YOUNG SCIENTISTS Welcome!
Editor Newsletter
October 2014
Welcome to the first ever, monthly issue of the YSJ Editor Newsletter. The Young Scientists Journal is a worldwide journal open to anyone aged between 12 and 20 to contribute, either through editing or contributing by blogging or submitting your research. Hopefully, this newsletter gives you an insight into what The Young Scientists Journal is and hopefully encourages you to sign up!
Our Monthly Challenge
Meet Lauren Smith who hopes to study chemistry and drug design at university to go on and fight cancer.
The Young Scientists Journal wants you to get involved. To do this, we have decided to start a new initiative called ‘A Topic A Month’. This means that every month we will announce a new topic, this may be related to a recent news topic, a certain time of year or just a single scientific word. Your task will be to create any sort of media from a poster to a video, a poem or a short piece of writing. Be creative! All of your creations must be submitted by email to editior@ysjournal.com including your name and age, with the subject ‘Topic a month(month)’. All submissions will be judged by the Editorial Team and the best will be displayed on the website. This will be starting from October, we look forward to seeing your work. The topic for this month is…
TROPICAL DISEASES
Whether this is Ebola or any other tropical disease, the choice is yours! If you’re selected, your entry will also appear right here in our Newsletter. Make sure you submit your entry before the 31st October!
This Month in Science... Meet Prishita Maheshwari-Aplin, who is a sixth form student at Chethams’ School of Music in Manchester, UK, with a keen interest in all things biological. She hopes to have a future in medical or evolutionary research and science journalism. • • • • • • • • • •
Scientists captured the sound of an atom for the first time. The ozone layer is showing signs of recovery. Engineers created solid light. A woman received a tissue graft made from induced stem cells Scientists developed a quick and easy method to produce white blood cells from skin cells. Scientists discovered how to “switch off” auto immunity. Scientists genetically engineered bacteria to produce a new type of renewable bio-fuel. Quantum entanglement was used to photograph an invisible object. Scientists created an entire lab-engineered organ, a thymus, from scratch Researchers discovered proteins that block the release of both HIV and Ebola virus toxins.
What is it like to be an editor? Meet Abbie Wilson who’s one of our Editors, passionate about science and the voice of young people, she’ll tell you more about what it’s like to be part of our Editorial Team. YSJ have an amazing team of around 20 editors who review articles in conjunction with the authors of articles. It is a great online community to be involved in and it’s amazing what you can gain from editing the articles. Not only has it enabled me to learn about a range of science topics but I also feel like it has helped my own science work as I subconsciously edit it before submission! It’s exciting to edit such engaging work and I think that is so important that articles published in YSJ are written for young people to inspire and involve them in modern day science. Although the time commitment is very flexible, it probably only takes around an hour per week so it isn’t a huge time commitment if you also have exams! The thing that I love most about being an editor is when I hit the publish button for the article to be published as the author feels a huge sense of pride and I know that the articles will be read and enjoyed by so many young people. It is amazing to feel like you have been a part of that journey. Even if you have no editing experience it doesn’t matter - YSJ give you so much guidance and support. I never had any experience to begin with but it is quite easy to pick up with the right tips to help you along the way! It is also very interesting because you choose areas of science which you would particularly enjoy editing for so you can gain lots of expertise in areas which interest you! I would like to study medicine so I love editing articles on Biology and Health topics. Everyone at YSJ are very friendly and helpful so help is never far away! Usually people who enjoy editing with YSJ: - Are passionate about science and engineering - Enjoy reading and writing - Have good online communication skills Finally, YSJ is a great link to have when applying for college/university and many of our editors have gone on to do extremely well so why not get involved?! Interested in becoming an editor? Email us at editor@ysjounal.com
OUR EDITORS
Chief Editor: Ed Vinson Editorial Team Leader: Claire Nicholson Senior Editors: Chimdi Ota, Michael Hofmann, James Molony Editors: Areg Nzsdejan, Mischa Nijland, Rahul Krishnaswamy, Jenita Jona James, Lisa-Marie Chadderton, Ailis Dooner, George Tall, Sophia Aldwinckle, Konrad Suchodolski, Abbie Wilson, Gilbert Chng, Prishita, Maheshwari-Aplin, Corrie Crothers, Cathy Li, Hannah Glover, Gianamar Giovannetti-Singh, Emily, Montford, Shannon Walsh, Lauren Smith, Annabel Chen, Selina Tsai, Mythiri Sutharson, Kriti Joshi, Sanjay Kubsad, Francesca Ballard
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