Bethany Brookshire has a B.S. in Biology and a B.A. in Philosophy from The College of William and Mary, a Ph.D. in Physiology and Pharmacology from Wake Forest University School of Medicine. She is the editor of the Open Laboratory Anthology of Science Blogging, 2009, the editor of the Complete Guide to Science Blogging, to be published in autumn 2015, and the winner of the Society for Neuroscience Next Generation Award and the Three Quarks Daily Science Writing Award, among others. She is now a science writer at Science News, and a science education writer at Eureka! Lab with Science News for Students and Society for Science and the Public. You can follow her on Twitter: @scicurious.