Our baby is 1.
A year ago, I stood before a crowd at a Society for Neuroscience social event sponsored by the Simons Foundation to announce the birth of The Transmitter. The pride and joy about our launch has only grown as I’ve watched the incredible staff produce an award-winning publication that has already become vital to the neuroscience community.
Where else would you read a column on “How to teach this paper,” a story on “Making cancer nervous” or a narrative on what happens in a neuroscience lab after scientific fraud? All while Spectrum remains a pillar of The Transmitter.
The feedback from that community has been gratifying. Some professors are using The Transmitter in their syllabi. Others have already cited us in prominent journals such as Nature Machine Intelligence, Nature Reviews Cancer, Biological Psychiatry and Neuropsychopharmacology.
The Transmitter’s reporting has also been cited by prominent international media outlets, including Spiegel Wissenschaft, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, L’Express and NRC Handelsblad—and by Wikipedia in multiple languages. And it has already won awards, including an AAAS-Kavli Science Journalism Award and in multiple categories of the American Society of Business Publication Editors.
Not bad for our first year out, right?
It takes a village to build something beautiful—and useful. The team works closely with outstanding freelancers, dedicated contributing editors, and an expert and engaged editorial advisory board.
But we’re not resting on our laurels. We recently launched two partnerships to maximize our impact and support our mission of building bridges across neuroscience. Stay tuned for more such partnerships and other exciting developments—including our first Transmitter book, out later this year.
In the meantime, we’d love to hear from you. What else would you like to see in The Transmitter? Which other voices should we include? Please be in touch—and thank you for joining us on this journey.
Ivan Oransky
Editor-in-chief
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