If you need a brief doomscroll break (you do) then watch this very precious little baby bear having a tantrum because his mama needed a minute to herself 🥹🐻 (Via melbird3 on TikTok)

new paper just dropped in Brain and Behaviour, with @bman1285.bsky.social and colleagues: doi.org/10.1002/brb3...

Always good to remember.

It's finally out! Large study led by @lenaedibrainz.bsky.social surveying Aussie GP's psychologists, and psychiatrists attitudes towards psychedelic therapy. doi.org/10.1177/0004...

Doing psychedelic research with Spanish-speaking populations & interested in avoidance/acceptance? There is now a culturally decentered Spanish APEQ version designed to work equally well across the Spanish-speaking world: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

ENROL NOW in Australia's first university-accredited short course in psychedelic therapies! 🖥️ 12 weeks, fully online, starts late July 🌏 Open to anyone with an undergrad degree More info and enrol here: 👉 www.monash.edu/psychedelic-... 📧 [email protected]

3 of my papers (2 preprints) made the list! Great resource and great for scoping out all that was published last year

Interesting read, although slightly inflammatory and somewhat unsubstantiated claims on the potential for psychedelics to be addictive.

A paralysed man can stand on his own after receiving an injection of neural stem cells to treat his spinal cord injury https://go.nature.com/41YLmhC

Great episode, appreciate the nuance and the very forthright “Im no longer on X. I moved to bsky.”

I recently appeared on the Psychedelic Medicine podcast with Dr. Lynn Marie Morski, where we discussed this paper here (doi.org/10.1038/s442...). You can check it out here open.spotify.com/episode/3858... Thanks for having me Lynn :)

MDMA-Assisted Therapy for Complex-Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: Toward a neurocognitive account: https://osf.io/425fd

New preprint with Philip Gerrans @hohwy.bsky.social and @lenaedibrainz.bsky.social. We propose a neurocognitive model for MDMA-assisted therapy in Complex PTSD (C-PTSD), focusing on the role of the insula in "self-modeling" - how we develop and sustain a coherent sense of self.

Agreed. Michael Inzlicht is a huge inspiration for me. People who are willing to challenge the status quo in any particular field are a hugely important part of scientific and social progress. Always worth interrogating if we are just going along with a fashionable perspective, or.....

As academics we could learn a valuable lesson from brave souls, like @minzlicht.bsky.social, who challenge the status quo. Many of us are happy move in lockstep with our peers, but few will stand up and work to course correct entire fields of study.

Now recruiting participants for a study assessing if positive self-reflective journaling can help improve various aspects of wellbeing. Open to all! cairnmillar.syd1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

This type of science communication raises a few concerns for me. Most generally, and this is a kind of problem I notice in the psychedelic science community more broadly - having a hammer doesn't make everything a nail.

My latest blog post is on the links between psychedelic use and belief in the simulation hypothesis. #psychedelics #philosophy #psychology

Super stroked this pre-print (link: doi.org/10.31234/osf...) has been accepted for publication in Musicae Scientae, 4 years after we related the preprint. This was a collaboration between 4 graduate students (we are all post docs now) and was a steep learning curve on the publication process!

Friendly reminder: when you read a stranger's post, consider that your first response might be an *assumption* that they meant something they didn't actually say... I know nuance doesn't survive social media well, but it's worth striving for kindness first...

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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... 🧪🧠💊

Is the origin of life a chemistry problem or a cognitive science problem? @drmichaellevin & Chris Fields argue it's the latter! #FEP #OriginOfLife #cognitivescience #FermiParadox #FreeEnergyPrinciple www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....

THREAD Things that didn't make the news that will likely change our lives for the better The news is not an accurate reflection of the world. Good news doesn't get reported as much. Here are the wonderful things researchers have achieved recently. 1/24

Another study finds atheism decreases after psychedelic entity encounter experiences. "Comparing changes before and after the experience, both sex groups showed decreases in atheism and agnosticism and increases in religious beliefs, with males exhibiting larger changes." tinyurl.com/5n94ttxz

I once had a reviewer insist HPPD doesn't exist.....

An article on the neutral and positive experiences that people have related to post-psychedelic visual effects.

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One of my favorite science burns: In the late 1770s, Antoine Lavoisier described Joseph Priestley's research on air as "a tissue of experiments almost uninterrupted by reasoning."

Tripping into Treatment: www.researchgate.net/publication/... Psychedelics and chronic pain: www.researchgate.net/publication/...

This was really thoughtful and interesting. Couldn't say I uniformly agree with all arguments - but definitely worth a read for budding or current therapists: aeon.co/essays/i-am-...

Announcing the 4th UCL-PSL Consciousness & Metacognition Summer School, 14th-16th July 2025 Small number of in-person places available (priority for @ucl.ac.uk and @psl-univ.bsky.social) + online participation Lots of exciting speakers in the works, more TBA soon! metacoglab.org/summer-schoo...

I love this article, discussing shortcomings of the notions of sufficiency and necessity when it comes to how complex systems (the brain) work www.thetransmitter.org/systems-neur...

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‘[I]nfinite grief … existed as the feeling that “God Himself is dead”, upon which the religion of more recent times rests…’ – Hegel, 1802

Article about my article with Khandis Blake, Lewis Nitschinsk, Damian Murray, & Brian O'Shea in @psypost.bsky.social. www.psypost.org/google-searc...

Psychedelic mental health research is booming—but how do we keep up with rapidly evolving evidence? 🌱 Our team proposes a living evidence synthesis approach to ensure clinicians, policymakers, and the public have access to the latest, most reliable data. 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s44... 🧪🧵

Books are a total scam. Every single word is already in the dictionary—they’re just selling them back to you in a different order.

Eigenmodes of the deep unconscious: The neuropsychology of Jungian archetypes and psychedelic experience.: http://osf.io/6efzr/

exeter.ac.uk/study/online/courses/msc-psychedelics/ The world’s first* master’s degree in Psychedelics: Mind, Medicine, and Culture is now open for enrolment. Join the wonderful group at Exeter for a phantastic online course that covers psychedelia via science, philosophy, and much more.

Accurate.

This is an important pre-print that deserves attention. Systematic review suggesting that 1) psychedelic insights are moderately-strongly related to dose, and 2) insights could be even more strongly related to therapeutic benefit than mystical experiences....

Metastability demystified — the foundational past, the pragmatic present and the promising future Dynamic systems theory review paper with Fran Hancock, Fernando Rosas & friends rdcu.be/d3bh9

⚠️ My new preprint examines the opposite conclusions of the 🇺🇸FDA👎 and 🇳🇱Dutch Commission👍 about #MDMA therapy for PTSD. I suggest that FDA more closely followed the hierarchy of EBM, while the Dutch approached what a pluralistic EBM+ assesment would look like. #psychiatry #neuroskyence #PhilSci

Wrote about DMT, or "the nuclear bomb of the psychedelic family," over on Vox. Andrew Gallimore calls DMT "the most efficient reality-switching molecule currently known to exist," & neuroscientists I spoke with are excited as research is finally beginning to ramp up: www.vox.com/the-highligh...

looking forward to sharing our progress in studying the effects of #psilocybin in patients with #depression and co-occurring #alcoholUseDisorder at #acnp2024