Despite all of its flaws, YouTube is a great place for scientific content creators to share their work, and for us to enjoy. This is non-exhaustive personal selection of my favorite science channels and videos. I am missing other great channels for sure ! I still hope you’ll like it! :)

English

• 3Blue1Brown: You probably already know this channel. It’s THE math channel. Crystal clear explanations and lessons for everyone, with great animations.
• Artem Kirsanov: A rather recent channel that I just discovered. In a nutshell, the 3B1B of computational neuroscience.
• RitvikMath: A channel that saved my life in college. I come back to it every now and then. A lot of data science content and great energy.
• Up and Atom A Very nice and well-known physics channel. Less technical than other recommendations in this list, but just as enjoyable!
• Eric Rowland: A less famous, but not less excellent math content creator. Very few uploads, but real gems every time.
• MutualInformation Very refreshing deep learning and numerical analysis.
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French

• ScienceEtonnante My favourite best generalist vulgarization channel.
• Fouloscopie A channel hold by an academic researcher on computational crowd behavior modeling. EXTREMELY inspiring and interdisciplinary.
• MrPhi A famous philosophy channel.
• Hygiène Mentale The go-to channel to discover “zététique”, i.e. modern scientific skepticism
• La Tronche en Biais Another “zététique” channel with more content (debates, live streams, news, etc.)
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Nerdy PhD humor

• xkcd what if Ask nonsense questions and answer them with science. If you like this content, buy Randall Munroe’s book!
• CGP grey A bunch of very fun and nerdy videos. -MrPSolver You can try and watch the “Publishing a scientific paper be like…” video for this one.
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