My Attempt To Further Promote Young Science Writers

Late last year, I wrote a blog post entitled "What Is The Place Of New Science Bloggers In Today's Science Blogosphere?"¹ in which I tried to address the problem of breaking in science writing as a young writer from my perspective as a community manager. My aim for the post was to share my thoughts on how community managers and other people responsible for science blog networks could actively promote young writers. The main thesis of the post was that people who are in a position to promote young science writers have the responsibility to do so.

As the community blog manager of Scitable, I am one of those people who can do something for young science writers. I have tried to do this here at Scitable by fostering our great community of bloggers. And I am delighted to have now been given the opportunity to promote even more young science writers.

The SA Incubator blog has aim to push young science writers in the limelight that Scientific American can provide. Since it started last year, it has promoted articles published by young science writers in various publications, has brought attention to a some student-run science publications, pointed to relevant science writing university programs and recently, has started a Q&A series with young science writers. As I join SA Incubator, my aim is not only to continue along those lines of promoting young science writers but also to provide them with motivating, helpful and instructive content. In the coming weeks, you can expect some hopefully helpful resources to crop up on SA Incubator.

In the meantime, you can check out my first post on SA Incubator. It's a collection of links to articles published this week by some young science writers. The collection includes fishermen's surprising knowledge of fluid dynamics, using post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) as a defence strategy in court and more. All interesting and all great science writing by young science writers.

The future is now!

¹ The post went viral among the science communication community on the web when it was commented upon by popular science blogger, Ed Yong. It did receive its fair share of criticism which you can read in the post's comments or on Ed Yong's commentary.

Image credit: Scientific American.