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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
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/...
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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...
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
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
Wow really a time travel journal! #academicsky
October 17, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Yeah sure
October 17, 2025 at 2:13 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....
Psychedelic-assisted therapy as a complex intervention: implications for clinical trial design
journals.sagepub.com
October 8, 2025 at 1:41 PM
⚠️ Unnerving and unsettling @nytimes.com investigation on the latest Pharma Corporate Capture scandal: IRBs 🇺🇸
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
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@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...
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
Feeling exausted with Sapiens' insistence on war against itself
September 22, 2025 at 10:40 AM
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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.
September 4, 2025 at 9:31 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
August 28, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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...
August 14, 2025 at 1:34 PM
~55y ago. Prescient and present.

RIP Ozzy 🕊️

open.spotify.com/track/09EQqF...
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
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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...
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
Journal of 'Global' Ethics

Editors:
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Editorial advisory board:
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🤔🤔🤔🤔 Oh wait there's more 'diversity':
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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
July 29, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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
July 22, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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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
Content listing
Welcome to Cambridge Core
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July 21, 2025 at 7:44 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."
July 21, 2025 at 3:49 PM
A place where each and every sunset is a ritual of joy and community #boomfestival
July 19, 2025 at 5:30 PM
While it seems all divisive, separation, prejudice, polarization...

In tiny Portugal 🇵🇹 a small bunch of people are doing an incredible logistic operation to receive 40k people in 48h, from 169 countires 🌍🌎🌏, to live a week of transformative experience of oneness, kindness and love 🤍 #boomfestival
July 15, 2025 at 5:27 PM
The biggest drug dealer of all time???

Maybe the Queen 👑🇬🇧

What's striking is that, drug commerce or drug prohibition serve the same supreme purpose: strengthening the empire.

time.com/7295579/quee...
How Queen Victoria Became the Biggest Drug Dealer of All Time
Sam Kelly explains how Queen Victoria became a huge fan of drugs—and how she brought China to its knees because of it.
time.com
July 14, 2025 at 10:09 AM
1830s.

still true about #statistics ~200y later...

(From Porter, 1986) 🧠📈🧪
June 27, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Please join me next Wed at Einstein Center for Neurosciences Berlin 🇩🇪 for an in depth discussion about evidence and mechanisms in psychedelic therapies.

I'll finish with a brief spoiler about a new project coming on, in my new role at ULisbon 🇵🇹 💫
June 25, 2025 at 3:21 PM