besley on Season 1 of the Science Engaged program with host, Kristel Tjandra
Our Voice founder: We are empowering residents
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Have a story, guest, or audio series idea?
Across CSML, audio complements video, photography, and digital reporting by giving practitioners space to explain what they are building, what they are learning, and what questions remain unresolved.
We collaborate with organizations, funders, practitioners, and field builders to document work happening across civic science.