this paper was sent out of anger to unsubscribe from a low-quality research journal's mailing list but ended up getting accepted

If reviewers keep rejecting your journal paper, you're in good company: this video made me smile (his FDR paper [1] has >100,000 citations): 'There was always one referee who liked it, and one referee who objected. The editor said I am obliged to reject it. And it went this way…

Just wrote something new on Cory Doctorow NONCONSENSUAL BLUE TICK's concept of 'enshittification' and how it applies to academic publishing:
'Academic publishers: The original enshittificationists'
medium.com/@m.b.wall/acad…

classic

Remember DIANA fMRI - direct imaging of neuronal activity? The method is in trouble, with failures to replicate nature.com/articles/d4158…

This was peak software design

Just making a cup of tea and had the weirdest feeling I was being watched...

Especially delighted to see this passion project go live. A small step on a brave journey to consider & examine the validity of the 'inner healer' phenomenon in context of psychedelics: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/02…

Nature now charges $12,290 US to publish a single article open access. Shall we list some things that cost less than that? I'll go first: a 2017 BMW 330i sedan, a 7-day cruise for a family of four, six Louis Vuitton purses. 🤪

Last call for applications to be a Clinical Trial Manager for a very exciting new psychedelic-therapy trial at Centre for Psychedelic Research. Closes 15th April.
jobs.ac.uk/job/DGU344/cli…

Been chatter about this for a while but nice that someone has put together a solid case for it.

'Psilocybin for dementia prevention? The potential role of psilocybin to alter mechanisms associated with major depression and neurodegenerative diseases'
sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

I made a silly video with my kid's magnets.

Citation styles taking a bold step into the 20th century here. 👍

Back in Jan 21 I got a lot of attention due to my tweets going viral. 3 years one I thought I would use the power of hindsight to see if my tweets were right and if #Brexit is the unmitigated catastrophe many in the remain camp said it would be.

This is why metal is not allowed during an MRI

Matt Wall (@mattwall.bsky.social) But also we need more neuropsychologists who know how to recognise the early signs. I’m so sick of sending people to memory clinics only for them to be sent home again and (so far without fail) then get a diagnosis a year or so later.

Big problem is lack of capacity in terms of PET and MRI scanners:

Here's a really easy explainer from Jo Neill and colleagues from The University of Manchester in evidence to Home Affairs Committee about why the current laws are wrong, and what the potential is as a treatment:

committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidenc…

Psilocybin can already be legally prescribed in Canada, Australia and the US.

And last year, a purpose built facility for psilocybin assisted therapy was opened in London which could see it provided on the NHS... why isn't it? The law. Let's fix that!

kcl.ac.uk/news/new-psych…

Millions of people in the UK are struggling with mental health conditions like PTSD and depression, and haven't been helped by conventional treatments; psilocybin therapy could be part of the answer. Thanks to Lauren Shirreff & Amy Gibbons for the chat!

telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/…