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Xiaoying You

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As seen in: Bottom Line, G1 Globo, MSN Colombia, MSN Venezuela, UOL, BBC, BBC News Brasil, MSN Chile, MSN Mexico, Nature and
Covers:  Climate change, energy transition, policy, China
Award-winning climate journalist; proud Shanghainese speaker; 吴语, 普通话, English, español. Views are my own.

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I am an award-winning multilingual journalist with an extensive knowledge of news production and the media landscape in China, the US and the UK, having worked for influential international media organisations for nearly 20 years.

I have covered travel, current affairs, viral news, climate change and many other beats – as a reporter, freelancer or newsroom editor – for companies including CNN Travel, Condé Nast Traveller and MailOnline.

Most recently, I was China editor at Carbon Brief, a UK-b…

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‘Student Geng’ ignites research-integrity scandal in China after calling out senior academics

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Geng Hongwei’s videos have sparked fierce debate on Chinese social media.Credit: Tom Houghton/Nature Four senior Chinese academics have been disciplined after a blogger and former PhD student flagged data anomalies in their published papers and went viral in the process. A blogger known as Student Geng, whose real name is Geng Hongwei, questioned the authenticity of the data in five papers and named five acclaimed researchers at four Chinese universities who co-authored the publications.
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My diverse academic background is affecting my PhD studies — what do I do?

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By Xiaoying You Verified
| Nature Verified
Dear Nature, I am a first-year PhD candidate at a university in China, studying physical geography. I was thrilled to be enrolled on my programme, but after a few months, I have started to get frustrated and confused. Physical geography is a new field for me. I completed my undergraduate studies in applied physics and wanted to pursue materials physics and chemistry as my master’s. But I was reassigned to chemical engineering after I couldn't enrol in my first choice.
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NoTrue , Silence and Rubbish Communications : satirical journals give Chinese academics a pressure valve

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The locations of Chinese noodle shops were assessed in one essay published in a ‘bottom’ journal.Credit: Zheng Changhao/Xinhua via Alamy The image of a failed laboratory experiment posted on Chinese social media in February has sparked an academic trend in the country: junior researchers setting up and contributing to satirical journals.
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Awards

Covering Climate Now

2022 - newsletter

I won the Covering Climate Now journalism award in 2022 for Carbon Brief for writing a weekly newsletter, China Briefing. The newsletter explained and analysed China’s climate news and policies.

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