Eduardo Schenberg, PhD
@eeschenberg.bsky.social
Neuroscience and Science Diplomacy
Psychedelic sciences critical thinking
Associate Researcher at ULisbon 🇵🇹 Affiliated Researcher at Petrie-Flom Center, Harvard U. 🇺🇸
Honorary Researcher at LAB lab, UCL 🇬🇧
www.eduardoschenberg.com
Psychedelic sciences critical thinking
Associate Researcher at ULisbon 🇵🇹 Affiliated Researcher at Petrie-Flom Center, Harvard U. 🇺🇸
Honorary Researcher at LAB lab, UCL 🇬🇧
www.eduardoschenberg.com
Pinned
Developing evidence-based psychedelic treatments demands more than current RCT-based drug approval norms 🧪🧠📈
In this invited review I elucidate why and point a new path forward: #EvidentialPluralism with utmost care to avoid the #ExtrapolationFallacy
bpspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
In this invited review I elucidate why and point a new path forward: #EvidentialPluralism with utmost care to avoid the #ExtrapolationFallacy
bpspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
The current arms race smells like extinction spirit
December 13, 2025 at 9:34 PM
The current arms race smells like extinction spirit
I had this weird dream that people were asking each other for their new year wish, and when I said world peace, everyone went like nahhh that's unattainable, you gotta wish something realistic!
Then I woke up in a bad mood, but still wishing world peace...
Then I woke up in a bad mood, but still wishing world peace...
December 12, 2025 at 4:34 PM
I had this weird dream that people were asking each other for their new year wish, and when I said world peace, everyone went like nahhh that's unattainable, you gotta wish something realistic!
Then I woke up in a bad mood, but still wishing world peace...
Then I woke up in a bad mood, but still wishing world peace...
petrieflom.law.harvard.edu/2025/12/05/r... Out today our article at The Bill of Health about psychedelic evidence and the launch of the Independent Psychedelic Evidence Assessment Working Group: www.ipeawg.org
Rethinking Evidence for Psychedelics in Medicine - Petrie-Flom Center
According to popular accounts, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s (DEA) scheduling of LSD and other psychedelics in 1968 shut down promising research for decades.
petrieflom.law.harvard.edu
December 8, 2025 at 4:20 PM
petrieflom.law.harvard.edu/2025/12/05/r... Out today our article at The Bill of Health about psychedelic evidence and the launch of the Independent Psychedelic Evidence Assessment Working Group: www.ipeawg.org
Proud to launch an international multidisciplinary project to look deeper into causality and evidence assessments regarding uses of psychedelics in medicine www.ipeawg.org
🧪 🧠📈 #philsci
🧪 🧠📈 #philsci
IPEA-WG – Independent Psychedelic Evidence Assessment Working Group | Discover Psychedelic Insights Today
Explore evidence-based policies on psychedelics and mental health, featuring scientific research, expert insights, and multidisciplinary perspectives from IPEA-WG.
www.ipeawg.org
December 6, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Proud to launch an international multidisciplinary project to look deeper into causality and evidence assessments regarding uses of psychedelics in medicine www.ipeawg.org
🧪 🧠📈 #philsci
🧪 🧠📈 #philsci
Mostly to authors of... RCTs 🧐
Maybe that's why they keep calling it the GOLD 🪙 standard!
bmjopen.bmj.com/content/15/1...
Maybe that's why they keep calling it the GOLD 🪙 standard!
bmjopen.bmj.com/content/15/1...
Undisclosed financial conflicts of interest among physician-authors in leading US psychiatry journals: a cross-sectional study
Objective To assess the prevalence and magnitude of undisclosed financial conflicts of interest (COIs) among physician-authors in high-impact US-based psychiatry journals.
Design Cross-sectional stud...
bmjopen.bmj.com
December 1, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Mostly to authors of... RCTs 🧐
Maybe that's why they keep calling it the GOLD 🪙 standard!
bmjopen.bmj.com/content/15/1...
Maybe that's why they keep calling it the GOLD 🪙 standard!
bmjopen.bmj.com/content/15/1...
Reposted by Eduardo Schenberg, PhD
Psychedelics disrupt the link between vascular and neuronal activity, which complicates interpretations of fMRI data. Adopting a more holistic view of what constitutes brain activity may help.
By @callimcflurry.bsky.social
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/psychedelics...
By @callimcflurry.bsky.social
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/psychedelics...
Psychedelics muddy fMRI results: Q&A with Adam Bauer and Jonah Padawer-Curry
The drugs disrupt the link between vascular and neuronal activity, which complicates interpretations of fMRI data. Adopting a more holistic view of what constitutes brain activity may help…
www.thetransmitter.org
October 29, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Psychedelics disrupt the link between vascular and neuronal activity, which complicates interpretations of fMRI data. Adopting a more holistic view of what constitutes brain activity may help.
By @callimcflurry.bsky.social
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/psychedelics...
By @callimcflurry.bsky.social
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/psychedelics...
And the media calling 🌀 Melissa the storm "of the century"... They really don't get it, do they?!?
October 28, 2025 at 7:51 PM
And the media calling 🌀 Melissa the storm "of the century"... They really don't get it, do they?!?
Wow really a time travel journal! #academicsky
October 17, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Wow really a time travel journal! #academicsky
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....
journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....
Psychedelic-assisted therapy as a complex intervention: implications for clinical trial design
journals.sagepub.com
October 8, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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....
journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....
⚠️ Unnerving and unsettling @nytimes.com investigation on the latest Pharma Corporate Capture scandal: IRBs 🇺🇸
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/04/h...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/04/h...
How Private Equity Oversees the Ethics of Drug Research
www.nytimes.com
October 4, 2025 at 7:11 PM
⚠️ Unnerving and unsettling @nytimes.com investigation on the latest Pharma Corporate Capture scandal: IRBs 🇺🇸
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/04/h...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/04/h...
Reposted by Eduardo Schenberg, PhD
@pessoabrain.bsky.social talks to @wiringthebrain.bsky.social, @aliyarumana.bsky.social and Peter Ulric Tse about the need for neuroscience’s traditional mechanistic framework to give way to a richer understanding of how brains generate behavior.
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/the-big-pict...
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/the-big-pict...
Beyond Newtonian causation in neuroscience
The traditional mechanistic framework must give way to a richer understanding of how brains actually generate behavior over time.
www.thetransmitter.org
September 22, 2025 at 4:28 PM
@pessoabrain.bsky.social talks to @wiringthebrain.bsky.social, @aliyarumana.bsky.social and Peter Ulric Tse about the need for neuroscience’s traditional mechanistic framework to give way to a richer understanding of how brains generate behavior.
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/the-big-pict...
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/the-big-pict...
Feeling exausted with Sapiens' insistence on war against itself
September 22, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Feeling exausted with Sapiens' insistence on war against itself
Reposted by Eduardo Schenberg, PhD
Academics are under unrelenting pressure to accept the narrative of the inevitability of #generativeAI & to embrace it in teaching & learning. We resist - because it is ecologically destructive, ethically corrupt, & because it undermines the thinking abilities that make us both human & intelligent.
Opinion: We are lecturers in Trinity College Dublin. It is our responsibility to resist AI
Opinion: We are lecturers in Trinity College Dublin. It is our responsibility to resist AI
Even if all the known issues were magically resolved, we would still not want our students to use GenAI
www.irishtimes.com
September 4, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Academics are under unrelenting pressure to accept the narrative of the inevitability of #generativeAI & to embrace it in teaching & learning. We resist - because it is ecologically destructive, ethically corrupt, & because it undermines the thinking abilities that make us both human & intelligent.
Billionaires
Could be leading towards an era of unprecedented prosperity, equanimity and peace
Instead, they're dragging us through wars, towards rupturing all planetary boundaries and making human life on earth much harder, for centuries
Massive failure
Could be leading towards an era of unprecedented prosperity, equanimity and peace
Instead, they're dragging us through wars, towards rupturing all planetary boundaries and making human life on earth much harder, for centuries
Massive failure
August 28, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Billionaires
Could be leading towards an era of unprecedented prosperity, equanimity and peace
Instead, they're dragging us through wars, towards rupturing all planetary boundaries and making human life on earth much harder, for centuries
Massive failure
Could be leading towards an era of unprecedented prosperity, equanimity and peace
Instead, they're dragging us through wars, towards rupturing all planetary boundaries and making human life on earth much harder, for centuries
Massive failure
No @theguardian.com. Wildfires takes hundreds of millions of lives.
But if only humans count, you can understand why no more serious measures are taken about it...
But if only humans count, you can understand why no more serious measures are taken about it...
August 14, 2025 at 1:34 PM
No @theguardian.com. Wildfires takes hundreds of millions of lives.
But if only humans count, you can understand why no more serious measures are taken about it...
But if only humans count, you can understand why no more serious measures are taken about it...
Into the Void (2009 Remaster)
Black Sabbath · Master of Reality · Song · 1971
open.spotify.com
August 13, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Humanity seems to be clearly loosing it. Wildfires all around and instead of global diplomatic pact and economic measures for environment and planetary cooperation, it's old style arms race, wars and genocide. Desperating...
August 12, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Humanity seems to be clearly loosing it. Wildfires all around and instead of global diplomatic pact and economic measures for environment and planetary cooperation, it's old style arms race, wars and genocide. Desperating...
Reposted by Eduardo Schenberg, PhD
New article led by Tara McAllister & co-authored by Lelani Walker, @niiyokamigaabaw.bsky.social, myself, Bradley Moggridge, Serena Naepi, Brittany Kamai and @napaaqtuk.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Decolonize scientific institutions, don’t just diversify them
Indigenous scholars set out eight steps to stop marginalization in academia and to enable a shared Indigenous agenda in science.
www.nature.com
August 8, 2025 at 1:53 PM
New article led by Tara McAllister & co-authored by Lelani Walker, @niiyokamigaabaw.bsky.social, myself, Bradley Moggridge, Serena Naepi, Brittany Kamai and @napaaqtuk.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Journal of 'Global' Ethics
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Unsurprisingly, reviewers dismissed GN and gs concepts, and considered a 100% gs paper as "unpublishable"
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July 29, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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Unsurprisingly, reviewers dismissed GN and gs concepts, and considered a 100% gs paper as "unpublishable"
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Global North 22 x 6 global south
Unsurprisingly, reviewers dismissed GN and gs concepts, and considered a 100% gs paper as "unpublishable"
#academicsky
Reposted by Eduardo Schenberg, PhD
Statement by the Director-General of @unesco.org, @aazoulay.bsky.social, following the decision of the United States to withdraw from the Organization.
Read more: unes.co/ksovsg
Read more: unes.co/ksovsg
July 22, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Statement by the Director-General of @unesco.org, @aazoulay.bsky.social, following the decision of the United States to withdraw from the Organization.
Read more: unes.co/ksovsg
Read more: unes.co/ksovsg
Reposted by Eduardo Schenberg, PhD
Free download available for all books of the Cambridge Elements Philosophy of Biology Series between July 20th-25th. They have amazing stuff. How to Study Animal Minds by @kristinandrews.bsky.social and Slime Mould and Philosophy by @philosobio.bsky.social my top recommendations.
shorturl.at/M5aQx
shorturl.at/M5aQx
Content listing
Welcome to Cambridge Core
shorturl.at
July 21, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Free download available for all books of the Cambridge Elements Philosophy of Biology Series between July 20th-25th. They have amazing stuff. How to Study Animal Minds by @kristinandrews.bsky.social and Slime Mould and Philosophy by @philosobio.bsky.social my top recommendations.
shorturl.at/M5aQx
shorturl.at/M5aQx
Psychedelics are serotonergic drugs...
Right?!?
Well, think again and embrace the complexity revealed by @zenbrainest.bsky.social et al testing 41 compounds in 318 receptors: "psychedelics have potent and efficacious actions at nearly every serotonin, dopamine, and adrenergic receptor."
Right?!?
Well, think again and embrace the complexity revealed by @zenbrainest.bsky.social et al testing 41 compounds in 318 receptors: "psychedelics have potent and efficacious actions at nearly every serotonin, dopamine, and adrenergic receptor."
July 21, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Psychedelics are serotonergic drugs...
Right?!?
Well, think again and embrace the complexity revealed by @zenbrainest.bsky.social et al testing 41 compounds in 318 receptors: "psychedelics have potent and efficacious actions at nearly every serotonin, dopamine, and adrenergic receptor."
Right?!?
Well, think again and embrace the complexity revealed by @zenbrainest.bsky.social et al testing 41 compounds in 318 receptors: "psychedelics have potent and efficacious actions at nearly every serotonin, dopamine, and adrenergic receptor."