Whether you thrill at the chance to tell taxi drivers and dinner-table companions about your research or want to hide every time someone asks, “What do you do?”, we offer an exciting and entertaining science communications challenge for you.

Inspired by the XKCD comic that describes the Saturn V Rocket using only the thousand most common words in English (http://xkcd.com/1133/), we ask speakers to present short (~5-minute) scientific talks using this basic set of vocabulary, determined via the Up-Goer Five Text Editor: http://splasho.com/upgoer5. The talk is preferably about your own research but can also be about a general topic you are interested in.

Why should you contribute to this session? The section below is written using the Up-Goer Five Text Editor:

When you change the words to explain what you do, you:
- Find what is at the heart of your work,
- can now tell ANYONE what you study, because you can make things as simple as they can be, even if that is hard at first,
- show that it matters to you that everyone can really understand what you do.

In addition, this session allows you to submit a second abstract. So you can use it to reach out to a wider audience or show additional work, gain experience in presenting, and train your outreach skills in the process.

For some inspiration, check out the abstracts from last year's session: https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU26/session/57008 or some videos from AGU: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxWrerZhfrk. Join us for an interesting and fun session and learn about your and others' research in new and beautifully simple ways!