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Tehseen Noorani

@tehseennoorani.bsky.social
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Interested in the co-evolving epistemics, therapeutics & economics of extreme experiences. Co-lead, www.psychedelictherapynz.org; Dadx2

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Fred Barrett @fredbarrettphd.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Excited to share our new paper in Psychopharmacology: A pilot study comparing high-dose oral Δ9-THC, psilocybin, and placebo under the same set and setting used in psychedelic clinical trials. @jhpsychedelics.bsky.social 🧵 link.springer.com/article/10.1... 1/n
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Sacha @sachadylan.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
“The greatest threat to investment confidence and certainty is a system where environmental laws are negotiable and the costs of failure are shifted onto communities and taxpayers" - @manucaddie.bsky.social #NzPol
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Seymour ‘implores’ Gisborne council to go easy on forestry companies
Mayor tells Seymour that it was only when directors were made personally liable that any material differences were made
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Rich Haridy @richharidy.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
First dispatch out now. A dive into the ethics behind a newly published case study and I ask why such a poorly reported article was so uncritically embraced by many in the psychedelic world.
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Report #1: Psilocybin, Alzheimer’s and Psychedelic Research Ethics
Let’s start with a story about the wild power of confirmation bias in the world of psychedelics. A story about magic mushrooms, dementia and research ethics.
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Michael Okun @michael-okun.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
I’ve officially resigned as Associate Editor for Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience. It used to be a reputable journal, but became a case study in how forced automation destroys academic integrity. 👇
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The Mental Elves @thementalelves.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
For the record, my issue with critical psychiatry is this. Baseline, they think they are so different but actually are one of the same. 1. It stops seeing me. It assumes everything I say is to maintain the "sick role". From this position, anything I say is warped. 1/
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Tehseen Noorani @tehseennoorani.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
‘Science’s “Savage Slot”: The appropriation and erasure of Indigenous science in the psychedelic renaissance’ by @emiliasana.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Science’s “Savage Slot”: The appropriation and erasure of Indigenous science in the psychedelic renaissance
This article examines the operations of what Trouillot named the “Savage slot” in psychedelic science. Indigenous efforts to break out of the “Savage …
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Max Wolff @trpwolff.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Classical randomized controlled trials (RCTs) can't capture the complexity of psychedelic therapy. In this new paper led by @sdmuthu.bsky.social and @tehseennoorani.bsky.social, we argue for pragmatic trials designs that accommodate this complexity and better align with real-world clinical practice.
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Eduardo Schenberg, PhD @eeschenberg.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
New paper out with @tehseennoorani.bsky.social @maxwolff.bsky.social and orhers, showing that the UK Medical Research Council's framework for complex interventions offer an important way foward for the field of #psychedelics: journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....
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Psychedelic-assisted therapy as a complex intervention: implications for clinical trial design
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Rich Haridy @richharidy.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
If you're anywhere in Australia at the end of Nov then I'd suggest you make your way here. This is the first outdoor entheogenesis conference in 8 yrs. An incredible event with a sharp line up of speakers. @mikejay.bsky.social @tehseennoorani.bsky.social @pyrodelic.bsky.social @gmantic.bsky.social
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Mediterranean Society for Consciousness Science @mesec-community.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
A few moments from our ongoing MESEC 2025 Workshop (‘Centering Experience in Mental Health: Uniting Psychiatry and Consciousness Science’) at the beautiful Lago di Bolsena! @lucieberko.bsky.social @tehseennoorani.bsky.social
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Boris D Heifets @theborislab.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
How much is the psychedelic experience influenced by what we see, hear and read? We made a way to measure it: The Psychedelic Media Exposure Questionnaire - developed by Audrey Evers, Chris Kelly, @shaylalove.bsky.social , @tehseennoorani.bsky.social, validated on >600 respondents. Link below:
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The Psychedelic Media Exposure Questionnaire: The development and validation of a new scale assessing psychedelic-related media exposure
Rationale: A reliable and valid instrument is needed to measure exposure to psychedelic-related media to examine the impact of media and expectations on outcomes in psychedelic clinical trials. Object...
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Tehseen Noorani @tehseennoorani.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
A promising approach
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Tehseen Noorani @tehseennoorani.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1... This was a great read and I'm sorry to have missed it until now. Offers a "rendi epistemology", reviving the lost figure of the rend - the “pious rogue” of Islamicate drug histories - as a way of moving beyond coloniality/modernity in drug studies
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The Pluriverse of Intoxication: Words, Lives, Worlds in Islamicate History | The Social History of Alcohol and Drugs: Vol 36, No 2
Abstract This article establishes a conceptual framework for decolonial drug histories and, at the same time, moves beyond decolonization. It brings back the radical alterity of historical figures of ...
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Leor Roseman @leorroseman.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
New in @naturemedicine.bsky.social "An international Delphi consensus for reporting of setting in psychedelic clinical trials" by Chloé Pronovost-Morgan, Kyle Greenway, myself, and many ReSPCT Experts." nature.com/articles/s41...
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An international Delphi consensus for reporting of setting in psychedelic clinical trials - Nature Medicine
A large international panel of experts reach consensus on a new standard for reporting settings in psychedelic trials, identifying 30 key non-pharmacological factors to strengthen the rigor of psyched...
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Emilia Sanabria @emiliasana.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Sharing this "Mad in America" review of our recent article on the commercialisation of psychedelic integration www.madinamerica.com/.../from-hea... The link to the original article (co-written with Luís Fernando Tófoli) is in the comments below
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From Healing to Commodity: The Global North’s Approach to Psychedelic Therapy
A new study critiques how Western psychology has stripped psychedelics of their communal and transformative potential, turning them into marketable, individualistic treatments.
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Jason Luoma, Ph.D. @jasonluoma.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Australia was the first country to permit prescribing MDMA outside clinical trials. This creates a fascinating situation where a treatment is accessible but no approved products exist. This is important to watch as it might tell us something about what will happen in the US when FDA approval occurs.
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Bill Brennan @billbrennan.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Excited to see the publication of our commentary on the need for a better psychedelic safety net. Much appreciation to @philosojules.bsky.social and CPEP for being such a catalyst for good work on this topic! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1176/...
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On Minimizing Risk and Harm in the Use of Psychedelics
Objective This article outlines recommendations from 30 psychedelic researchers on how to create a better psychedelic safety net. Methods A survey of 30 psychedelic researchers asked them to ident...
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Jason Luoma, Ph.D. @jasonluoma.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Just came across this fascinating 2024 DMT study I missed - participants who were interrupted during their DMT experience (by having to give ratings) showed significantly less reduction in depressive symptoms compared to those left undisturbed. Important implications for psychedelic therapy. 🧵
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Tehseen Noorani @tehseennoorani.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Hard not to see these arrangements from our 2 year old at the end of each night as provocations
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Jules Evans @philosojules.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Sarah Zeines asks if hospitals are the best setting for psychedelic medicine, following some patients' complaints about Swiss PAT programme. Includes comments from @tehseennoorani.bsky.social @beccakacanda.bsky.social @jameslkent.bsky.social + many others. www.ecstaticintegration.org/p/are-hospit...
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Are hospitals the best setting for psychedelic medicine?
The Swiss psychedelic medicine programme considers some patients' complaints
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Tehseen Noorani @tehseennoorani.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy... A welcome philosophical intervention on the topic of experiential knowledge! Brings the EK literature up to date, in ways that interface with cog sci & is rich for those wanting to analyse knowledge of psychedelics based upon experience (as opposed2eg trial data)
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Frontiers | Being in a position to know: attuned responsiveness as the hallmark of experiential knowledge and expertise in mental healthcare
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Tehseen Noorani @tehseennoorani.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Lovely short piece on psychedelic trip intention-making as rite of sacralization
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Max Wolff @trpwolff.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
I encourage everyone to read through Compass' latest description of their "psychological support" model. If this is not in fact psychotherapy, then nothing is. Ironically, this is most evident whenever the authors apparently aim to differentiate their model from (their idea of) psychotherapy, e.g.:
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Tehseen Noorani @tehseennoorani.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Another one! Every region should have a @mikejay.bsky.social reading group
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Tehseen Noorani @tehseennoorani.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
www.nplusonemag.com/issue-49/ess... This analysis of the state of Netflix film production has some great one liners, including customer experience as “managed dissatisfaction”, a movie as “an accounting trick”, and movies as “designed to be played but not watched”
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Casual Viewing | Will Tavlin
A decade before Airbnb persuaded homeowners to transform their homes into hotels, Netflix convinced its users to turn theirs into mini Netflix warehouses. Customers who held onto their DVDs for longer...
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josh hardman @josh-hardman.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
It's been another very busy year at Psychedelic Alpha! To kick off our 2024 Year In Review, I look back at 11 of our stories from the year gone by: from the Lykos saga through to funding grants from NIDA and the EU... psychedelicalpha.com/news/psyched...
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Psychedelic Alpha’s Top 11 Stories from 2024 - Psychedelic Alpha
As we come to the end of another year, we’re kicking off our Year in Review with a look back at some of our top articles from 2024.
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Brian D. Earp, PhD @briandavidearp.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Call for submissions! Join us in Basel for the 2025 Basel-Oxford-NUS Experimental Bioethics -- BioXPhi -- Summit | Hosted at the Institute for Biomedical Ethics | University of Basel - JUNE 25-27, 2025. Co-sponsored @NUS_CBmE @ethicsinthenews
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Basel-Oxford-NUS BioXPhi Summit 2025 | Institute for Biomedical Ethics | University of Basel
Institute for Biomedical Ethics
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Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes @petersjostedth.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
exeter.ac.uk/study/online/courses/msc-psychedelics/ The world’s first* master’s degree in Psychedelics: Mind, Medicine, and Culture is now open for enrolment. Join the wonderful group at Exeter for a phantastic online course that covers psychedelia via science, philosophy, and much more.
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Tehseen Noorani @tehseennoorani.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Useful analysis & examples complicating the polarised discourse that has given rise to ‘pill-shaming’ around psych meds
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Dr Paul Liknaitzky @pliknaitzky.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
We’re launching the Monash Psychedelic Education Program in 2025! Registrations are NOW OPEN for undergraduate and postgraduate education in psychedelic science and therapies! Options for EVERYONE, ANYWHERE. Clinical training coming in 2026! Visit: www.monash.edu/psychedelic-education
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Tehseen Noorani @tehseennoorani.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Community Strategising about Psychedelic Therapy in Aotearoa is an 18-month, philanthropically-funded project to cultivate relationships within and between communities who have a stake in the roll-out of psychedelic therapies in Aotearoa New Zealand.
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