how very dare you

On the new Exeter Psych#delic Interdisciplinary Centre (EPIC): www.drugscience.org.uk/exeter-psych...

may we remember speaker hortman every time a kid in Minnesota eats their free lunch. every time a trans person moves to mn for safety. when an undocumented person gets their driver’s license or a returning citizen gets to vote. when we have clean energy and electric school buses and warm homes.

Putin complained that Zelensky was rude in mentioning Putin's age in his recent letter inviting peace talks. Zelensky's response to this was that if Putin thinks that letter was rude, he should have seen the first version of the letter.

2026 #60 Over a decade ago, Colson Whitehead tackled the end-of-the-world/pandemic/zombie thing and produced this masterful novel of an ordinary man coping with extraordinary events as best he can. A fine work of literature posing as a genre novel and there's more in the alt text. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 🖋️📚 #booksky

Our case study on CRPS, psilocybin, and neuromodulation just received an award as a “Top Viewed Article”. We’ve worked w/ CRPS clients since 2009 and fully realize the impact of this research. Grateful to our researcher, clinician, practitioner, & patient networks. doi.org/10.1002%2Fcc...

Megathread about responding to new OMB grant funding rules (feel free to add/link more!) I was collecting these for me, but figured I'd round 'em up for everyone 🧪 What's the problem? arstechnica.com/science/2026... elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/summary-of...

🚨 New science alert! Our cross-species study, now in Nature Neuroscience, demonstrates psychedelics distort how we should interpret functional brain imaging. 👇🧵 nature.com/articles/s41... #Neuroscience #Psychedelics #BrainImaging

The federal government is fast-tracking psychedelic clinical trials for mental health. Stanford anesthesiologist Boris Heifets @theborislab.bsky.social joins us to discuss psilocybin, ibogaine, clinical trials, and the evolution of psychedelic medicine. neuroscience.stanford.edu/news/fdas-ps...

I recently had a patient with cervical dystonia tell me: “You truly changed my life just by giving me a diagnosis… and then treating me.” Because so many patients with cervical dystonia spend YEARS being dismissed, misdiagnosed, or told it’s “just stress,” posture, arthritis, or anxiety. 1/

Stroke Awareness Month reminder: many stroke survivors develop spasticity. AAPM&R has launched a FREE interactive patient & caregiver resource covering: • What spasticity is • How it affects daily life • Treatment options • Finding expert care • Long-term management Please share widely.

Relaxed opioid prescribing policies in the 90s and early 2000s led many people to become dependent. Many had prescriptions suddenly revoked years later when guidelines tightened. They were left in pain and withdrawal. Can you blame them for not trusting the medical system?

I've been waiting for this particular flavor of naysayer review (it's in Swedish). TL;DR: Brain research has failed to deliver on its big promises in the past; ergo, we must be wary now too. Indeed. I was inspired to write Elusive Cures ... /1 lakartidningen.se/kultur/recen...

Cycle-by-cycle respiration waveforms are coupled with the shape of neural oscillations https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.04.13.718339v1

Very proud of my daughter’s writings. In her 4 years as opinion writer & editor for the Vermont Cynic at UVM, she has not shied away from controversy with courage, candor and intellectual rigor. I feel this one about contraceptive misinformation is among her best!!! vtcynic.com/opinion/stop...

A peripherally restricted cannabinoid 1 receptor agonist provides analgesic benefit from neuropathic pain and a lack of addiction-related behavior https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.04.13.718281v1

NEW: Kentucky’s largest drug rehab center touts a Christian message and a selfless commitment to helping others. But internally, the organization prioritized money over the well-being of its clients and staff, interviews show. W/ @kentucky.com www.propublica.org/article/kent...

Exclusive: The acting director of the CDC has delayed publication of a report showing the covid-19 vaccine cut the likelihood of ER visits and hospitalizations for healthy adults last winter by about half, according to two scientists.

Artificial light emissions at night increased by around 16% globally between 2014 and 2022, according to research in Nature. The study presents maps of night-time light changes, which help to reveal the intricacies in human light footprint across the globe. go.nature.com/3PZ2DVx 🌍🧪

My friend @courtwing.bsky.social is speaking on an upcoming panel on psychedelics for treating women's pain

Chronic pain disproportionately affects women, yet it remains under-researched, often dismissed, and slower to be diagnosed and treated. 1/

Becoming Hybrid Selves: Interacting with Artificial Minds and Bodies osf.io/preprints/ps...

Nature Communications Double dissociation of dynamic and static face perception provides causal evidence for a third visual pathway idp.nature.com/authorize?re...

Nature Neuroscience Computational models link cellular mechanisms of neuromodulation to large-scale neural dynamics www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The Psychedelics & Pain Community on Circle for patients, facilitators, healthcare providers and others interested in how psychedelics can be effective tools for those living with pain conditions. •access to PPA’s research database •moderated w/ password-protection community.psychedelicsandpain.org

To my American colleagues: sorry, I won't be visiting the USA this year. Logic says we should support you and your great science, but with the continued attacks against Canada, it's become emotional. I'll send trainees if they want to go, but also offer them alternatives in Canada, Europe and Asia.

Gut Bacteria Are Making a Sugar That Attacks The Brain | #ALS #FTD

#Prostaglandin agonists produce an unexpected #analgesiceffect and prevent chronic postsurgical pain (#CPSP) in this #mousemodel https://www.bjanaesthesia.org/article/S0007-0912(25)00740-8/fulltext

The Psychedelics & Pain Community on Circle for patients, facilitators, healthcare providers and others interested in how psychedelics can be effective tools for those living with pain conditions. •access to PPA’s research database •moderated w/ password-protection community.psychedelicsandpain.org

Excellent story from @aniloza.bsky.social and colleague at STAT on the MOSAIC program. www.statnews.com/2025/12/08/t... 1/4

Psilocybin helps the brain unlearn fear by silencing specific neural pathways

TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque: "This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".

Further evidence that widespread covid vaccination is better for everybody.

For only the second time in recorded history, an Atlantic season has produced three Category 5 hurricanes... the previous year was 2005. This puts 2025 in an elite class of hurricane seasons. It also means that nearly 7% of all known Category 5 hurricanes have occurred just in this year. #Melissa

What do you think the findings of Zheng et al., published in @science.org’s #ScienceAdvances mean for the emotional experience of pain? Check out Qiufu Ma’s comment on this and his other #PapersoftheWeek picks here bit.ly/3LoHSjB #ScienceAdvances#PapersoftheWeek#PRF

Welcome to the new Dark Ages. In one self inflicted blow the US is giving up on knowledge generation, technical innovation and medical advances for a generation or more. This is Trump and Vought. This is their doing.

🧠The Amygdala in the brain makes and regulates Emotions. 👃People with post-COVID smell loss show microstructural changes in their Amygdala and have higher depression and anxiety scores. SARS-CoV-2 can affect smell & also emotions long term. buff.ly/904lVX4 #medsky 🛟😷🧪

Big week for all you second-gen psychedelics and non-hallucinatory neuroplastogens fans! New results from Zalsupindole - promotes greater neuroplasticity than ketamine, psilocybin, or DMT, without any of the pesky psychedelic side (fun?) effects. pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1...

So they didn’t like the ad. Let’s just post Reagan’s 5 min speech against tariffs as it appears on YouTube. Over and over. On all platforms (some of y’all are still on X). *1981 Sherrilyn horrified by 2025 Sherrilyn saying “let’s post Reagan’s speech.” youtu.be/5t5QK03KXPc

Women are being erased at the Pentagon. Women are being erased from history. And now a woman has been erased from the desecrated White House.

Antarctica may have passed a climate tipping point of no return, scientists are warning, with mounting evidence that a sudden slump in sea ice formation since 2016 is linked to human-induced ocean warming.

“their nanoparticle-based vaccine can effectively prevent melanoma, pancreatic and triple-negative breast cancer in mice. Not only did up to 88% of the vaccinated mice remain tumor-free (depending on the cancer), but the vaccine reduced—and in some cases completely prevented—the cancer’s spread.”

Shingles vaccination is associated with a powerful reduction of the risk of dementia edzardernst.com/2025/10/shin...

Neuroscientists are starting to unravel the amygdala’s complexity, shedding new light on PTSD

New episode: Joe & Kyle on breathwork, creativity myths, DMT & stroke findings, and our next chapter in community. Tune in: bit.ly/3It5N0v

Has anyone performed a tone-pain conditioning task, specifically using a laser, in mice? If so, please answer this question on #PainResearcher bit.ly/3UKLXAl #PRF bit.ly/3VjLLZ9

In this article, Court Wing writes about the transdiagnostic potential of psychedelics, including but not limited to, MDMA, LSD, DMT, and Ibogaine. Learn more: maps.org/news/bulleti...