"The Journeys of Wally and Wilma" - Science for Children and Young People!

Finding Wally! is a famous hidden object book for children. On each page of the book, children have to find Wally in the middle of an excitingly designed picture. This search was the inspiration for the title of the publication: "The Journeys of Wally and Wilma: How Scientists Reconstruct the Movements of Fish". Stefanie Haase, Fanny Barz and co-authors from Sweden and Denmark have taken on the challenge of writing a publication that addresses older children and young people in terms of language and content. In it, they describe the life paths of two codfish that have been tagged with data storage devices and whose paths can be reconstructed through the records of these tags. But only one of the fish (spoiler: Wally) was recaptured by a fisherman - Wilma had a very different adventure, which the paper recounts. Read about it here:

kids.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frym.2023.1042452

After submission, the article was reviewed by children and young people from the target group with the support of teachers and editors. The icing on the cake is a specially designed cartoon. "We want to encourage all scientists to make their science accessible to young people and people outside of science through such formats - it's fun!" says first author Stefanie Haase.