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 realized how much I live in a bubble over the last wkend when I was talking to a bunch of people about the curse of AI and em dashes, and no one knew what an em dash was.
Common ground was, it's like a semicolon...
Common ground was, it's like a semicolon...
November 24, 2025 at 10:53 PM
I realized how much I live in a bubble over the last wkend when I was talking to a bunch of people about the curse of AI and em dashes, and no one knew what an em dash was.
Common ground was, it's like a semicolon...
Common ground was, it's like a semicolon...
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On the same day CSIRO announced it was cutting 350 jobs, the Australian newspaper ranked the country's top 250 researchers and institutes by field.
Don't mean to yuck yums but... Citations and metric ranking feels like a bad idea folks!!!!! 🧪
nobreakthroughs.substack.com/p/are-you-in...
Don't mean to yuck yums but... Citations and metric ranking feels like a bad idea folks!!!!! 🧪
nobreakthroughs.substack.com/p/are-you-in...
Are You in Australia's Top 250 Researchers? Who Cares!
(Yet) An(other) argument for science journalism in the newsroom.
nobreakthroughs.substack.com
November 23, 2025 at 10:38 PM
On the same day CSIRO announced it was cutting 350 jobs, the Australian newspaper ranked the country's top 250 researchers and institutes by field.
Don't mean to yuck yums but... Citations and metric ranking feels like a bad idea folks!!!!! 🧪
nobreakthroughs.substack.com/p/are-you-in...
Don't mean to yuck yums but... Citations and metric ranking feels like a bad idea folks!!!!! 🧪
nobreakthroughs.substack.com/p/are-you-in...
Holy shit! Someone needs to audit this. What a scam.
BOM reveals new website cost $96.5m, not $4.1m as first announced
Federal Environment Minister Murray Watt has asked the weather agency's new boss to examine how the website's cost and redesign went so wrong.
www.abc.net.au
November 23, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Holy shit! Someone needs to audit this. What a scam.
I've got a feeling the DOGE story has yet to be told and there are a few journalists digging into it right now.
Either it failed in its goal of making government more efficient or it succeeded in a totally different goal that none of us were aware of.
Either it failed in its goal of making government more efficient or it succeeded in a totally different goal that none of us were aware of.
‘That doesn’t exist’: Doge reportedly quietly disbanded ahead of schedule
Statement by Trump administration confirms longstanding suspicions that Musk-led agency is on its way out
www.theguardian.com
November 23, 2025 at 8:31 PM
I've got a feeling the DOGE story has yet to be told and there are a few journalists digging into it right now.
Either it failed in its goal of making government more efficient or it succeeded in a totally different goal that none of us were aware of.
Either it failed in its goal of making government more efficient or it succeeded in a totally different goal that none of us were aware of.
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About that exclusive, "closed-to-press" MAHA summit last week with RFK and JD Vance: I got in.
Here's what I saw. 🧵 🧪
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Here's what I saw. 🧵 🧪
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
November 21, 2025 at 5:01 PM
About that exclusive, "closed-to-press" MAHA summit last week with RFK and JD Vance: I got in.
Here's what I saw. 🧵 🧪
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Here's what I saw. 🧵 🧪
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Was not prepared for how philosophically rich Pluribus has turned out to be.
Dostoevsky would've been proud of one long conversation scene in this week's episode.
Dostoevsky would've been proud of one long conversation scene in this week's episode.
November 22, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Was not prepared for how philosophically rich Pluribus has turned out to be.
Dostoevsky would've been proud of one long conversation scene in this week's episode.
Dostoevsky would've been proud of one long conversation scene in this week's episode.
Great excerpt from Graham St John's @gmantic.bsky.social new Terrence Mckenna bio
How DMT Converted Terence McKenna Into a Psychedelic Edge Runner
After a mind-bending trip at nineteen, Terence McKenna, or “America’s shaman,” spent his adult life transforming a molecule into a cultural sacrament.
thereader.mitpress.mit.edu
November 21, 2025 at 7:18 AM
Great excerpt from Graham St John's @gmantic.bsky.social new Terrence Mckenna bio
Great coverage by @josh-hardman.bsky.social on the recent LSD microdosing reveal.
For me this is one of the most momentous bits of psychedelic science to emerge in 2025. Sure, it's just a top-line mention with no published study but this trial was about as conclusive as a single study can get.
For me this is one of the most momentous bits of psychedelic science to emerge in 2025. Sure, it's just a top-line mention with no published study but this trial was about as conclusive as a single study can get.
Pα+ Psychedelic Bulletin #214: LSD Microdosing Program Collapses; AtaiBeckley’s Phase 2b Debrief; UK Government Responds to MPs’ Psilocybin-Related Questions - Psychedelic Alpha
Largest LSD Microdosing Trial to Date Fails Across All Endpoints • AtaiBeckley’s Phase 2b Debrief: More Detail on SAE and Phase 3 Considerations • UK Government Holds Line on Psilocybin Despite New…
psychedelicalpha.com
November 20, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Great coverage by @josh-hardman.bsky.social on the recent LSD microdosing reveal.
For me this is one of the most momentous bits of psychedelic science to emerge in 2025. Sure, it's just a top-line mention with no published study but this trial was about as conclusive as a single study can get.
For me this is one of the most momentous bits of psychedelic science to emerge in 2025. Sure, it's just a top-line mention with no published study but this trial was about as conclusive as a single study can get.
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Love every single one of these movies. Some absolute bangers here and a fascinating insight into what Pluribus is trying to do.
November 20, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Love every single one of these movies. Some absolute bangers here and a fascinating insight into what Pluribus is trying to do.
This guest post from Eric Langberg, on David Farrier's Webworm, is the most thought provoking thing I've read in months.
There is a powerful point here. About how we've lost the ability to agree on (and even possibly understand) words, meaning, and context.
There is a powerful point here. About how we've lost the ability to agree on (and even possibly understand) words, meaning, and context.
The Meaning of a Photograph
Eric Langberg argues we are experiencing a massive breakdown in the way humans process communication and the very act of meaning-making." Webworm with David Farrier
www.webworm.co
November 20, 2025 at 7:16 PM
This guest post from Eric Langberg, on David Farrier's Webworm, is the most thought provoking thing I've read in months.
There is a powerful point here. About how we've lost the ability to agree on (and even possibly understand) words, meaning, and context.
There is a powerful point here. About how we've lost the ability to agree on (and even possibly understand) words, meaning, and context.
Wow! Didn't expect any announcement so soon, and this is just an informal top-line reveal, but here you go - the most robust LSD microdosing trial I've ever seen.
No effect on depression at 8-weeks compared to placebo.
The 2a open-label data showed massive improvement on this exact metric.
No effect on depression at 8-weeks compared to placebo.
The 2a open-label data showed massive improvement on this exact metric.
November 19, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Wow! Didn't expect any announcement so soon, and this is just an informal top-line reveal, but here you go - the most robust LSD microdosing trial I've ever seen.
No effect on depression at 8-weeks compared to placebo.
The 2a open-label data showed massive improvement on this exact metric.
No effect on depression at 8-weeks compared to placebo.
The 2a open-label data showed massive improvement on this exact metric.
Australia's child social media ban is a mess. A few weeks away from implementation and the entire process is murky, undefined and scattershot.
This is one of the dumbest things I've seen an Australian government do in my lifetime.
This is one of the dumbest things I've seen an Australian government do in my lifetime.
November 19, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Australia's child social media ban is a mess. A few weeks away from implementation and the entire process is murky, undefined and scattershot.
This is one of the dumbest things I've seen an Australian government do in my lifetime.
This is one of the dumbest things I've seen an Australian government do in my lifetime.
my response to 'parasocial' being word of the year...
November 19, 2025 at 2:08 AM
my response to 'parasocial' being word of the year...
Headline of the day...
Neanderthals and early humans ‘likely to have kissed’, say scientists
Study from University of Oxford looks into evolutionary origins of kissing and its role in relations between species
www.theguardian.com
November 19, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Headline of the day...
Watching a billionaire track their psilocybin experience as if they're some kind of scientist is peak "do your own research" wildness.
I'd imagine there are some pretty amusing private conversations being had by real psychedelic scientists right now who have seriously studied these same things.
I'd imagine there are some pretty amusing private conversations being had by real psychedelic scientists right now who have seriously studied these same things.
November 19, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Watching a billionaire track their psilocybin experience as if they're some kind of scientist is peak "do your own research" wildness.
I'd imagine there are some pretty amusing private conversations being had by real psychedelic scientists right now who have seriously studied these same things.
I'd imagine there are some pretty amusing private conversations being had by real psychedelic scientists right now who have seriously studied these same things.
What's harder than writing a book?
The prospect of actually giving it to an editor to read...
The prospect of actually giving it to an editor to read...
November 18, 2025 at 7:28 AM
What's harder than writing a book?
The prospect of actually giving it to an editor to read...
The prospect of actually giving it to an editor to read...
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It needs to be emphasized that this paragraph is about Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
November 17, 2025 at 3:43 PM
It needs to be emphasized that this paragraph is about Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
This book is really great. Big fan.
November 17, 2025 at 12:02 AM
This book is really great. Big fan.
A reminder not only of how broken the world is right now but also how it will not be fixed anytime soon as baby boomers are encouraged to celebrate their wealth accumulation at the cost of everyone else.
November 15, 2025 at 9:19 PM
A reminder not only of how broken the world is right now but also how it will not be fixed anytime soon as baby boomers are encouraged to celebrate their wealth accumulation at the cost of everyone else.
Look, I'm in the bag for Pluribus. So I'm gonna be shouting this thing out as long as it keeps operating at such a high level.
Episode 3. What an incredible piece of film making.
Sorry, gonna nerd out for a sec.
Best split diopter shot I've seen in years. Take that DePalma!
Episode 3. What an incredible piece of film making.
Sorry, gonna nerd out for a sec.
Best split diopter shot I've seen in years. Take that DePalma!
November 15, 2025 at 6:17 AM
Look, I'm in the bag for Pluribus. So I'm gonna be shouting this thing out as long as it keeps operating at such a high level.
Episode 3. What an incredible piece of film making.
Sorry, gonna nerd out for a sec.
Best split diopter shot I've seen in years. Take that DePalma!
Episode 3. What an incredible piece of film making.
Sorry, gonna nerd out for a sec.
Best split diopter shot I've seen in years. Take that DePalma!
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The climate-denying binferno that is Australian politics and media right now:
November 13, 2025 at 4:16 AM
The climate-denying binferno that is Australian politics and media right now:
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Corporations invaded the net, took it over and turned it into an accelerationist nightmare. But they are ignoring the real world in the process. They believe they are leaving it behind for something abstract and better.
Let them take the net as long as we can take back the real world.
Let them take the net as long as we can take back the real world.
November 12, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Corporations invaded the net, took it over and turned it into an accelerationist nightmare. But they are ignoring the real world in the process. They believe they are leaving it behind for something abstract and better.
Let them take the net as long as we can take back the real world.
Let them take the net as long as we can take back the real world.