One of the main activity I’ve been carrying out with BioPills is the writing and publication of outreach articles on our website. Over the years, I dealt with many subjects, ranging from zoology to ecology, and from book reviews to interviews. You can find all the articles I published by visiting my account page on BioPills.
With BioPills I also collaborated in organizing live webinars dealing with various biological topics. My main role was to moderate the webinar, by introducing the speaker and the topic, and by reading questions from the audience. You can find all the webinars hosted by BioPills on the YouTube channel.
Every now and then I also partecipate in side activities which involve the collaboration between BioPills and other scientific initiatives.
For example, following SMBE 2023 in Ferrara, Italy, I established a collaboration with “In the Light of Evolution“ (LoE), a scientific outreach project by the Swiss Bionformatic Institute, the Swiss National Science Foundation, and the University of Lausanne. Specifically, the objective was to translate the LoE website into Italian (take a look at the “Banana split story”) and hopefully to jointly organize outreach activities.
Also, for over 2 years BioPills has provided articles to the “Giornale dei Biologi” on a monthly basis. I took care of reviewing articles dealing with zoology, ecology and related articles, and I also wrote my own piece: “Abbiamo ancora bisogno di parlare di fossili viventi?” (which may translate in something like “Is there any use in discussing the living fossil concept?”).