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Josh Woolley MD/PhD @trpr-ucsf.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I’m especially proud of our new @jamapsychiatry.com Viewpoint. The psychedelic field seems to have largely given up on masking before really trying. We think that’s a mistake. We call for trying harder and offer concrete ideas for how to do it: UMBRAA. @ucsfpsych.bsky.social 1/36

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christine liu / two photon art @christineliu.art · 10/07/2026

I joined the Sohal lab with one major hypothesis: psychedelic drugs can be powerful psychiatric treatments, depending on underlying neurobiology. Indeed, psilocybin restored cognitive flexibility in one circuit model of dysfunction, but not another! Then, we had to find out how! 🧠🍄🧪

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Josh Woolley MD/PhD @trpr-ucsf.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

The UCSF/VA Translational Psychedelic Research Program seeks postdoctoral fellows to advance rigorous psychedelic-therapy trials investigating neural, cognitive, & behavioral mechanisms in depression, neurodegenerative & eating disorders, chronic pain, and Veterans. 2 years guaranteed, 3rd possible.

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D. Parker Kelley, PhD @sequencemyneuro.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

🚨Publication alert! 🚨 Why does stress drive psychopathology & transdiagnostic disease? We present the Allostatic Triage Model of Psychopathology (ATP Model), which explains stress-induced transdiagnostic disease pathogenesis through a bioenergetic lens. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Josh Woolley MD/PhD @trpr-ucsf.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

Out: vaccines Hot: virus and bacterial micro dosing

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Josh Woolley MD/PhD @trpr-ucsf.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Found this guy on my front porch. His beady eye freaks me out.

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Josh Woolley MD/PhD @trpr-ucsf.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

New CDC guidelines say correlation is causation.

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Josh Woolley MD/PhD @trpr-ucsf.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

TrPR recently came together for a half-day retreat. We began with a living timeline: everyone arranged themselves by order of joining, from newest to oldest. I jogged along the line, camera in hand, past the smiling faces on the sunlit terrace of the Pritzker Building—and ended where it all began

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Josh Woolley MD/PhD @trpr-ucsf.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Where else can you get a cup of joe for a $1? Serving those who served! #sfva

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Josh Woolley MD/PhD @trpr-ucsf.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Just spoke with CNN about Casey Means, psilocybin, and the future of psychedelic therapy. These compounds hold real promise—but we need science, structure, and safeguards. urldefense.com/v3/__https:/... #psychedelics #psilocybin #mentalhealth #clinicaltrials

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CNN News Central - Dr. Josh Woolley

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Kai Caspar @nomascus.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Due to the whites of the eye, humans have a uniquely communicative gaze. Other primates have dark eyes, hiding their gaze from conspecifics. We cooperate, they compete. Common knowledge – right? Yes, but it’s incorrect, as we argue in our new paper 🧵🧪1/11 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Human eye on top, squirrel monkey eye below. Little of the peri-iridal tissues are exposed in the squirrel monkey, which is now understood to derive from simply scaling constraints and human adaptations to horizontal scanning. There is no evidence for social cognition being tied to such differences in eye appearances.

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Josh Woolley MD/PhD @trpr-ucsf.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

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CNN News Central - Dr. Josh Woolley

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Jason Luoma, Ph.D. @jasonluoma.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

New research on physical touch in psychedelic therapy reveals fascinating tensions in the field - a thread #psychedelicscience

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Josh Woolley MD/PhD @trpr-ucsf.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

Are these psilocybe? Mainstreaming!

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Stephanie Haft PhD @stephaniehaftphd.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Just published: 7 years of routine outcomes monitoring from UC Berkeley Psych Clinic 📊 Clients from minoritized groups started with more severe symptoms, but improved just as much as majority clients. Culturally sensitive therapy works! rdcu.be/ei49c

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Psychotherapy is not just for Rich White People: Outcomes for Clients from Minoritized Backgrounds and in a Community Training Clinic

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Eric C. Greene @dnacurtain.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

I am a professor at Columbia University. All of the student NIH training grants have been canceled and now there are reports that ALL funding will be frozen. Why are Universities not banding together and speaking out publicly and forcibly about governmental attacks on biomedical research?

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Lisa Jarvis @lisamjarvis.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Noticeably silent amid the upheaval at HHS? Big pharma. Every new drug has NIH somewhere in its DNA--and NIH funding supports the training of their workforce. Now they're finding out FDA isn't safe, either. Wrote about how keeping quiet isn't working My latest @opinion.bloomberg.com (gift link):

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Big Pharma Needs to Get Off the Sidelines

The industry can’t continue to sit idly by while Robert F. Kennedy Jr. guts the nation’s public health agencies.

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Howard Liu, MD, MBA @drhowardliu.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

“She was required, under a new return-to-office policy, to conduct virtual psychotherapy with her patients from one of 13 cubicles in a large open office space, the kind of setup used for call centers.” www.nytimes.com/2025/03/22/u... via @NYTimes

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Inside the Turmoil at the V.A. Mental Health System Under Trump (Gift Article)

A chaotic restructuring ordered threatens to degrade services for veterans of wars in Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan.

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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

HEY DORKS IN AMERICA!! If we don’t get into the streets and fight this, there will be no science left here. We don’t have time for luke warm, diplomatic takes and accusations of “taking this clown too seriously.” Put your big girl pants on and LFG.

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Paola Cubillos @paolacubillosr.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

lol I did this yesterdays and my local barista loved it ❤️

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Brian Pace @brianpace.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

@msmacb.bsky.social on NYT's cringey smear of @psymposia.bsky.social: “When vague accusations of ‘DEI’ and ‘wokeness’ are already being used to gut government programs, it might not be a bad time to blame the FDA’s decision on ‘a small band of anticapitalist activists.’” slate.com/technology/2...

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This NYT Story Blasting Leftists Is Wildly Misleading and Dangerous. Why Did They Publish It?

Painting the FDA as easily corruptible may serve the MAHA agenda of eliminating oversight that keeps us all safe.

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California Dreamin’… 😎 @jerasikehorn.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Gotta love Janet! ❤️ She is a badass, isn’t she?! 🤚 Pass. It. On. ✨

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Josh Woolley MD/PhD @trpr-ucsf.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Billionaire’s breakfast? None of the dystopian novels prepared me for an egg based economy

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 26/02/2025

Musk is slandering the Federal career workforce, lying & saying they don't exist. 30% of the Federal workforce are American Veterans. 15% are disabled Veterans. 80% of the Federal workforce lives outside of the DC area. These are your neighbors, working for you. ourpublicservice.org/fed-figures/...

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Beyond the Capital: The Federal Workforce Outside the D.C. Area

A nonprofit, nonpartisan organization working towards effective government for the American people.

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Josh Woolley MD/PhD @trpr-ucsf.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

We’ve launched a new clinical trial exploring the efficacy of psilocybin therapy for anorexia nervosa in young adults (age 18 to 25)! Learn more at tiny.ucsf.edu/HTkr9L or take our pre-screen survey to see if you’re a good fit tiny.ucsf.edu/gmvCA3.

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UCSF Anorexia Trial: Psilocybin for Anorexia in Young Adults

This Anorexia and Psilocybin study at UCSF is now recruiting people ages 18-25.

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Sopranos bustout episode

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Canuckstan 🇨🇦 @jonchevreau.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

#USpol DOGE can’t find any Fraud

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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

The DOGE firings have nothing to do with “efficiency” or “cutting waste.” They’re a direct push to weaken federal agencies perceived as liberal. This was evident from the start, and now the data confirms it: targeted agencies overwhelmingly those seen as more left-leaning. 🧵⬇️

Scatterplot titled “Empirical Evidence of Ideological Targeting in Federal Layoffs: Agencies seen as liberal are significantly more likely to face DOGE layoffs.”
• The x-axis represents Perceived Ideological Leaning of federal agencies, ranging from -2 (Most Liberal) to +2 (Most Conservative), based on survey responses from over 1,500 federal executives.
• The y-axis shows Agency Size (Number of Staff) on a logarithmic scale from 1,000 to 1,000,000.

Each point represents a federal agency:
• Red dots indicate agencies that experienced DOGE layoffs.
• Gray dots indicate agencies with no layoffs.

Key Observations:
• Liberal-leaning agencies (left side of the plot) are disproportionately represented among red dots, indicating higher layoff rates.
• Notable targeted agencies include:
• HHS (Health & Human Services)
• EPA (Environmental Protection Agency)
• NIH (National Institutes of Health)
• CFPB (Consumer Financial Protection Bureau)
• Dept. of Education
• USAID (U.S. Agency for International Development)
• The National Nuclear Security Administration (DOE), despite its conservative leaning (+1 on the scale), is an exception among targeted agencies.
• A notable outlier: the Department of Veterans Affairs (moderately conservative) also faced layoffs despite its size.

Takeaway:

The figure visually demonstrates that DOGE layoffs disproportionately targeted liberal-leaning agencies, supporting claims of ideological bias. The pattern reveals that layoffs were not driven by agency size or budget alone but were strongly associated with perceived ideology.

Source: Richardson, Clinton, & Lewis (2018). Elite Perceptions of Agency Ideology and Workforce Skill. The Journal of Politics, 80(1).

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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Look how efficient DOGE is!!!

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Purpose @4purpose.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Employees should use ai to an answer this question as surely they will use ai to review the answers.

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Blue Eyes @eyeslikethesky.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

This is why…current OMB Dir & Project 2025 Founder Russell Vought said this:

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Call Me Maybe (She/Her) @sousleradar.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

HR@OPM.GOV

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Lizzie Ann @pinehurstrare.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Check GPT generated this for me what do you think?.

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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Ok scientists & those who love science 🧪: here is another exhortation. Call Congress TODAY about the freeze on NIH Council Meetings and Study Sections. Emphasize that this means NO new grants are being funded & labs will soon start to shut down and fire employees. Phone numbers are at: 5calls.org

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5 Calls

Spend 5 minutes. Make 5 calls. Make your voice heard.

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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

““This crisis — and I’m not exaggerating by calling it a crisis — has already consumed one funding cycle…But if this block to publishing in the register continues on much longer, it’s going to swallow two funding cycles, and that will put many labs out of business.” @labonnelab.bsky.social

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Allison Neitzel @alineitzelmd.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

"The very fact that I am having to publish this anonymously in a country that has the right to free speech written into our Constitution is an indictment of what is happening." www.bmj.com/content/388/...

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Anger, despair, and defiance from a voice within the US federal research system

People around the world are watching with disbelief as the new US government closes down its aid programme, withdraws from the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Paris agreement on climate change...

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