Every year, we host live shows - in person and online - Around the world with all kinds of storytellers: researchers, doctors, and engineers, of course, but also patients, poets, comedians, and more. Our team’s favorite stories from those shows land on our weekly podcast. Some of the stories are heartbreaking, others are hilarious. They're all true and all very personal.

Scroll down to learn more about our work, including educational programming that aims to bring the power of science storytelling to all.

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Spiritual Crossroads: Stories about conflicting beliefs
Spiritual Crossroads: Stories about conflicting beliefs

Neuroscientist Lauren Vetere is excited to see if real life will mimic science at an interfaith event, and growing up as a devout Jew, Fred Gould’s relationship with God is shaken by existential philosophy and science.

 

Live Shows

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The Story Collider Presents: Stories of Brain and Beyond
Mar 18
Caveat
The Story Collider Presents: Stories of Brain and Beyond
Caveat

Join the Story Collider and the Friedman Brain Institute at the Icahn School of Medicine for five true, personal stories about the brain and beyond!

Caveat
Boston, MA - Fractures
Apr 5
MIT Museum
Boston, MA - Fractures
MIT Museum

Join us in Boston for stories about the ruptures in our lives, and how science sometimes triggers, and sometimes heals those breaks.

MIT Museum
New York, NY - Emergence
Apr 14
Caveat
New York, NY - Emergence
Caveat

Join us for an evening of true, personal stories about how we emerge into who we are at Caveat, NYC!

Caveat
Boise, ID - Signals
Apr 16
The Lookout Room
Boise, ID - Signals
The Lookout Room

Join us for an electrifying night of true, personal stories about experiences with signals—both literal and metaphorical.

The Lookout Room
The Story Collider Presents: Wired Lives
May 7
Ferst Center For The Arts
The Story Collider Presents: Wired Lives
Ferst Center For The Arts

Discover the impact of brain-computer interfaces through personal stories at "Wired Lives".

Ferst Center For The Arts
 

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Advanced Storytelling Workshop
Apr 1
Advanced Storytelling Workshop

Taught by Erin Barker & Bryan Kett

Each year, we help hundreds of STEM professionals and science enthusiasts learn to use the power of storytelling to enhance their scholarly communication, classroom teaching, public engagement, advocacy work, and more.

From guest lectures and keynote addresses to weekly seminar series to two-day retreats, our educational programming can be offered in online, hybrid, and in-person formats and customized to fit your schedule and goals.

 

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Spiritual Crossroads: Stories about conflicting beliefs
Spiritual Crossroads: Stories about conflicting beliefs

Neuroscientist Lauren Vetere is excited to see if real life will mimic science at an interfaith event, and growing up as a devout Jew, Fred Gould’s relationship with God is shaken by existential philosophy and science.

Family Ties: Stories about our roots
Family Ties: Stories about our roots

As a teenager, Mark Pagan worries that having an old dad is affecting his social development, and curious about his DNA, Christopher Rivas takes his father on a journey to the Dominican Republic to learn about his family history.

Best of Story Collider: Representation
Best of Story Collider: Representation

While serving on a diversity panel, biologist Latasha Wright is asked if representation in STEM matters, prompting her to reflect on her experiences, and LFC’s childhood experiences with nature – and with bigotry – come together to inform her career in environmentalism.

Self-Image: Stories about how we see ourselves
Self-Image: Stories about how we see ourselves

Fangfang Ruose fears that her prosthetic legs will exclude her from becoming a fashion model, and when engineering student Devan Sandiford runs into an old friend from his former college, he desperately wants her to think he’s cool

Will You Be My Valentine?: Stories about using science to find love
Will You Be My Valentine?: Stories about using science to find love

After Tony Dahlman plucks up the courage to ask out a fellow statistician, he consults the Survey Administration Manual for guidance on how to construct the perfect date, and when engineering student Heather Monigan asks liberal arts major Michael Berger on a date he’s completely unaware that she's interested in him.

Top Secret: Stories about things we hide
Top Secret: Stories about things we hide

Growing up in Ghana, Pauline Owusu-Ansah hides her secret desire to study lizards, and Saad Sarwana’s secret identity as a standup comedian threatens to ruin his burgeoning physics career.

Best of Story Collider: Chemistry
Best of Story Collider: Chemistry

Nothing can come between Lindzi Wessel and her new boyfriend, David -- except maybe herpes, and Marine biologist Skylar Bayer and first mate Thom Young find love on a boat.

Excluded: Stories about being left out
Excluded: Stories about being left out

At school, Natalie Ayala can’t understand why she and the other dual-language kids are treated differently, and as a photographer on a research expedition in Antarctica, Marley Parker can’t seem to break into the scientist inner circle.

Adapt: Stories about adjusting to new conditions
Adapt: Stories about adjusting to new conditions

As the only American, microbiologist Chris Robinson struggles to make friends with the other researchers in Chernobyl, and in his quest to study the adaptability of stickleback fish, neuroscientist Ashwin Bhandiwad keeps needing to adjust his experiment with each new hurdle.

Tough Gigs: Stories about unsuitable jobs
Tough Gigs: Stories about unsuitable jobs

When fertility research scientist Sarah Adelman gets a job at a sperm bank, she’s apparently the only one who finds it funny, and in her new job at a neuroscience lab, Anna Zhukovskaya’s boss starts to pick on her.