@sthom003
Professor of Psychiatry, Univ of Colorado School of Medicine. Director, Psychedelic Public Policy Partnership. Synaptic physiologist studying depression, antidepressant drug actions, and all things psychedelic in mice & people. Link: BaleThompsonLTP.org
I am just now catching up on the fact that the FDA was demanding Uniqure do sham brain surgeries (from what I can tell, comprising simulated burr holes and 10-12 hours of anesthesia) in their placebo arm for their Huntington's therapeutic, and I'm absolutely floored that this was a serious demand.
Tried that. This guy’s got a common name.
As a woman and an academic, why do I feel like I’ve read this story a hundred times - while the names change, the plot is the same. It feels like gut punch every time. We have a long way to go in changing this culture.
Agreed!! It also puts us academics in a bind. Example: I am involved with putting together a small meeting paid for by private donors. I know nothing about them. How do I run a criminal background check?
MacArthur Foundation “genius” @drdamienfair.bsky.social discusses his return to his home state of Minnesota and why it’s important to protect the developing brain, in this episode of “Synaptic.”
By Brady Huggett
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/synaptic/sti...
Let’s not forget his co-director. If you’re not a mad scientist, you’re not paying attention.
Finally - a detailed look at how inputs from the PFC and hippocampus converge in the NAc! Well done!
Have you seen the Trump skating AI video? This is much more realistic.
It felt like the right time for a reminder. This is based on an older interview but almost too relevant today. “On Failure and “Pathological Persistence” in Science“ by Michael Yassa on Medium: medium.com/@myassa_6289...
We were trying to confirm the precens of DMT in the brain and in particularly in serotonin neurons.
But to our surprice, DMT is neither in the brain or taken up by serotonin nerve terminals!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#donaldtrump
Welcome!
Prediction: Kidnapped President Madura confesses to election interference in exchange for a DOJ plea deal that sets him up in the Club Fed prison next to Ghislaine Maxwell. Trump uses it as pretext to nationalize elections and the Roberts court says OK because we can’t second guess national security
Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue
You’re right! It’s way smaller!
Another day, another failure of AG Pam Biondi to comply with the law. This time, holding back promising research on cannabis and psychedelics by refusing to bring Nixon’s archaic war-on-drugs regulations into the 21st century.
I guess she’s too busy redacting Trump’s name from the Epstein files.
As a MN girl, I am sickened by what is happening in my home state. Please call your members of Congress and tell them that the DHS spending bill must prohibit ICE and Border Patrol agents from carrying guns and that agents do not have absolute immunity under the law if they harm civilians. Now. ☎️📢
Latest post from Dr. Ginexi on NOFO guidance, "reductions in burden," and subsequent confusion at #NIH.
Thank you to all the courageous panelists at today’s lived experience panel at #ACNP2926 and thank you to @acnporg.bsky.social for bringing these vital voices to the conversation. Their hard-earned insights can help us all do better, more impactful, more meaningful science!
Thank you ACNP for having the meeting at the Atlantis! Trying a new way to fund the lab - better odds than the NIH!
SHAME ON YOU DELTA AIRLINES!!! COWARDS!
Excited to be working with colleagues around the world (including @drjkhokhar.bsky.social @jojolab.bsky.social and CHAIR @sjo09.bsky.social) on the @ibroorg.bsky.social World Congress in Cape Town, 2027! ibro.org/ibro-announc...
Add HHS to the DoD for agencies committing murder in our names.
A black-and-white photo shows Dr. Leila Denmark (center), an elderly woman with glasses, seated and smiling while looking at a baby who is laughing and facing her. Another younger woman is also seated to the right, laughing and placing her hand near the baby's midsection. The scene suggests a warm, inter-generational interaction, possibly in a clinical or home setting. Dr. Denmark was a pioneering pediatrician, known as the world's oldest practicing pediatrician upon her retirement at age 103.
Dr. Leila Denmark co-developed the pertussis (whooping cough) vaccine.
World's oldest practicing pediatrician until she retired at age 103 (after 73 yrs). At the time of her death at age 114 & 60 days, she was the 5th-oldest validated living person in the world & 3rd-oldest in the US. #WomenInSTEM
What is the source of this idiocy?
Absolutely insane paragraph
Damn right!
