On his podcast, @HamiltonMorris claims Psilocybin Alpha was launched w/ dark money from Bill Linton & Carey Turnbull. No. I started PA myself, using my savings, while working a full-time job. But I appreciate it must be hard for a nepo-baby-cum-mediocre chemist to understand.

In many years of covering health and wellness, I have often thought: why am I hearing about quantum physics so much? I wrote about "quantum woo" or "quantum flapdoodle," the (mis)use of quantum theories in New Age and alternative medicine. Gift link: theatlantic.com/health/archive…

What kind of childhood makes a top scientist? Is it enough to have all the right traits (brilliance, grit, etc) or do you need the right family too? And why should we care? A 🧵 on our paper on the Nobel Laureates. A teaser: the income distribution of the laureates' fathers.1/N

From @hrw: "Their atrocities do not justify your atrocities. The brutality of their war crimes does not lessen the brutality of yours. Their inhumanity drives your inhumanity which drives their inhumanity further [..] until the world around you burns to the ground and beyond."

This is these guys in a nutshell. It's a shot-for-shot remake of the original trailer... except it's not even a good copy. It's not just that there is not a single original idea in there, they aren't even aware that they have taken out all the substance. (A li'l thread.)

I’d never be able to make a living on book sales alone. Very few can, which in turn determines whose voices we hear, and whose we don’t. If you’d like to continue hearing mine, head here. And thank you. (2/2) monicabyrne.org/support

Just got my biannual royalty statement for The Actual Star. It sold 1,117 new copies. My take-home? $204. If you ever wonder why I make a living through crowdfunding, it’s because I have to. Authors are paid based on sales, not labor. (1/2)

Princeton chose not to include my responses to their Qs about the #MacFellow award in this announcement—What it was like when I got the call? What the award means to me? What I’m working on now?—bc I asked them to accurately recount my response to Q1 or to not quote me at all. 1/

This is nuts. Neural synchronization (measured via EEG) between humans and dogs during social interactions is reduced in a dog model of autism (Shank3 mutation), but 24 hours after giving the dogs LSD, human-dog neural synchronization increases 🤯 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ad…

"8% reported that they or someone they know was the victim of inappropriate sexual contact by a psychedelic sitter, guide, or practitioner"

Come hear me talk about psychedelic science at @nerdniteSF this Wednesday! wl.seetickets.us/event/nerd-nit… Plus geysers & the new science of learning. Be there and be square?

For only $143, Elsevier/Springer will send me a PDF of my accepted paper that I can share with 25 people :). Publishers again adding tremendous value. I wouldn't know what to do without this attractive option.

In psychedelic science, some see “its placebo” as an attack. I embrace placebo (well done placebo!) as a mechanism of action - a process which psychedelics tx can powerfully engage. This study on *open label placebo* from an outstanding group speaks volumes to that idea. 👏👏👏

Honest question: has *any* placebo-controlled study of microdosing psychedelics found any indication that it's not just a placebo? Study after study seems to show that microdosing has essentially none of the benefits touted by "psychedelic coaches".

Like any medicine, psychedelics can produce unwanted or adverse side effects. Many of these are mild; some can be severe or serious. In the journal Psychedelic Medicine, Sunstone's CEO, Dr. Manish Agrawal, along with @sdpnayak, @ExistWell, and @r_ehrenkranz argue that adverse…

Five years ago today, Scout became the First Dog of Minnesota.   We like to say he rescued us as much as we rescued him.   Let this be your reminder that there are lots of pets out there waiting to find their forever homes!

No one is left brained or right brained. No one is an introvert or an extrovert, you are not a empath, Gary Chapman is wrong you don’t have one of 5 love language:, Myers Briggs is a hack there are no 16 personalities. Every generation we find a way to reinvent Zodiac signs

We know that psychedelics can produce profound changes in consciousness - but we don't really know how it happens. This new @SciPsychedelics psilocybin brain imaging study could help change that 🧠🍄🖥️👇 news.berkeley.edu/2024/06/11/psy…

"Expectancy" and "unblind" was on full repeat yesterday during @US_FDA's discussion of @MAPS's #MDMA trial, so here are a few points that I think can enrich the conversation: - I do not think its an issue if an intervention has some expectancy effects. The issue is if all or…

I do not think that "those thinking they got MDMA, therapeutic effect was nearly identical between MDMA & placebo" is necessarily problematic. There are 2 explanations: - Patients had such a great expectation regarding MDMA therapy that thinking they got MDMA was just as good as…