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Last year, $9B of the $35B that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) granted for research was used for administrative overhead, what is known as “indirect costs.” Today, NIH lowered the maximum indirect cost rate research institutions can charge the government to 15%, above

🧵 Many “hot takes” about the reduction of NIH indirect grant costs to 15%. Let’s lay out the facts about the university grant management process & accounting. And then use this to project likely short and longer term impacts of the policy.

Looking forward to presenting some exciting work on the impacts of guides/facilitators/therapists on people's psychedelic subjective effects, using data spanning several clinical trials.

Paper I am happy to have contributed to with Brian Barnett and many others, “Practical considerations in the establishment of psychedelic research programs”. Open access, everything people need to know. link.springer.com/article/10.100…

❓ How much do psychedelic guides influence people's hashtag psychedelic experiences in clinical trials? 📢 Next Friday, I'll present some exciting work on the impacts of guides/therapists on people's psychedelic subjective effects.

So thrilled to have worked with Maryland Opioid Research (MOR) colleagues to publish this comprehensive paper outlining why #fentanyl is different than other opioids and how it can be treated. Thank you Suky Martinez for your leadership! buff.ly/4imnpHF

🎉NEW PAPER ALERT🎉In an RCT, we found no difference between psilocybin and placebo in alcohol use characterstics in a relapse prevention framework for AUD patients. So excited to finally share these findings! sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

LSD and ritalin rationale is kind of similar to intuitive rationale for MDMA + psilocybin

Klüver of Klüver-Bucy syndrome fame is also the mescaline form constants guy He had Bucy remove monkeys' temporal lobes as he thought they were a key site for mescaline visual effects but serendipitously discovered their syndrome

In older, placebo-controlled psychedelic studies, were people allowed to smoke?

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Rapid and sustained antidepressant effects of vaporized N,N-dimethyltryptamine (DMT)... Small, non-blinded, study but impressive results nonetheless... All 14 clinically depressed subjects received DMT (>96% pure isolated from Mimosa hostilis root bark -- none of this fancy

Our new paper – investigating patterns of change in mental health and substance use before and after naturalistic psilocybin use has been published in the International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction. link.springer.com/article/10.100… / Open: rdcu.be/ejeYa 🧵

People often claim that psychedelics have been used globally, for millennia, & in contexts of psychological healing. In today's @Guardian Long Read, I show what these stories get wrong & why the reality is far more interesting. Excerpted from Shamanism: The Timeless Religion

Honored that SHAMANISM has been named one of the best books of the month by TIME! "Blending memoir, investigative journalism, and anthropological fieldwork, Shamanism is a deep dive into a religious tradition that is as mysterious as it is timeless." ~3 weeks until it's out!

Introducing the Catatonia Quick Screen. The Bush-Francis contains a 14-item screening instrument, but what if 14 items is too long for your proforma/working memory? Here we found that just 4 items was very nearly as good: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ac… More details...

Do you want to capture health behavior as it happens? My summer institute on EMA is coming up at the end of this month. Spots are limited - don't miss out! Dept of Mental Health at BSPH Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

oh, this is extremely cool. post claims the reason point estimates of project completion times are frequently large underestimates is that they're estimates of the median of a lognormal distribution, which is heavy-tailed, and the mean is 1.6x the median

A lot of bad news these days, so I thought I’d share some good news. Last week, in a celebration of 150 people coming from all over the world to Buenos Aires, I married a revolutionary. Also, I got promoted to Assistant Professor. And yes, there were robots.

This book is an amazing culmination of years of work and original thought and I can't really recommend more highly -- really pertinent for anyone interested in religion, psychedelics or mental health