Biography:Bethany Brookshire

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Short description: American science journalist
Bethany Brookshire
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Alma materThe College of William and Mary Wake Forest University School of Medicine
EmployerScience News for Students
Known forScience journalism

Bethany Brookshire is an American science journalist. She writes for Science News for Students.

Education

Brookshire completed a BA (Philosophy) and BS (Biology) at the College of William & Mary in 2004.[1][2] She earned a PhD in Physiology and Pharmacology at Wake Forest School of Medicine in 2010, where she worked on ritalin and the serotonin switch with Sara Jones.[3][4] She began blogging about science in 2008, during her graduate studies.[5] She wrote under the pseudonym "SciCurious" for Discover[6] and The Guardian .[7][8][9] She worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Pennsylvania, where she used social media to discuss the brain and psychiatric illness.[10] Here she worked with Irwin Lucki identifying the mechanisms of antidepressants in action.[11]

Career

In 2013, Brookshire began blogging in her own name.[12] Today she writes Eureka!Lab for Science News for Students, and for SciCurious for Science News.[13][14] She presents the podcast Science for the People, as well as appearing on other science related shows.[15][16] She appeared on the Story Collider in 2015, a show which tells the stories of scientists, where Brookshire discussed her quest for a mentor.[17][18] In May 2016 she published Science Blogging: The Essential Guide with Christie Wilcox and Jason Goldman.[19]

She has written for Slate,[20] Scientific American,[21] and The Open Notebook.[22]

Her most recent book, Pests: How Humans Create Animal Villains, was published in December 2022 by Ecco. It focuses on the topic of human-animal interactions.[23]

Awards

  • 2009 – Synapse Award from Wake Forest School of Medicine[24]
  • 2009 – PLoS ONE Blog Pick of the Month for December
  • 2012 – Society for Neuroscience Next Generation Award[25][10]
  • 2011 – 3 Quarks Daily Science Writing Award[26]
  • 2014 – Sloan Foundation Writing Grant[27]
  • 2016 – Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory Logan Science Journalism Fellow[28]
  • 2019 – Knight Science Journalism Fellowship[29]

References

  1. ↑ "William and Mary | William & Mary". https://www.wm.edu/as/kecklab/studentresearch/researchwm/index.php. 
  2. ↑ "Women's Media Center" (in en). https://www.womensmediacenter.com/profile/bethany-brookshire. 
  3. ↑ "Bethany R Brookshire's scientific contributions | University of Pennsylvania, PA (UP) and other places" (in en). https://www.researchgate.net/scientific-contributions/38980895_Bethany_R_Brookshire. 
  4. ↑ "Sara R. Jones, PhD – Research Interests" (in en). http://www.wakehealth.edu/PhysPharm/Faculty/Sara-R-Jones-PhD-Research-Interests.htm. 
  5. ↑ "Q&A with Bethany Brookshire | InformalScience.org" (in en). http://www.informalscience.org/news-views/explaining-science-qa-bethany-brookshire. 
  6. ↑ "Under Controlled: Why the New GMO Panic Is More Sensational Than Sense – The Crux" (in en-US). The Crux. 2012-09-21. http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/crux/2012/09/21/under-controlled-why-the-new-gmo-panic-is-more-sensational-than-sense/. 
  7. ↑ Scicurious (2010-09-28). "If low serotonin levels aren't responsible for depression, what is? | Scicurious" (in en). https://www.theguardian.com/science/blog/2010/sep/28/depression-serotonin-neurogenesis. 
  8. ↑ Scicurious (2013-04-19). "Beer, dopamine and brain scans make an intoxicating mix | Scicurious" (in en). https://www.theguardian.com/science/blog/2013/apr/19/beer-dopamine-brain-scans. 
  9. ↑ Scicurious (2011-05-18). "The postdrome: migraine's silent sister | Scicurious" (in en). https://www.theguardian.com/science/2011/may/18/migraine-postdrome-research. 
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 "Society for Neuroscience Announces Recipients of Science Education and Outreach Awards". 2012-10-13. https://www.sfn.org/Press-Room/News-Release-Archives/2012/Society-for-Neuroscience-Announces-Recipients-of-Science-Education-and-Outreach-Awards. 
  11. ↑ Balu, Darrick T.; Turner, Jill R.; Brookshire, Bethany R.; Hill-Smith, Tiffany E.; Blendy, Julie A.; Lucki, Irwin (2013). "Brain monoamines and antidepressant-like responses in MRL/MpJ versus C57BL/6J mice". Neuropharmacology 67: 503–510. doi:10.1016/j.neuropharm.2012.11.027. PMID 23220293. 
  12. ↑ Bethany Brookshire (2013-05-08), Hello Internet, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nHWS0wLEQU, retrieved 2018-03-09 
  13. ↑ "SciCurious" (in en-US). http://www.scicurious.org/. 
  14. ↑ "BETHANY BROOKSHIRE – SciCommCamp" (in en-US). SciCommCamp. https://scicommcamp.com/speakers/bethany-brookshire/. 
  15. ↑ "Listen to STEM Diversity Podcast on TuneIn" (in en-us). https://tunein.com/radio/STEM-Diversity-Podcast-p1023633/. 
  16. ↑ "Science for the People by Rachelle Saunders & Bethany Brookshire on Apple Podcasts" (in en). https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/science-for-the-people/id304855471?mt=2. 
  17. ↑ (in en) Bethany Brookshire: A Perfect Mentor, https://soundcloud.com/the-story-collider/bethany-brookshire-a-perfect-mentor, retrieved 2018-03-09 
  18. ↑ "The Story Collider episode: Bethany Brookshire: A Perfect Mentor". http://www.podelight.com/podcast_episodes/14771/bethany-brookshire--a-perfect-mentor/details. 
  19. ↑ Wilcox, Christie; Brookshire, Bethany; Goldman, Jason G. (2016). Science blogging : the essential guide. Wilcox, Christie, 1985–, Brookshire, Bethany,, Goldman, Jason G.. New Haven. ISBN 978-0300197556. OCLC 920017519. 
  20. ↑ "Bethany Brookshire". http://www.slate.com/authors.bethany_brookshire.html. 
  21. ↑ Scicurious. "Hello Internet!" (in en). Scientific American Blog Network. https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/scicurious-brain/hello-internet/. 
  22. ↑ "Science Bloggers on Why They Do It" (in en-US). The Open Notebook. 2016-03-15. https://www.theopennotebook.com/2016/03/15/science-bloggers-on-why-they-do-it/. 
  23. ↑ Sims, Michael (7 January 2023). "Rodent: Friend or foe? ‘Pests’ explores how some animals become villains.". https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2023/01/07/pests-book/. 
  24. ↑ "SYNAPSE Awards for Public Outreach" (in en). http://www.wakehealth.edu/SfN/Programs-and-Awards/SYNAPSE-Award.htm. 
  25. ↑ "The Neurotransmitter". http://www.wakehealth.edu/uploadedFiles/User_Content/Research/Institutes_and_Centers/Society_for_Neuroscience/Neurotransmitter/Issue14_March2013_final%5B1%5D.pdf. 
  26. ↑ "3quarksdaily: The Winners of the 3 Quarks Daily 2011 Science Prize". http://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2011/06/the-winners-of-the-3-quarks-daily-2011-science-prize.html. 
  27. ↑ "Science Blogging | Yale University Press" (in en). https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300221077/science-blogging. 
  28. ↑ "MBL Awards Fellowships to Science and Health Journalists to "Get Their Hands On Research"". http://www.mbl.edu/blog/mbl-awards-fellowships-to-science-and-health-journalists-to-get-their-hands-on-research-2/. 
  29. ↑ "Knight Science Journalism Program at MIT announces 2019-20 fellowship class". https://news.mit.edu/2019/knight-science-journalism-program-mit-2019-20-fellowship-class-0506. Retrieved May 7, 2019. 




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