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Roy Salomon
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Prof. University of Haifa.
Connoisseur of Consciousness and its varieties

https://salomonlab.org/




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Roy Salomon @royesal.bsky.social · Sep 16
Just published in World Psychiatry our study "Trauma under psychedelics: how psychoactive substances impact trauma processing" . Amazing work led by @ophirnetzer.bsky.social with the brave survivors of the Nova festival attack. Huge team effort, thx to all!
👉 doi.org/10.1002/wps....
Trauma under psychedelics: how psychoactive substances impact trauma processing
Click on the article title to read more.
doi.org
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eikofried.bsky.social
After 5 years of data collection, our WARN-D machine learning competition to forecast depression onset is now LIVE! We hope many of you will participate—we have incredibly rich data.

If you share a single thing of my lab this year, please make it this competition.

eiko-fried.com/warn-d-machi...
WARN-D machine learning competition is live » Eiko Fried
If you share one single thing of our team in 2026—on social media or per email with your colleagues—please let it be this machine learning competition. It was half a decade of work to get here, especi...
eiko-fried.com
January 7, 2026 at 7:39 PM
royesal.bsky.social
On December 16, I gave a talk at Charité on our work with the NOVA survivors on trauma under psychedelics.

In 1933, my grandfather, Prof. Dr. Karl Salomon, was expelled from the Charité for being Jewish. He fled Germany and rebuilt his life in Israel.

Happy to close this circle.
January 5, 2026 at 10:56 AM
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martinhebart.bsky.social
Ok, this is nuts. Once you see it you cannot unsee it. Do you see it?
(OP @drgbuckingham.bsky.social )
December 16, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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nicolecrust.bsky.social
So great! To paraphrase @lucinauddin.bsky.social: If we (researchers) aren't clear, it has downstream effects on translation (eg to) psychiatry. We must strive not just to publish papers, but to be clear!
pessoabrain.bsky.social PessoaBrain @pessoabrain.bsky.social · Dec 10
𝗕𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗻𝗲𝘁𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀, 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘆?
@lucinauddin.bsky.social explains many of the challenges and controversies! Great discussion too.
Check out the latest Neuroscience & Philosophy Salon.
youtu.be/pP5swFPR0Ns
Prof. Lucina Uddin from UCLA discusses her views on brain networks as studied with functional MRI
YouTube video by Neuroscience & Philosophy Salon
youtu.be
December 16, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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yoavlivneh.bsky.social
lab preprint! Interopceptive predictions are central to many brain-body interactions theories, but it's unclear if/how they affect bodily physiology. We (fearless Einav Litvak et al) show that insular cortex predictions are essential for glucose homeostasis-THREAD.. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Insular cortex predictions regulate glucose homeostasis
Brain-body interactions are essential for physical and emotional homeostasis. The brain uses information from the external world to predict upcoming bodily changes. This process involves interoceptive...
www.biorxiv.org
December 12, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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ssteingraber1.bsky.social
🧪 Friends of all backgrounds: please enjoy this new paper whose findings “reveal that bees engage higher-order cognitive mechanisms under temporal uncertainty, suggesting that core features of awareness may be evolutionarily conserved across distant taxa.”

Yeah. 🫢

www.cell.com/iscience/ful...
Serotonergic-dependent awareness is required for trace conditioning in honeybees
Entomology; Neuroscience; Behavioral neuroscience; Sensory neuroscience; Cognitive neuroscience
www.cell.com
December 13, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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pessoabrain.bsky.social
**How do we make long-lasting emotional memories**
Looks very interesting.
#neuroskyence
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
December 13, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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hansonmark.bsky.social
We wrote the Strain on scientific publishing to highlight the problems of time & trust. With a fantastic group of co-authors, we present The Drain of Scientific Publishing:

a 🧵 1/n

Drain: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820
Strain: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...
Oligopoly: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...
A table showing profit margins of major publishers. A snippet of text related to this table is below. 1. The four-fold drain 1.1 Money Currently, academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who created it. The dominant four are Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley and Taylor & Francis, which collectively generated over US$7.1 billion in revenue from journal publishing in 2024 alone, and over US$12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024 (Table 1A). Their profit margins have always been over 30% in the last five years, and for the largest publisher (Elsevier) always over 37%. Against many comparators, across many sectors, scientific publishing is one of the most consistently profitable industries (Table S1). These financial arrangements make a substantial difference to science budgets. In 2024, 46% of Elsevier revenues and 53% of Taylor & Francis revenues were generated in North America, meaning that North American researchers were charged over US$2.27 billion by just two for-profit publishers. The Canadian research councils and the US National Science Foundation were allocated US$9.3 billion in that year. A figure detailing the drain on researcher time. 1. The four-fold drain 1.2 Time The number of papers published each year is growing faster than the scientific workforce, with the number of papers per researcher almost doubling between 1996 and 2022 (Figure 1A). This reflects the fact that publishers’ commercial desire to publish (sell) more material has aligned well with the competitive prestige culture in which publications help secure jobs, grants, promotions, and awards. To the extent that this growth is driven by a pressure for profit, rather than scholarly imperatives, it distorts the way researchers spend their time. The publishing system depends on unpaid reviewer labour, estimated to be over 130 million unpaid hours annually in 2020 alone (9). Researchers have complained about the demands of peer-review for decades, but the scale of the problem is now worse, with editors reporting widespread difficulties recruiting reviewers. The growth in publications involves not only the authors’ time, but that of academic editors and reviewers who are dealing with so many review demands. Even more seriously, the imperative to produce ever more articles reshapes the nature of scientific inquiry. Evidence across multiple fields shows that more papers result in ‘ossification’, not new ideas (10). It may seem paradoxical that more papers can slow progress until one considers how it affects researchers’ time. While rewards remain tied to volume, prestige, and impact of publications, researchers will be nudged away from riskier, local, interdisciplinary, and long-term work. The result is a treadmill of constant activity with limited progress whereas core scholarly practices – such as reading, reflecting and engaging with others’ contributions – is de-prioritized. What looks like productivity often masks intellectual exhaustion built on a demoralizing, narrowing scientific vision. A table of profit margins across industries. The section of text related to this table is below: 1. The four-fold drain 1.1 Money Currently, academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who created it. The dominant four are Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley and Taylor & Francis, which collectively generated over US$7.1 billion in revenue from journal publishing in 2024 alone, and over US$12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024 (Table 1A). Their profit margins have always been over 30% in the last five years, and for the largest publisher (Elsevier) always over 37%. Against many comparators, across many sectors, scientific publishing is one of the most consistently profitable industries (Table S1). These financial arrangements make a substantial difference to science budgets. In 2024, 46% of Elsevier revenues and 53% of Taylor & Francis revenues were generated in North America, meaning that North American researchers were charged over US$2.27 billion by just two for-profit publishers. The Canadian research councils and the US National Science Foundation were allocated US$9.3 billion in that year. The costs of inaction are plain: wasted public funds, lost researcher time, compromised scientific integrity and eroded public trust. Today, the system rewards commercial publishers first, and science second. Without bold action from the funders we risk continuing to pour resources into a system that prioritizes profit over the advancement of scientific knowledge.
November 11, 2025 at 11:52 AM
royesal.bsky.social
Yes pls
November 9, 2025 at 10:05 PM
royesal.bsky.social
Somehow I love these scientific sleuth stories.
November 9, 2025 at 7:41 AM
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greatdismal.bsky.social
November 6, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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carlbergstrom.com
It’s a good night for it.
Interior of the Funhouze in Seattle with a can of Nazi Punks Fuck Off beer.
November 5, 2025 at 4:57 AM
royesal.bsky.social
Honored to speak at the Falling Walls Science Summit in Berlin on Breaking the Walls of Trauma: Psychedelics and Recovery with Dr. Dimitris Repantis and Prof. Eric Vermetten discussing the opportunities and challenges psychedelics bring to trauma and PTSD recovery. falling-walls.com/programme/br...
Breaking the Walls of Trauma: Psychedelics and Recovery
Trauma and mental health challenges are increasingly examined through the lens of psychedelic-assisted therapies. Insights from research and clinical practice highlight the potential of substances suc...
falling-walls.com
November 4, 2025 at 9:48 AM
royesal.bsky.social
Now, Prof Bessel Van der Kolk discussing how trauma is encoded in the mind and body. Stressing the importance of agency and action during the TE for better post traumatic recovery.
October 29, 2025 at 1:10 PM
royesal.bsky.social
Then the outstanding Rick Dublin showed the efforts to advance MDMA assisted therapy for PTSD in many areas of conflict around the world.
October 29, 2025 at 1:03 PM
royesal.bsky.social
Honored to be presenting at the SafeHeart conference on trauma, psychedelics and therapy during wartime. Showed our results of two years work with the Nova survivors.
October 29, 2025 at 1:00 PM
royesal.bsky.social
Amazing conference in Dresden on the Multidimensionalty of Trauma. Amazing morning lineup: Carmen Sandi, Talma Hendler, Eric Vermetten & Hermona Soreq. From tRNA to psychedelic treatments of PTSD stress and trauma effects evident at all levels of neurobiology and cognition.
October 22, 2025 at 8:38 AM
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micahgallen.com
Check out our latest paper, a collaboration with @tobiasuhauser.bsky.social using gamified computational psychiatry measures to explore brain-behavioral correlates of decision making!
ashleytyrer.bsky.social Ashley Tyrer @ashleytyrer.bsky.social · Oct 15
1/ To explore or to exploit? I’m excited to share my new preprint with @tobiasuhauser.bsky.social and @micahgallen.com, correlating variations in cortical microstructures with individual differences in exploration-exploitation behaviours, using a gamified task! 🧵 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
October 15, 2025 at 12:10 PM
royesal.bsky.social
Yesterday, my heart was filled with hope as all live Israeli hostages returned home. Yesterday was also the funeral of Roee Shalev, Nova survivor suffering from PTSD who committed suicide this week. The trauma suffered on both sides is tremendous and there is much work ahead for this to be healed.🙏
October 14, 2025 at 1:35 PM
royesal.bsky.social
Tomorrow will be two years since the attack which began this terrible war. I have lived through several wars, but this one has changed me. I don't believe in an interventionist God, but I am not above praying for peace.... Hostages back home, this war can be over. Amen 🙏
October 6, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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ophirnetzer.bsky.social
Our World Psychiatry paper is out! we studied responses to trauma experienced under different psychoactive substances and found distinct patterns across substances. Immense gratitude to our collaborators and above all, to the survivors❤️‍🩹
royesal.bsky.social Roy Salomon @royesal.bsky.social · Sep 16
Just published in World Psychiatry our study "Trauma under psychedelics: how psychoactive substances impact trauma processing" . Amazing work led by @ophirnetzer.bsky.social with the brave survivors of the Nova festival attack. Huge team effort, thx to all!
👉 doi.org/10.1002/wps....
Trauma under psychedelics: how psychoactive substances impact trauma processing
Click on the article title to read more.
doi.org
September 16, 2025 at 8:01 PM
royesal.bsky.social
Just published in World Psychiatry our study "Trauma under psychedelics: how psychoactive substances impact trauma processing" . Amazing work led by @ophirnetzer.bsky.social with the brave survivors of the Nova festival attack. Huge team effort, thx to all!
👉 doi.org/10.1002/wps....
Trauma under psychedelics: how psychoactive substances impact trauma processing
Click on the article title to read more.
doi.org
September 16, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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hugospiers.bsky.social
Impressive data set with interesting findings:

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Dose-response relationship between accelerometer-measured physical activity and depression: evidence from the UK Biobank - Translational Psychiatry
Translational Psychiatry - Dose-response relationship between accelerometer-measured physical activity and depression: evidence from the UK Biobank
www.nature.com
September 1, 2025 at 10:37 AM
royesal.bsky.social
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August 31, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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richharidy.bsky.social
This is a fascinating article. Well-researched. And while it doesn't interrogate the reasons why the FDA knocked back the MDMA application at least it reasonably accepts the rejection was based on problems with the science and not solely the result of a tiny "activist" group.
How Elon Musk’s billionaire Doge lieutenant took over the US’s biggest MDMA company
Antonio Gracias is part of the growing movement among Silicon Valley’s right wing enamored with the therapeutic and commercial potential of drugs like MDMA
www.theguardian.com
August 28, 2025 at 11:54 PM