Researchers often are accused of failing to make their work accessible to a general audience, and there is good reason for this accusation. The bulk of scholarly literature is, to a great extent, filled with language, concepts, and terminology that cannot be reasonably understood by a general audience, and there are implications for this– misinformation,…
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Brackenridge Introduction: Jacob Voelker
Hello everyone! I’m Jacob Voelker, a rising senior at Pitt studying Neuroscience and History & Philosophy of Science (HPS). I’ll be participating in the Brackenridge Fellowship this summer, performing an independent research project that works at the intersection of my two majors to better understand public perceptions of mental illness science. Like much of the…