The Scientist – Fall 2023
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Welcome at The Scientist Magazine Fall 2023 Issue
As SARS-CoV-2 burst onto the scene in late 2019, the world clamored for information as basic, translational, and clinical research suddenly became the topics of household conversations. Misinformation spread like wildfire, and everyone from middle school pupils to government leaders began questioning if what they heard and read was trustworthy.
The Scientist stepped up to the challenge. We leaned heavily into the public health space to provide accurate, up-to-date information, and we widened our reach to ensure that scientists and nonscientists alike had the details they needed to choose their own paths through the pandemic. Now, as the dust settles following these turbulent years, like many of you, we at The Scientist are learning from our experiences and refocusing our priorities for the future.
The Scientist Magazine originally launched with scientist readers in mind. With the hunger for pandemic-related information fading from public view, we are returning to our roots and rededicating ourselves to serving the needs of life science researchers at the bench. To meet this goal, we have searched among our readers to assemble our team. Each of our editors joins us with a PhD degree in the life sciences, years of experience conducting research , and extensive science communications expertise, which you will see as you read their enthralling stories. As a team, we are tuned in to your scientific interests, entertainment needs, bubbling curiosities, and networking wishes because we are scientists ourselves.
I’m excited to introduce you to your content creation team today! In building our refocused editorial strategy, we have relied heavily on your recommendations and guidance. We are extremely grateful for the messages you have sent via email, social media, and forms on our website letting us know what topics you are eager to read about and how you like to see those stories presented. With this feedback in mind, we have exciting plans to
increase the number of feature stories we run in each print issue and online, expand our conference coverage, introduce new columns, and present the topics of utmost interest to our readers in a relatable, relevant, and engaging way.
We also have several exciting new developments for our online programs. In support of your desires to stay up to date on the latest advances and discoveries in the life sciences while also productively working your way through long to-do lists, we introduced the TS Digest in July 2023 and will publish new issues monthly going forward.
This new publication focuses on presenting fun, bite-sized content such as flash nonfiction, miniature podcasts, videos, infographics, puzzles, interviews, and surprising columns such as “Just Curious” and “Epic Fail” that come directly from our readers’ questions and experiences. You can peruse the mobile-friendly TS Digest while waiting for a gel to run, a meeting to start, a quick centrifuge spin to finish, or any other time when you have only a few free minutes.
In addition, we proudly launched our new journal club this summer, which presents research published by you, our readers, in an online interactive webinar format. We would love to have you join us for these world-wide journal club discussions, either as a listener or as a presenter.
In January 2024, we will launch a new newsletter program that is uniquely tailored to your interests. We’ll present the latest breaking science news, long- and short-form stories, podcasts, webinars, and resources to propel your research forward.
We will focus in on your preferences to ensure that each piece of content we send is relevant to you. You can tailor your own reading experience by updating your newsletter preferences ahead of that change.
We are confident that these changes will better meet your needs and create a publication that you can’t put down or scroll past. Of course, to achieve this goal and our overarching goal of “exploring life, inspiring innovation,” we need your help! Keep an eye on your inboxes; we plan to conduct a reader survey in the coming weeks to find out exactly what you think of these changes, and we eagerly await your feedback, story topic requests, and research experiences to highlight in our magazine.
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