Rich Haridy
@richharidy.bsky.social
Science and technology journalist. Psychedelic science and culture. Maybe trying to write a book.
Find me at www.richharidy.com
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Rich Haridy
@richharidy.bsky.social
· Nov 12
Here is a starter pack I put together featuring all the psychedelic science researchers and journalists I could find on here. Let me know who I'm missing. It'd be great to get the conversation going on this platform go.bsky.app/NPvFX41
I hate the amount of time I have to spend nowadays seeing weird shit on social media and working out whether it's real or AI.
Most of the time it's AI.
This is real.
Most of the time it's AI.
This is real.
RFK Jr. and Kid Rock Bizarrely Strip Off to Push MAHA Agenda
The health secretary tapped another celebrity to become the unlikely face of his MAHA campaign.
www.thedailybeast.com
February 18, 2026 at 4:55 AM
I hate the amount of time I have to spend nowadays seeing weird shit on social media and working out whether it's real or AI.
Most of the time it's AI.
This is real.
Most of the time it's AI.
This is real.
Another, perhaps more damning, way to think about these new Compass psilocybin results.
If their psychological support model was actually more psychotherapeutic than presented then the minimal efficacy reported doesn't look great for psilocybin as a TRD therapy.
If their psychological support model was actually more psychotherapeutic than presented then the minimal efficacy reported doesn't look great for psilocybin as a TRD therapy.
(PDF) The Psychological Support Model in Psilocybin Research: Psychotherapy in Disguise?
PDF | On Jan 14, 2026, Celia Faye Jacobsen and others published The Psychological Support Model in Psilocybin Research: Psychotherapy in Disguise? | Find, read and cite all the research you need on Re...
www.researchgate.net
February 18, 2026 at 12:51 AM
Another, perhaps more damning, way to think about these new Compass psilocybin results.
If their psychological support model was actually more psychotherapeutic than presented then the minimal efficacy reported doesn't look great for psilocybin as a TRD therapy.
If their psychological support model was actually more psychotherapeutic than presented then the minimal efficacy reported doesn't look great for psilocybin as a TRD therapy.
So what does OpenAI do? Immediately hire the guy that built Openclaw.
This kind of unconstrained agentic AI is going to turn the internet into complete slop.
This kind of unconstrained agentic AI is going to turn the internet into complete slop.
I feel this shouldn't have to be said, but if you're running an @OpenClaw bot please don't let it spam GitHub projects with PRs and then write aggressive blog posts attacking the reputation of the maintainers who close those PRs simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/12/...
An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me
Scott Shambaugh helps maintain the excellent and venerable matplotlib Python charting library, including taking on the thankless task of triaging and reviewing incoming pull requests. A GitHub account...
simonwillison.net
February 17, 2026 at 9:16 PM
So what does OpenAI do? Immediately hire the guy that built Openclaw.
This kind of unconstrained agentic AI is going to turn the internet into complete slop.
This kind of unconstrained agentic AI is going to turn the internet into complete slop.
'Modest' is a very good word to describe these results.
I think Compass has just inadvertently proved how much value there is in the psychotherapy part of psychedelic medicine, at least when dealing with psilocybin for depression.
I think Compass has just inadvertently proved how much value there is in the psychotherapy part of psychedelic medicine, at least when dealing with psilocybin for depression.
BREAKING: Second Positive Phase 3 for Compass’ Psilocybin, Though Modest Magnitude Raises Questions - Psychedelic Alpha
Psychedelic Alpha’s Josh Hardman reports from Washington, D.C., where conversations with regulators, lawmakers, and insiders suggest a turbulent but potentially transformative period ahead.
psychedelicalpha.com
February 17, 2026 at 8:46 PM
'Modest' is a very good word to describe these results.
I think Compass has just inadvertently proved how much value there is in the psychotherapy part of psychedelic medicine, at least when dealing with psilocybin for depression.
I think Compass has just inadvertently proved how much value there is in the psychotherapy part of psychedelic medicine, at least when dealing with psilocybin for depression.
Sometimes a piece of art hits the zeitgeist with such a powerful prescience you think, how did they see it coming?
PTA got it last year with OBAA.
INDUSTRY is doing it now with the Epstein files. The sheer timing of the episodes airing right now as the exact same news comes out is jawdropping.
PTA got it last year with OBAA.
INDUSTRY is doing it now with the Epstein files. The sheer timing of the episodes airing right now as the exact same news comes out is jawdropping.
February 17, 2026 at 6:24 AM
Sometimes a piece of art hits the zeitgeist with such a powerful prescience you think, how did they see it coming?
PTA got it last year with OBAA.
INDUSTRY is doing it now with the Epstein files. The sheer timing of the episodes airing right now as the exact same news comes out is jawdropping.
PTA got it last year with OBAA.
INDUSTRY is doing it now with the Epstein files. The sheer timing of the episodes airing right now as the exact same news comes out is jawdropping.
Reposted by Rich Haridy
Ok so this might be the nerdiest thing I've ever done, BUT: I wanna recreate this paleoecological paper about sauropod dinosaurs using @frontierdev.bsky.social's simulator Jurassic World Evolution 3.
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
(PDF) “HERE, SIZE IS NO ACCIDENT”: A NOVEL FOOD WEB ANALYSIS OF THE DRY MESA DINOSAUR QUARRY AND ECOLOGICAL IMPACT OF MORRISON FORMATION SAUROPOD FAUNA
PDF | The Morrison Formation is a well-preserved Upper Jurassic rock unit with a characteristic terrestrial fauna. Despite over a century of study, the... | Find, read and cite all the research you ne...
www.researchgate.net
February 16, 2026 at 11:41 AM
Ok so this might be the nerdiest thing I've ever done, BUT: I wanna recreate this paleoecological paper about sauropod dinosaurs using @frontierdev.bsky.social's simulator Jurassic World Evolution 3.
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
Kinda in awe of the tightrope act INDUSTRY is playing this season.
It's easily the best show on TV right now. Constantly teetering on the edge of a shark jump. It feels like the writers are daring each other to blow the show up every week.
Also, this episode has a classic title card drop.
It's easily the best show on TV right now. Constantly teetering on the edge of a shark jump. It feels like the writers are daring each other to blow the show up every week.
Also, this episode has a classic title card drop.
February 16, 2026 at 7:42 AM
Kinda in awe of the tightrope act INDUSTRY is playing this season.
It's easily the best show on TV right now. Constantly teetering on the edge of a shark jump. It feels like the writers are daring each other to blow the show up every week.
Also, this episode has a classic title card drop.
It's easily the best show on TV right now. Constantly teetering on the edge of a shark jump. It feels like the writers are daring each other to blow the show up every week.
Also, this episode has a classic title card drop.
I'm constantly amazed at how we live in an era where really stupid people have become so confident in their stupidity that they're so unembarrassed to widely state blatantly idiotic things.
February 15, 2026 at 10:25 AM
I'm constantly amazed at how we live in an era where really stupid people have become so confident in their stupidity that they're so unembarrassed to widely state blatantly idiotic things.
Reposted by Rich Haridy
I made a map of 3.4 million Bluesky users - see if you can find yourself!
bluesky-map.theo.io
I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail
bluesky-map.theo.io
I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail
Bluesky Map
Interactive map of 3.4 million Bluesky users, visualised by their follower pattern.
bluesky-map.theo.io
February 8, 2026 at 10:59 PM
I made a map of 3.4 million Bluesky users - see if you can find yourself!
bluesky-map.theo.io
I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail
bluesky-map.theo.io
I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail
If this is Lex Fridman on caffeine then I 1000% do not want to be near him on virtually any harder drug.
February 15, 2026 at 6:29 AM
If this is Lex Fridman on caffeine then I 1000% do not want to be near him on virtually any harder drug.
Reposted by Rich Haridy
Most of the roses for sale in the US are raised in hideous labor and environmental conditions in Colombia and Ecuador before they're loaded onto 747s to fly here. I know because I visited one of the rose plantations/sweatshops for my book Orwell's Roses. Give your love a book or something.
‘Workers get the thorns’: the moral ugliness of rose factories | Rebecca Solnit
A rose is beautiful but a greenhouse with thousands upon thousands of roses, a place producing millions a year, is not
www.theguardian.com
February 13, 2026 at 4:20 PM
Most of the roses for sale in the US are raised in hideous labor and environmental conditions in Colombia and Ecuador before they're loaded onto 747s to fly here. I know because I visited one of the rose plantations/sweatshops for my book Orwell's Roses. Give your love a book or something.
I love articles that try to trace the path of long standing quotes that aren't actually real. And this is a good one - both the oft used quote and the dive into Gramsci history.
‘The time of monsters’: everyone is quoting Gramsci – but what did he actually say?
Line handily sums up people’s bewilderment at state of world, but it isn’t quite what the Marxist thinker wrote
www.theguardian.com
February 14, 2026 at 8:45 PM
I love articles that try to trace the path of long standing quotes that aren't actually real. And this is a good one - both the oft used quote and the dive into Gramsci history.
Still seeing people reporting on that survey suggesting millions of Americans are microdosing MDMA.
I don't know much for certain but I'm pretty confident in saying millions of Americans ARE NOT microdosing MDMA.
Apart from near zero anecdotal reports, It wouldn't do anything good.
I don't know much for certain but I'm pretty confident in saying millions of Americans ARE NOT microdosing MDMA.
Apart from near zero anecdotal reports, It wouldn't do anything good.
February 14, 2026 at 10:03 AM
Still seeing people reporting on that survey suggesting millions of Americans are microdosing MDMA.
I don't know much for certain but I'm pretty confident in saying millions of Americans ARE NOT microdosing MDMA.
Apart from near zero anecdotal reports, It wouldn't do anything good.
I don't know much for certain but I'm pretty confident in saying millions of Americans ARE NOT microdosing MDMA.
Apart from near zero anecdotal reports, It wouldn't do anything good.
Reposted by Rich Haridy
Bluesky is the new science Twitter, new study by @whysharksmatter.bsky.social and Julia Wester concludes!
"Results show that for every reported professional benefit that scientists once gained from Twitter, scientists can now gain that benefit more effectively on Bluesky than on Twitter."
"Results show that for every reported professional benefit that scientists once gained from Twitter, scientists can now gain that benefit more effectively on Bluesky than on Twitter."
Scientists no Longer Find Twitter Professionally Useful, and have Switched to Bluesky
Synopsis. Social media has become widely used by the scientific community for a variety of professional uses, including networking and public outreach. For
academic.oup.com
February 13, 2026 at 10:08 PM
Bluesky is the new science Twitter, new study by @whysharksmatter.bsky.social and Julia Wester concludes!
"Results show that for every reported professional benefit that scientists once gained from Twitter, scientists can now gain that benefit more effectively on Bluesky than on Twitter."
"Results show that for every reported professional benefit that scientists once gained from Twitter, scientists can now gain that benefit more effectively on Bluesky than on Twitter."
Lots of questions here.
Top of mind! Why the toilet seat?
I understand the context. When you gotta rack you gotta rack. But there must've been other suitable spots in the cubicle. Or even other methods.
I mean, really? The toilet seat?
Top of mind! Why the toilet seat?
I understand the context. When you gotta rack you gotta rack. But there must've been other suitable spots in the cubicle. Or even other methods.
I mean, really? The toilet seat?
February 14, 2026 at 5:46 AM
Lots of questions here.
Top of mind! Why the toilet seat?
I understand the context. When you gotta rack you gotta rack. But there must've been other suitable spots in the cubicle. Or even other methods.
I mean, really? The toilet seat?
Top of mind! Why the toilet seat?
I understand the context. When you gotta rack you gotta rack. But there must've been other suitable spots in the cubicle. Or even other methods.
I mean, really? The toilet seat?
Read 3 separate articles about psychedelic medicine over the last seven days in MAJOR publications, both Australian and international.
All used a first person case study about how someone's life was transformed.
All incorporated "expert" interviews with ppl commercially connected to these things.
All used a first person case study about how someone's life was transformed.
All incorporated "expert" interviews with ppl commercially connected to these things.
February 13, 2026 at 11:20 PM
Read 3 separate articles about psychedelic medicine over the last seven days in MAJOR publications, both Australian and international.
All used a first person case study about how someone's life was transformed.
All incorporated "expert" interviews with ppl commercially connected to these things.
All used a first person case study about how someone's life was transformed.
All incorporated "expert" interviews with ppl commercially connected to these things.
A stunning piece of science writing. Reads like horror fiction...
This Is How a Child Dies of Measles
When your family becomes a data point in an outbreak
www.theatlantic.com
February 13, 2026 at 8:46 PM
A stunning piece of science writing. Reads like horror fiction...
Wim Wenders is smart. We know this because of his films.
That's what makes this comment dangerous, disingenuous and offensive.
That's what makes this comment dangerous, disingenuous and offensive.
February 13, 2026 at 7:46 PM
Wim Wenders is smart. We know this because of his films.
That's what makes this comment dangerous, disingenuous and offensive.
That's what makes this comment dangerous, disingenuous and offensive.
Early frontrunner for headline of the year...
Good news: It’s kākāpō fuck season
The world is going to hell in a handbasket but at least the kākāpō are going hog wild.
thespinoff.co.nz
February 13, 2026 at 6:52 AM
Early frontrunner for headline of the year...
There has been a narrative pushed suggesting journalists were skewing negative in perceptions towards psychedelics but this study doesn't back up that idea.
When more than 80% of news coverage still skews excessively positive you know you're still in a hype cycle.
H/T @philosojules.bsky.social
When more than 80% of news coverage still skews excessively positive you know you're still in a hype cycle.
H/T @philosojules.bsky.social
February 13, 2026 at 6:23 AM
There has been a narrative pushed suggesting journalists were skewing negative in perceptions towards psychedelics but this study doesn't back up that idea.
When more than 80% of news coverage still skews excessively positive you know you're still in a hype cycle.
H/T @philosojules.bsky.social
When more than 80% of news coverage still skews excessively positive you know you're still in a hype cycle.
H/T @philosojules.bsky.social
Latest FOI update on authorized psychedelic prescribers in Australia.
88 APs (some double ups so total is likely bit less)
188 patients treated.
Zero adverse events reported (worth noting "adverse event" is defined as serious negative outcome, i,e self-harm etc).
88 APs (some double ups so total is likely bit less)
188 patients treated.
Zero adverse events reported (worth noting "adverse event" is defined as serious negative outcome, i,e self-harm etc).
February 13, 2026 at 1:38 AM
Latest FOI update on authorized psychedelic prescribers in Australia.
88 APs (some double ups so total is likely bit less)
188 patients treated.
Zero adverse events reported (worth noting "adverse event" is defined as serious negative outcome, i,e self-harm etc).
88 APs (some double ups so total is likely bit less)
188 patients treated.
Zero adverse events reported (worth noting "adverse event" is defined as serious negative outcome, i,e self-harm etc).
My algorithm is fucked... But also, Wim Hof ads are pretty weird.
February 11, 2026 at 1:24 AM
My algorithm is fucked... But also, Wim Hof ads are pretty weird.
Research for a film or looking for a trip himself?
February 11, 2026 at 1:21 AM
Research for a film or looking for a trip himself?
For a long time the FDA has led the world with medicine approvals. A signal from there ofter preceded other countries regulatory approvals.
That must change asap otherwise pharma progress will hit a wall.
That must change asap otherwise pharma progress will hit a wall.
FDA declines to review Moderna application for new flu vaccine
Moderna requests meeting to discuss refusal as decision could have implications for all new and updated vaccines
www.theguardian.com
February 11, 2026 at 12:39 AM
For a long time the FDA has led the world with medicine approvals. A signal from there ofter preceded other countries regulatory approvals.
That must change asap otherwise pharma progress will hit a wall.
That must change asap otherwise pharma progress will hit a wall.
Hot tip! If you are creating an AI writer try not to label their fake profile pic as "gemini generated"...
GamesHub's newest author Tanaka Haruto has produced this __banger__ article, a straight rip from Xbox Wire that claims Suda51 sat down with the diminished Australian outlet for a chat on Romeo is a Dead Man...
February 11, 2026 at 12:34 AM
Hot tip! If you are creating an AI writer try not to label their fake profile pic as "gemini generated"...