Over the past couple of years, I’ve been invited to help make education videos for a company called Massolit. The name is taken from a Soviet-era novel by Mikhail Bulgakov, where Massolit was a place where writers would meet up. The aim is to provide “stretch and challenge” content for both GCSE and A level students. Lectures are broken down into bite-size chunks of approximately 8-15 minutes (rather like we were doing when teaching during the pandemic switched to online delivery). At present there are more than 9000 lectures available, split across 16 subject areas.
So far I have made three lecture series for them. The topics are the ethics of Animal Research, Maths for Biologists, and Transhumanism (at the time of writing, this third topic remains in the post-recording editing process).
Massolit operates on a subscription model, so the full lecture series are behind a paywall. However, you can access taster installments of my contributions via this link.
Conflict of Interest declaration: I have received payment for production of these videos (but not for this blog post).
Journal of the left-handed biochemist 