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/...
February 5, 2026 at 12:23 PM
Has the 🇺🇲 just lost the "non-psychedelic psychedelic" science throne to 🇨🇳 ? 🧪🧠📈
Is there any future left for medical tripping?
Hard Qs to ponder over the year...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Is there any future left for medical tripping?
Hard Qs to ponder over the year...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Psychedelics elicit their effects by 5-HT2A receptor-mediated Gi signalling - Nature
Psychedelics and their non-hallucinogenic analogues were compared, revealing that serotonin 2A receptor (5-HT2AR)-mediated Gi signalling is essential for hallucinogenic effect, with the functional mec...
www.nature.com
January 30, 2026 at 7:50 PM
Has the 🇺🇲 just lost the "non-psychedelic psychedelic" science throne to 🇨🇳 ? 🧪🧠📈
Is there any future left for medical tripping?
Hard Qs to ponder over the year...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Is there any future left for medical tripping?
Hard Qs to ponder over the year...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A disturbing thought: either the UN stops the drug war, or the drug war will sepult the UN. And it's quite likely that it's too late for the first 😬
January 6, 2026 at 1:19 PM
A disturbing thought: either the UN stops the drug war, or the drug war will sepult the UN. And it's quite likely that it's too late for the first 😬
Reposted by Eduardo Schenberg, PhD
Over and over the US inflicts obscene violence against the global South, in flagrant violation of international law, to maintain the conditions for capital accumulation for its decadent billionaire class. It's disgusting and intolerable. We cannot continue to accept this.
January 3, 2026 at 3:04 PM
Over and over the US inflicts obscene violence against the global South, in flagrant violation of international law, to maintain the conditions for capital accumulation for its decadent billionaire class. It's disgusting and intolerable. We cannot continue to accept this.
RIP sovereignty and international law?
January 3, 2026 at 6:04 PM
RIP sovereignty and international law?
Reposted by Eduardo Schenberg, PhD
Amazing record for the FIFA
January 3, 2026 at 3:46 PM
Amazing record for the FIFA
There is of course zero internal logic.
Former Honduran President Hernandez was extradited, convicted and sentenced to 45 years of prison for exactly the type of crimes Maduro is accused of - and Trump pardoned him.
It's power, money and oil all the way down...
Former Honduran President Hernandez was extradited, convicted and sentenced to 45 years of prison for exactly the type of crimes Maduro is accused of - and Trump pardoned him.
It's power, money and oil all the way down...
January 3, 2026 at 5:58 PM
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