@pessoabrain.bsky.social talks to @wiringthebrain.bsky.social, @aliyarumana.bsky.social and Peter Ulric Tse about the need for neuroscience’s traditional mechanistic framework to give way to a richer understanding of how brains generate behavior. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/the-big-pict...

Feeling exausted with Sapiens' insistence on war against itself

Academics are under unrelenting pressure to accept the narrative of the inevitability of #generativeAI & to embrace it in teaching & learning. We resist - because it is ecologically destructive, ethically corrupt, & because it undermines the thinking abilities that make us both human & intelligent.

Billionaires Could be leading towards an era of unprecedented prosperity, equanimity and peace Instead, they're dragging us through wars, towards rupturing all planetary boundaries and making human life on earth much harder, for centuries Massive failure

No @theguardian.com. Wildfires takes hundreds of millions of lives. But if only humans count, you can understand why no more serious measures are taken about it...

~55y ago. Prescient and present. RIP Ozzy 🕊️ open.spotify.com/track/09EQqF...

Humanity seems to be clearly loosing it. Wildfires all around and instead of global diplomatic pact and economic measures for environment and planetary cooperation, it's old style arms race, wars and genocide. Desperating...

New article led by Tara McAllister & co-authored by Lelani Walker, @niiyokamigaabaw.bsky.social, myself, Bradley Moggridge, Serena Naepi, Brittany Kamai and @napaaqtuk.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Journal of 'Global' Ethics Editors: 🇳🇱🇳🇱 🇦🇺 Editorial advisory board: 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 🇳🇱 🇦🇺 🇨🇦 🇳🇴 🤔🤔🤔🤔 Oh wait there's more 'diversity': 🇺🇬🇺🇬 🇫🇯 🇵🇰 🇧🇧 🇰🇪 Global North 22 x 6 global south Unsurprisingly, reviewers dismissed GN and gs concepts, and considered a 100% gs paper as "unpublishable" #academicsky

Statement by the Director-General of @unesco.org, @aazoulay.bsky.social, following the decision of the United States to withdraw from the Organization. Read more: unes.co/ksovsg

Free download available for all books of the Cambridge Elements Philosophy of Biology Series between July 20th-25th. They have amazing stuff. How to Study Animal Minds by @kristinandrews.bsky.social and Slime Mould and Philosophy by @philosobio.bsky.social my top recommendations. shorturl.at/M5aQx

Psychedelics are serotonergic drugs... Right?!? Well, think again and embrace the complexity revealed by @zenbrainest.bsky.social et al testing 41 compounds in 318 receptors: "psychedelics have potent and efficacious actions at nearly every serotonin, dopamine, and adrenergic receptor."

A place where each and every sunset is a ritual of joy and community #boomfestival

While it seems all divisive, separation, prejudice, polarization... In tiny Portugal 🇵🇹 a small bunch of people are doing an incredible logistic operation to receive 40k people in 48h, from 169 countires 🌍🌎🌏, to live a week of transformative experience of oneness, kindness and love 🤍 #boomfestival

The biggest drug dealer of all time??? Maybe the Queen 👑🇬🇧 What's striking is that, drug commerce or drug prohibition serve the same supreme purpose: strengthening the empire. time.com/7295579/quee...

1830s. still true about #statistics ~200y later... (From Porter, 1986) 🧠📈🧪

Please join me next Wed at Einstein Center for Neurosciences Berlin 🇩🇪 for an in depth discussion about evidence and mechanisms in psychedelic therapies. I'll finish with a brief spoiler about a new project coming on, in my new role at ULisbon 🇵🇹 💫

Congratulation to Mazviita Chrimuuta! The Brain Abstracted is such a great riposte of a title to the brain explained #philsci #philsky

How long till we're hearing "We had to use it. We had to use the nuclear. We didn't want to use it. It's a very big thing to use the nuclear. Very destructive. Only a great president says do it. But I said do it, and the nuclear has given us great success, great success. It's made a great peace"?

Powerful and beautiful short movie www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Hi everyone, I'm excited to announce this new project: a website dedicated to research and data on imperialism and inequality. You're going to love this... globalinequality.org

Congratulations to #HPS scholar Lorraine Daston (PhD History of Science '79) on receiving 2025 Centennial Medal (award given by Harvard Grad School to its alums for their contributions to society.) Her work crosses disciplinary divides & opens new fields of inquiry. gsas.harvard.edu/news/lorrain...

Stop all bombing and wars. There's no plan B and this one is already dangerously polluted and hot. There's no more space for insane mutual killings.

Dear (🧠📈neuro)science 🧪 community, what's best, and what for? 🐇ResearchRabbit or 💤Zotero?

Reframing Psychedelic Regulation: Tools, not Treatments In this new article, we propose to regulate psychedelics as psychotherapeutic treatment tools rather than as treatments in their own right. The use of anesthetics as treatment tools in surgery is a useful analogy.

✋Stop bombing, stop killing, stop burning... Just stop all these shitty wars. 🚫

I had a nightmare last night that the current arms race was cooking us all. Fortunately nothing's really happening, is it?

Former solicitor of the USPTO Thomas Krause sent a letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee. It’s a critical indictment of a patent system that has lost the ability to distinguish between invention and exploitation.🧵

Interesting overview of how messy the medicalization of psychedelics can become in just a few years from now... And as I anticipated in my 2018 perspective paper. Framing these as stand alone drug treatments increases risks, but raises profits. Lot's of reasons for concerns!

the journal: paper accepted me: 🥳 the edit assist (EA): pls send files by mail! 48h! me: here you go EA mail: nope, too big me: compressed? EA mail: too big me: 1 file at a time? EA mail: too big me: link to shared files? EA: against policy! me: pls advise? pls? EA: ghosting you so hard!

Paper rejected "although the format of the paper is engaging and novel". Is creativity a sin in (philosophical) academic writing? #Philsci

'Gold standards' are always attractive to authoritarians...

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At last.

There is simply just one word for this

After publishing a consensus statement, a full special issue and 2 more papers about #psychedelics, all written from the Global North, the American Journal of Bioethics desk rejected a paper from the global south... twice!!! #DecolonizeAcademia 🧪🧠📈 #PhilSci

Each drug acts on different neurons in different ways, yet they all do the same thing: realign brainwaves and cause unconsciousness. Take that, reductionism!

You can still contribute to the largest data-gathering effort on real-world psychedelic use by participating in #GPS2025: bit.ly/GPS2025-survey Available in 18 languages, takes 20–30 minutes to complete, and entirely anonymous. The deadline is next week, May 16.

I was invited to join as Editorial Board Member of a new @elsevierconnect.bsky.social journal Here's why I #declined an uncompensated role in #AcademicPublishing 🧵🧪🧠📈

Real world intelligence score = low www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

Our latest CPEP, led by @eirini-k-a.bsky.social exploring ontological shock & existential challenge as extended difficulties following a psychedelic experience - highlighting that grounding practices, integration support, & time were critical in helping participants cope. doi.org/10.1371/jour...

And another #HumanRights journal desk rejected a letter about indigenous rights with an indigenous first author among 4 global south authors. #DecolonizeAcademia

World Press Photo 2025 Winner Mahmoud Ajjour, 9yo is one of ~10000 amputated kids from Gaza 😭

A week that you get two indigenous rights papers led by global south indigenous scholars desk rejected at a human rights and a bioethics journal is... a terrible week 😕 #Academicsky #Philsci #DecolonizeAcademia

A big chunk of #peer-review content feels like #academic-bullying: folks demanding each other to do unpaid extra-extra-extra hours for minor-minor-minor-minor stuff 🧪

Live Info Session on our new course: Foundations of Psychedelic Therapies at Monash University! 🗓️Date: 9th May 2025 🕛Time: 12:30-1:30 PM AEST 💻Format: Online Q&A Event is free! Registration required. events.humanitix.com/infosession_... Or enrol in course here: www.monash.edu/study/course...

Can you believe these? I can't: bpspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #philsci 🧪🧠📈

CONSORT 2025 www.nature.com/articles/s41... Did they include reporting blinding assessments? NO!

Developing evidence-based psychedelic treatments demands more than current RCT-based drug approval norms 🧪🧠📈 In this invited review I elucidate why and point a new path forward: #EvidentialPluralism with utmost care to avoid the #ExtrapolationFallacy bpspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...