UC Berkeley Center for the Science of Pscyhedelics
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Exploring the potential of psychedelics for the betterment of all. @UC Berkeley
The Microdose talked to aphantasia researcher and neuroscientist at the University of New South Wales, Joel Pearson, about the experience of aphantasia, and the potential consequences if psychedelics could actually switch on a film reel in the mind. themicrodose.substack.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:28 PM
The Microdose talked to aphantasia researcher and neuroscientist at the University of New South Wales, Joel Pearson, about the experience of aphantasia, and the potential consequences if psychedelics could actually switch on a film reel in the mind. themicrodose.substack.com
🚨CALLING ALL JOURNALISTS 🚨 Ten $10,000 reporting grants will be awarded to journalists reporting in-depth print and audio stories on the science, policy, business and culture of this new era of psychedelics.
fellowships.journalism.berkeley.edu/bcsp/
fellowships.journalism.berkeley.edu/bcsp/
November 22, 2025 at 9:01 PM
🚨CALLING ALL JOURNALISTS 🚨 Ten $10,000 reporting grants will be awarded to journalists reporting in-depth print and audio stories on the science, policy, business and culture of this new era of psychedelics.
fellowships.journalism.berkeley.edu/bcsp/
fellowships.journalism.berkeley.edu/bcsp/
Episode 8 of the Altered States Podcast is out now! A new study explores whether psilocybin might help young adults with severe anorexia. Listen here: psychedelics.berkeley.edu/season-2-epi...
November 21, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Episode 8 of the Altered States Podcast is out now! A new study explores whether psilocybin might help young adults with severe anorexia. Listen here: psychedelics.berkeley.edu/season-2-epi...
@its-nice-that.bsky.social covered @elasticmag.bsky.social’s first issue about dying.
Elastic is a print magazine of psychedelic art and literature, and @hbrenhouse.bsky.social , the founder/editor is a fellow of our Psychedelics in Society and Culture program.
Elastic is a print magazine of psychedelic art and literature, and @hbrenhouse.bsky.social , the founder/editor is a fellow of our Psychedelics in Society and Culture program.
Elastic’s first issue challenges and reinvents psychedelic aesthetics
This magazine delves deep into the phantasmagoria of dying – and along with it, creates meaningful collisions with the narrowness of psychedelic art.
www.itsnicethat.com
November 18, 2025 at 8:26 PM
@its-nice-that.bsky.social covered @elasticmag.bsky.social’s first issue about dying.
Elastic is a print magazine of psychedelic art and literature, and @hbrenhouse.bsky.social , the founder/editor is a fellow of our Psychedelics in Society and Culture program.
Elastic is a print magazine of psychedelic art and literature, and @hbrenhouse.bsky.social , the founder/editor is a fellow of our Psychedelics in Society and Culture program.
Our friends at the UC Berkeley Center for Law & Technology are hosting an event on the legal ramifications of rescheduling psychedelics on Monday, November 17. Anyone is welcome to register🎉 @ucberkeleylaw.bsky.social
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www.law.berkeley.edu/research/bcl...
After Schedule I: Federal Psychedelic Rescheduling and the Impact on State Law
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November 14, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Our friends at the UC Berkeley Center for Law & Technology are hosting an event on the legal ramifications of rescheduling psychedelics on Monday, November 17. Anyone is welcome to register🎉 @ucberkeleylaw.bsky.social
www.law.berkeley.edu/research/bcl...
www.law.berkeley.edu/research/bcl...
Reporter Adreanna Rodriguez gets invited to Texas to harvest peyote, a psychoactive cactus often caught in the crosshairs of the so-called psychedelic Renaissance. Listen to the full episode here:
psychedelics.berkeley.edu/season-2-epi...
psychedelics.berkeley.edu/season-2-epi...
November 13, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Reporter Adreanna Rodriguez gets invited to Texas to harvest peyote, a psychoactive cactus often caught in the crosshairs of the so-called psychedelic Renaissance. Listen to the full episode here:
psychedelics.berkeley.edu/season-2-epi...
psychedelics.berkeley.edu/season-2-epi...
The Microdose spoke with anthropologist Justine Quijada about animism, a broad category of beliefs and practices that assumes the “animation of all nature." Read the full Q&A in this week's newsletter. 🌿
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November 12, 2025 at 6:18 PM
The Microdose spoke with anthropologist Justine Quijada about animism, a broad category of beliefs and practices that assumes the “animation of all nature." Read the full Q&A in this week's newsletter. 🌿
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🎙️ON AIR:
We're talking to @scipsychedelics.bsky.social's Michael Silver and Marlena Robbins, and former chief scientific officer of Lykos Therapeutics, Berra Yazar-Klosinski, about the future of psychedelic research and therapy.
❓Have you tried or want to try psychedelic therapy?
📻 Listen:
We're talking to @scipsychedelics.bsky.social's Michael Silver and Marlena Robbins, and former chief scientific officer of Lykos Therapeutics, Berra Yazar-Klosinski, about the future of psychedelic research and therapy.
❓Have you tried or want to try psychedelic therapy?
📻 Listen:
What RFK Jr.’s Support for Psychedelic Therapy Means for Its Future | KQED
Airdate: Thursday, November 5 at 9 AM This summer, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. said he’d like to see psychedelic therapies for depression, trauma and other…
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November 6, 2025 at 5:00 PM
🎙️ON AIR:
We're talking to @scipsychedelics.bsky.social's Michael Silver and Marlena Robbins, and former chief scientific officer of Lykos Therapeutics, Berra Yazar-Klosinski, about the future of psychedelic research and therapy.
❓Have you tried or want to try psychedelic therapy?
📻 Listen:
We're talking to @scipsychedelics.bsky.social's Michael Silver and Marlena Robbins, and former chief scientific officer of Lykos Therapeutics, Berra Yazar-Klosinski, about the future of psychedelic research and therapy.
❓Have you tried or want to try psychedelic therapy?
📻 Listen:
“These medicines have their own consciousness” - Marlena Robbins on the indigenous perspective of psychedelics.
Happening now on @kqedforum.bsky.social. BCSP’s Michael Silver and Marlena Robbins discuss research on psychedelics as potential treatments for mental health disorders with @alexis-madrigal.bsky.social rigal.bsky.social. Listen at www.kqed.org/forum
November 6, 2025 at 5:21 PM
“These medicines have their own consciousness” - Marlena Robbins on the indigenous perspective of psychedelics.
“There’s a lot of catching up to do” - Michael Silver on the gap in psychedelic research in the last several decades.
Happening now on @kqedforum.bsky.social. BCSP’s Michael Silver and Marlena Robbins discuss research on psychedelics as potential treatments for mental health disorders with @alexis-madrigal.bsky.social rigal.bsky.social. Listen at www.kqed.org/forum
November 6, 2025 at 5:17 PM
“There’s a lot of catching up to do” - Michael Silver on the gap in psychedelic research in the last several decades.
Happening now on @kqedforum.bsky.social. BCSP’s Michael Silver and Marlena Robbins discuss research on psychedelics as potential treatments for mental health disorders with @alexis-madrigal.bsky.social rigal.bsky.social. Listen at www.kqed.org/forum
November 6, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Happening now on @kqedforum.bsky.social. BCSP’s Michael Silver and Marlena Robbins discuss research on psychedelics as potential treatments for mental health disorders with @alexis-madrigal.bsky.social rigal.bsky.social. Listen at www.kqed.org/forum
Episode 7 of the Altered States Podcast is up now! What can twitching mice reveal about the human brain? Find the full episode here: psychedelics.berkeley.edu/season-2-epi...
November 5, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Episode 7 of the Altered States Podcast is up now! What can twitching mice reveal about the human brain? Find the full episode here: psychedelics.berkeley.edu/season-2-epi...
🎥✨ DEADLINE EXTENDED! Apply for The Mycoskie–UC Berkeley Psychedelic Documentary Fellowship by November 7th at 11:59pm PT.
fellowships.journalism.berkeley.edu/mycoskie/app...
fellowships.journalism.berkeley.edu/mycoskie/app...
October 30, 2025 at 4:19 AM
🎥✨ DEADLINE EXTENDED! Apply for The Mycoskie–UC Berkeley Psychedelic Documentary Fellowship by November 7th at 11:59pm PT.
fellowships.journalism.berkeley.edu/mycoskie/app...
fellowships.journalism.berkeley.edu/mycoskie/app...
🎥 ONE WEEK LEFT!
The Mycoskie–UC Berkeley Psychedelic Documentary Fellowship supports filmmakers exploring the evolving world of psychedelics — from science and policy to culture and consciousness. Grants range from $5-20K.
Deadline: Oct. 30
👉 fellowships.journalism.berkeley.edu/mycoskie/
The Mycoskie–UC Berkeley Psychedelic Documentary Fellowship supports filmmakers exploring the evolving world of psychedelics — from science and policy to culture and consciousness. Grants range from $5-20K.
Deadline: Oct. 30
👉 fellowships.journalism.berkeley.edu/mycoskie/
October 23, 2025 at 10:16 PM
🎥 ONE WEEK LEFT!
The Mycoskie–UC Berkeley Psychedelic Documentary Fellowship supports filmmakers exploring the evolving world of psychedelics — from science and policy to culture and consciousness. Grants range from $5-20K.
Deadline: Oct. 30
👉 fellowships.journalism.berkeley.edu/mycoskie/
The Mycoskie–UC Berkeley Psychedelic Documentary Fellowship supports filmmakers exploring the evolving world of psychedelics — from science and policy to culture and consciousness. Grants range from $5-20K.
Deadline: Oct. 30
👉 fellowships.journalism.berkeley.edu/mycoskie/
Episode 5 of the Altered States Podcast is up now! How did a psychedelic religion founded to promote peace end up spreading right-wing political propaganda?
Listen here: psychedelics.berkeley.edu/season-2-epi...
Listen here: psychedelics.berkeley.edu/season-2-epi...
October 22, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Episode 5 of the Altered States Podcast is up now! How did a psychedelic religion founded to promote peace end up spreading right-wing political propaganda?
Listen here: psychedelics.berkeley.edu/season-2-epi...
Listen here: psychedelics.berkeley.edu/season-2-epi...
Mónica Álvarez Franco and Tatiana García recently returned from their first film shoot in the mountain communities outside Oaxaca where they working on a documentary called “Voices from the Earth.”
Read the full Q&A in today's Microdose Newsletter
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October 20, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Mónica Álvarez Franco and Tatiana García recently returned from their first film shoot in the mountain communities outside Oaxaca where they working on a documentary called “Voices from the Earth.”
Read the full Q&A in today's Microdose Newsletter
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Read the full Q&A in today's Microdose Newsletter
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Our podcast, Altered States, won a prestigious Signal award!
Take a listen to Season 2 out now!
Take a listen to Season 2 out now!
Very pleased to announce that our psychedelic science podcast, Altered States, has won a silver Signal award in the science category. @scipsychedelics.bsky.social @prx.org
www.signalaward.com/winners/#202...
www.signalaward.com/winners/#202...
October 16, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Our podcast, Altered States, won a prestigious Signal award!
Take a listen to Season 2 out now!
Take a listen to Season 2 out now!
🚨 Calling documentary filmmakers! 🚨
The Mycoskie–UC Berkeley Psychedelic Doc Fellowship is now accepting applications.
Awards ranging from $5k to $20k. Deadline: Oct 30
Apply here → fellowships.journalism.berkeley.edu/mycoskie/
The Mycoskie–UC Berkeley Psychedelic Doc Fellowship is now accepting applications.
Awards ranging from $5k to $20k. Deadline: Oct 30
Apply here → fellowships.journalism.berkeley.edu/mycoskie/
Mycoskie – UC Berkeley Psychedelic Documentary Fellowship.
fellowships.journalism.berkeley.edu
August 26, 2025 at 5:56 PM
🚨 Calling documentary filmmakers! 🚨
The Mycoskie–UC Berkeley Psychedelic Doc Fellowship is now accepting applications.
Awards ranging from $5k to $20k. Deadline: Oct 30
Apply here → fellowships.journalism.berkeley.edu/mycoskie/
The Mycoskie–UC Berkeley Psychedelic Doc Fellowship is now accepting applications.
Awards ranging from $5k to $20k. Deadline: Oct 30
Apply here → fellowships.journalism.berkeley.edu/mycoskie/
Will you be at hashtag#PS2025? Make sure to check out these three panels facilitated by core members of the BCSP team.
You can also read more about each session on the BCSP website! lnkd.in/ewt4gA4m
You can also read more about each session on the BCSP website! lnkd.in/ewt4gA4m
May 27, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Will you be at hashtag#PS2025? Make sure to check out these three panels facilitated by core members of the BCSP team.
You can also read more about each session on the BCSP website! lnkd.in/ewt4gA4m
You can also read more about each session on the BCSP website! lnkd.in/ewt4gA4m
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My latest: This Is Your Priest on Drugs | The New Yorker www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
This Is Your Priest on Drugs
Dozens of religious leaders experienced magic mushrooms in a university study. Many are now evangelists for psychedelics.
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May 19, 2025 at 6:03 PM
My latest: This Is Your Priest on Drugs | The New Yorker www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
We're growing! The BCSP is hiring an Executive Director of Communications to shape our voice and lead communications efforts. If you're a visionary communicator ready to make a difference, we want to hear from you! #CommunicationsJobs #StrategicComms #PsychedelicScience
May 20, 2025 at 7:12 PM
We're growing! The BCSP is hiring an Executive Director of Communications to shape our voice and lead communications efforts. If you're a visionary communicator ready to make a difference, we want to hear from you! #CommunicationsJobs #StrategicComms #PsychedelicScience
Gül Dölan, a senior science advisor at the BCSP, was recently featured in an episode of NPR's All Things Considered podcast 🎧 The episode discusses an effort to begin clinical trials for Ibogaine, a psychoactive drug that is said to treat PTSD. www.npr.org/2025/05/07/n...
May 14, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Gül Dölan, a senior science advisor at the BCSP, was recently featured in an episode of NPR's All Things Considered podcast 🎧 The episode discusses an effort to begin clinical trials for Ibogaine, a psychoactive drug that is said to treat PTSD. www.npr.org/2025/05/07/n...
Some sufferers of cluster headaches are turning to psilocybin to treat their debilitating pain — with promising results. Check out this piece published in
@theguardian.com
by Psychedelic Journalism Ferriss Fellow Sammie Seamon
www.theguardian.com/science/ng-i...
@theguardian.com
by Psychedelic Journalism Ferriss Fellow Sammie Seamon
www.theguardian.com/science/ng-i...
Cluster headaches are ‘the most painful condition on the planet’. Sufferers are going to extreme – and secretive – measures for relief
The condition is more excruciating than childbirth or gunshot wounds, but little understood. An online community of ‘clusterheads’ are self-experimenting with psilocybin – with promising results
www.theguardian.com
April 24, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Some sufferers of cluster headaches are turning to psilocybin to treat their debilitating pain — with promising results. Check out this piece published in
@theguardian.com
by Psychedelic Journalism Ferriss Fellow Sammie Seamon
www.theguardian.com/science/ng-i...
@theguardian.com
by Psychedelic Journalism Ferriss Fellow Sammie Seamon
www.theguardian.com/science/ng-i...
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Some with cluster headaches are self treating with psilocybin and scientists are taking note. Don't miss this longform story from @berkeleyjournalism.bsky.social x @scipsychedelics.bsky.social Psychedelic Journalism Ferriss Fellow Sammie Seamon www.theguardian.com/science/ng-i...
Cluster headaches are ‘the most painful condition on the planet’. Sufferers are going to extreme – and secretive – measures for relief
The condition is more excruciating than childbirth or gunshot wounds, but little understood. An online community of ‘clusterheads’ are self-experimenting with psilocybin – with promising results
www.theguardian.com
April 23, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Some with cluster headaches are self treating with psilocybin and scientists are taking note. Don't miss this longform story from @berkeleyjournalism.bsky.social x @scipsychedelics.bsky.social Psychedelic Journalism Ferriss Fellow Sammie Seamon www.theguardian.com/science/ng-i...
Meet the 2025 recipients of the Mycoskie-UC Berkeley Social Media Fellowship! These fellows will play an important role in expanding public discourse on psychedelic science, policy developments, business, and culture.
lnkd.in/gs6nAgww
lnkd.in/gs6nAgww
April 23, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Meet the 2025 recipients of the Mycoskie-UC Berkeley Social Media Fellowship! These fellows will play an important role in expanding public discourse on psychedelic science, policy developments, business, and culture.
lnkd.in/gs6nAgww
lnkd.in/gs6nAgww