Alex Duckles, a digital media specialist at HHMI Tangled Bank Studios, has backgrounds in ecology, filmmaking and communication, including narrative models of science storytelling. He previously produced an award-winning documentary on destructive algae blooms and worked for PBS Education and PBS Digital Studios. Alex is currently focused on producing short-form video content that brings emotionally-driven science storytelling to platforms such as YouTube and Facebook, including the original YouTube series “I Contain Multitudes” about the human microbiome starring best-selling author Ed Yong.