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This is a selection of my writing about science for a general audience.
A selection of my research articles is available here.
How to Win Friends and Influence Fungi feels like the science book we never knew we wrote! It's fun, accessible, and packed full of the kinds of factoids and knowledge that we love to share on our own podcast.
-Charles W. “Chuck” Bryant and Josh Clark, authors of the bestselling books Stuff You Should Know and Stuff They Don’t Want You to Know
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I am featured in Nerd Nite’s upcoming book, How to Win Friends and Influence Fungi, edited by Dr. Chris Balakrishnan and Matt Wasowski, available for preorder now!
Brain function is essential to every aspect of life, and regardless of whether our brains are healthy or we are living with a disorder, our interest in the brain and brain health seems to be growing. In fact, 3 out of the 5 current priorities for the U.S. Surgeon General relate to brain health: health worker burnout, workplace well-being, and youth mental health. Over the past several years, we have shifted from thinking about mental health primarily in terms of psychiatric disorders to thinking about brain health, a broader category that considers health as well as disease.
Executive Overview of 2023 Brain Health Survey - a partnership between the Dana Foundation and Research!America - synthesizing results and highlighting key findings.
Diversity drives innovation. We call on our institutions to harness the strengths that true diversity of ability brings, to work together toward a fully inclusive culture, to raise awareness of disability as an essential part of diversity, and to actively work toward an environment free from bias and discrimination.
Letter in Science with Ilse Daehn about how much the disability community has brought to STEM and how important it is for us to celebrate true diversity.
Narrative scientific writing can bring our science out of the twilight and into the joyful world of living human consciousness.
Commentary in Nature Human Behaviour by me, Liz Neeley and Daniela Schiller on why academic science writing needs to adopt storytelling techniques to make it more memorable and understandable, with guidance on how to do so and concrete examples.