Managing Director introduces GYA at local government board meeting
Beate Wagner was invited to give a brief presentation on the GYA and its work at a meeting of the City Council’s Board for Science and Economy of the city of Halle (Saale), Germany. Beate introduced the vision and mission of the GYA, its structure and members, as well as its activities in working groups, large projects, and in support of the young academy movement worldwide. More information is available here.
 

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GYA in the Media

The Beacon recently reviewed an article on At-Risk Scholars written by Teresa Stoepler (USA), Karly Kehoe (Canada), Anina Rich (Australia), GYA alumna Eva Alisic (Australia), and GYA alumni Jan-Christoph Heilinger. More information is available here.
 
GYA member Robert Lepenies (Germany) recently appeared in a Times Higher Education article in which he advocated for scientists to start Twitter fights for science.
 
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News from Our Members

GYA Co-Chair Tolu Oni (UK) participated in two events at the third Multi-stakeholder Forum on Science Technology and Innovation (STI forum) held at the United Nations Headquarters in New York on 5 and 6 June. Tolu presented in a session on the need for intergenerational dialogue for STI to address the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs; this session was organised by the UN Major Group for Children and Youth). She was also a speaker at a session on advancing the implementation of SDG 11 in Africa through a proactive science-practice-policy interface organised by the International Council for Science (ICSU). As a grantee of the ICSU Leading Integrated Research for Agenda 2030 in Africa (LIRA) grant, she presented on her urban health research on health in housing policies.
 
GYA member John Malone (USA) served as a panellist at the STI forum side event titled ‘Implications of emerging biotechnologies in the context of biological diversity: multi-stakeholder perspectives on the risks and benefits’, and also presented a DIY Biology policy brief at the United Nations Headquarters on 5 and 6 June. More information is available here.
 
GYA alumnus Yusuf Baran (Turkey) was an invited attendee at the aforementioned STI forum held at the United Nations headquarters in New York on 5 and 6 June. More information is available here.
 
GYA members Daniel Limonta (Cuba) and Teresa Stoepler (USA) participated in a two-day regional workshop organised by the InterAcademy Partnership (IAP) and the Inter-American Network of Academies of Sciences (IANAS), and hosted by the Mexican Academy of Sciences in Mexico City, Mexico, 29 to 30 May. More information is available here.

 
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GYA Activities

Working Group, Incubator and Flagship Project Highlights

Videos available from Trust in (Young) Scientists incubator
Many people wonder why they should trust science these days. During our 2018 Annual General Meeting, a number of GYA members and the Trust in (Young) Scientists Incubator attempted to answer this question for filmmaker Nerina Finetto, of www.tracesdreams.com. The resulting videos, which attempt to open up the ‘black box’ of science to a broader audience, are available on our YouTube channel here.
 
Open Science Policy Platform recommendations
The GYA working group on Open Science, and in particular GYA alumna Sabina Leonelli (UK), have been involved in redacting the recently published final recommendations by the Open Science Policy Platform of the European Commission. The document will serve as an important step for Open Science policies within the European Union in coming years. The recommendations can be accessed here.
 
Scientific Excellence working group
GYA alumnus Muhammad Manjurul Karim (Bangladesh) is currently conducting research into the increasing trend of having an increased number of authors in multi-authored papers. This often results in an unfair distribution of credits among the authors. One possible way to minimise this concern is to categorise the authors and specify their roles in the production of a paper. Muhammad and his colleagues are interested to learn your opinion on this topic through a short (3-4 minute) online survey, available here.


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National Young Academies Updates

GYA Cooperation with the German Junge Akademie
GYA member Michael Saliba (Switzerland) will become a member of the German Junge Akademie at their annual membership inauguration and get-together in Berlin, Germany, on 30 June 2018. GYA Managing Director Beate Wagner and Project Officer Anna-Maria Gramatté will also attend the event. The Junge Akademie also recently nominated their former Board Member Miriam Akkermann to be their liaison in the GYA’s Local Organising Committee for the 2019 Annual General Meeting in Halle (Saale), Germany.