A good immunologist is one who recognizes that the immune system is the biggest asset that a human body has. The immune system safeguards the welfare of your body single-handedly.
Let no one tell you that the drugs can do much without a competently working immune system. So you need to understand not only how the immune system works but also how to safeguard it and improve it.
Recognition of Our Immunology Blog
There are many immunologists around the internet writing what they call immunology content. What should you look out for to identify a good immunologist in immunology publications? As for us at “The immune System Explainer” we’ve committed to bringing the best out of ourselves.
Fortunately, our efforts are paying dividends. Our site was recently vetted and listed among the 20 best immunology blogs by one of the leading science news sites ‘Feedspot’ which lists the best blogs and websites for immunology publications around the world using their criteria.
We shall continue to work even harder to attract the attention of many more news sites to be able to disseminate our content out there to as many readers as possible.
We’ve put together the 7 most important qualities of a good immunologist when it comes to writing immunology articles and blog posts:
1. Immunologist with Good Education Background
To understand the complexity of the immune system, an immunologist needs to have a good educational background. You should preferably have acquired a postgraduate degree (Master’s or Ph.D. in immunology) from a credible institution anywhere in the world.
This is important because an immunologist needs to have undergone training in a gradual manner. Integrating the theory and the practical lesson in a systematic way is critical.
Immunology is not a subject you can jump into without going through the length of the training processes and being credible. You must conceptualize the immune system and the diseases.
2. Well-organized content
The fact that the immune system is very complicated but well-coordinated in its activities, demands that an immunologist becomes as organized. The innate and adaptive immune systems are separate but very collaborative in an immune response to eliminate an antigen.
As an immunologist, you must be well organized, whether in preparing a research article for a journal, blog post, or lecture materials for some learners. If you are not, you will perhaps just confuse your audience which is certainly an undesired outcome. Your content should be thematic under headings and subheadings.
3. Credible content
An immunologist should deliberately write credible content. This field, I must say, is not for the faint-hearted. You should be ready to interact with the internet, books, and other sources for anything you are not sure of.
You feel ‘sick’ when you hear an immunologist verbally citing a few cells in the immune system that produce antibodies. The truth is that there is only one type of immune cell that produce antibodies – the B cells become plasma cells to produce antibodies. There are not many types of cells.
4. Keen to details
You must be a person who is keen on finer details if you are an immunologist. An immunologist shouldn’t keep making mistakes that are called oversights. He or she must be a patient and resilient person.
This applies whether that immunologist is an allergist in the clinic, a clinical immunologist in the laboratory, or an immunologist who is putting together an article. Patience is key if you must do the right thing.
5. Content referenced-to-literature
As an immunologist, your article or any other piece of writing will be more credible to your readers if you cite authoritative sources. This can be in form of in-text citations and a list of references, or in-text hyperlinks leading to credible sites.
This way your readers can explore more of what you will have educated them about. Some people think that this should not be the case because you will be leading your audience away from your content.
Well, that is not the right notion. Your audience will trust you more when you lead them to other credible immunology sites for more information.
6. An Immunologist Should Use Analogies and Examples
This is our favorite and our number one strategy at “The Immune System Explainer” blog. When dealing with a complex subject like immunology where you talk about cells that people cannot see, you must use examples and analogies.
Analogies are comparisons that the reader could be familiar with and so it makes the immunology concepts easier to understand. For instance, on our site, our logo is a padlock and keys.
This is an analogy for the specificity of the binding between, for example, antigens and antibodies. It’s not any antibody for any antigen. The binding is usually specific. This quality makes it possible to make specific immune drugs and immune testing kits.
Therefore, well-thought-out analogies can be very helpful in delivering immunology content to the readers.
7. Use of Clear images
For purposes of explaining complex concepts, images and photos are very important in any area of study. The same is true for immunology and something that an immunologist must consider seriously if they want to deliver their content successfully to their readers.
Whether an immunologist is writing a blog post or disseminating research findings, diagrams, images, and photos will always come in handy. Your intention is to have your audience understand your points, isn’t it? So why would do want to talk about cells that have granules and fail to illustrate the same?
Conclusion
For those immunologists who publish some articles, and they all do. These are the points to consider when making good posts or articles and hence making immunology easy to understand.
For a reader whether a student, scientist, ordinary person seeking information, healthcare worker, or any other person, please look out for the above qualities. This way you will even be able to filter websites when seeking sources of information.
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I really like this, very knowledgeable.
We are grateful Kelvin