The next excerpt was despatched out from The Washington Publish’s wellness editor Tara Parker-Pope:
I’m delighted to announce that Richard Sima, a neuroscientist turned science journalist, can be becoming a member of The Washington Publish’s increasing private well being and wellness group.
On this function, Richard will develop a weekly column in regards to the neuroscience of on a regular basis life, specializing in behavioral well being and the way issues of the thoughts can affect each our bodily and psychological wellbeing.
Richard is a educated neuroscientist with greater than a decade of analysis expertise. He attended Harvard Faculty, graduating cum laude with excessive honors in neurobiology, and obtained his doctorate in neuroscience from Johns Hopkins College.
A ardour for writing prompted Richard to go away academia to pursue a profession in science journalism. He has written in regards to the complexity of elephant trunks, optical illusions, the psychological well being advantages of studying and what a large lily pad can train us about constructing design. His work has appeared in the New York Occasions, Nationwide Geographic, Scientific American, Uncover Journal and New Scientist. He has co-authored tutorial papers revealed within the Proceedings of the Nationwide Academy of Sciences, Plos One and the Journal of Group Psychology.
Richard has labored as a fact-checker for Vox podcasts, together with the award-winning science podcast “Unexplainable.” He was a researcher for Nationwide Geographic’s Mind Video games: On the Street TV present and served as a communications specialist on the Worldwide Arts + Thoughts Lab at Johns Hopkins’s Mind Science Institute.
Richard is the president of the D.C. Science Writers Affiliation and co-founder of the Johns Hopkins Science Coverage Group, which advocates for evidence-based insurance policies that advance science and safeguard public well being.
Richard’s first day is Monday, Aug. 29.
