The Billionaire, the Psychedelics and the Best-Selling Memoir Amy Griffin wrote a book based on recovered memories of childhood sexual abuse. Oprah Winfrey and a slew of celebrities promoted it. Then questions arose. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/n...

I spent the week at the police surveillance convention and let me tell you my biggest observation: The name of the game now is consolidating as much information as humanely possible from surveillance devices, the internet, other governmental data, and literally a million other places. 🧵

@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...

My article "Experiments in medicalization" on the Swiss and Australian efforts to enable psychedelic therapies outside of clinical trials but short of market approval has just come out in BioSocieties: www.nicolaslanglitz.de/ewExternalFi...

"Neural responses correlated with impending motor action almost everywhere in the brain. Responses to reward delivery and consumption were also widespread."

🚨EXCLUSIVE: Federal judges tell NBC News the Supreme Court has got to do a better job of explaining emergency rulings, with frequent decisions in favor of Trump at least appearing to validate harsh criticism of the judiciary at a time of rising threats: www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...

Innovative fabrics, relaxed drama, infinite drip. RIP Giorgio Armani.

Just Code, just published!!! Open Access of full book is now freely available, see link below, made possible by @sloanfoundation.bsky.social grant to CBI! Am so honored to partner w Con & work alongside 19 stellar, fellow interdisciplinary authors on this book! #histtech cse.umn.edu/cbi/just-cod...

We still don’t know if microdosing psychedelics is effective or a placebo, but is it safe? Could microdosing activate cardiac 5HT2B receptors and cause valvulopathy? New work online at pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1... from @deffinger.bsky.social suggests that - at least in mice - the answer is no. 1/

To explain this photo a bit more: back then, most programming was done on paper (sometimes on special coding sheets), then punched onto cards/tape, then fed into a mainframe to be tested (& if necessary debugged). Counterintuitively, needing LESS computer time was the mark of a better programmer!

🍄 Our new living systematic review and meta-analysis on psilocybin for depression is out. Here's what we found and the open science infrastructure we built to support it 🧪🧵 www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

"In weaker, lesser, dumber hands, DESIGN FOR LIVING is a movie about three horny morons; in Lubitsch’s, all three characters spark and sparkle, an abundance of wit powering them through reckless indecisions." - @franhoepfner.bsky.social

Wondering whether anyone is willing to contribute short videos for my methods class. The ones I already have are fantastic and so well-received in my class that I’d like to expand this. Looking for TMS, fMRI, EEG, PET - short video of you explaining the method showing the tech. Thank you!!! 🙏

It goes without saying that it is complete and utter bullshit to imply that funding is controlled by a small group of highly paid, unaccountable insiders. Every grant is reviewed by a panel of other researchers and ranked for scientific merit. And it’s not just one panel. There are more than 175.

I doubt that there is a single family in America that hasn’t benefitted directly from the NIH.

This is a great resource adoptastation.org?fbclid=PAQ0x...

Interesting... MDMA-assisted therapy as a treatment for major depressive disorder: proof of principle study www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

FDA just released an interesting dataset of Complete Response Letters issued in response to _approved_ NDAs and BLAs between 2020 and 2024. open.fda.gov/apis/other/a...

Farewell to Jonathan Ott, opinionated ethnobotanist and scholar of entheogens, a word he helped create. His book Pharmacotheon remains a must-have for any serious psychedelic library. lucys-magazin.com/r-i-p-jonath...

also tagging @adapalmer.bsky.social press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Gofundme for Betty Cantor-Jackson, who made all those amazing soundboard recordings of 70s-era Grateful Dead shows, including Cornell '77. These are cultural-heritage-level relics. Please consider sending her a few bucks if you can spare them. gofund.me/dc8133fb

When I die I’d like the @nytimes.com editorial board to lower me into my grave so I can be let down one last time.

May be obvious to half of you, but the small hands stereotype that the NYT just published is part of an (insidious) process of framing specific manufacturing jobs as feminine and unskilled, just something young Asian women are 'naturally suited for' and thus not requiring as much pay or break time.

This interview with the neuroscience legend Dr Eve Marder is absolutely worth your time.

Awesome to see this study out! Was wondering if this was gonna be analyzed. We are about to analyze our self compassion data with mdma-at and social anxiety and will see if this replicates.

Of greatest clinical relevance, 86% of studies found insight was associated with therapeutic benefit. Notably, the relationship was often stronger than mystical-type experiences, which have received more research attention.

No difference in therapeutic effects of psychedelic use between facilitated group ceremonies and raves/festivals... what do yall think? www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Great work for psychedelic research to overcome RCT-based epistemic authoritarianism, led by @sdmuthu.bsky.social and @tehseennoorani.bsky.social 👏👏👏. Thankful for the invite to to collaborate, together with @trpwolff.bsky.social, @mattbagg.bsky.social and others. osf.io/preprints/ps... 🧪🧠💊

I would like to clear up some apparent confusion. During the height of COVID, a member of my team proposed and ran a virtual book club for the community.

Grateful to all of the NIH folks working hard to advance science, health, and new treatments despite these adversities.

New year, new editorial asking (psychedelic) researchers to please, please, please remember that pain matters: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... Open access!

It occurred to me that media coverage of Lykos this year is interesting historically and hard for any one person to compile as it spans newspapers, substacks, and expensive pharma industry sites. So I have started a project to pull together as much of it as possible.

Really interesting paper on innovation and 'amnesia' firstmonday.org/ojs/index.ph...