I've been watching Sabine's videos for years now. I love her acerbic sense of humor and devil-may-care attitude towards her peers. She's often right too, although they hate to admit it. I once read a comment on one of her videos "Before I watched Sabine I didn't understand this stuff, but after watching her I feel I don't understand it at a much higher level!" Much of what she talks about is highly mathematical and often hypothetical, but she does try to explain stuff in terms us mere mortals can understand. And she's funny.
She got famous on YouTube. Now it helps fund her research in quantum gravity
The dark days of the COVID-19 pandemic helped transform Sabine Hossenfelder into an unlikely social media star. In the process, she has raised a few eyebrows among her fellow scientists. She's also made an important discovery that just might bode well for her future research.
Hossenfelder turned to YouTube "to keep my sanity" when she was unable to go to her office at Germany's Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies. Actually, you might say she returned. She'd started a channel in 2007 but just hadn't been very active. Then came a rebranding — Science without the gobbledygook. Today, she has 1 million subscribers (up from 50,000) and also enjoys a strong and growing contingent of Patreon supporters.
Several times a month, the theoretical physicist and mathematician drops a new video, dispensing her dry wit and pithy wisdom to a loyal fan base of nerds across the internet.
She takes her role as a science communicator seriously, aiming her videos at an audience seeking context. "People can go to my channel and get the brief, 20-minute summary," Hossenfelder says. "They don't have to read a whole book or download a review article, which they won't understand anyway."...
(Much more on NPR)
https://www.npr.org/2023/09/23/11994697 ... ssenfelder
I've been following her for almost 4 years now.
