The Young Australian Skeptics currently has a 15-person writing team, 4 of whom also serve as editors and site administrators. Other writers occasionally contribute guest articles.
Editors
Jack Scanlan
Jack is a Master of Science student researching insect detoxification genetics, a one-man over-thinking machine, and the head editor of the Young Australian Skeptics. He’s partial to pretentious indie music, amateur audio production and clever comedy, and once the LGBT movement succeeds in “destroying” the sacred institution of marriage, he plans on wedding the concept of science. Visit full profile »
Elliot Birch
Elliot Birch is the original creator of the Young Australian Skeptics. The idea was formed in 2008 while he was studying multimedia at college. He found that many of his class mates were quick to believe things of a religious or pseudoscientific nature, and after reading Richard Dawkins’s The Ancestors Tale, he was spurred on to create a site and community that would help promote science to young people in Australia and worldwide. Visit full profile »
Belinda Nicholson
Belinda is currently studying a Master of Science (Physics) at the University of Melbourne, conducting research in astronomy. Being a lover of science and the scientific method since conception, skepticism came easily to Belinda, always pursuing the real — rather than the convenient — answer to problems. In her ‘spare’ time, she enjoys knitting, baking and drinking cider, especially when done simultaneously. Visit full profile »
Richard Hughes
Richard does all of the standard stuff that everyone writes about in a bio: he reads, listens to music, hunts and traps wild mushrooms, socializes with or without the aid of a tasty brew (mostly with), and wonders when he got so old that the first year students look so young. He is also a vegetarian, and by extension a dirty, dirty hippie. Visit full profile »
Writers
Ben Vernel
Ben is an agnostic, a skeptic and a Pisces — so he’s totally creative and gets lost in his own daydreams and that is a real thing, come on guys. Ben writes and performs comedy and works as a digital producer. If you want to argue with him about pop culture, follow him on Twitter. Visit full profile »
Chenchen Bian
Chenchen was born 200 years old and crotchety. She’s interested in things that affect people and how people affect other people and things, and how we can measure that validly and reliably, because people are really interesting and awesome, and it’s a big broad subject that could go anywhere. She tries not to be vague and constantly has to remind herself that ambiguity doesn’t equal a mysterious air. Visit full profile »
Elizabeth Riaikkenen
Elizabeth, also known affectionately as “Wizzie”, was raised by unicorns. Or so she thinks. With no interest in the world left untouched and her hobbies changing frequently, her only two constants are her level of sanity (zero) and blemishing pretty words to confuse predators. Has reason to question her own existence and whether she was ever there in the first place. Visit full profile »
Holly Warland
Holly Warland is a wannabe science rockstar. She’s of the mistaken and narcissistic Gen Y head-space that people want to hear about her opinions regarding religion, psychology, skepticism, feminism, literature, science, media, culture, biology and neuroscience. She collects books faster than she can read them, suffers from Vitamin D deficiency due to being indoors all the time, wishes she could time travel to meet Carl Sagan, and smells of rich mahogany. Visit full profile »
Jack Neubecker
Jack Neubecker is a 15 year old Queensland high school student. His main interest in science is in the area of physics, especially quantum mechanics, but he is mostly a fan of science in general. Above everything else, he enjoys defending the scientific method, science as a philosophy, logic and exposing logical fallacies. He is already taller than 13% of all NBA all-stars in history — and uses this to his advantage when he plays his favourite sports: American football, basketball, cricket or running. Visit full profile »
Jasmine Marosvary
Jasmine Marosvary fills the skeptic type of I-don’t-know-science-well-but-it-is-so-awesome. Most shiny things will capture her curiosity. When not admiring her tall pile of law textbooks or organising her highlighters by shade, she volunteers for Anti-Slavery Australia, Black Dog Institute and the Barristers Animal Welfare Panel. She also legitimately enjoys public speaking and is on the committee of her local Toastmasters club. Visit full profile »
Luke Freeman
Luke Freeman works in Digital Marketing at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. This is the part where he must state that his views are his own and not that of his employer. Unlike most of the other writers here, he do not have a professional or academic background in science, just a lifelong love of it. You can find “παν μέτρον άριστον” tattooed to his back, meaning that there truly is a good reason to ask him to take his shirt off. Visit full profile »
Luke Weston
Luke Weston is a writer, science communicator and embedded computer engineering consultant who is planning to go back to grad school (in experimental physics) soon. He loves to improve public science literacy — not just in terms of knowledge, but perhaps more importantly in regards to critical thinking and the scientific method itself. Visit full profile »
Rachael Skerritt
Rachael Skerritt is a chrestomathic soon-to-be biologist-in-training, who just finished her final year of high school. Outside of science, she is a word nerd, enjoying linguistics and the French language. She has, at various stages, learnt (and forgotten) Chinese, Indonesian, Japanese, Auslan and Finnish. Next: Gallifreyan. Like most teenagers, she drinks too much coffee, eats too much chocolate and doesn’t get enough sleep. Visit full profile »
Sarah McBride
When Sarah was a young lass, she didn’t know what she wanted to be when she grew up. She is currently completing an undergraduate degree of Medicine and Surgery at Monash University, and she still has no idea. She suffers from crippling addictions to caffeine and Tumblr; when the stress of these addictions gets too much, Sarah likes to relax by singing to her pot-plants. Visit full profile »
Tom Lang
When he’s not teaching atomic theory to Grade 3s or human decency to Year 9s, Tom can be found telling obscure jokes in a dingy bar, making films, or arguing Nature versus Nurture (on the side of Nature). He enjoys scarves, is handy with a gluegun, and his favourite word is “vituperative”. Visit full profile »
Recent Comments