Bethany Brookshire
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| Alma mater | College of William and Mary (BA, BS) Wake Forest University School of Medicine (PhD) |
| Employer | Science News |
| Known for | Science journalism |
Bethany Brookshire is an American science journalist. She writes for Science News for Students.
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]
