So excited to change my profile from "Writing a book" (which has been up since I joined the Furry Elephant movement in Dec 2022) to include a link to that very book. Wow - this feeling!

Thread for us amateur grammar nerds. (Things I'm learning as I review the copy edits for my book). (Before I begin, let me voice my appreciation for editors!!) #1) Comprised vs composed

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Comprised vs. Composed | Difference & Examples

The related verbs comprise and compose, as well as their past tenses comprised and composed, are commonly confused: Comprise means "to be made up ...

The university comprises a number of different campuses. The university is composed of a number of different campuses. Amyloid plaques are not comprised of amyloid-beta, they are composed of it - good to know!

They picked me! (Audiobook) Yeah! It looks like I'll be the narrator for the audiobook of my own book. It's something I really wanted to do, but it's not guaranteed (you have to apply). I'm working with a narration coach to help ensure it's good. I'm learning that good narration is an art! I'm excited to learn more about it. The adventure continues ... (If you're wondering, "What book?", it's this one:

Elusive Cures

A neuroscientist’s bold proposal for tackling one of the greatest challenges of our time—brain and mental illnesses

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Profound and beautuful and wow: ALS (which afflicted Stephen Hawking and Lou Gehrig) is a terrible neurodegenerative disorder. Researchers have been working to create brain-computer-interfaces to restore communication when patients become locked-in (conscious but unable to communicate) with notable sucess (like they imagine writing letters and they appear on a computer screen). But it’s all a bit tedious and finiky. One researcher, now an Assistant Professor at UC Davis (Sergey Stavisky) had an idea: if we read out signals from the bits of the brain not used for motor functions like writing but the ones used to speak … well … just watch the video. CW: tears might be shed.