My piece in the latest @newscientist.com about #psychedelics and science. You can listen to 'THE TRIP' podcast series now on BBC Sounds (or in other podcast places).

🌿 New Podcast Alert: “The Trip” on BBC Radio 4 🎧 Dr. Osiris García Cerqueda is featured in episodes 9 & 10 of BBC Radio 4’s new podcast series “The Trip”, presented by @timhayward.bsky.social and produced by @haunted.audio and by @loftusmedia.bsky.social Link: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...

Uproarious times at #ftweekendfestival's inaugural food quiz today, feat. @timhayward.bsky.social, Ajesh Patel, Sarit Packer, Melissa Thompson, and hosted by FT restaurant critic @jayrayner1.bsky.social – ending with guess-the-restaurant charades

@timhayward.bsky.social The Trip was fantastic. Thank you to you and the production team. And I've never even smoked a cigarette 😆.

This amazing series by Tim Hayward and Richard Ward @haunted.audio (🙏🙏🙏) also featured renowned neuroscientists such as @christimmermann.bsky.social, @katrinpreller.bsky.social, Gul Dölen, as well as nurses, historians, philosophers, sociologists, etc. Enjoy! 🎧

In the first episode, I explain what is specific about psychedelics as treatment in psychiatry. In last episode, dealing about the future of psychedelics, I talk about the possible dissociation between the psychedelic experience and the therapeutic effects: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

🎙️ I am very proud to have participated (with a very strong French accent) to the BBC Radio 4 program Understand entitled "The Trip", about the science, culture, history and future of psychedelics 🌈 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Deeply grateful to all who shared insight, experiences and expertise @lucieberko.bsky.social @erikadyck.bsky.social @mikejay.bsky.social @drdluke.bsky.social @profjoneill.bsky.social @andrewpenn.bsky.social @katrinpreller.bsky.social @petersjostedth.bsky.social @christimmermann.bsky.social + others.

Big thanks to the whole crew at @loftusmedia.bsky.social particularly Kirsten Lass and Rosamund Jones, and to Dan Clarke at Radio 4 for pressing the magic button. A short trailer: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... Episode 1 is here: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

NEW TEN-PART AUDIO SERIES about #PSYCHEDELICS Out now on BBC Sounds - and other podcast spaces. Co-written & presented by the beautifully curious @timhayward.bsky.social Production, sound design and mix by me. It's been a fascinating and challenging process to get here... I do hope you'll listen.

Really enjoying BBC Radio 4s series The Trip exploring the history of psychedelics. 🍄 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

BBCRadio3 & BBCRadio4 have had something of a love affair with psychedelics & mushrooms over the last few years. Tim Hayward now joins the likes of @michaelpollan.bsky.social & @garylachman.bsky.social in chasing the angels again. 1 for @drmatthewsweet.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

New on Podcast Rex: Understand: The Trip https://podcastrex.com/reviews/understand-the-trip

Might be good...

have you ever thought very very hard about ice cubes and how they could be better? this @timhayward.bsky.social piece is fascinating and - as one commenter says - finally, a use for the insulated mug freebies they give you at corporate events. Read on... on.ft.com/3UkWjGH

In a new ten-part series, Tim Hayward takes a mind-altering look at the science, culture, history - and future - of psychedelics. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

New 10-part podcast from BBC Radio 4 about #psychedelics starting on August 4 (Monday). Philosopher of mind Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes mentioned on his Insta that he'll be a guest on one of the installments.

In a new ten-part series, Tim Hayward takes a mind-altering look at the science, culture, history - and future - of psychedelics. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Ah Boxing Day the heteronormative holiday adverts have begun. A sea of smug infinity pool bothering breeders in their bland villas

Finally! A guaranteed, 100% effective cure for Male Pattern Baldness. Buy this book for everyone you know this Christmas.

As we teeter on the edge of the ‘Quad-demic’ I recommend precautionary doses of a broad-spectrum antibiotic…

I mean… seriously! What kind of unhinged *barbarian* would lean on panettone???

Mark Steel on R4Desert Island Discs has just been remarkable. Fantastic story, told in an endearing way. Best though, the reminder of Nina Simone’s solo in Love Me or Leave Me. Still jaw-dropping on about the millionth hearing.

Any hints for Food and drink follows? Any of these ‘starter pack’ things? Still trying to understand all this.

Hats off to Jaguar’s ‘inclusive’ new branding: now people of all backgrounds won’t buy its cars | Marina Hyde

A series I made about bacteria is emerging... Episode 1 online now: fear and wonder, time travel and high-speed evolution presented by Tim Hayward, with the talented team at Loftus Media.

What does the Liberty Bell, a vacuum, and skipping class have to do with bacteria? You can listen here and find out! t.co/8lgF71EfhD

BACTERIA: THE TINY GIANTS all 3 episodes now online / BBC Sounds. @timhayward.bsky.social gets shrunken down to the size of a microbe and travels through deserts, forests, rivers and beyond, eyeballs a phage and witnesses evolution in front of his eyes www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand...

Next Wednesday (the 11th), I'm getting to interview Regula Ysewijn as part for Cheltenham Lit Fest. It should be a lot of fun (and her book is lush). Come along....tix via their website, £32 fir us and a full afternoon tea.

Wow. OK. I'm here. Now what?