Pirula (YouTuber)

Paulo Miranda Nascimento (born August 14, 1981), also known as Pirula or Pirulla, is a Brazilian paleontologist, YouTuber, zoologist, lecturer and a scientific disseminator.

Pirula
Personal information
BornPaulo Miranda Nascimento
(1981-08-14)August 14, 1981
São Paulo, Brazil
NationalityBrazilian
Height1.81 m (5 ft 11 in)
YouTube information
Channel
Subscribers+ 900 thousand (2020)
Total views+ 100 million (2020)

Pirula is a bachelor of Biology by Mackenzie Presbyterian University and, he is master and PhD in Zoology by University of São Paulo. His PhD thesis is named "Revision of the Baurusuchidae family and its phylogenetic affinities within Mesoeucrocodylia".[1][2] Paulo has also been a professor of evolution and palaeontology in colleges and schools.[3]

Pirula created his YouTube channel in 2006, named Canal do Pirulla, in which he discusses science, environment, religion and politics,[4] in long and detailed videos.[5]

Pirula has been awarded the Social Media Education Influencer Award in the sixth edition of the Shorty Awards, in 2014.[6] In 2016, together with Laranjeira, Simões, Estevão and other Brazilian social media influencers, Pirula founded another YouTube channel, Bláblálogia, also focused in communicating science to common audiences.[7]

As a critic of the means Brazilian media portraits scientific topics,[8] Pirula was one of the founders of the Science Vlogs Brazil project, Pirula foi um dos criadores do projeto Science Vlogs Brasil, a conglomerate of YouTube channels focused on science and education which aims to unify Brazilian popular science influencers nacionais against fake news and anti-scientific information on the internet.[9]

In July 2019, together with Gilmar Lopes the creator and maintainer of the fact-checking website E-farsas, he debuted a series of videos named "Fake em Nóis" on the MOV.show channel, which belongs to the producer MOV on the UOL portal.

In December 2020, Pirula's channel has 923 thousand subscribers and about 100 million views.[10]

Works
  • Darwin sem frescura, co-author: Reinaldo José Lopes. HarperCollins Brasil (2019). ISBN 978-0000185570

References
  1. "Egressos". www.ib.usp.br. Retrieved August 1, 2019.
  2. "Pirulla". Universidade Católica de Santos. 2017. Retrieved August 16, 2017.
  3. ABREU, Fabiano de (February 15, 2016). "Conheça o Pirula, um dos fenômenos do Youtube". Cartão de Visita. Retrieved August 16, 2017.
  4. VON, Ronnie (August 8, 2016). "Conversa com Pirula". TV Gazeta. Retrieved August 23, 2017.
  5. ZORZI, André Carlos (May 15, 2017). "Na contramão do YouTube, 'Canal do Pirulla' chega a 30 milhões de visualizações". Estadão. Retrieved August 16, 2017.
  6. "Shorty Awards Winners Announced". Deadline. April 7, 2014. Retrieved August 20, 2017.
  7. "Novo canal de divulgação científica chega ao Youtube". Revista Galileu (in Portuguese). Retrieved October 19, 2019.
  8. "Pirula e jornalismo científico". Folha de S. Paulo. April 30, 2016. Retrieved August 25, 2017.
  9. "Vlogueiros se unem para criar canal de divulgação científica de qualidade". Revista Galileu (Globo). March 4, 2016. Retrieved August 25, 2017.
  10. "pirulla25 YouTube Stats, Channel Statistics - Socialblade.com". socialblade.com. Retrieved May 7, 2020.
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