Pretty much exactly the advice I give the predocs in our lab! I also encourage colleagues to add some individuality and passion into their talks: let the audience know why the topic of your talk is interesting TO YOU. I love hearing talks from people who deeply care about the subject.
This newly published paper is also a great companion piece: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Would be great to add placebo conditions (and suggestive conditions, as in @madelinestein.bsky.social work) to see how these results change!
Reduced drug use without full abstinence should count as success, not failure. This topic is very important to me, harm reduction is ALWAYS a success.
Postdoc position @unimarburg.bsky.social in the project:
"Bridging the Gap Between Verbal Psychological Theories & Formal Statistical Modeling with Large Language Models" (funded by @volkswagenstiftung.de)
📅Start: 01.10.2026 |⏳3 years
🔗 Job posting: uni-marburg.de/78NrWT
Thanks for sharing!
Finally got around to reading this preprint. Fantastic work! This It's right up my alley and I believe quite important for psychedelic science. I'm actually in the middle of analyzing results from a similar project. Hope to share the results this year still 🤞
Congrats @madelinestein.bsky.social !
IMHO this is a fantastic collection of chapters! However I'm a bit biased as I contributed a chapter on neuropsychological risks of psychedelic use
My much more radical opinion is that all ethical approvals for human/animal biomedical research should be openly published, and all papers resulting from those studies should be easily linked to the approval. This one *really* freaks people out and I suspect we all know why.
Oh hell yeah @amnesty.org comes out swinging:
"Amnesty International finds that standalone generative AI systems... are fundamentally incompatible with IHRL. As such, Amnesty International is calling for a prohibition of such systems."
www.amnesty.org/en/documents...
One of our new projects with the University of Cambridge, Exploring the Grey Zone: A Biopsychosocial Approach to Religious Delusions and Conspiracy Beliefs, is looking to hire a fixed term Research Associate in Psychiatry or Psychology: www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...
Ein direkter Angriff auf unsere Demokratie. Einschüchtern und Angst verbreiten. Rechtsextremisten sind bereit für exzessive Gewalt bis hin zu Mord.
www.hessenschau.de/gesellschaft...
Maintaining effective blinding is a major methodological challenge in psychedelic research. This study provides a comprehensive evaluation of blinding…
1. Know your timing. Most conference talk slots are 15 minutes. That is from the start of one speaker to the start of the next. That really means you should talk for 12-12.5 minutes, have 1.5-2 min for 1-2 questions, change over to the next speaker. Do not just try to wing it; practice with a clock.
New preprint is up! In this preregistered experiment, we tested the causal role of set and setting and examined whether individual differences could reliably predict these #placebo and #nocebo #psychedelic effects. Check out the full paper!
tinyurl.com/2v98ueh8
