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My piece in the latest @newscientist.com about #psychedelics and science.

You can listen to 'THE TRIP' podcast series now on BBC Sounds (or in other podcast places).
Why abandoning psychedelic research in the 1970s was a blow to science
Work on medical uses of mind-altering substances was sidelined for decades by the political backlash against drugs, a misstep that has echoes in today’s intolerance of some fields of study
www.newscientist.com
October 7, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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🌿 New Podcast Alert: “The Trip” on BBC Radio 4 🎧

Dr. Osiris García Cerqueda is featured in episodes 9 & 10 of BBC Radio 4’s new podcast series “The Trip”, presented by @timhayward.bsky.social and produced by @haunted.audio and by @loftusmedia.bsky.social

Link: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...
September 17, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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Uproarious times at #ftweekendfestival's inaugural food quiz today, feat. @timhayward.bsky.social, Ajesh Patel, Sarit Packer, Melissa Thompson, and hosted by FT restaurant critic @jayrayner1.bsky.social – ending with guess-the-restaurant charades
September 6, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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@timhayward.bsky.social The Trip was fantastic. Thank you to you and the production team. And I've never even smoked a cigarette 😆.
September 7, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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This amazing series by Tim Hayward and Richard Ward @haunted.audio (🙏🙏🙏) also featured renowned neuroscientists such as @christimmermann.bsky.social, @katrinpreller.bsky.social, Gul Dölen, as well as nurses, historians, philosophers, sociologists, etc.

Enjoy! 🎧
September 12, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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In the first episode, I explain what is specific about psychedelics as treatment in psychiatry.
In last episode, dealing about the future of psychedelics, I talk about the possible dissociation between the psychedelic experience and the therapeutic effects:

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Radio 4 - Understand, The Trip, 10. Unknown unknowns
What more is there to learn about psychedelics? Tim Hayward makes a case for curiosity.
www.bbc.co.uk
September 12, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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🎙️ I am very proud to have participated (with a very strong French accent) to the BBC Radio 4 program Understand entitled "The Trip", about the science, culture, history and future of psychedelics 🌈

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
September 12, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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Big thanks to the whole crew at @loftusmedia.bsky.social particularly Kirsten Lass and Rosamund Jones, and to Dan Clarke at Radio 4 for pressing the magic button.

A short trailer: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Episode 1 is here: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Radio 4 - Understand, The Trip, 1. Altered States
Tim Hayward looks at the science, culture, history - and future - of psychedelics.
www.bbc.co.uk
August 21, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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NEW TEN-PART AUDIO SERIES about #PSYCHEDELICS
Out now on BBC Sounds - and other podcast spaces.

Co-written & presented by the beautifully curious @timhayward.bsky.social
Production, sound design and mix by me.

It's been a fascinating and challenging process to get here...

I do hope you'll listen.
BBC Radio 4 - Understand, The Trip
Tim Hayward looks at the science, culture, history - and future - of psychedelics.
www.bbc.co.uk
August 21, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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Really enjoying BBC Radio 4s series The Trip exploring the history of psychedelics. 🍄

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Radio 4 - Understand, The Trip
Tim Hayward looks at the science, culture, history - and future - of psychedelics.
www.bbc.co.uk
August 16, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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BBCRadio3 & BBCRadio4 have had something of a love affair with psychedelics & mushrooms over the last few years. Tim Hayward now joins the likes of @michaelpollan.bsky.social & @garylachman.bsky.social in chasing the angels again. 1 for @drmatthewsweet.bsky.social
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Radio 4 - Understand, The Trip, 1. Altered States
Tim Hayward looks at the science, culture, history - and future - of psychedelics.
www.bbc.co.uk
August 5, 2025 at 7:55 AM
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Might be good...
In a new ten-part series, Tim Hayward takes a mind-altering look at the science, culture, history - and future - of psychedelics.

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
August 5, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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have you ever thought very very hard about ice cubes and how they could be better?

this @timhayward.bsky.social piece is fascinating and - as one commenter says - finally, a use for the insulated mug freebies they give you at corporate events.

Read on... on.ft.com/3UkWjGH
How to make the perfect ice cube
[FREE TO READ] Good drinks deserve chunky, crystal-clear ice
on.ft.com
July 21, 2025 at 7:54 AM
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In a new ten-part series, Tim Hayward takes a mind-altering look at the science, culture, history - and future - of psychedelics.

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
August 4, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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New 10-part podcast from BBC Radio 4 about #psychedelics starting on August 4 (Monday). Philosopher of mind Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes mentioned on his Insta that he'll be a guest on one of the installments.
BBC Radio 4 - Understand, The Trip
Tim Hayward looks at the science, culture, history - and future - of psychedelics.
www.bbc.co.uk
July 31, 2025 at 3:23 PM
In a new ten-part series, Tim Hayward takes a mind-altering look at the science, culture, history - and future - of psychedelics.

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
August 4, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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Ah Boxing Day the heteronormative holiday adverts have begun. A sea of smug infinity pool bothering breeders in their bland villas
December 26, 2024 at 8:30 PM
Finally! A guaranteed, 100% effective cure for Male Pattern Baldness.

Buy this book for everyone you know this Christmas.
December 8, 2024 at 8:51 PM
As we teeter on the edge of the ‘Quad-demic’ I recommend precautionary doses of a broad-spectrum antibiotic…
December 6, 2024 at 1:26 PM
I mean… seriously!

What kind of unhinged *barbarian* would lean on panettone???
December 6, 2024 at 12:29 PM
Mark Steel on R4Desert Island Discs has just been remarkable. Fantastic story, told in an endearing way. Best though, the reminder of Nina Simone’s solo in Love Me or Leave Me. Still jaw-dropping on about the millionth hearing.
December 1, 2024 at 11:03 AM
Any hints for Food and drink follows? Any of these ‘starter pack’ things?

Still trying to understand all this.
November 23, 2024 at 10:18 AM