This is not a great piece of science journalism. It handwaves all the caveats in a very caveat-heavy study, and has a direct quote from the researcher suggesting they hope "these findings will make teens more cautious about using the drug, which is not as safe as people perceive it to be".

Powerful and devastating reporting. The sheer amount of "declined to comment" statements in the article is truly damning.

“I call them Homo sapiens 2.0." I wrote about natural short sleepers (via gene mutations) and what they do with their extra time.

The new AI recap integration into Slack opens up with the subtitle: "It's a beautiful day for skimming"... Because we don't actually read anything anymore I guess. I remember when 'skimming' was a pejorative.

when this admin says they are the most transparent in history it really only applies to their racism

Do the tech billionaires building our future actually care if the rest of us survive it? Stream Team Human with @taylorlorenz.bsky.social wherever you get your podcasts. www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWEM...

One of the more thought provoking studies I've read recently. Suggests volume of preparatory sessions before psychedelic dosing are more relevant to reducing depression symptoms than volume of integration sessions after a dose.

I hate the amount of time I have to spend nowadays seeing weird shit on social media and working out whether it's real or AI. Most of the time it's AI. This is real.

Another, perhaps more damning, way to think about these new Compass psilocybin results. If their psychological support model was actually more psychotherapeutic than presented then the minimal efficacy reported doesn't look great for psilocybin as a TRD therapy.

So what does OpenAI do? Immediately hire the guy that built Openclaw. This kind of unconstrained agentic AI is going to turn the internet into complete slop.

'Modest' is a very good word to describe these results. I think Compass has just inadvertently proved how much value there is in the psychotherapy part of psychedelic medicine, at least when dealing with psilocybin for depression.

Sometimes a piece of art hits the zeitgeist with such a powerful prescience you think, how did they see it coming? PTA got it last year with OBAA. INDUSTRY is doing it now with the Epstein files. The sheer timing of the episodes airing right now as the exact same news comes out is jawdropping.

Ok so this might be the nerdiest thing I've ever done, BUT: I wanna recreate this paleoecological paper about sauropod dinosaurs using @frontierdev.bsky.social's simulator Jurassic World Evolution 3. www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Kinda in awe of the tightrope act INDUSTRY is playing this season. It's easily the best show on TV right now. Constantly teetering on the edge of a shark jump. It feels like the writers are daring each other to blow the show up every week. Also, this episode has a classic title card drop.

I'm constantly amazed at how we live in an era where really stupid people have become so confident in their stupidity that they're so unembarrassed to widely state blatantly idiotic things.

I made a map of 3.4 million Bluesky users - see if you can find yourself! bluesky-map.theo.io I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail

If this is Lex Fridman on caffeine then I 1000% do not want to be near him on virtually any harder drug.

Most of the roses for sale in the US are raised in hideous labor and environmental conditions in Colombia and Ecuador before they're loaded onto 747s to fly here. I know because I visited one of the rose plantations/sweatshops for my book Orwell's Roses. Give your love a book or something.

I love articles that try to trace the path of long standing quotes that aren't actually real. And this is a good one - both the oft used quote and the dive into Gramsci history.

Still seeing people reporting on that survey suggesting millions of Americans are microdosing MDMA. I don't know much for certain but I'm pretty confident in saying millions of Americans ARE NOT microdosing MDMA. Apart from near zero anecdotal reports, It wouldn't do anything good.

Bluesky is the new science Twitter, new study by @whysharksmatter.bsky.social and Julia Wester concludes! "Results show that for every reported professional benefit that scientists once gained from Twitter, scientists can now gain that benefit more effectively on Bluesky than on Twitter."

Lots of questions here. Top of mind! Why the toilet seat? I understand the context. When you gotta rack you gotta rack. But there must've been other suitable spots in the cubicle. Or even other methods. I mean, really? The toilet seat?

Read 3 separate articles about psychedelic medicine over the last seven days in MAJOR publications, both Australian and international. All used a first person case study about how someone's life was transformed. All incorporated "expert" interviews with ppl commercially connected to these things.

A stunning piece of science writing. Reads like horror fiction...

Wim Wenders is smart. We know this because of his films. That's what makes this comment dangerous, disingenuous and offensive.

Early frontrunner for headline of the year...

There has been a narrative pushed suggesting journalists were skewing negative in perceptions towards psychedelics but this study doesn't back up that idea. When more than 80% of news coverage still skews excessively positive you know you're still in a hype cycle. H/T @philosojules.bsky.social

Latest FOI update on authorized psychedelic prescribers in Australia. 88 APs (some double ups so total is likely bit less) 188 patients treated. Zero adverse events reported (worth noting "adverse event" is defined as serious negative outcome, i,e self-harm etc).

My algorithm is fucked... But also, Wim Hof ads are pretty weird.

Research for a film or looking for a trip himself?

For a long time the FDA has led the world with medicine approvals. A signal from there ofter preceded other countries regulatory approvals. That must change asap otherwise pharma progress will hit a wall.

Hot tip! If you are creating an AI writer try not to label their fake profile pic as "gemini generated"...

I can tell you for a fact that Elon also has no idea about brain computer interfaces, though I know very little about BCIs, I know plenty of people that know a bit about BCIs.

Floating around now in a 4K restoration, RETURN HOME is a real forgotten gem of Aussie cinema. From 1990, it's as slice of life as they get and I expect most non-australians to barely understand even half of this wonderful clip. Distributed by Madman Films, track it down.

Oh hang on, actually, please take this vaccine. Forget the other things we said. Until we again say something differently. Rest assured, we know what we are doing.

Just finished #Pluribus & found it a thoughtful exploration of humanity, loneliness, love & individualism vs a collective hive mind. At a time when so many programs feel like more of the same, this series asks us questions in ways I rarely experience. I am interested to hear what others think.

There's a fantastic Vietnamese restaurant near me called SuperBowl. Some of the best pho in Melbourne. This shall be my only reference to the zeitgeist. #Superbowl

Saw this sign up around a sports oval today and thought, isn't it nice they give the ladies a day of their own.

You moved to Bluesky from Twitter cause of ethical issues. You can do the same with Substack. Platforms like Ghost actively make the transition simple.

Whichever side of the fence you fall I think we can all agree the visit WILL NOT bring unity. How could it feel anything other than an provocation? I'm all for unity and trying to lower the temperature here but you're either deluded or lying if you think the outcome of this will be greater unity

I didn't even know the Winter Olympics were on before reading this story. Brain filter blocked out all references to Olympics but "penis injection" definitely caught my attention.

You know how for years everyone joked about the way North Korean or Russian state media manipulated stories to present things in propogandic ways to its people? That's you now America...

YES! Finally some reporting calling this out.

In the entirety of this, not short, article about psilocybin & TBI there are 2 paras that gesture to some scientific foundation. The other 95% is 1st person 'I felt this' anecdata. It's 2026. Can we please try to start communicating the science instead of leaning on "mantras" and "singing bowls"

feels nice to be editing and working with a team that i feel is doing some solid reporting www.salon.com/2026/02/05/d...

I have not been through this myself (despite the occasional thinly veiled threat.) But I know someone who has, and this sounds pretty accurate. You can spend a lot of $, even if it’s settled before going to court. The chilling effect is 100% real.

This cartoon should be pasted to the door of every politician's office in Canberra. Emailed to them everyday. An incessant reminder of the way their weak willed impotence is strangling a whole generation and helping enrich the wealthy class.

Far be it from me to fact check this article but I haven't heard talk about "unknown" psychedelic molecules in acacia before. Plus DMT in acacia has been an open secret for decades and deserves to be reported with at least a sideline about cultural appropriation and conservation.

First glance, this real world durability data from Australian clinical mdma for PTSD is impressive! Two thirds of patients still in remission 12 months after treatment. Wow.

what could @australianlabor.bsky.social do to prevent another rate rise? Housing was the biggest contributor to inflation over the last year. Don't be confused though - most of that was electricity, up 21.5%. Why did that go up by so much? It didn't. State govt rebates for it just ran out #auspol