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Commentary, History, Teaching, and Public Awareness

A Bioscience Educators’ Purpose in a Modern World

Connie Pritchard, Sean Hubbert and Emma Yhnell
eNeuro 7 November 2025, 12 (11) ENEURO.0364-25.2025; https://doi.org/10.1523/ENEURO.0364-25.2025
Connie Pritchard
1School of Biosciences, Cardiff University, Cardiff CF10 3AX, United Kingdom
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Sean Hubbert
2School of Biological and Medical Sciences, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford OX3 0BP, United Kingdom
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1School of Biosciences, Cardiff University, Cardiff CF10 3AX, United Kingdom
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DOI 
https://doi.org/10.1523/ENEURO.0364-25.2025
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41203434
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  • Received October 30, 2024
  • Accepted October 9, 2025
  • Published online November 7, 2025.
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Copyright © 2025 Pritchard et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license, which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium provided that the original work is properly attributed.

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  1. Connie Pritchard1,*,
  2. Sean Hubbert2,* and
  3. Emma Yhnell1
  1. 1School of Biosciences, Cardiff University, Cardiff CF10 3AX, United Kingdom
  2. 2School of Biological and Medical Sciences, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford OX3 0BP, United Kingdom
  1. Correspondence should be addressed to Emma Yhnell at yhnelle{at}cardiff.ac.uk.
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  1. Author contributions: C.P., S.H., and E.Y. wrote the paper.

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  • The authors declare no competing financial interests.

  • This article was invited as part of the prize for the The Society for Neuroscience Science Educator Award. E.Y. sincerely thanks Professor Richard Roche for the award nomination and Professor John Foxe for the endorsement and her co-authors C.P. and S.H. for agreeing to collaborate on this piece.

  • ↵*C.P. and S.H. are joint first authors.

  • This commentary is part of a series from winners of the Science Educator Award, which recognizes outstanding neuroscientists who have made significant contributions in promoting public education and awareness about the field.

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Connie Pritchard, Sean Hubbert, Emma Yhnell
eNeuro 7 November 2025, 12 (11) ENEURO.0364-25.2025; DOI: 10.1523/ENEURO.0364-25.2025

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