Caroline Ritchie
@nanonanu.bsky.social
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Semi-retired psychiatrist, full-time carer. 🏴 ADHD etc.
Love comedy, all kinds of music (percussion!), neuroscience, shoes, mobiles (dangly ones), alebrijes, Edinburgh Festivals, dancing, overdressing, stopping to smell the flowers.
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This ✨ Research Highlight ✨ discusses that, despite previous hopes that CBD might buffer cannabis harms in schizophrenia, a recent RCT found no protective effect, & even potential exacerbation
For those with schizophrenia, does cannabidiol make cannabis use safer?
Neuropsychopharmacology - For those with schizophrenia, does cannabidiol make cannabis use safer?
www.nature.com
What Thiel is saying about tax havens = what Altman is saying about copyright:
"I can't be rich unless you let me steal from you."
This is how Broligarchs differ from oligarchs of yore: the latter tried to hide their thievery; the Broligarchs trumpet their entitlement to steal as a natural right.
"I can't be rich unless you let me steal from you."
This is how Broligarchs differ from oligarchs of yore: the latter tried to hide their thievery; the Broligarchs trumpet their entitlement to steal as a natural right.
Jane Goodall, known for her pioneering work with chimpanzees, has passed away aged 91
go.nature.com/46K10ja
go.nature.com/46K10ja
Jane Goodall’s legacy: three ways she changed science
The primatologist challenged what it meant to be a scientist.
go.nature.com
The president just gathered the highest ranking officers in the military to tell them that he may order them to kill American citizens -- and that they better follow his orders. All in response to a series of crises that have no basis in reality.
I don't know how to yell any louder.
I don't know how to yell any louder.
Reposted by Caroline Ritchie
New research published in @science.org led by @danafarber.bsky.social’s Doug Wassarman and @kranzuschlab.bsky.social reveals new protein chemistry named deazaguanylation that controls activation of immunity.
Read more: bit.ly/3WeKsLb
Read more: bit.ly/3WeKsLb
Reposted by Caroline Ritchie
Out for a while but forgot to post it. Using pupil size as a proxy for arousal, we show that the inverted-U shaped arousal–performance curve (Yerkes-Dodson law) is not fixed, but can shift globally depending on neuromodulatory state (atomoxetine): arousal recalibration www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
PNAS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
www.pnas.org
Caroline Ritchie
@nanonanu.bsky.social
· Sep 23
Caroline Ritchie
@nanonanu.bsky.social
· Sep 20
Caroline Ritchie
@nanonanu.bsky.social
· Sep 16
Everyone, post anonymously. Wear masks. Use VPNs. Do whatever you need to do, including completely reinventing yourself online with new nicknames and so on. It's getting serious. You think ICE is going to stop at immigrants? We're next and they've as good as said it just now.
Caroline Ritchie
@nanonanu.bsky.social
· Sep 14